title of IC:

1. title of IC: Plate Tectonics and Climate Change author: Bryan Stephens

2. teacher: Bryan Stephens district: Corona Norco USD school: Centennial High School course/grade: Natural Science/9th email: bstephens@cnusd.k12.ca.us

3. generative question: How do earthquakes and volcanoes affect earth’s climate?

4. learning objectives (key standards): Earth Science 3. Plate tectonics operating over geologic time has changed the patterns of land, sea, and mountains on Earth’s surface. 4. Energy enters the Earth system primarily as solar radiation and eventually escapes as heat. 5. Heating of Earth’s surface and atmosphere by the sun drives convection within the atmosphere and oceans, producing winds and ocean currents. 6. Climate is the long-term average of a region’s weather and depends on many factors. 7. Each element on Earth moves among reservoirs, which exist in the solid earth, in oceans, in the atmosphere, and within and among organisms as part of biogeochemical cycles. 8. Life has changed Earth’s atmosphere, and changes in the atmosphere affect conditions for life. 9. The geology of California underlies the state’s wealth of natural resources as well as its natural hazards. I & E 1. Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other four strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations.

5. FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT Homework quizzes from UTEP Test Generated exams – Exam View • Daily quiz checks with Classroom Performance System (CPS) • Using CPS to check for understanding during PowerPoints • Classroom monitoring • Cornell Style Note Taking • Posters and Illustrations (see drawings and posters rubrics)  • Mind Map

6. culminating project: Portfolio and/or Projects in which students choose: Newspaper PowerPoint Newscast or Info Video Essay Magazine Article

7. key lessons & activities: • Earth Movers • Ring of Fire • Places and Processes: Physical Processes in Shaping Places • Volcanic Explosions • Climate and CO2 • Climographs: Temperature, Precipitation, and the Human Condition • Abrupt Climate Change • Physical Characteristics of Places: The Fossil Record • The Accuracy of Climate Data • Solar Energy in Earth's Atmosphere • Origin of the Earth's Atmosphere • Solar Energy and Heat Capacity • Traveling Nitrogen Game • Carbon Dioxide- Sources and Sinks • Solar Insulation Lab • Clues to Earth’s Past Climate • Plate Tectonics Boundaries • Fault Box Activity Lab • Locations of Mountains, Earthquakes and Volcanoes • Volcanoes and Plate Boundaries • Weather Scope

8. 5E inquiry activities: Engage- YouTube Video Clips, Questions, Exploration – Inquiry Activities, Reading and questions, Textbook search Explain – Pair share, journaling, diagrams, posters Extend – Research, Mind Maps, Cornell Notes summaries Evaluate – Tests, rubrics, projects

9. integrated pedagogy: Cornell style notes: Information presented in PowerPoint and students are responsible for summarizing/reflection paragraphs. Clarification Pauses: A series of questions embedded into lectures. There is no “teacher talking” for about 2 minutes while students discuss the ideas with each other, check and clarify their notes, ask questions and CSP quizzes. Multimedia /Visual Aids Computer-Enhanced & Online Simulation Activities Shared Paragraphs: Cooperative Grouping during class or at the end of class, students are given a few minutes to write a short paragraph in their own words that explains that major ideas discussed that day. & Open ended Inquiry Activities Mind maps Academic Vocabulary

10. NASA resources: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/How_Do_Global_Positioning_Systems.html http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/index.html http://climate.nasa.gov/ http://climate.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=337 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/earth/ http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/slideshows/index.cfm?id=23 http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/ostm.html http://airsar.jpl.nasa.gov/documents/workshop2002/papers/S1.pdf http://solidearth.jpl.nasa.gov/PAGES/volc04.html http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/docs/Map_Volcano.pdf http://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/publications/Prata_Carn_Stohl_ACP2007.pdf http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/story_archive/Iceland-volcano-Eyjafjallajokull/ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8706 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=827 http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlnasa/units/PlanetaryGeology/3.pdf http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlnasa/units/PlanetaryGeology/4.pdf http://www.nasa.gov/rss/Earth_vodcast.rss http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html

11. 21st century skill integration: Learning and Innovation Skills: Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming, mind maps etc.) and allow students to create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts) in the course of each day. Develop critical thinking skills and problem solving skills by performing controlled investigations based on their clarifying questions or through guided practice in class with a variety of Current Events articles. Information, Media and Technology Skills: Access and evaluate Information while completing homework assignments, performing research for Current Events reports, or performing Science Fair Projects. Select and use appropriate tools and technology (such as computer-linked probes, spreadsheets, and graphing calculators) to perform tests, collect data, analyze relationships, and display data. Life and Career Skills: Set goals with tangible/ intangible success criteria, utilize time and manage workload efficiently. Model appropriate behaviors such as being able to work independently and be self-directed learners that can go beyond basic mastery of skills and/or curriculum to explore and expand their own learning and opportunities to gain expertise.

12. Miscellaneous : Online Resources www.mrstephens.com