Crosscutting 5

Energy and matter: Flows, cycles, and conservation

Next Generation Science Standards

Materials related to this Standard

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Measuring Tides

Measuring Tides

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Slide presentation on the difference between high tide and low tide

Grades:

6, 7, 8, 9+

Subjects:

Earth Science

Topics:

Earth's Systems

Statistical Concepts:

Question, Evidence, Claim, Reasoning

Skills:

Describing variability

Data Literacy Instructional for:

Practice describing variability with earthquake data

Practice describing variability with hurricane duration data

Practice describing variability with hurricane wind speeds data

Practice describing variability with tide height data

Mercury availability+advisories question set

Mercury availability+advisories question set

Details

Background questions to understand mercury.

Grades:

Topics:

Human Impacts

Skills:

reading for content, thinking about patterns

Handout for:

Why do we Care about Mercury?

Toxicology and Living Systems

The Road to Toxicity

Concentration as a unit of measurement

Mercury in our study site, and how does it move?

Mini Lesson 1 (PRAC) New England Gas Prices

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Mini Lesson 1 (PRAC) New England Gas Prices

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Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8

Subjects:

Social Science

Topics:

Energy

Statistical Concepts:

Statistical questions, Time series

Graph Types:

Line graph

Data Activity File for:

Practice asking questions with Gas Price data

Mini Lesson 1 (PRAC) Solar Panel

Details

Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8

Subjects:

Physical Science

Topics:

Energy

Statistical Concepts:

Statistical questions

Graph Types:

Scatter plot

Data Activity File for:

Practice asking questions: Solar Panel data

Mini Lesson 1 (PRAC) Tide Tables

Details

Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8

Subjects:

Earth Science

Topics:

Earth's Surface Systems

Statistical Concepts:

Statistical questions

Data Activity File for:

Practice asking questions with Tide Table data

Mini Lesson 2 (PRAC) Hurricane Duration

Details

Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8

Subjects:

Earth Science

Topics:

Earth's Surface Systems, Weather and Climate

Statistical Concepts:

Statistical questions, Variability

Skills:

Describing variability

Graph Types:

Dot plot

Data Activity File for:

Practice describing variability with hurricane duration data

Mini Lesson 2 (PRAC) Hurricane Wind Speeds

Details

Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8

Subjects:

Earth Science

Topics:

Earth's Surface Systems, Weather and Climate

Statistical Concepts:

Statistical questions, Variability

Skills:

Describing variability

Graph Types:

Dot plot

Data Activity File for:

Practice describing variability with hurricane wind speeds data

Mini Lesson 2 (PRAC) Tide Heights

Details

Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8

Subjects:

Earth Science

Topics:

Earth's Surface Systems

Statistical Concepts:

Variability

Skills:

Describing variability

Graph Types:

Dot plot

Data Activity File for:

Practice describing variability with tide height data

Mini Lesson 3 (PRAC) Belfast Temperatures

Mini Lesson 3 (PRAC) Belfast Temperatures

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Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8

Subjects:

Earth Science

Topics:

Earth's Surface Systems, Weather and Climate

Statistical Concepts:

Group comparison, Variability

Skills:

Comparing groups, Describing variability

Graph Types:

Box plot

Data Activity File for:

Practice comparing groups with Belfast temperature data

Mini Lesson 3 (PRAC) High Tides

Details

Use this mini lesson with your students to practice interpreting and describing box plots.

Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8

Subjects:

Life Science, Physical Science

Topics:

Earth's Surface Systems, Energy and Matter in Systems, Waves

Statistical Concepts:

Group comparison, Variability

Skills:

Comparing groups

Graph Types:

Box plot

Data Activity File for:

Practice comparing groups with high tide data

Mini Lesson 3 (PRAC) House Insulation and Temperature

Details

Use the graph choice chart and make a graph comparing temperature measurements from inside and outside an old Maine house.

Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8

Subjects:

Social Science

Topics:

Energy, Weather and Climate

Statistical Concepts:

Group comparison, Variability

Skills:

Comparing groups

Graph Types:

Box plot, Dot plot

Data Activity File for:

Practice comparing groups: House Insulation and Temperature data

Mini Lesson 4 (PRAC) House Insulation and Temperature

Details

Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8

Subjects:

Social Science

Topics:

Energy

Statistical Concepts:

Correlation, Variability

Skills:

Correlations

Graph Types:

Scatter plot

Data Activity File for:

Practice correlating: House Insulation and Temperature data

Mini Lesson 4 (PRAC) Pen Bay Buoy Air-Water Temperature

Details

Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8

Subjects:

Earth Science

Topics:

Earth's Surface Systems, Weather and Climate

Statistical Concepts:

Correlation, Variability

Skills:

Correlations

Graph Types:

Scatter plot

Data Activity File for:

Practice correlating: Pen Bay Buoy Air-Water Temperature data

Mini Lesson 5 (PRAC) Gas Prices

Details

Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8

Subjects:

Social Science

Topics:

Economics, Energy

Statistical Concepts:

Time series

Skills:

Time series

Graph Types:

Line graph

Data Activity File for:

Practice time series with Gas Price data

Mini Lesson 5 (PRAC) House Insulation and Temperature

Details

Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8

Subjects:

Physical Science, Social Science

Topics:

Energy, Weather and Climate

Statistical Concepts:

Time series

Skills:

Time series

Graph Types:

Line graph, Time series

Data Activity File for:

Practice time series: House Insulation and Temperature data

Mini Lesson 5 (PRAC) Moon Phase

Details

Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8

Subjects:

Earth Science

Topics:

Earth's Systems, Space Systems, Waves

Statistical Concepts:

Time series

Skills:

Time series

Graph Types:

Line graph, Time series

Data Activity File for:

Practice time series with Moon Phase data

Mini Lesson 5 (PRAC) Pen Bay Buoy Air-Water Temperature

Details

Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8

Subjects:

Earth Science

Topics:

Energy, Weather and Climate

Statistical Concepts:

Time series

Skills:

Time series

Graph Types:

Line graph

Data Activity File for:

Practice time series: Pen Bay Buoy Air-Water Temperature data

Mini Lesson 5 (PRAC) Penobscot River Flow

Details

Interpret river flow graphical data from 2013

Types of Instruction:

Data Interpretation, Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8, 9+

Subjects:

Earth Science

Topics:

Analyzing and interpreting data, Earth's Surface Systems, Earth's Systems, Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems, Weather and Climate

Statistical Concepts:

Time series

Skills:

analyzing data, information gathering and interpreting, interpreting data, Time series

Graph Types:

Line graph, Time series

Data Activity File for:

Practice time series with Penobscot River Flow data

Mini Lesson 5 (PRAC) Tide Speed

Details

Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

6, 7, 8

Subjects:

Earth Science

Topics:

Earth's Surface Systems, Waves

Statistical Concepts:

Time series

Skills:

Time series

Graph Types:

Line graph, Time series

Data Activity File for:

Practice time series with tide speed data

Practice correlating: Chlorophyll and phosphorus in lakes

Details

Given lake water quality data students make a graph and explain how the graph supports or refutes a given hypothesis.

Types of Instruction:

Data Practice

Grades:

8, 9+

Subjects:

Earth Science, Life Science

Topics:

Analyzing and interpreting data, Earth's Systems, Energy and Matter in Systems, Engaging in argument from evidence, Human Impacts, Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems, Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems, Stability and Change of Systems

Statistical Concepts:

Correlation

Skills:

analyzing data, argument, Correlations, Graph choice, graphing data, interpreting data, representing data, using math in science

Graph Types:

Scatter plot

Data Activity File for:

Practice correlating: Chlorophyll and phosphorus in lakes

Road to Toxicity game board (2 8.5x11 pages)

Details

Game board for game about the mercury cycle; including methylation.

Grades:

Topics:

Chemical Reactions, Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems, Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems, Earth's Surface Systems, Weather and Climate

Skills:

thinking about patterns

Handout for:

The Road to Toxicity