Earth and Environmental Science · Week 2 · Earth Systems and Cycles
Spheres That Interact
Analyzing data on feedbacks among Earth's spheres and seeing how one person's change ripples through a group.
- Students will
- Students analyze data to show how a change in one Earth sphere causes changes in others and explain how stability and change happen through feedbacks.
- SEL skill
- Describe how a change in one person can affect a group, using the sphere feedback loop as a guide
- What it looks like
- Students practice empathy by describing how one person's change affects a group.
- Content focus
- Spheres that interact
- Format
- Think write pair share
Social awareness
Social awareness is seeing a situation through someone else's eyes and showing empathy, especially for people whose lives differ from yours. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- HS-ESS2-2: High School Earth and Space Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP4 Analyzing and interpreting data
- Crosscutting concept: CCC7 Stability and change
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle IV: There are no permanent or impermeable boundaries that prevent matter from flowing between systems
- Literacy in science: RST.11-12.7 Translate between quantitative or technical information in words, tables, graphs, and equations.
- Traditional course: Earth and Environmental Science
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More social awareness activities for Earth and Environmental Science
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- Urban Heat Islands Social awarenessMeasuring surface temperatures around campus and considering who lives and works in the hottest places.
- Working in the Heat Social awarenessCommunicating the warning signs of heat illness for farmworkers and athletes and practicing noticing when someone needs help.
- Feeding the Nation from the Desert Social awarenessArguing how water and climate made the valley a winter vegetable center and honoring the farmworkers who make it happen.
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