Week
Six: Deforestation
Earth
System Science Classroom Activities
Weeks 4, 5, and 6
make up a three-week cycle on deforestation. Currently, you are in
the Classroom Application week of the cycle.
This week you should
refer to the resources listed under Readings & Recommendations,
and you need to complete the assignment listed under Classroom Application
Assignment & Rubric. This weeks assignment focuses on
- Creating or contributing
activities to help your students develop the concepts you have
explored in your studies of deforestation
- Contributing to Resource
Space the location of Internet sites or print material you have
discovered that can be used as content resources or activities
for students
- Responding to other
class members' contributions
You have the option of
doing an extra credit Local Event Study.
Suggested
Activities for Your Students
Global
Change: Change and Cycles, Where Land, Air, and Water Meet.
This activity discusses atmospheric content--such as parts per million.
It helps students understand concern over changes in carbon dioxide,
methane and other trace gases.
"When
the Sulfur Flows-You Get Temperature Lows." Ground
Truth Studies Teacher Handbook. pp. 35-39.
Classroom
Application Assignment &
Rubric
This week you
will develop cooperative activities that engage your students in
understanding Earth as a system through analyzing the causes and
effects of an event.
Click on Classroom
Application Assignment & Rubric for directions.
Local Event Assignment
& Rubric
You also have the option of doing a Local
Event Assignment & Rubric this week.
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Readings
&
Recommendations
Read:
Volcanoes
and Global Cooling. Welcome
to NASA's Earth Science Enterprise: Educational Activity Supplement.
pp. 31-34
Read:
"Earth Through Time." Forecasting the Future.
pp. 127-133.
Recommended Web Sites:
Observation
of the Week Archive at NASA's Observatorium.
Women
of NASA: Learn about the women who have launched a thousand
space probes.
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Science
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