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This is an earth science unit where students will learn how natural processes can change the earth's surface. They will see how the Grand Canyon was formed through slow and rapid process. Students will discover how water, wind, and ice can change our landscape by working through various experiments. Students will make observations and collect relevant data. At the end of the unit students will conduct a final group investigation. They will work to create a human interaction (dam or levee) that will protect their community from flooding. Students will design, build, test, and redesign as needed to create the best possible solution to the community flooding.
Skills and Goals:
Students will understand that:
- landforms are created and changed through slow and rapid processes.
- scientists develop and use geographic models to explain how different systems work.
- scientists develop models to understand how systems work and predict future occurrences.
- scientists/engineers question, collaborate, gather data, and design and construct models to understand landforms and create technologies to improve our world.
- scientists use a variety of written and oral communication skills to convey their findings.
- in the field of science, there are a variety of careers available to all cultures.
Students will know:
- a model is a representation or explanation of a system.
- conceptual models can be communicated through numbers, words and drawings.
- engineers collaborate to find solutions to problems using the stages of the engineering process of:
- IDENTIFY PROBLEM
- BRAINSTORM
- DESIGN
- BUILD
- TEST & EVALUATE
- REDESIGN
- SHARE SOLUTION
4. erosion wears away earth materials.
5. deposition is the process by which eroded earth materials settle out in another place.
6. steeper slopes result in faster flowing water which has more energy and can carry larger particle sized material increasing the amount of erosion and deposition.
7. human interactions can impact the land.
Landforms Vocabulary - below are the vocabulary words for this unit.
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