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Vetted resources educators can use to teach the concepts and skills in this topic.
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| Earth: Slow Changes: | Learn about various slow changes affecting Earth's landscape including weathering and erosion, drought and mountain formation in this interactive science tutorial.
This tutorial is included in a two-part series. Click to open Earth: Fast Changes. |
| Earth: Fast Changes: | Learn about various fast changes affecting Earth's landscape including volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes, landslides, flooding and human impact in this interactive science tutorial.
This tutorial is included in a two-part series. Click to open Earth: Slow Changes. |
| What on Earth?: | Let's explore the features of Earth surface in this interactive tutorial. |
| Water, Water Everywhere!: | Explore water and its uses in this interactive tutorial. |
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| Water Safety in the Community: | Students will explore how to be safe around water and the purpose of rules at home, school, and in the community in this integrated lesson plan. Students will learn about ways to be safe around different types of water by reading a passage and posted rules for different bodies of water. They will decide between examples and wrong examples of water safety and then write their own rule for water safety. |
| Gr. 1 Lesson 3-Water For Us All: | Students will look at the different places water comes from and the different ways humans use water. They will label different water bodies and match pictures of human and animal uses of water. |
| Tree Cookies: | One way to learn about tree growth is to look at annual rings. Tree rings show patterns of change in the tree's life as well as changes in the area where it grows. In this activity, students will trace environmental and historical changes using a cross section of a tree, or "tree cookie." |
| Water Park Fun!: | This MEA require students to read and identify common water safety practices. Students will then review and analyze a data for a family who wishes to attend a water park with their children. After reading the passage and identifying the needs of the client as per the client letter, students will rank the water parks from best to worst and explain the procedure used. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| Why We Need Water and Water Safety: | This lesson uses pictures and a story to illustrate why we need water and the difference between safe and unsafe practices around water. |
| Some Things Happen Fast and Some Things Happen Slow: | In this lesson, teachers show their students pictures of different events happening on Earth and asks if these events happen quickly or slowly, how students generated that judgment, and what happens on Earth after each event occurred. Students can explore a location around the school and record observations in their notebook about what events may be occurring in that location and if they are occurring slowly or quickly. |
| Tree Observations: | In this project, each class "adopts" a tree and collects data about it over the entire year. Teachers maintain a class tree notebook that includes a picture of the tree and a description of the environmental characteristics on each observation day as students draw a picture of the tree that day in their personal science notebooks. Emphasis should be placed on the importance of water, sunlight, and food as essential to the tree's survival. |
| Water: Emergency Preparedness Necessity: | Students will identify ways that people need clean water and apply this knowledge to storing water for emergency preparedness. Students will order numbers from greatest to least, in an application and comparison of storing gallons of water and distributing bottles of water. |
| Water Safety Lesson: | Through role-playing and teacher presentation, students learn how to be safe around water. Students learn the three most important safety rules, ways to rescue someone from the water, boat safety, and ocean safety considerations. |
| Your Own Backyard: | Each of Earth's different environments has its own natural features; this lesson uses multimedia resources to introduce a variety of environments to students. First, students will discuss local environmental features, then take a field trip to explore them. Next, they'll watch videos of different environment types, then compare and contrast their features. Finally, they will discuss the geologic features of interesting places they've visited. |
Vetted resources students can use to learn the concepts and skills in this topic.
| Title |
Description |
| Earth: Slow Changes: | Learn about various slow changes affecting Earth's landscape including weathering and erosion, drought and mountain formation in this interactive science tutorial.
This tutorial is included in a two-part series. Click to open Earth: Fast Changes. |
| Earth: Fast Changes: | Learn about various fast changes affecting Earth's landscape including volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes, landslides, flooding and human impact in this interactive science tutorial.
This tutorial is included in a two-part series. Click to open Earth: Slow Changes. |
| What on Earth?: | Let's explore the features of Earth surface in this interactive tutorial. |
| Water, Water Everywhere!: | Explore water and its uses in this interactive tutorial. |
Vetted resources caregivers can use to help students learn the concepts and skills in this topic.
