COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO

DEPARMENT OF EDUCATION
JUAN PONCE DE LEN BILINGUAL SCHOOL
HUMACAO, PUERTO RICO
SCIENCE PROGRAM
PROF. W. MARTNEZ SOTO

EARTH SCIENCE CURRICULUM

FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 2013-2014

DESCRIPTION OF THE
COURSE
General course specially designed for
students of education in Sciences.
Introducing the basic and fundamental
beginning of the Terrestrial Sciences and
of the Space emphatically in the physical
evolution of the land and the universe
integrating(repaying) the ethical aspects of
the sciences.

TERMINAL OBJECTIVES
EARTH SCIENCES COURSE
On having finished the course(year), the student will be capable of...
A. Affective level
1. They will demonstrate a dynamic aptitude before the theoretical and
experimental science and will demonstrate it valuing the scientific
development from a more humanitarian perspective.
2. They will recognize the importance of the terrestrial sciences
(astronomy, geology and meteorology) and his(her,your) theories, and they
will demonstrate it analyzing the global contribution (the benefits and the
problems) of these to the scientific and technological world, and to the
progress of the daily life.
3. To demonstrate the acquisition of a critical and analytical thought.
4. To present the own(proper) characteristics of a good scientist:
integrity, honesty, punctuality, organization, efficiency, accuracy and
respect to the ideas of other persons.
5. It(He,She) influences the own(proper) companionship and the
cooperation of the teamwork
6. Demonstrate interest for the investigation(research), for the reading
and for the studies in general, which are necessary for the development of
the scientist..

7. They will demonstrate the own(proper) aptitudes of the scientist and will
demonstrate it showing interest in the problems of the sciences and using
the knowledge acquired of the study of the terrestrial sciences to prevent a
major deterioration of our environment.
To preserve the natural existing resources.
To relieve the energetic current and future crisis.
To help to correct the realized hurt(damage) and to avoid a major
hurt(damage).
8. They will demonstrate ethical and moral values executing the own(proper)
characteristics of a good student: honesty, integrity, punctuality,
organization, efficiency and respect to the ideas of other persons both in the
school environment and in the community.
B. Cognitive level
1. To acquaint the students with the basic theories of the EARTH sciences.
2. To stimulate the analytical thought to relate some basic aspects of
chemistry to the daily life of the students.
3. To qualify the students in order that they could estimate the scientific
world and his(her,your) importance in our life.

4. To develop the critical reasoning applied to the terrestrial sciences.

5. To develop strategies in the student for the resolution of problems.
6. To qualify the students in order that they could relate the theory to the
practice across some experiments select.

7. They will analyze the physical properties and the movements of the
system Earth - Moon, using models and maps to scale

8. They will identify the minerals, being based on his(her,your) physical

and chemical properties

9. They will classify the igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks

of agreement with the origin and composition
10. There will analyze the composition and the structure of the
atmosphere and the factors that they control the time and the climate in a
region
11. There will describe the hydrological cycle and the structure and
composition of the oceans
12. There will analyze the impact of the use of the renewable and not
renewable resources for the human being
13. There will identify the conditions that they contribute(pay) to the
problem of the pollution in Puerto Rico
14. There will practice effective forms that help to reduce the effects of
the pollutants on the human health.

B. Psychomotor level
1. To work skillfully with the equipment and the
instrumentation of a laboratory.
2. To realize skillfully the skills of analysis of measures of
length, volume and of mass.
3. To realize measured to the accuracy and precision needed in
a laboratory.
4. The computer will use correctly as tools of learning and will
demonstrate it investigating on different topics across the Internet
5. There will accede the information necessary and requested
of an effective and efficient way across the use of the resources that
provides the school Library and will demonstrate it in the special
works and assigned tasks that realizes.

Later you will find the topics that have to be covered in

this course for school month. This can change.
The course of SCIENCE 9th is one in which there are
covered different topics of the Earth Sciences. It is
begun by the use and managing of the Cartesian
coordinates, and we continue with the construction of
graphs and scientific method. Then there are studied
different topics of the terrestrial sciences. On having
concluded the school year the pupil will be capable of
dominating 80 % of the skills of the program of
sciences as(according to) established in the
expectations of the degree and standards of content of
the program of sciences of 2008.

