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SES6. Students will explain how life on Earth responds to and shapes Earth systems.
a. Relate the nature and distribution of life on Earth, including humans, to the chemistry and availability of water.
b. Relate the distribution of biomes (terrestrial, freshwater, and marine) to climate regions through time.
c. Explain how geological and ecological processes interact through time to cycle matter and energy, and how human activity alters the rates of
these processes (e.g., fossil fuel formation and combustion).
d. Describe how fossils provide a record of shared ancestry, evolution, and extinction that is best explained by the mechanism of natural
selection.
e. Identify the evolutionary innovations that most profoundly shaped Earth systems: photosynthetic prokaryotes and the atmosphere;
multicellular animals and marine environments; land plants and terrestrial environments.
1- Research on their chosen topic. This will be proved by written summaries of peer-review articles with MLA citations. Their research
should include how their chosen doomsday event affects the following: chemistry and availability of water, climates and biomes,
geochemical cycles, and natural selection/evolution.
2- Students will create a doomsday brochure educating the public about their doomsday event. This should include data in the form of
statistics and graphs. Their data should cover at least one statistic from the following: chemistry and availability of water, climates and
biomes, geochemical cycles, and natural selection/evolution.
3- Students will create a doomsday journal narrating the events taking place. The journal should include the following: chemistry and
availability of water, climates and biomes, geochemical cycles, and natural selection/evolution.
4- Students will fill out a self-evaluation of their portfolio.
5- The teacher will grade the portfolio based on a checklist and/or rubric.
Evaluation of Portfolio and Entries/Evaluation of Rubrics: Students will be graded for each aspect of the portfolio. The research will be
graded with a checklist. The brochure will be graded with a rubric. The journal will be graded with a rubric. The self-evaluation will be graded
with a checklist. The entire portfolio will be graded based on the previous things mentioned.
Research Portion:
Doomsday Portfolio: Water Component
SES6. Students will explain how life on Earth responds to and shapes Earth systems.
a. Relate the nature and distribution of life on Earth, including humans, to the chemistry and availability of water.
Directions: Answer the following questions using books, articles, video, or websites (all resources must be
cited.google and Wikipedia will not be accepted)
SES6. Students will explain how life on Earth responds to and shapes Earth systems.
b. Relate the distribution of biomes (terrestrial, freshwater, and marine) to climate regions through time.
Directions: Answer the following questions using books, articles, video, or websites (all resources must be
cited.google and Wikipedia will not be accepted)
SES6. Students will explain how life on Earth responds to and shapes Earth systems.
Explain how geological and ecological processes interact through time to cycle matter and energy, and
how human activity alters the rates of these processes (e.g., fossil fuel formation and combustion).
Directions: Answer the following questions using books, articles, video, or websites (all resources must be
cited.google and Wikipedia will not be accepted)
SES6. Students will explain how life on Earth responds to and shapes Earth systems.
d. Describe how fossils provide a record of shared ancestry, evolution, and extinction that is best explained by the
mechanism of natural selection.
e. Identify the evolutionary innovations that most profoundly shaped Earth systems: photosynthetic prokaryotes and the
atmosphere; multicellular animals and marine environments; land plants and terrestrial environments.
Directions: Answer the following questions using books, articles, video, or websites (all resources must be
cited.google and Wikipedia will not be accepted)
Grade: __________/100
Summative Doomsday Poster and Flier
You will create a poster that describes your doomsday event and its affects. It should be a fully detailed account of your
doomsday event. See the rubric below for scoring. Make sure you check the rubric for everything you must include. You
will also make a flier or brochure (think public service announcement) that summarizes your poster and provides
information for survivors (if there are any). Youve already done the research. Its in your folder.
Poster Rubric