ALEX Classroom Resource

  

Weathering and Erosion

  Classroom Resource Information  

Title:

 Weathering and Erosion

URL:

 https://www.readworks.org/article/Weathering-and-Erosion/766786c1-2b0c-4b35-b630-a7b2b16b6a8b#!questionsetsSection:1705/articleTab:content/

Content Source:

 Other
ReadWorks.org
Type: Learning Activity

Overview:

The teacher will present an informational text from the website, ReadWorks. The students and teacher can interact with this non-fiction text by annotating the text digitally. The students will answer the questions associated with the article as an assessment. This learning activity can be used to provide information regarding geologic events that happen over short and long periods of time, serve as reinforcement after students have already learned this concept, or be used as an assessment at the conclusion of a lesson.

Content Standard(s):
Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: 2
8 ) Make observations from media to obtain information about Earth's events that happen over a short period of time (e.g., tornados, volcanic explosions, earthquakes) or over a time period longer than one can observe (e.g., erosion of rocks, melting of glaciers).

NAEP Framework
NAEP Statement::
E4.3: The surface of Earth changes. Some changes are due to slow processes such as erosion and weathering, and some changes are due to rapid processes such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes.

Unpacked Content
Scientific And Engineering Practices:
Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
Crosscutting Concepts: Stability and Change
Disciplinary Core Idea: Earth's Systems
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
  • Use information from several sources to determine patterns and provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • Earth events/natural phenomena
  • Earthquake
  • Flood
  • Tornado
  • Volcanic explosions
  • Glaciers
  • Erosion
  • Landslides
  • Weathering
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • Earth events and the results of those events may occur slowly or rapidly.
  • Some events are much longer than can be observed.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • Make observations and obtain information from multiple sources to provide evidence about Earth events.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • Eart's events may change the Earth slowly or rapidly.
AMSTI Resources:
AMSTI Module:
Soils and Shores
Pebbles, Sand, and Silt, FOSS
Shrinking Shore, ETA/hand2mind
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.2.8- Participate in multimedia activities (i.e., reading and video) that show Earth events happening over the short term or long term (e.g., volcano, earthquake, erosion, glacier).
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
R3. Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
R3.
  • Background knowledge
  • Vocabulary
  • Discussion
Knowledge:
R3. Students know:
  • Relating experiences through discussions, writing, and reading will help build background knowledge and improve vocabulary.
Skills:
R3. Students are able to:
  • Connect new concepts to prior experiences to increase background knowledge through discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Construct the meaning of words through discussions, reading, and writing.
Understanding:
R3. Students understand that:
  • Background knowledge can increase by relating experiences to new ideas, topics, and words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Vocabulary will increase by constructing the meaning of words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
30. Read and comprehend literary and informational texts.

a. State and confirm predictions about a text.

b. Use background knowledge to make connections to new text.

c. Draw conclusions based on the text.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
30.
  • Comprehend
  • Literary texts
  • Informational texts
30a.
  • Confirm
  • Predictions
30b.
  • Background knowledge
  • Connections
30c.
  • Draw conclusions
Knowledge:
30. Students know:
  • Comprehension is understanding text that is read.
30a.
  • A prediction is a guess at what they think the story or passage will be about.
30b.
  • Background knowledge will help make connections to text.
30c.
  • Drawing conclusions is taking what they currently know and applying it to what they have just read to develop a new thought or reasoning.
Skills:
30. Students are able to:
  • Read and comprehend literary (fictional) and informational (nonfiction) text.
30a.
  • Share predictions about the text they will read.
  • Confirm predictions as correct or incorrect after reading the text.
30b.
  • Use current background knowledge to make connections to new information presented in text.
30c.
  • Draw conclusions after reading a text.
Understanding:
30. Students understand that:
  • They can read literary and informational texts and use comprehension skills to understand what they have read.
30a.
  • They can demonstrate comprehension of a text by making predictions and confirming if the prediction was correct or incorrect.
30b.
  • Connecting their prior knowledge to new information presented in text can improve their comprehension and retention of newly learned information.
30c.
  • Drawing conclusions from a text demonstrates they comprehended the text and learned new information.
Tags: Earths events, erosion, geology, informational text, main topic, weathering
License Type: Custom Permission Type
See Terms: https://about.readworks.org/terms-of-use.html
For full descriptions of license types and a guide to usage, visit :
https://creativecommons.org/licenses
AccessibilityAudio resources: includes a transcript or subtitles
Comments

ReadWorks is a website that provides K-12 teachers with free literacy resources (About ReadWorks). ReadWorks has literary and informational texts on a variety of subjects and reading skills. You may narrow your search using grade level or Lexile level, making this website a wonderful tool for differentiation. Students will complete their work digitally, and you will provide their score and feedback digitally. This makes it easy to go paperless for this activity.

Prior to implementing this activity, you will need to sign up for an Educator Account on ReadWorks. After setting up an account, create a class from the Class Admin tab, this will provide you with a Class Code to give to students. Next, use the Find Content tab to search for the informational article that will be used during this activity, "Weathering and Erosion." After navigating to the article, click on the blue Assign button to assign it to your class.

Each student will need access to a digital device, such as a tablet or laptop. The first time students enter the website they will need to enter the Class Code that is listed on your Class Admin page. Alternatively, you can print the article and corresponding questions for students, if digital devices are not available. The teacher could also complete this activity by projecting the article and questions for the whole class to view.

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Author: Hannah Bradley
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