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Unit: Atmosphere Grade: 10-12 IB Environmental Systems
Established Goals (Standards) NETS standard 2d. Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaborately to support individual learning and contribut to the learning of others. Students contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.

Enduring Understandings Essential Questions
  • Students will demonstate their ability to access and edit a wiki site to collaboratively develop an authentic study guide on the atmosphere chapter which they will use individually to prepare for the unit test.
  • The study guide will permanently be in hyperspace so they can access it to review for the IB exam or access or in future studies or needs.
  • Show the relationship between the distinct layers of the atmosphere and the temperatures in those layers.
  • What are the main characteristics of the troposphere?
  • What layers contain the ozone layer, ionized particles, most the weather, the coldest and hottest temperatures, the jet stream, and most the clouds?
  • Describe and explain the global atmospheric energy budget:
    a. Latent and sensible heat
    b. How water can absorb and release heat as it changes state
    c. All inputs and outputs, transfers, transformations, and stores
    d. Short wavelength and long wavelength light
  • Describe the circulation and distribution of heat, what causes the air to circulate the way it does, and how it relates to seasons, latitude, altitude, the coriolis effect, and insolation on air, land, albedo and water.
  • Describe the relationships between temperature, air density, humidity, and air flow in a cell.
  • What four factors that affect the amount of insolation.
  • What substances in the atmosphere scatter light?
  • Describe the basic ways vegetation is sampled.
  • What are replenishable resources? Give some examples of them.
Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence
GRASPS Task Six Facets of Understanding
Goal: Students will individually contribute to the production of a study guide on the atmosphere unit

Role: The student will review the material that has already been contributed to the wiki, edit the content that is already submitted to improve its clarity, organization, and relevance, and add to the content in areas that are incomplete. Students will also enter the discussion as needed for assistance and will blog about the effectiveness of the wiki as learning tool.

Audience: Teacher and 25 students in the IB Environmental Systems course.

Situation: All students' contributions will be emailed to me and will be graded as a project assignment. I anticipate the good students will put more work into this than others. Any good students' contributions will assist the other students' understanding. The teacher will be able to submit information he feels students are not understanding (or are not submitting about) in the wiki. All students will have this study guide to study from. The test will be written based on these core questions.

Product Performance: Students' study guide will be presented as about ten pages in the wikispaces site. This will serve as the study guide and review sheets for all students to reference.

Extension: Students are encouraged to submit relevant images, animations, or links that will clearly show the concepts. They must reference all resources that are not original ideas.
    • explain - students will put concepts of the earth's energy budget in their own words
    • interpret — students will model the atmospheric cell and give examples of replenishable resources.
    • apply — students will apply what they have learned to make a document that will summarize the concepts of the unit.
    • have perspective — students will evaluate the value of this wiki as a resource for learning
    • empathize — students will evaluate the value of this wiki as a resource for learning
Lesson Notes: Students' references to other tech resources is encouraged.



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