October

Benchmark:

SC.B 1.4.2. understands that there is conservation of mass and energy when matter is transformed.

SC.B 1.4.6 knows that the first law of thermodynamics relates the transfer of energy to the work done and the heat transferred.

SC.D.1.4.1 knows how climatic patterns on Earth result from an interplay of many factors (Earth’s topography, its rotation on its axis, solar radiation, the transfer of heat energy where the atmosphere interfaces with lands and oceans, and wind and ocean currents).

Objective: The students, after the demonstration, will understand that the ocean regulates our climate and weather by re-distributing heat...(Coriolis, heat capacity, evaporation, latent heat of vaporization, latent heat of fusion, hurricanes).

Agenda: PowerPoint chaper 7a, Quiz 1-12, cinquain poem

Journal: Why is water's ability to absorb and release heat slowly important?

Create a cinquain poem on what we discussed last class.

• Surface-to-volume ratio
• Buoyancy
• Hydrostatic pressure
• Echolocation
  
• Metabolism