About This Lesson
Overview: Students will be engaging with information from books and other reliable media to learn about why the atmosphere has defined properties.
Learning Targets:
- Students will understand that the atmosphere has different properties at different elevations, held to the Earth by the force of gravity.
- Students will identify and define the layers of the Earth’s atmosphere by specific properties, such as temperature, chemical composition and physical characteristics.
- Students will identify gases in the atmosphere, including nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, carbon dioxide and other trace gases.
- Students will illustrate the movement of specific elements or molecules (such as carbon or nitrogen) through the lithosphere/geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere.
Note: The emphasis is on why the atmosphere has defined layers, not on naming the layers.
Created by the AFT Science Cadre.
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