GA--Standards of Excellence
S6E1.c: Analyze and interpret data to compare and contrast the planets in our solar system in terms of: size relative to Earth, surface and atmospheric features, relative distance from the sun, and ability to support life.
S6E1.d: Develop and use a model to explain the interaction of gravity and inertia that governs the motion of objects in the solar system.
S6E2.a: Develop and use a model to demonstrate the phases of the moon by showing the relative positions of the sun, Earth, and moon.
Moonrise, Moonset, and Phases
Phases of the Moon
S6E2.b: Construct an explanation of the cause of solar and lunar eclipses.
S6E2.c: Analyze and interpret data to relate the tilt of the Earth to the distribution of sunlight throughout the year and its effect on seasons.
Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Why do we have them?
Summer and Winter
S6E3.b: Plan and carry out an investigation to illustrate the role of the sun’s energy in atmospheric conditions that lead to the cycling of water.
S6E3.c: Ask questions to identify and communicate, using graphs and maps, the composition, location, and subsurface topography of the world’s oceans.
S6E3.d: Analyze and interpret data to create graphic representations of the causes and effects of waves, currents, and tides in Earth’s systems.
S6E4.b: Plan and carry out an investigation to demonstrate how energy from the sun transfers heat to air, land and water at different rates.
Coastal Winds and Clouds - Metric
S6E4.c: Develop a model demonstrating the interaction between unequal heating and the rotation of the Earth that causes local and global wind systems.
Coastal Winds and Clouds - Metric
Hurricane Motion - Metric
S6E4.d: Construct an explanation of the relationship between air pressure, weather fronts, and air masses and meteorological events such as tornados and thunderstorms.
Hurricane Motion - Metric
Weather Maps - Metric
S6E4.e: Analyze and interpret weather data to explain the effects of moisture evaporating from the ocean on weather patterns and weather events such as hurricanes.
S6E5.b: Plan and carry out an investigation of the characteristics of minerals and how minerals contribute to rock composition.
S6E5.c: Construct an explanation of how to classify rocks by their formation and how rocks change through geologic processes in the rock cycle.
S6E5.d: Ask questions to identify types of weathering, agents of erosion and transportation, and environments of deposition.
Erosion Rates
Rock Cycle
Weathering
S6E5.e: Develop a model to demonstrate how natural processes (weathering, erosion, and deposition) and human activity change rocks and the surface of the Earth.
Building Pangaea
Erosion Rates
River Erosion
Rock Cycle
Weathering
S6E5.f: Construct an explanation of how the movement of lithospheric plates, called plate tectonics, can cause major geologic events such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
S6E5.g: Construct an argument using maps and data collected to support a claim of how fossils show evidence of the changing surface and climate of the Earth.
S6E6.c: Construct an argument evaluating contributions to the rise in global temperatures over the past century.
Carbon Cycle
Greenhouse Effect - Metric
Correlation last revised: 9/16/2020