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