Choosing & using 'Circle the Earth - Explore Surface Types on a Journey around Earth'

National Science Education Standards (NSES):
- 5-8:
  - A - Science as inquiry:
    - Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
    - Understanding about scientific inquiry
  - D - Earth and space science:
    - Structure of the earth system
  - E - Science and technology:
    - Abilities of technological design
    - Understandings about sci. / tech.
- 9-12:
  - A - Science as inquiry:
    - Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
    - Understandings about scientific inquiry
  - D - Earth and space science:
    - Energy in the earth system
  - E - Science and technology:
    - Abilities of technological design
    - Understandings about science and technology
National Geography Standards:
- The world in spatial terms:
  - How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information

This resource supports Virginia Earth science standards. ES.2c: The student will demonstrate scientific reasoning and logic by comparing different scientific explanations for a set of observations about the Earth. ES.3: The student will investigate and understand how to read and interpret maps, globes, models, charts, and imagery.

This resource supports math standards for grades 4-12 in the topics of number and operations, algebra, geometry and connections. These assignments are based on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards.