Block 8: Case-Study Mastery + Comparative Reflection Due
Sumatra-Andaman 2004, from last week's jigsaw: what failed, engineering-wise?
Task: Stem: "The case supports the claim that ___."
Answer in your Field Notebook, dated.
I can use a historical case study to defend a specific engineering claim, AND I have my Comparative Reflection submitted with peer feedback.
I can build an explanation from evidence, not just state an answer.
"Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions"
Where this runs:
- U0 B2: OPVL Across Source Types
- U2 B7: Reading the Landscape: Worked Example + OPVL
- U2 B8: Landscape Reading Drafting + Peer Feedback
- U3 B5: Case Study Jigsaw + Hazard Profile Due
- U3 B8: Case-Study Mastery + Comparative Reflection Due ← you are here
- U4 B10: Climate Brief Work Day + Worked-Example Brief + Peer Feedback
Assessed:
Every summative's analysis sections (K/U + T/T strands)
On track looks like:
Your explanations name mechanisms ('because the core cooled…'), not just outcomes ('it's cold').
I can explain, with evidence, how resources, hazards, and climate have shaped where and how people live.
"Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity."
Where this runs:
- U2 B5: Tropical Landscapes + Chennai Context + Landscape Reading Assigned
- U3 B2: Subduction & Transform Deep Dive + Sim Demo
- U3 B3: Volcanism + Engineering Technologies
- U3 B5: Case Study Jigsaw + Hazard Profile Due
- U3 B8: Case-Study Mastery + Comparative Reflection Due ← you are here
Assessed:
Landscape Reading: projections + recommendations (T/T strand, Components 4–5 lock U2 Block 8)
On track looks like:
Your 50-year projections connect physical processes to human decisions, and your recommendation names who would act and why.
This block is a Phase 6 stub
Full content lands when Unit 3 is built out further.
Block 8 is the second case-study day: small-group jigsaw on Kobe 1995, Bhuj 2001, Tangshan 1976, and Pompeii 79 CE. Each group reports the engineering claim their case best supports. The Comparative Reflection is due, with a peer-feedback round on specificity. The Final Defense format is introduced (5-min pitch, rubric criteria).
Open your Class Notebook and type today's entry header as Heading 2:
A: Dec 8 | U3 B8 | Case-Study MasteryB: Dec 9 | U3 B8 | Case-Study Mastery