Learning Goal Template for Science (GLCEs)
Grade Level: 7th Topic: Unit 4 Fluid Earth
State Standard: E.ES.M.1 Solar Energy – The sun is the major source of energy for phenomena on the surface of the Earth.
E.ES.07.11 Demonstrate, using a model or drawing, the relationship between the warming by the sun of the Earth and the water cycle as it applies to the atmosphere (evaporation, water vapor, warm air rising, cooling, condensation, clouds). (Includes E.ES.07.81)
E.ES.07.12 Describe the relationship between the warming of the atmosphere of the Earth by the sun and convection within the atmosphere and oceans.
E.ES.07.13 Describe how the warming of the Earth by the sun produces winds and ocean currents.
E.ES.07.81 Explain the water cycle and describe how evaporation, transpiration, condensation, cloud formation, precipitation, infiltration, surface runoff and ground water occur within the cycle.
Complete Scale4.0 / ð I can predict how changing seasons or changing climate may effect global wind and ocean currents. I can support my prediction with scientific evidence.
ð I can develop a model to trace different pathways of a drop of water, or a molecule of air, as it moves through the water cycle or global wind and ocean currents.
3.0 / ð I can use a model or drawing to compare and contrast various stages and processes of the water cycle (e.g. evaporation vs. condensation; liquid vs. water vapor).
ð I can correctly predict the direction of major wind and ocean currents at various locations on a globe or world map.
2.0 / ð I can use vocabulary terms to correctly label a diagram of the water cycle.
ð I can describe how heat energy produces a convection current.
ð I can describe how the sun’s energy produces global wind and ocean currents, and the role of solar energy in the water cycle.
1.0 / I can define and correctly use these terms: evaporation, transpiration, condensation, convection, precipitation, infiltration, runoff, groundwater.
0 / I cannot yet define and use the vocabulary terms. I cannot yet describe the role of the sun’s warming energy in the water cycle, or global wind and ocean currents.