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Weathering and Erosion StudyJam

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Title:

Weathering and Erosion StudyJam

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Overview:

Weathering and erosion are continuous processes that gradually change the natural environment over time. Weathering is the process of wearing down materials into the sediment. Erosion occurs when this sediment is moved.

The classroom resource provides a video that will describe how weathering and erosion shape Earth's surface over a long period of time. There is also a short test that can be used to assess students' understanding.

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).
Science SC2015 (2015) Grade: 4	14 ) Explore information to support the claim that landforms are the result of a combination of constructive forces, including crustal deformation, volcanic eruptions, and sediment deposition as well as a result of destructive forces, including erosion and weathering. 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: Cause and Effect Disciplinary Core Idea: Earth's Systems Evidence Of Student Attainment: Students: Support the claim that landforms can be the result of a combination of constructive forces, including crustal deformation, volcanic eruptions, and sediment deposition. Support the claim that landforms can be the result of destructive forces, including weathering and erosion. Teacher Vocabulary: landform crustal deformation sediment deposition erosion weathering topography volcanoes earthquakes continental boundaries trenches ocean floor structures constructive forces destructive forces eruption geological processes Knowledge: Students know: Continents and other landforms are continually being shaped and reshaped by competing constructive and destructive geological processes. Skills: Students are able to: Compare and/or combine information across complex texts and/or other reliable sources to support the claim that landforms are the result of both constructive and destructive forces. Understanding: Students understand that: Changes in Earth's surface are caused by both constructive and destructive forces. AMSTI Resources: AMSTI Module: Water and Landforms Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards AAS Standard: SCI.AAS.4.14- Identify relationships between landforms and both constructive (volcanic eruptions and sediment deposition) and deconstructive (erosion and weathering) forces
Science SC2015 (2015) Grade: 6 Earth and Space Science	5 ) Use evidence to explain how different geologic processes shape Earth's history over widely varying scales of space and time (e.g., chemical and physical erosion; tectonic plate processes; volcanic eruptions; meteor impacts; regional geographical features, including Alabama fault lines, Rickwood Caverns, and Wetumpka Impact Crater). NAEP Framework NAEP Statement:: E8.4: Earth processes seen today, such as erosion and mountain building, make it possible to measure geologic time through methods such as observing rock sequences and using fossils to correlate the sequences at various locations. NAEP Statement:: E8.9a: Lithospheric plates on the scale of continents and oceans constantly move at rates of centimeters per year in response to movements in the mantle. NAEP Statement:: E8.9b: Major geological events, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain building, result from these plate motions. NAEP Statement:: P8.10e: Waves (including sound and seismic waves, waves on water, and light waves) have energy and transfer energy when they interact with matter. Unpacked Content Scientific And Engineering Practices: Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions Crosscutting Concepts: Scale, Proportion, and Quantity Disciplinary Core Idea: Earth's Systems Evidence Of Student Attainment: Students: Use evidence to explain how different geologic processes shape Earth's history over widely varying scales of space and time. Teacher Vocabulary: Evidence Geology Geologic process Scale System Microscopic Global Time scale Spatial scale Uplift Landslide Geochemical reaction Earthquake Catastrophic event Composition Property Deposition Sediment Surface features Underground formations Erosion Chemical erosion Physical erosion Tectonic plates Tectonic plate processes Continent Continental drift theory Volcano Volcanic eruption Meteor Meteor impact Impact crater Weathering Fault line Cavern Knowledge: Students: The planet's systems interact over scales that range from microscopic to global in size, and they operate over fractions of a second to billions of years. These interactions have shaped Earth's history and will determine its future. Processes change Earth's surface at time and spatial scales that can be large (such as slow plate motions or the uplift of large mountain ranges) or small (such as rapid landslides or microscopic geochemical reactions). Many geologic processes that change Earth's features (such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and meteor impacts) usually behave gradually but are punctuated by catastrophic events. The composition of Earth's layers and their properties affect the surface of Earth. Geologic processes that have changed Earth's features include events like surface weathering, erosion, and deposition by the movements of water, ice, and wind. Surface weathering, erosion, movement, and the deposition of sediment range from large to microscopic scales (e.g., sediment consisting of boulders and microscopic grains of sand, raindrops dissolving microscopic amounts of minerals). Water's movements—both on the land and underground—cause weathering and erosion, which change the land's surface features and create underground formations. The motion of the Earth's plates produces changes on a planetary scale over a range of time periods from millions to billions of years. Evidence for the motion of plates can explain large-scale features of the Earth's surface (e.g., mountains, distribution of continents) and how they change. Catastrophic changes can modify or create surface features over a very short period of time compared to other geologic processes, and the results of those catastrophic changes are subject to further changes over time by processes that act on longer time scales (e.g., erosion of a meteor crater). Skills: Students are able to: Articulate a statement that relates a given phenomenon to a scientific idea, including that geologic processes have shaped the Earth's history over widely varying scales of space and time. Identify the corresponding timescales for each identified geoscience process. Identify and use multiple valid and reliable sources of evidence to construct an explanation that changes occur on very large or small spatial and/or temporal scales. Use reasoning to connect the evidence and support an explanation for how geologic processes have changed the Earth's surface at a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Understanding: Students understand that: The planet's systems interact over scales that range from microscopic to global in size, and they operate over fractions of a second to billions of years. These interactions have shaped Earth's history and will determine its future. A given surface feature is the result of a broad range of geoscience processes occurring at different temporal and spatial scales. Surface features will continue to change in the future as geoscience processes continue to occur. AMSTI Resources: AMSTI Module: Exploring Planetary Systems Exploring Plate Tectonics Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards AAS Standard: SCI.AAS.6.5- Recognize that changes in Earth's features are brought on by slow processes such as mountain building and fast processes such as volcanic eruptions; identify erosion as a process that changes Earth's surface.

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acid rain, deposit, destructive forces, erosion, geologic processes, glacier, rocks, rust, sediment, weathering

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Weathering and Erosion StudyJam