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=Unit Cover Page=

Subject/Topic Area(s): Science** Designed by: Laura Columbia Time Frame: 6 120 minute classes School District: School:**
 * Unit Title: The Changing Earth Grade Level(s): 9
 * Key Words: Geophysical and Biological Changes

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 * =Brief Summary of Unit= ||
 * This unit will be covering how the Earth is continually changing. Major topics that will be geophysical changes and biological changes. Included in those topics will be how humans have effected the Earth as well as how naturally occurring events such as solar radiation and atmospheric conditions effect our daily lives. The major goal of this unit is to connect how the earth is changing and how that effects our activities, living locations and other apsects of our daily lives. Various projects will be completed inorder to explore these ideas in more depth including diagrams, labs, iMovies and GarageBand. Blogs, peer evalutations, quzzes, tests and checklists will be used to assess the progress and depth of understanding of the student. Our final project will include all of the major topics we have covered as well as how it effects our daily lives. ||
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