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[|Oldest rock found on Earth] || Students gather process and present information that outlines the sequence of events that led to the formation of the Solar System Resource [|Origin of the Solar System pdf] [|Nebular Theory You Tube] [|Building Planets at PSI] [|Animation showing the origin of the solar system] [|Origin of the Earth] - You Tube || Homework Due Monday 18th Feb || Electromagnetic Spectrum Powerpoint due [|How do we know about the different layers within the earth]- web activity [|differentiation of the Earths layers] [|Internal structure of the Earth]  || Homework due Monday 14th March students gather and process second-hand information about both ancient Archaea and present day Archaea that live near fumaroles and submarine vents known as black smokers. [|Early development of the atmosphere] animation [|Late development of Earths atmosphere], interactive site  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ancient Stromatolites You Tube[|Ancient Stromatolite Fossils] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ASSESSMENT TASK 1 DUE! (Wednesday 9th March)[|The Origin of Oxygen in the Earths Early atmosphere] Scientific America <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;">[|NASA short video on the importance of phytoplankton] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">gather and process information from secondary sources and use available evidence to analyse differences in the composition of the oceans before and after the evolution of photosynthesis. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|How the Earth made us Fire] part 2 You Tube ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">geological records suggests that there have been climatic variations over Earth’s history || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">identify data, process and analyse information from secondary sources and use available evidence to assess claims of a relationship between changing carbon dioxide concentrations and changes in average global temperatures || Great site on [|climate change and Carbon Dioxide levels] [|NASA site on Climate Change] Amazing site on [|climate change and environmental issues] [|Trends in Carbon Dioxide Emissions]
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Syllabus Content == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Task/ Activity/ Experiment == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Homework / Resources == ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Introduction A 5000 Million Year Journey || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students are given a selection of events from the history of the Solar System and Earth. Students are to sort the events into chronological order and construct a time line. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finish Timeline Resource [|Timeline Activity]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The solar system has evolved from a ball of gases released from a supernova explosion || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students look at ways to explain the existence of matter in the universe using current scientific ideas ([|spectroscopy]), and describe the process of accretion of such matter to form stars and planets identify a sequence of events described by scientists to outline the formation of the solar system
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Quote of the week "Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it is also a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong."---Astronomer Allan Sandage. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Homework Assignment due Monday 14th Feb
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evolution of planet Earth || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">explain the role of gravity in the formation of the Earth
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">describe the relationship between the density of Earth materials and the layered structure of the Earth
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(students perform a first-hand investigation to measure the density of a selection of earth materials representative of core, mantle and crust).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students make a scaled diagram of the internal layering system of the earth
 * || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students describe the composition of the early (pre-oxygen) atmosphere and compare it with the composition of the present atmosphere || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ASSESSMENT TASK 1 handed out [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="file:bwbearthenviro2011/EES Assessment 1 2011.pdf"]] [[file:bwbearthenviro2011/EES Assessment 1 2011.pdf|EES Assessment 1 2011.pdf]] ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Living cells originated at a time when the atmosphere and environments were different to those presently found on earth || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students summarise the experiments of Urey and Miller. (How amino acids may have originated on earth)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students outline the evidence that indicates how the first cellular organisms (Archaea) may have developed and describe their mode of respiration (anaerobic fermentation).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students perform a first-hand investigation to demonstrate fermentation of sugar by yeast and use an appropriate chemical test to identify the produced gas as carbon dioxide.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students explain how the existence of Archaea near fumaroles and submarine vents can be used to support ideas on early development of life || [|Urey-Miller Experiment] Students are to visit this site and evaluate the experiment.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The evolution of photosynthesis shifted the balance of gases in the atmosphere. production of oxygen? removal of carbon dioxide? removal of methane? || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ASSESSMENT TASK 1 DUE! (Wednesday 9th March)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students discuss the impact of photolysis on the composition of the early (pre- oxygen) atmosphere.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students identify photosynthetic bacteria (Stromatolites) as the first organisms to release oxygen into the environment
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students discuss the roles of precipitation and photosynthesis in the removal of carbon dioxide from the early atmosphere.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students explain that reactions between oxygen and other elements would readily occur producing oxide minerals and thus moderate the release of oxygen into the oceans and atmosphere.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students perform a first-hand investigation to gather information about the conditions under which iron reacts with oxygen to form iron oxides (rusting experiment). || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[image:bwbearthenviro2011/Wallpaper_2.jpg width="320" height="200"]]
 * || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students describe the forms in which carbon is now ‘locked up’ in the lithosphere and biosphere (Carbon dioxide cycle page 20) Carbon Cycle
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">outline the links between the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide and average global temperature over geological time. || __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Homework __
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The evidence provided by

[|The Greenhouse Effect] [|Greenhouse Gases] Encyclopaedia of Earth Science

HOMEWORK DUE TUES 2nd APRIL ||  || > identify that evidence from marine and lake sediments, ice cores and sea level changes suggests average global temperatures have decreased over the last sixty million years. [|Measuring our climate] - find out how climate scientists measure the Earth's changing atmosphere and oceans. ABC science [|Biological Impacts of Climate Change]: Interesting report on climate change ||
 * Climate Change || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gather, process and analyse information from secondary sources on the varying climate of the Earth since the end of the Cretaceous, sixty million years ago
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Sea level rise]
 * [|Deep ocean sediment sampling]
 * [|Paleoclimatology]
 * Students revise the Greenhouse Effect
 * Students identify the key greenhouse gases || David Attenbourough [|The Truth About Climat Change]You tube video.