Lesson Plan

Objective

Students will learn about different types of weathering and what causes the breakdown of rocks as well as the different types of erosion and be able to differentiate by looking at pictures and videos and identify what type it is

Topics Covered

• What is Weathering?

• How does Weathering affect the environment?

• What is Erosion?

• How does erosion change and affect ecosystems and habitats?

Vocabulary

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Mechanical Weathering

• Abrasion

• Chemical Weathering

• Permeable

• Soil

• Decomposers

• Decomposition

• Runoff

• Delta

• Groundwater

• Potential and Kinetic Energy

• Glacier

• Sedimentary Rock

• Fossil