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Earth Science A — Earth in Space, Deep Time and a Restless Crust (California)
Curriculum
4 Sections
20 Lessons
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Unit 1: The Sun, the Stars and the Universe
5
1.1
Why the Sun Shines
50 mins
1.2
Ellipses, Orbits and Kepler’s Laws
100 mins
1.3
Arguing for the Big Bang
50 mins
1.4
Stars as Element Factories
100 mins
1.5
Performance Task — The Cosmic Biography of California Gold
150 mins
Unit 2: Deep Time: Earth’s Formation and the Age of Rocks
5
2.1
Reading Time in Rock Layers
50 mins
2.2
Half-Life: The Clock Inside Rocks
100 mins
2.3
How Old Is Earth? Weighing the Evidence
50 mins
2.4
Earth and Life Changed Together
100 mins
2.5
Performance Task — How Do We Know Earth’s Age?
150 mins
Unit 3: Plate Tectonics and the San Andreas System
5
3.1
Wallace Creek and the Moving Plates
50 mins
3.2
Seismic Waves and Earth’s Layered Interior
100 mins
3.3
How Fast Does the San Andreas Slip?
100 mins
3.4
Building California at a Plate Boundary
100 mins
3.5
Performance Task — Why California Has the San Andreas Fault
150 mins
Unit 4: Rocks, Water and a Changing Surface
5
4.1
Minerals, Rocks and the Rock Cycle
100 mins
4.2
Running Water: A Stream-Table Investigation
100 mins
4.3
Why Hillsides Fail: Water, Fire and Feedbacks
100 mins
4.4
Water, the Rock Breaker: Ice, Solution and Heat
100 mins
4.5
Performance Task — Reading a California Landscape
150 mins
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