Solve today's real-world problems with science!
In The Changing Earth, students are challenged to find the best fossil-hunting site in an unexplored area called Vastland -- learning about land formations, rock types, and basic Earth processes.
The Changing Earth
For Grades 5 – 8
Product Features
In their exploration, students learn:- 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
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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
Meets State and National Standards
Your students will:
- Investigate real-world scientific problems
- Communicate scientifically by viewing, reading, and discussing
- Work collaboratively as a scientific team
- Understand systems in life and earth sciences
- Interpret data and graphs
- See how scientists use models to describe the world and solve problems
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