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The Changing Earth
Solve today's real-world problems with science!

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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