Standard Course of Study
E.2.03: Investigate and analyze the processes responsible for the rock cycle:
E.2.03.c: Relate rock formation to plate tectonics.
E.2.05: Create and interpret topographic, soil and geologic maps using scale and legends.
Building Topographic Maps
Plate Tectonics
Reading Topographic Maps
E.5.01: Analyze air masses and the life cycle of weather systems:
E.5.01.c: Frontal systems.
E.6.02: Analyze planetary motion and the physical laws that explain that motion:
E.6.02.b: Revolution.
Orbital Motion - Kepler's Laws
E.6.02.c: Apparent diurnal motions of the stars, sun and moon.
Moonrise, Moonset, and Phases
Seasons in 3D
E.6.02.d: Effects of the tilt of the earth's axis.
Seasons Around the World
Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Why do we have them?
E.6.03: Examine the sources of stellar energies.
E.6.03.b: Hertzsprung ? Russell Diagram.
E.6.04: Assess the spectra generated by stars and our sun as indicators of motion and composition (the Doppler effect).
Doppler Shift
Doppler Shift Advanced
Star Spectra
E.6.05: Evaluate astronomers' use of various technologies to extend their senses:
E.6.05.d: Spectroscope.
Correlation last revised: 1/20/2017