Students observe a series of photos of Earth’s surface and make predictions about factors that led to the changes over time.
Students use a card sort to ask questions about the types of weathering and erosion processes that help to breakdown Earth’s materials and create Earth’s landforms.
Students complete five stations to model and observe chemical and mechanical weathering processes.
Students model chemical and physical weathering and read scientific texts to describe how weathering breaks apart and changes rocks.
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Students use a stream table model and reading to investigate why the MIssissippi River path and surrounding land has changed over time.
Students design their own investigations to deepen their understanding of the factors that shape Earth’s surface.
Students revisit card sort and explain how the processes they modeled and investigated led to the landforms they observe on the cards.
Students complete a formative assessment.
Students explore the relationship between weathering, erosion and soil formation. They will then consider how the diversity of soils is important to our everyday lives.
In this cycle, students will construct an explanation that answers the guiding question: How do forces of nature break apart and change rocks? Students will answer this guiding question by developing models of surface processes, including: weathering, erosion, and deposition.
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