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.

 


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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