Goal: to allow student's to explore their natural curiosity about the world around them. Students are encouraged to question big ideas, make personal connections and link them to current events explored in class.
Students are full immersed into their personal inquiry projects and planetary realty projects. Please see the handouts below:
Planetary Realty Group Project |
Inquiry Rubric |
Inquiry Report Expectation |
Graphic Organizer |
Space Resources to Explore!
Best 2019 SpacePhotos - https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/blog/2019/12/20/incredible-photos-taken-space-2019.asp
Art in Space - https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/book_report/ten-depictions-of-the-cosmos-by-modern-masters-55022
Junior Astronaut Program - https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/resources-young/junior-astronauts/default.asp
login: [email protected] password: Willow14
Explore NASA - https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu/play/
Explore the Solar System - https://www.solarsystemscope.com
Canadian Space Agency - https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/default.asp
More Great Interactive Sites
https://www.solarsystemscope.com
http://htwins.net/scale2/
http://codementum.org/exoplanets/
Best 2019 SpacePhotos - https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/blog/2019/12/20/incredible-photos-taken-space-2019.asp
Art in Space - https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/book_report/ten-depictions-of-the-cosmos-by-modern-masters-55022
Junior Astronaut Program - https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/resources-young/junior-astronauts/default.asp
login: [email protected] password: Willow14
Explore NASA - https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu/play/
Explore the Solar System - https://www.solarsystemscope.com
Canadian Space Agency - https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/default.asp
More Great Interactive Sites
https://www.solarsystemscope.com
http://htwins.net/scale2/
http://codementum.org/exoplanets/
csi.doc |
Content Covered in Unit: Trees and Forests
Students should be able to...
1. Identify at least 5 reasons why trees/forests are important and recognize their relationship with other living things. Examples include: Provide Oxygen for all living things (Life Support), Act as filters by absorbing pollution/carbon dioxide, Habitat for wildlife (homes, food and shelter), Prevent soil erosion, Shade (Protect us from sun), Act as noise barriers, Natural Beauty, Provide humans with raw materials (paper, lumber) and recreational use, Block wind which helps keep soil moist, Enrich the soil
2. Identify the parts of the nutrient cycle (understand why plants are SO IMPORTANT to their ecosystems)
3. Recognize the difference between trees and other plants and identify the parts of a tree
4. Tell the difference between coniferous trees and deciduous trees.
Coniferous Trees: Produce cones(protect seeds), can withstand temperature extremes (evergreen), needle leaves, needles are waxy and prevent water loss through transpiration, shed continuously, are made up of softwood, do not change color and include what we would consider Christmas Trees.
Deciduous Trees - fruit or nuts (hold seeds), change color in the fall and lose leaves in the fall, broad flat leaves, are made up of hardwood - most trees in Alberta are Deciduous.
Dichotomous Key
5. Identify characteristics of types of local trees
Coniferous Trees include such examples as: spruce, pine, fir and larch trees.
Deciduous Trees include such examples as: crabapple, elm, poplar, and birch trees.
The Tamarack has characteristics of both deciduous and coniferous trees.
6. Describe and classify leaf types/ Recognize the importance of leaves
Deciduous - Broad/flat leaves that shed in the fall
Coniferous - Needle Shaped leaves that shed year round
7. Interpret the growth of a young tree
8. Identify human use of forests and how they enhance or threaten forests
9. Be able to list at least 3 issues facing forests, list different perspectives on the issue and identify actions that might be taken.
Did you know that 36 football fields of trees vanish every minute?! Throughout time, people have chopped down or harmed 75% of the world's woodlands, and that loss has represented a significant part of the excess carbon that is warming Earth. Just to compensate for the damage to trees in the last ten years, we would have to plant 14 billion trees nonstop for a decade. We keep losing endangered animals that have made homes in these forests.
Other terms that students must know:
Deforestation
Clear-Cutting
Slash and Burn
Illegal Harvesting
Pine Beetle (Invasive Species)
Students should be able to...
1. Identify at least 5 reasons why trees/forests are important and recognize their relationship with other living things. Examples include: Provide Oxygen for all living things (Life Support), Act as filters by absorbing pollution/carbon dioxide, Habitat for wildlife (homes, food and shelter), Prevent soil erosion, Shade (Protect us from sun), Act as noise barriers, Natural Beauty, Provide humans with raw materials (paper, lumber) and recreational use, Block wind which helps keep soil moist, Enrich the soil
2. Identify the parts of the nutrient cycle (understand why plants are SO IMPORTANT to their ecosystems)
3. Recognize the difference between trees and other plants and identify the parts of a tree
4. Tell the difference between coniferous trees and deciduous trees.
Coniferous Trees: Produce cones(protect seeds), can withstand temperature extremes (evergreen), needle leaves, needles are waxy and prevent water loss through transpiration, shed continuously, are made up of softwood, do not change color and include what we would consider Christmas Trees.
Deciduous Trees - fruit or nuts (hold seeds), change color in the fall and lose leaves in the fall, broad flat leaves, are made up of hardwood - most trees in Alberta are Deciduous.
Dichotomous Key
5. Identify characteristics of types of local trees
Coniferous Trees include such examples as: spruce, pine, fir and larch trees.
Deciduous Trees include such examples as: crabapple, elm, poplar, and birch trees.
The Tamarack has characteristics of both deciduous and coniferous trees.
6. Describe and classify leaf types/ Recognize the importance of leaves
Deciduous - Broad/flat leaves that shed in the fall
Coniferous - Needle Shaped leaves that shed year round
7. Interpret the growth of a young tree
8. Identify human use of forests and how they enhance or threaten forests
9. Be able to list at least 3 issues facing forests, list different perspectives on the issue and identify actions that might be taken.
Did you know that 36 football fields of trees vanish every minute?! Throughout time, people have chopped down or harmed 75% of the world's woodlands, and that loss has represented a significant part of the excess carbon that is warming Earth. Just to compensate for the damage to trees in the last ten years, we would have to plant 14 billion trees nonstop for a decade. We keep losing endangered animals that have made homes in these forests.
Other terms that students must know:
Deforestation
Clear-Cutting
Slash and Burn
Illegal Harvesting
Pine Beetle (Invasive Species)