Target Student Performance
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Activity |
Target Performance |
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Lesson 1 – Pretest and Expressing Ideas about Arctic Sea Ice (students as questioners and investigators) |
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Activity 1.1 Human Energy Systems Unit Pretest (20 min) |
Students show their initial proficiencies for the overall unit goals: 1. Questioning, investigating, and explaining how the Earth’s climate is changing 2. Explaining and predicting how carbon cycles and energy flows in Earth systems. |
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Activity 1.2: Expressing Ideas and Questions about Arctic Sea Ice (40 min) |
Students express ideas and record questions about why Arctic sea ice seems to be shrinking. |
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Activity 1.3: Graphing Arctic Sea Ice (45 min) |
Students use data on Arctic sea ice to construct graphs showing patterns in changing coverage over time. |
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Activity 1.4: Drawing a Trend Line (40 min) |
Students use multi-year averages to construct a trend line using data on Lake Superior ice cover. |
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Activity 1.5: Finding a Trend in Arctic Sea Ice Data (40 min) |
Students use multi-year averages to construct a trend line using data on Arctic sea ice. |
NGSS Performance Expectations
This lesson does not feature a mastery of any of the NGSS performance expectations but provides students with foundational practices and knowledge needed to master all of the performance expectations in the rest of the unit.