MONTH

THEMES

AUGUST

INTRODUCTION OF THE
COURSE(YEAR): RULES OF THE
LOUNGE OF CLASS AND FORM
GIVE TO EVALUATE THE
COURSE(YEAR).
DIAGNOSTIC TEST(PROOF)

SEPTEMBER

UNIT 9.1: METEOROLOGY

THE MAPS LIKE MODELS OF THE
LAND
TIME AND CLIMATE
THE ATMOSPHERE
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE
ATMOSPHERE
WARMING OF THE
ATMOSPHERE
GLOBAL WINDS AND LOCAL
WINDS
POLLUTION OF THE AIR

TEXBOOK AND
CHAPTHER

WRITINGS
PROVIDED BY
THE TEACHER

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and Technology
Earth Science
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 15
WRITINGS
PROVIDED BY
THE TEACHER

FORMS OF
EVALUATION

STANDARDS OF
EXECUTION

DRAWINGS FIGURES
USING THE
COORDINATES
EXAMINATION ON
THE COORDINATES
EXAMINATION ON
CONSTRUCTION OF
GRAPHS

N.C. 9.1-9.1.6
NC. 9.1.3 ,9.2.1-9.2.2
EM .9.5-9.54
SM.9.1.3,9.1.6, 9.2.4
I.9.3.1-9.3.5,9.2.3

LABORATORY USE OF
THE UNITS OF THE
METRIC SYSTEM
TEST(PROOF) CUTS
METRIC SYSTEM
EXAMINATION OF
THE SYSTEM
METRIC
LABORATORIES
SHORT TEST
CONCEPT MAP
TEST
ASSESSMENT

NC. 9.1.3 ,9.2.1-9.2.2

EM .9.5-9.54
SM.9.1.3,9.1.6, 9.2.4
I.9.3.1-9.3.5,9.2.3

MONTH

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

THEMES
THE WEATHER
WATERS DOWN IN THE AIR
AIR MASSES AND FRONTS
SEVERE WEATHER
THE WEATHER FORECAST
THE CLIMATE
WHAT IS THE CLIMATE?
THE TROPICS
THE TEMPERATE REGION
AND THE POLAR ZONE
CHANGES IN THE CLIMATE
UNIT 9.2 GENERAL GEOLOGY
OF PUERTO RICO
PLATE TECTONICS INSIDE
THE EARTH
RESTLESS CONTINENTS
THE THERORY OF PLATES
TECTONIC
DEFORMING THE EARTHS
CRUST

TEXBOOK AND
CHAPTHER

FORMS OF
EVALUATION

Holt Science & and

Technology
Earth Science

LABORATORIES
SHORT TEST
CONCEPT MAP
TEST
ASSESSMENT

CHAPTER 16

Holt Science & and

Technology
Earth Science
CHAPTER 17

Holt Science & and

Technology
Earth Science
CHAPTER 7

LABORATORIES
SHORT TEST
CONCEPT MAP
TEST
ASSESSMENT

LABORATORIES
SHORT TEST
CONCEPT MAP
TEST
ASSESSMENT

STANDARDS OF
EXECUTION
N.C.9.1, 9.1.7
E.M. 9.7-9.7.6,
9.4.6
S.M. 9.2.1
C. 9.3.1 9.3.6
NC. 9.1.3 ,9.2.19.2.2
EM .9.5-9.54
SM.9.1.3,9.1.6,
9.2.4
I.9.3.1-9.3.5,9.2.
N.C. 9.1 9.1.7
S.M. 9.2.1
E.M. 9.1, 9.1.7
C. 9.3.1- 9.3.6

