Modernization

=Driving Question: How does modernization and advanced technology affect our world and its inhabitants? = Timeline: 4th 9 weeks

Activities/Labs
 * Parking lot: Data Collection
 * GIS: Geothermal Imaging (Concrete vs. Green)
 * Energy Usage
 * Radioactive Decay / Half-life

Projects
 * Get off the grid

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 * 7.01 ** Assess the degree to which discoveries, innovations, and technologies have accelerated change.
 * 7.02 ** Examine the causes and effects of scientific revolutions and cite their major costs and benefits.
 * 7.03 ** Examine the causes and effects of industrialization and cite its major costs and benefits.
 * 7.04 ** Describe significant characteristics of global connections created by technological change, and assess the degree to which cultures participate in that change.

1.01 Identify questions and problems in the earth and environmental sciences that can be answered through scientific investigations.

1.02 Design and conduct scientific investigations to answer questions related to earth and environmental science.
 * Create testable hypotheses
 * Identify variables.
 * Use a control or comparison group when appropriate.
 * Select and use appropriate measurement tools.
 * Collect and record data.
 * Organize data into charts and graphs.
 * Analyze and interpret data.
 * Communicate findings.

1.03 Evaluate the uses of satellite images and imaging techniques in the earth and environmental sciences.

1.04 Apply safety procedures in the laboratory and in field studies: 1.05 Analyze reports of scientific investigations and environmental issues from an informed scientifically literate viewpoint including considerations of: 1.06 Identify and evaluate a range of possible solutions to earth and environmental issues at the local, national, and global level including considerations of: 4.05 Investigate and analyze environmental issues and solutions for North Carolina's river basins, wetlands, and tidal environments: 5.01 Analyze air masses and the life cycle of weather systems: 5.02 Evaluate meteorological observing, analysis, and prediction: 5.03 Analyze global atmospheric changes including changes in CO2, CH4, and stratospheric O3 and the consequences of these changes:
 * Recognize and avoid potential hazards.
 * Safely manipulate materials and equipment needed for scientific investigations.
 * Appropriate sample.
 * Adequacy of experimental controls.
 * Replication of findings.
 * Alternative interpretations of the data.
 * Interdependent human and natural systems.
 * Diverse perspectives.
 * Short and long range impacts.
 * Economic development, environmental quality and sustainability.
 * Opportunities for and consequences of personal decisions.
 * Risks and benefits of technological advances.
 * Water quality.
 * Shoreline changes.
 * Habitat preservation.
 * Planetary wind belts.
 * Air masses.
 * Frontal systems.
 * Cyclonic systems.
 * Worldwide observing systems.
 * Meteorological data depiction.
 * Climate change.
 * Changes in weather patterns.
 * Increasing ultraviolet radiation.
 * Sea level changes.