Michigan NGSS Standards for this Unit:
Learning Targets for Catastrophic Events
Earthquakes
- MS-ESS2-1 Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth's materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.
- MS-ESS2-2 Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth's surface at varying time and spatial scales.
- MS-ESS2-3 Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions.
Learning Targets for Catastrophic Events
Earthquakes
- I can explain how earthquakes affect the Earth in words and through diagrams.
- I can compare and contrast P-waves and S-waves.
- I can use data from a seismograph station to describe the strength and location of an earthquake.
- I can model and describe the 4 internal layers of the Earth.
- I can explain the role of the asthenosphere and lithosphere in tectonic plates.
- I can model and define the 3 types of plate boundaries and identify landforms associated with them.
- I can support the theory of continental drift with 4 pieces of evidence.
- I can model and explain seafloor spreading.
- I can model and explain the forces that cause the plates to move over time.
- I can identify parts of a volcano.
- I can compare and contrast the 3 types of volcanos.
- I can compare and contrast minerals and rocks.
- I can explain how sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks are formed.
- I can model how rocks are cycled through Earth systems.
- I can compare and contrast weathering and erosion.
- I can define deposition.
- I can identify landforms created by weathering, erosion, and deposition.
- I can create a claim, based on evidence, to explain how weathering, erosion, and deposition have changed the Earth’s surface over long periods of time.