Unit 7
Essential Question:
How can we support the statement, "Earth's surfaces changes over time"?
Weathering and erosion cause changes to the Earth’s surface
The Earth's surface changes over time.
Simulate physcial weathering by creating models to demonstrate how weathering wears down Earth's surface. (2.A.2.a)
Use data from class investigations to show that erosion shapes and reshapes the earth's surface. (2.A.2.b)
Explain how physical weathering and erosion cause changes to the Earth's surface by creating a Thinking Map.
(2.A.2)
WeatheringStudents will be able to describe how weathering affects the Earth's surface.
Virtual Weathering Lab
Students will participate in a virtual weathering lab by investigating the effects of different types of weathering in four different scenes.
Weathering
(also found
here)Real World Reading: This reading gives students a basic understanding of weathering with real world examples of various types of weather.
Focus Question: What is weathering?
DI/UDL Option: Chunk the text and have students do a Jigsaw Activity to break up the reading demand.
Activity:
Main Idea and
Detail - Weathering
Adapted versions of
Weathering by Wind and
Weather by Water in
the curriculum found here.
Using Pixie/Wixie - draw a model demonstrating how weathering wears down
Earth's surface. Use labels and stickers to be descriptive too!Challenge: Choose multiple types of habitats to demonstrate weathering on the Earth's surface.
Erosion
Erosion
Students will be able to identify causes of erosion.
Effects of Erosion
Students will view various geographical areas to see the effects of erosion. Students will record what types of erosion they see on these different photos of these different regions by organizing this information on a Thinking Map or on Two-Column Notes.
Erosion:
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Virtual LabIn this virtual lab, students will be a soil conservationist who finds ways to decrease erosion. When students are finished, they can recommend what the park staff can do to solve the problem.
How Does a River Change the Land Lab
In this online investigation, students will examine models of river erosion. Groups will virtually build different types of river beds by filling stream tables with sand. Each group perches one end of their stream table on some blocks to create a slope. They then pour water into the river bed through a spout. They watch as the water enters the stream bed and begins to carry away sand from the stream edges and the bottom. The sediment is deposited at the end of the stream where the water stops flowing. They see that as sediment is eroded, the shape of the stream changes.
Glacier
Erosion 1 &
Glacier Erosion 2Learm more about these rivers of ice! Did you know glaciers can move large rocks over long distances?
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Weathering & Erosion
TDQ
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Environomental Erosion and Weathering
Students can read this to get a visual overview of erosion and weathering. Students can organize what they learned by using a Thinking Map or Two-Column Notes.
Weathering and
ErosionDiscuss definition of weathering and erosion - how are the pictures examples of these forces?
PowerPoint
Google Slides
Weathering
and ErosionLearn about Breaker and Woosh through this Scholastic Video. As you watch, complete the 2 column notes. Share with your teacher as directed using OneDrive/Office 365 or Google Drive.
Word
Google Docs
Weathering
and ErosionThe surface of the land has undergone many changes over its history. Water, rain, snow, and wind—they all continually shape and form the Earth. Take your students on a journey to discover how physical weathering, chemical weathering, and erosion occur. Learn that the destructive forces of erosion and weathering are slow processes that change the surface of the Earth. If the link does not work, login to Discovery Education first and then select the link.
Complete
this Pixie
after researching Weathering and Erosion to identify the changes made to
the Earth's surface!
Student Outcome: Explain how the steepness of a slope can affect stream erosion by investigating through models.
Engage Video Clip
(01:38)Student researcher Liz Jackson enters the world of weathering and erosion, starting in Yosemite Valley.
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Extend
Deep
World HistoryReal World Reading: Scientists have gained new clues about when the Grand Canyon formed.
Focus Question: What part did erosion play in the formation of the Grand Canyon?
DI/UDL Option: Level reading support given to students. Use Stop and Think to chunk and scaffold reading through questioning.
ErosionComplete the virtual erosion lab and watch the videos. Then, complete the compare and contrast activity below. Choose either the Pixie/Wixie, Word or Google Doc as directed by your teacher.
Links:
Virtual Erosion Lab - change the slope and other environmental factors to see the effects of erosion.
Watch this video of students exploring erosion and deposition through their lab through a slope.
Next, watch this demonstration a teacher does with different slopes.
Activity:
Pixie/Wixie
Word
Google Doc
Driving Question:
How can we justify human attempts to control erosion?
Fighting
Erosion (03:06)Scientists use a wave simulator to study the effects of erosion on Louisiana's coastlines.
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Photos
of the Effects of ErosionStudents can view photos to see the different effects of erosion and how it transforms the Earth's surface.
Activity:
Using AACPS Online Databases, access
ImageQuest to find new pictures that represent the effects
of erosion. Insert the pictures into Pixie/Wixie, PowerPoint or Google
Slides. With each picture, be sure to give your justification on how
that picture represents that type of erosion (by wind, water, etc.). Resources - Choose a MD shoreline to research -
1- Chesapeake Bay Erosion
Chesapeake Bay Erosion
Students will read a Photo Essay to see how an artificial reef slows erosion and build habitats on the Chester River.
Comprehension
QuestionsAnswer questions to better understand how scientists are combating the daily effects of erosion on the Chesapeake Bay. Share as directed by your teacher using OneDrive/Office 365 or Google Drive.
Word
Google Doc
SedimentThe Chesapeake Bay Program highlights two types of erosion, or sources of seidment occuring in the Chesapeake Bay watershet. Focus Question: How does sediement impact the Chesapeake Bay?
Change in Calvert Cliffs
Measuring the Change from Eroding Bluffs to Stable Slopes
2- Beach Erosion
Beach Erosion
Read World Reading: Explanation of beach erosion and prevention including diagrams, drawings, and pictures.
Focus Question: How is the beach in Ocean City, Maryland being restored?
Beach
Erosion (02:07)Beach erosion is a problem where people have built on shorelines and barrier islands. Several techniques that slow beach erosion are described in this segment.
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Erosion
(07:29) The process of rocks and soil moving from one place to another is called erosion. There are two forms: water erosion (can also be in the form of ice) and wind erosion.
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3- River Bank
Maryland
Shoreline Erosion Read World Reading: Best management practices that reduce harmful run-off from entering the State’s waters.
Focus Question: What is being done to prevent river erosion?
Shoreline
ErosionReal World Reading: Explanation of restoration project of a river shoreline.
Focus Question: What is being done to prevent river erosion?
End of Unit Project Present your findings of the best way to present erosion by using Office365/OneDrive or Google Drive's PowerPoint Presentation, Pixie, Cameras and MovieMaker, or even Educreations on the iPad. Be sure to share all products with your teacher online, if possible.
Other options: Create a timeline using Pixie, Write a Play using Office365/OneDrive or Google Drive and record it on a camera, create a comic book using readwritethink's comic tool, write a persuasive speech from the Earth's point of view, or interview Earth about erosion using Pixie/Wixie, POneDrive/Office 365, or Google Drive.
