Week
Three: Orientation
Collaborating
on an ESS Analysis
This
week you should refer to the resources listed under Readings, References,
& Recommendations, and you need to complete the activity listed
under Assignment. This week's activity focuses on...
- Working with you
Event Team to collaborate on the construction of a practice ESS
analysis of a meteorite impact.
Assignment
Do:
Go to the Exploring the Environment site and read about the
"Giant
Impact" theory.
The event is the impact of a meteorite on the Yucatan Peninsula 65
million years ago.
Go to the Classroom
and enter Event Space. Individually, submit your suggestions for an
ESS analysis by midnight Wednesday. The ESS analysis should include
event to sphere, sphere to event, and sphere to sphere interactions.
Refer to the Week 3: An Example of an ESS
Analysis to see how you should structure your ESS analysis.
In Event Space, read
and comment on your teammates submissions for their ESS analyses.
Between Thursday and
Sunday, go to the Classroom to meet with your Event Team in Event
Space. Within your team, come to a consensus on the various impacts
of the event on the spheres, the spheres on the event, and the
spheres on each other. Post in Event Space your final ESS analysis
by midnight on Sunday.
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Readings,
References, &
Recommendations
Read:
An Example of an ESS
Analysis This page provides a sample Yellowstone Forest Fires
ESS analysis.
Read:
Even
though communicating in asynchronous time with team members accommodates
different schedules and time zones, it can be problematic in that
you will not always know when each team member will be submitting
assignments. You and your Event Team members might want to make
a schedule so that all team members will submit their assignments
on the same day, even if not at the same time.
Read:
"Global Change Primer." Ground
Truth Studies Teacher Handbook. pp. 11-30.
Reference:
Looking at
Earth from Space.
Recommended Web Site:
Middle
School Earth Science Explorer
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