Planet Earth (Earth & Environmental Science V1053y)
Goals:
- to think like scientists:
identifying unanswered questions, formulating hypotheses, planning experiments, assembling chains of reasoning, drawing inferences from observations.
- to look at the natural physical earth with informed eyes:
Why are there mountains around the edges of North America, and a flat part in the middle? Why does the earth have oceans and continents? What causes
volcanoes?
- to understand the impact of the earth on human affairs: Why is there so much oil in Saudi Arabia? Why are there destructive earthquakes in California, Mexico, Japan, Armenia?
Return to Planet Earth home page.