Welcome to Our Homeschool Earth Science Curriculum

Course Outline for Our Homeschool Earth Science Curriculum

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Semester One

Lesson One | How Science Works
What is Earth Science? Part One
What is Earth Science? Part Two
Scientific Models
Scientific Measurements

Lesson Two | Mapping
Maps, Part One
Maps, Part Two
Reading Topographical Maps
What is the Meaning of This?

Lesson Three | Mineral Identification
What is a Mineral?
Identifying Minerals
Mineral Formations and Uses

Lesson Four | Rocks
What are Rocks?
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks

Lesson Five | Rocks II
Metamorphic Rocks
What’s the Meaning of This?
Earth Structure

Lesson Six | Earthquakes
Earthquake Basics
Measuring Earthquakes
Earthquake Safety

Lesson Seven | Volcanoes
Volcanic Eruptions Part One
Volcanic Effects
Volcanic Eruptions, Part Two
What’s the Meaning of This?

Lesson Eight | Energy
Natural Resources
Fossil Fuels
Alternative Energy

Lesson Nine | Soil
Weathering Action
Weathering Rates
Soil Basics

Lesson Ten | Soil and Water
Soil Conservation
What’s the Meaning of This?
The Water Cycle and Streams
Deposits

Lesson Eleven | Water and Erosion
Groundwater
Water Conservation
Erosion and Shorelines

Lesson Twelve | Wind, Glaciers, and Gravity
Erosion and Wind
Erosion and Glaciers
Erosion and Gravity

Lesson Thirteen | Water, Erosion and Oceans
What’s the Meaning of This?
Ocean Features
Ocean Floor

Lesson Fourteen | Oceans
Ocean Life
Ocean Resources
Ocean Pollution
What’s the Meaning of This?

Semester Two

Lesson Fifteen | Ocean
Ocean Currents
Ocean Currents and Climates
Ocean Waves
Tides

Lesson Sixteen | Atmosphere
Describing the Atmosphere
How the Sun Heats the Atmosphere
Global and Local Winds
Air Pollution
What is the Meaning of This?

Lesson Seventeen | Weather
Ingredients of Weather
Air Masses and Fronts
Severe Weather
Forecasting
Hurricane Andrew

Lesson Eighteen | Climate Change
What is Climate?
Climates
Climate Change

Lesson Nineteen | Astronomy
History of Astronomy
Telescopes
Mapping the Night Sky

Lesson Twenty | Universe
Stars
Galaxies
Structure of the Universe

Lesson Twenty-One | Solar System
The Sun
Planetary Motion
Inner Planets
Beyond the Inner Planets
Earth and Moon

Lesson Twenty-Two | Space Exploration
Rocket Science
Artificial Satellites
Space Probes
Manned Spacecraft
Models and Space Exploration

Lesson Twenty-Three | Origins of the Universe
Origin of the Universe
Origin of Galaxies, Stars and Solar System
Origin of the Earth and Moon

Lesson Twenty-Four | Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics: Underlying Data
Plate Tectonics: Conventional Model
Plate Tectonics: Creationists Model

Lesson Twenty-Five | Rock Dating
Rock Clocks or How to Put a Date on a Rock
Fossils and the Geologic Column
Precambrian and Paleozoic Rocks
Mesozoic and Cenozoic Rocks

More About This Course

What is earth science? Earth science is “the study of the structure and the processes of the world around us,” from the center of the earth to the most distant star. The four main areas of earth science are geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy. This homeschool earth science curriculum will explore a number of areas of earth science, including volcanology; seismology; paleontology; sedimentology; the biology, geology, physics, and chemistry of the oceans; the science of climate and weather; the atmosphere; the history of astronomy; telescopes and mapping the night sky; the sun; the planets; rockets and artificial satellites; origins of the universe; and plate tectonics. You can take a look at the course outline for more details on what we’ll be covering in this homeschool earth science course.

We hope you have fun and learn something!

Please feel free to ask questions. We are very interested in helping you understand and appreciate science. We are especially interested in your questions regarding the What’s the Meaning of This? sections. If you have questions regarding age of the earth issues or how to interpret data from a young or old earth position, please let us know. We’re happy to help, and it may help us improve a future edition of this course.

We suggest that students download the worksheets and follow along with the video lessons, since the worksheets are based directly on the video lessons. After students have completed all the lessons for a particular topic, there will be a study guide to complete that functions as homework or a practice test. The student should then proceed to the test; answer keys are provided for the parents.

This course is laid out in 25 sessions. Students may follow this schedule weekly and have no more than 45 minutes of video lessons and a quiz per week, or they can ignore the suggested schedule and finish this course at his/her own pace.

If you’ve ever wondered why it is critical that students understand the scientific evidence for Creation, we invite you to check out Fallout, by Creation Ministries, International, available to watch free on SchoolhouseTeachers.com.