TABLE OF CONTENTS - Lindbergh School District

Concept C: The atmosphere (air) is composed
of a mixture of gases, including water vapor, and
minute particles
5.1.C.b Describe the causes and
consequences of observed and predicted
changes in the ozone layer
Concept D: The atmosphere (air) is composed
of a mixture of gases, including water vapor, and
minute particles
5.1.D.a Provide evidence (e.g., melting
glaciers, fossils, desertification) that
supports theories of climate change due to
natural phenomena and /or human
interactions
Concept D: The atmosphere (air) is composed
of a mixture of gases, including water vapor, and
minute particles
5.1.D.b Explain how climate and weather
patterns in a particular region are affected
by factors, such as proximity to large
bodies of water or ice/ocean currents,
latitude, altitude, prevailing wind currents,
and amount of solar radiation
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Students will watch a video that shows how the
ozone layer is formed and what gases are
responsible for destroying it. Students will then
observe the current conditions of the ozone layer by
studying a diagram that shows where the ozone hole
is currently located.
Students will measure ancient tree rings in order to
find out how the climate in a particular area has
changed over time.
Partially covered in Physical Science.
Students will complete a lab to distinguish between
warm and cold ocean currents and how they affect
the weather around them.
Students will predict what the ozone hole will look like
in the next 50 years and determine how that will affect
our planet and man-kind.
Students will be able to estimate how long the cold
weather and warm weather lasted over hundreds of
years in a particular area. They will then be able to
discuss how the climate in that area has changed over a
period of time.
Pretest
Students will have to compare the temperatures of a
town near a cold ocean current at a lower latitude to a
town near a warm ocean current at a higher latitude.
They will have to explain why the higher latitude is
actually warmer then the lower one.
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