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EES TEACHER RESOURCES – Intro to Earth Systems
Teacher resources are intended to be used in the classroom as support for the meriSTEM course
Introduction to Earth Systems.
Videos from the course can be viewed in the YouTube playlist below.
EES: Intro to Earth Systems
Topic
Content
Classroom Activities
Checks for Understanding
Rock Cycle
Introduction to rock cycle
Mineral Detective Practical
Kahoot: The Rock Cycle
Sediments: Introduction, Compaction, and Cementation
Sediments: Reading the rocks
Sediments: Sorting
Igneous rocks: Composition
Igneous rocks: Texture
Crystal formation practical
Metamorphic rocks
Reading the Rocks
Uniformitarianism
Kahoot: Reading the Rocks
Steno’s principles
Included fragments
How to create a relative time scale
Relative time scales: Your questions answered
Relative time scales: Conclusion
A worked example: Relative time scales
Conclusion to a worked example: Relative time scales
Matching absolute ages to the relative geological timescale
Matching relative to absolute timescales
Inner Earth
Internal structure of Earth
Kahoot: Inner Earth
Composition and behaviour of the internal structure of Earth
Using seismic waves as evidence for the inner Earth structure
Inge Lehmann’s hypothesis
Evidence for the solid inner core
Dating the Earth
What are radioisotopes?
Kahoot: Dating the Earth
Dating the formation of the Sun
Early formation of the Earth
Challenges of dating the Earth
Earth Science Timeline Detective
What can we tell from the internal texture of rocks
Kahoot: Earth Science Timeline Detective
Magnetic internal textures
Ikaites – What environment was that?
Dropstones – What environment was that?
Fossils – What environment was that?
Clear as mud – What environment was that?
Mudstone – Dolphin Point: Insights and inferences
Glendonites & ikaites – Dolphin Point: Insights and inferences
Fossils – Dolphin Point: Insights and inferences
Fossils over time – Dolphin Point: Insights and inferences
Dropstones – Dolphin Point: Insights and inferences
Evidence of Early Life
Macroevidence of early life
Kahoot: Evidence of Early Life, Evolution, and Extinction
Isotopic evidence of early life
In what environment did life emerge?
Mass extinctions and expansions
Evidence for extinctions and expansions
Relative and Absolute Dating Practical
Evolution from prokaryotes to eukaryotes
ANU-led study solves mystery of how first animals appeared on Earth
How we identified one of Earth’s earliest animals
Earth’s Atmosphere
Did Earth’s atmosphere and oceans derive from volcanoes?
Kahoot: Earth's Atmosphere
How did the plate tectonic revolution affect the volcanic outgassing theory?
The effect of photosynthesis on Earth’s atmosphere
Production of Oxygen During Photosynthesis
Introduction to Earth’s atmosphere
Temperature in the layers
Bushfire smoke in the layers of Earth’s atmosphere
Our Earth’s Water
Icy impacts
Kahoot: Our Earth's water
Three phases of water in the environment: A look at the water cycle
The molecular structure of water
Why is the molecular structure of water important?
Breaking the hydrogen bonds
Water vapour pressure
Using satellites to save water
