Earth System Science

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Earth System Science

• The SOAR-High Project
• Teacher Ms. Mary Ellsworth

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What is ESS?

• The study of the Earth and its spheres, and the
  interactions between the spheres.
• Example What happens when the atmosphere
  touches the oceans?

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Topics for this year

• 1st Quarter - Parts of the Earth System,
  Systems thinking, Online Portfolios, GLOBE
  measurements, What causes the seasons
• 2nd Quarter - Energy in the system, Greenhouse
  effect, Global Warming, the Electromagnetic
  Spectrum, Satellites, Research Project
• 3rd Quarter - The Atmosphere, structure, Ozone,
  Bio-Indicators, Climate Change
• 4th Quarter - The Lithosphere, soils, faults,
  Sphere Connections, Research Project

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What is SOAR-High?

• Six schools working together
• Sharing an online curriculum
• Class guided by dailly teacher message
• Videoconferencing
• Collaboration between classrooms

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SOAR-High Schools

• Indiana School for the Deaf
• Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf
• North Carolina School for the Deaf
• University High School DHHP (Irvine, CA)
• Chinook Middle School (Seattle, WA)
• Model Secondary School for the Deaf

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Class Activities

• Online Portfolios
• Projects
• Collecting data (GLOBE Program)
• Ozone and ozone damage to plants
• Aerosols
• Air temperature
• Lab activities
• Lab reports - data analysis

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Class Activities

• Outside readings
• Science Article Summaries (every 2 wks)
• Books Rachel Carson, others Outside readings
• Science Article Summaries (every 2 wks)
• Books Rachel Carson, others
• Evening fieldtrips
• Computer use - daily
• Student collaboration (maybe)

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How much do you know about the planet Earth?

• Earth is the ____ planet from the Sun.

Sun Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter,
Satuen, Neptune, Pluto
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• Vostok, Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth.
  The lowest temperature measured there was ______
  on July 21, 1983.

136 degrees F
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• The hottest place on Earth in
• A. Death Valley, USA
• B. El Azizia, Libya
• And that temperature was
• _______

El Azizia, Libya
136 degrees F
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• What kind of rocks can float?

Pumice, a volcanic rock
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• How much dust from outer space falls on Earth
  each year?

About 1,000 tons of material
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• What is the longest river in the world? How long
  is it?

Nile River in Africa is 4,160 miles
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What state tends to get the most earthquakes?

• Alaska has a magnitude 7 quake almost every year!

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Which state have the fewest earthquakes?

• Florida and North Dakota

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Is the atmosphere made mostly of oxygen?

• No. Earth's atmosphere is actually made of
  about 80 nitrogen. About 19 is oxygen.

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Is Earth the largest rocky planet in the Solar
system?

• Yesbut just barely.
• Earth's diameter at the equator is 7,926 miles.
  Venus is 7,521 miles wide.

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What percentage of the worlds water is in the
oceans?

• About 97

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What is Earths largest ocean?

• The Pacific Ocean - it covers 64 million square
  miles.
• Its more than 2 times the size of the Atlantic!