MONTH

DICEMBER

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

THEMES
WHAT ARE EARTHQUAKES?
EARTHQUAKE
MEASUREMENT
EARTHQUAKE AND SOCIETY
VOLCANOES- VOLCANIC
ERUPTIONS
EFFECTS OF VOLCANIC
ERUPTIONS
CAUSES OF VOLCANIC
ERUPTIONS
UNIT 9.3 THE RESOURCES OF
THE LAND
MINERALS OF THE
TERRESTRIAL BARK
WHAT IS A MINERAL?
IDENTIFICATION OF
MINERALS
FORMATION(TRAINING),
EXTRACIN AND USE OF THE
MINERALS
ROCKS: MIXTURES(MIXINGS)
OF MINERALS
THE CYCLE OF THE ROCKS
IGNEOUS ROCKS
SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
METAMORPHIC ROCKS

TEXBOOK
AND
CHAPTHER
Holt Science &
and Technology
Earth Science
CHAPTER 8

Holt Science &

and Technology
Earth Science
CHAPTER 9
Holt Science &
and Technology
Earth Science
CHAPTER 3

Holt Science &

and Technology
Earth Science
CHAPTER 4

FORMS OF
EVALUATION

STANDARDS OF
EXECUTION

LABORATORIES
SHORT TEST
CONCEPT MAP
TEST
ASSESSMENT

E.M. 9.1.1 9.1.4

I 9.1.1 -9.1.6

LABORATORIES
SHORT TEST
CONCEPT MAP
TEST
ASSESSMENT

S.M. 9.1.1-9.1.4,
9.2.1-9.2.4

LABORATORIES
SHORT TEST
CONCEPT MAP
TEST
ASSESSMENT

LABORATORIES
SHORT TEST
CONCEPT MAP
TEST
ASSESSMENT

I 9.21-9.2.4

N.C. 9.1 , 9.1.7

S.M. 9.2.1
E.M. 9.5 -9.5.6

N.C. 9.1, 9.1.7

S.M. 9.1.3, 9.1.4,
9.1.6, 9.2.1
E 9.3 9.3.3
I. 9.3 9.3.5

MONTH
MARCH

THEMES

TEXBOOK AND CHAPTHER

UNIT 9.4 NATURAL RESOUCER

CONSERVATION

Holt Science & and Technology

Earth Science
CHAPTER 5

NATURALS RESOUCERS
FOSSILS FUELS
ALTERNATIVES RESOUCERS

APRIL

MAY

OCEANOGRAPHY
THE OCEANS OF THE LAND
THE OCEAN FLOOR
THE LIFE IN THE OCEAN
RESOURCES OF THE OCEAN
POLLUTION OF THE OCEANS

Holt Science & and Technology

Earth Science
CHAPTER 13

FORMS OF
EVALUATION

LABORATORIES
SHORT TEST
CONCEPT MAP
TEST
ASSESSMENT
LABORATORIES
SHORT TEST
CONCEPT MAP
TEST
ASSESSMENT

THE MOVEMENT OF THE OCEANS

CURRENTS
THE CURRENTS AND THE CLIMATE
WAVES
TIDES

Holt Science & and Technology

Earth Science
CHAPTER 14

LABORATORIES
SHORT TEST
CONCEPT MAP
TEST
ASSESSMENT

ASTRONOMY: THE ORIGINAL SCIENCE

TELESCOPE
MAPPING THE STARS
STAR
THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE STAR
GALAXIES
FORMATION OF THE UNIVERSE

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Earth Science
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19

LABORATORIES
SHORT TEST
CONCEPT MAP
TEST
ASSESSMENT

STANDARDS OF
EXECUTION
N.C. 9.1 , 9.1.5
E.M. 9.5.5 9.5.6
S.M.
9.1.1,9.1.2,9.1.4
C. 9.5.1 9.5.3
E.9.1.2-9.1.4, 9.2.19.24

N.C. 9.1 , 9.1.7,9.4.3

S.M. 9.4.2
E.M. 9.7.1 -9.7.6
E. 9.1.1
C. 9.3.1-9.3.6
I. 9.4.3

N.C. 9.4.1-9.4.3
S.M. 9.1.5- 9.1.7,
9.2.1-9.2.3
I. 9.4.1 9.4.5