• Essential Questions

    To better understand Resource Availability

  • How do scientists predict the weather?

  • Why is weather different in Atacama vs. Chiloe?

  • How can I use a model to show unobservable things?

Heating the Earth Model 🌎

Heat, or the relative absence of it, drives the weather across the planet. Consider the seasons, and what they mean as the earth draws nearer or farther to the sun as it tilts on its axis during its yearlong journey around our bright star 🌟

Priority Standards & Supporting Standards

ESS2-4: Water Cycle ModelE

SS2-5: Air Masses Data

ESS2-6: Heating the Earth Model (MOD)

Priority SEPs and Supporting SEPs

Develop and use a model
Collect data to provide evidence

Develop and use a model

Priority CCCs and Supporting CCCs

Energy and matter
Cause and effect, Systems

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