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GRADES
5
- 8 The Changing Earth
is part of the
Science Seekers
series.
In Science Seekers: The Changing Earth, students are faced with the challenge of finding the best place to look for fossils in an as-yet unexplored area called Vastland. They must learn about land formations and rock types, and about basic Earth processes like plate tectonics and erosion to pick the best fossil-hunting site. Students learn these scientific concepts:  | The basic internal structure of Earth | | How plate tectonics creates mountains and volcanoes on Earth's surface | | The different ways solid rock can respond to pressure from plate tectonics | | The formation of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock | | The rock cycle | | How fossils form in sedimentary rock | | How wind and water work to weather and erode rock on Earth's surface | | About stratification and the Law of Superposition | | How the combined forces of uplift and erosion help expose fossils on the surface |
Students learn how to work as a team by: | Becoming members of an interdependent group | | Listening and talking with others | | Sharing a common goal | | Collaborating to solve a problem |
Students learn content vocabulary:
 core |
lava |
plate techtonics |
sediment |
| crust |
Law of Superposition |
plates |
sedimentary rock |
| erosion |
magma |
river canyon |
strata |
| fault |
mantle |
river delta |
uplift |
| fossil |
metamorphic rock |
rock cycle |
volcano |
| igneous rock |
mountain range |
sand dune |
weathering |
| landform |
plate boundary |
satellite imagery |
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