Solar Effects

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http://solar.physics.montana.edu/ypop/Spotlight/Tour/tour06.html

Benchmark
SC.B.1.4.2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (refer to link to SSS)
Student recognizes that energy may be changed in form with varying efficiency.
SB.C.2.4.1 (refer to link to SSS)
The student understands the interaction of matter and energy
SC.H.3.4.2, 3 (refer to link to SSS)
The student understands that science, technology, and society are interwoven and interdependent...knows that scientists can bring information, insights, and analytical skills to matters of public concern and help people understand the possible causes and effects of events.

Objective:

• The student will understand the importance of the sun to life and the conditions that allow living organisms to exist here on earth. (temperature, wind, currents)
  

• The student will understand how the sun influences air pressure and heat distribution. (redistribution of heat, filtration, fresh water)
  

• The student will understand how the four layers of the atmosphere discussed provide an environment conducive to life. (reflect, absorb, electromagnetic spectrum, UV light, infrared, O3, ozone, cancer)
  

Agenda:

1. Benchmark
   
2. ActivStudio Flip chart/PP presentation
3. Quiz 1-5
   

Topics discussed: food chain, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, rotation of the earth, electromagnetic spectrum, night vision goggles, cancer, denature

Vocabulary: temperature, wind, current, Coriolis effect, convection, ozone, troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere

Journal (elaborate/accessorize):

• How does the sun influence life and the conditions necessary for it?

• How do the four layers of the atmosphere discussed during class moderate our climate and impact life on earth?

• How does the Coriolis effect work? Keeping this in mind discuss what would happen to the currents and distribution of heat and organisms if the earth spun in the opposite direction.
  

• The air consists of gases that cycle throughout the marine system and are important to physiological processes in aquatic organisms. Elaborate. (nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, respiration, cellular respiration, photosynthesis...review: gas, pressure, depth, compression, decompression, no-decompression zone, air bladder,