Earth+Resources

Earth Resources Modern technologies depend on energy resources and materials found in the Earth. Economic and environmental factors can influence the ways we use resources. What are things made of? How do we turn the Earth's resources into useful materials? What happens to these materials when we are done with them?

Learning Resources Class Notes - Earth Resources - The Structure of Matter

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Class Notes - Earth Resources - Metals

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Class Notes - Earth Resources - Plastics

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Class Notes - Earth Resources - Waste and Recycling

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Activities & Assignments What Is Matter - Directed Reading (TT1)  - Inquiry Activity (IA1) Build a Hard Disk - Web Activity - Inquiry Activity (IA2) - Directed Reading (TT2) - Inquiry Activity (IA3) - Inquiry Activity (IA4) - Directed Reading (TT3) - Inquiry Activity (IA5) - Directed Reading (TT4) - Directed Reading (TT5) Earth Resources Unit Assessment Inquiry Activity 6 (IA6)

Benchmark Assessments

[|Benchmark Assessment 2 - The Structure of Matter] Benchmark Assessment 3 - Iron From Ore Benchmark Assessment 4 - Carbon Benchmark Assessment 5 - Conservation of Matter

Standards S11.D.1.2 Analyze how human-made systems impact the management and distribution of natural resources.
 * Earth Resources **

S11.D.1.2.1 Evaluate factors affecting availability, location, extraction, and use of natural resources.

S11.D.1.2.2 Explain the impact of obtaining and using natural resources for the production of energy and materials (e.g., resource renewal, amount of pollution, deforestation).

3.1.10.C Apply patterns as repeated processes or recurring elements in science and technology.

3.6.10.C Apply physical technologies of structural design, analysis and engineering, personnel relations, financial affairs, structural production, marketing, research and design to real world problems.

S11.B.3.2 Analyze patterns of change in natural or human-made systems over time.

When elements are listed in order by the masses of their atoms, the same sequence of properties appears over and over again in the list. 4D/H6
 * The Structure of Matter **

There are groups of elements that have similar properties, including highly reactive metals, less-reactive metals, highly reactive nonmetals (such as chlorine, fluorine, and oxygen), and some almost completely nonreactive gases (such as helium and neon). 4D/M6a

The configuration of atoms in a molecule determines the molecule's properties. Shapes are particularly important in how large molecules interact with others. 4D/H8

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">All matter is made up of atoms, which are far too small to see directly through a microscope. 4D/M1a

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">A substance has characteristic properties such as density, a boiling point, and solubility, all of which are independent of the amount of the substance and can be used to identify it. 4D/M10 (NSES)

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Atoms are made of a positively charged nucleus surrounded by negatively charged electrons. The nucleus is a tiny fraction of the volume of an atom but makes up almost all of its mass. The nucleus is composed of protons and neutrons which have roughly the same mass but differ in that protons are positively charged while neutrons have no electric charge. 4D/H1*

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The atoms of any element are like other atoms of the same element, but are different from the atoms of other elements. 4D/M1b

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The number of protons in the nucleus determines what an atom's electron configuration can be and so defines the element. An atom's electron configuration, particularly the outermost electrons, determines how the atom can interact with other atoms. Atoms form bonds to other atoms by transferring or sharing electrons. 4D/H2*

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">3.4.10.A Explain concepts about the structure and properties of matter.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">No matter how substances within a closed system interact with one another, or how they combine or break apart, the total mass of the system remains the same. 4D/M7a*
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Conservation of Mass **

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The idea of atoms explains the conservation of matter: If the number of atoms stays the same no matter how the same atoms are rearranged, then their total mass stays the same. 4D/M7b

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">If samples of both the original substances and the final substances involved in a chemical reaction are broken down, they are found to be made up of the same set of elements. 4D/M12

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The idea of atoms explains chemical reactions: When substances interact to form new substances, the atoms that make up the molecules of the original substances combine in new ways. 4D/M13

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">A1.2.1.1.1 Analyze a set of data for the existence of a pattern and represent the pattern algebraically and/or graphically.
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<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">BIO.B.4.2.3 Describe how matter recycles through an ecosystem (i.e., water cycle, carbon cycle, oxygen cycle, and nitrogen cycle).

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">CC.1.2.9-10.A Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.