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Earth Systems

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Off the Page
Subject:
science
Grade Level:
5
Product Type:
PDF, PowerPoint
Contents:
52 pages, 134 Jeopardy slides
  • Earth Systems
  • Earth Systems
  • Earth Systems
  • Earth Systems
$8.00

Description

Earth Systems is a resource created to align with Unit 3 the Alberta Grade 5 science new curriculum. It’s completely laid out with teacher notes and a sequence of activities, so very little prep is required by the teacher.
 
This resource includes:
  1. Teacher Notes
  2. Student Notes
  3. Suggested YouTube Videos
  4. Investigating Air Pressure
  5. Weather Instrument Design Project
  6. Local Weather
  7. World Climate Jigsaw Activity
  8. Climate Detective
  9. Extreme Weather Research Activity
  10. Animals and Climate Crypto Facts
  11. Jeopardy
  12. Review Sheet
  13. Quiz
  14. Answer Keys
The curriculum standards included are:
 
Organizing Idea: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened by investigating natural systems and their interactions.
 
Guiding Question: How can climate and its effects be understood?
 
Learning Outcomes: Students analyze climate and connect it to weather conditions and agricultural practices.
 
Knowledge:
  • Weather is the short-term conditions experienced in a region, including temperature, wind speed and direction, amount of sunlight, precipitation, humidity, and cloud cover.
  • Climate is the long-term weather patterns of a region over a period of at least 30 years.
  • Data in maps, tables, or graphs can be used to represent key characteristics of climate, including temperature, precipitation, humidity, and wind.
  • Climates are dependent on factors that include geographical location, landforms, altitude, and proximity to bodies of water.
  • Climate zones are defined areas with distinct climates and include tropical, dry, temperate, polar, and continental.
  • First Nations, Métis, and Inuit can provide long-term observations of climate for local context.
  • Tools to measure and track weather conditions include thermometers, wind vanes, windsocks, anemometers, barometers, rain or snow gauges, and hygrometers.
  • Websites, weather maps, and weather apps provide access to weather information.
  • First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities rely on traditional knowledge in addition to modern tools and methods to interpret and predict weather patterns.
  • Methods used to predict weather include computer modelling, historical data, satellite imaging, and First Nations, Métis, and Inuit traditional knowledge.
  • Climate affects various aspects of human activity, including agriculture, infrastructure, clothing, transportation, and recreation.
  • Climate affects various aspects of animal activity, including migration patterns, accessing food, and timing of reproduction.
  • Climate and weather events may influence agricultural practices by affecting components such as crop type, crop production, animal population, soil quality, and water access.
  • Conservation agriculture is a sustainable practice that responds to local climate and weather events.
  • Conservation agriculture practices are adapted to the requirements of plants and animals farmed.
  • Agricultural practices involve monitoring and responding to climate or weather events such as drought, flooding, fires, and windstorms.
  • Conservation agriculture practices include minimizing soil disturbance, maintaining soil cover, using water efficiently, and using sustainable harvesting practices.
  • Sustainable harvesting practices support the maintenance of stable plant or animal populations over time and include crop rotation, companion planting, limiting hunting and trapping, and considering future harvests
  • Observations of weather conditions and animal behaviour can be used to recognize patterns and cycles, such as seasonal migration.
Understanding:
  • The study of climates across regions helps identify historical patterns and make predictions.
  • Climate affects human and other animal activity.
  • Climate and weather events influence agricultural practices.
  • Intergenerational observations and accounts of place enable individuals and communities to recognize patterns and cycles related to weather and seasons.
Skills & Procedures:
  • Distinguish climate from weather.
  • Discuss the characteristics of local, national, and global weather conditions to determine climate.
  • Compare key characteristics of climate zones.
  • Interpret data about climate.
  • Relate factors that contribute to Alberta’s climate.
  • Compare Alberta’s climate to the climates of other Canadian provinces or territories.
  • Examine tools used to measure and track weather conditions.
  • Construct simple tools to measure weather.
  • Observe and record local weather for a given time interval.
  • Represent local weather data.
  • Construct a sample weather map table of a local region for a given time.
  • Explain the importance of weather forecasts.
  • Investigate methods used to predict the weather.
  • Discuss First Nations, Métis, and Inuit methods of predicting weather.
  • Explain how climate can affect human and other animal activity.
  • Describe how climate may affect plants and animals farmed in Alberta.
  • Discuss conservation agriculture practices and potential uses.
  • Describe local climate and weather events that affect agricultural practices.
  • Explain practices related to sustainable harvesting.
  • Examine how weather conditions and animal behaviour can be used to recognize weather patterns and cycles.
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