Weathering Erosions Unit for Elementary ( Earth Science Curriculum )

Description

Are you looking for an engaging unit for weathering, erosions, and depositions? This is great for homeschool spaces and classrooms alike. Students will enjoy learning using the fun projects.

Are you looking for an engaging 4th Grade NGSS Weathering Erosions and Deposition unit curriculum? This unit is an easy PRINT-AND-GO download. In the PDF you will have the teacher guide as well as the student journals. The lessons are clearly explained, and your students will love learning about animal and plant structure and function with the hands-on, engaging activities.

 

 

What’s included in this Weathering Erosion and Deposition Unit?

• Easy, Print-and-Go PDF that includes a TEACHER GUIDE and STUDENT JOURNAL (Bonus File)

 

What can you find in the teacher guide?

• Hyperlinked Table of Contents
• Scope and Sequence
• Video Lectures for Every Lesson (Youtube)
• Lesson Slides (Google Slides and Editable)
• Lesson Check for Understanding (Google Form)
• Lesson plans
• Quick Digital Links to all Assessments
• Materials List
• Tips for Teaching
• Examples of Student Outcomes
• Posters and Vocabulary Journal
• Task Cards
• Flipbooks
• Answer Key

 

What’s in the student journal?

• All the pages the students will need to complete the unit
• Lesson Notes Pages
• Reading Passages and Comprehension
• Engaging Lesson Activities (Webquests, Centers, Stem Challenge)
• Vocabulary Pages
• End of Unit Assessment
• Early Finisher Work (Word Searches, Coloring Pages, Extension Writing Activities, Create-a-Comic, Information Flags)

 

What are students learning?

This unit is broken down into 4 parts. Each part includes a lesson plan of activities. The following is the breakdown of the unit:

• Part 1 – Changes in the Earth’s Landscape: Students will get an introduction to changes in Earth’s landscape by going through the guided lesson, reading about geologists, and completing an engaging learning experience with a WebQuest.
• Part 2 – Weathering: Students will learn more in-depth about weathering. After the guided lesson, students will complete a weathering reading comprehension, and a hands-on science center (Weathering Lab). Then they will show their learning with a weathering, erosion, and deposition flipbook. This flipbook can be displayed on bulletin boards.
• Part 3 – Erosions & Deposition: Students will be more focused on erosions and deposition in this part. They will learn with the guided lesson and then complete an erosion and sand dune reading comprehension passage. They can review the concepts with the weathering and erosions task cards.
• Part 4 – Sand Castle Stem Challenge: Students will take everything they have learned about weathering erosions and deposition and apply them in this cumulative project. This project is a Sand Castle STEM Challenge. Students will go through the engineering design process as they work through the problem of creating barriers in sand to keep the water from weathering the castle.

 

Who can use this resource?

• 4th Grade Elementary Teachers
• 5th Grade Elementary Teachers
• Homeschool Science Curriculum for 4th-5th Grade
• Learning Pods Curriculum for 4th-5th Grade

 

 

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What are teachers saying about the resources in this bundle?

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic Resource very well made and designed!

 

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This unit is aligned to the following standards:

 

4h Grade NGSS

• 4-ESS1-1 Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
• 4-ESS2-1. Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.

 

4th Grade TEKS

• 4.7: The students know that Earth consists of useful resources and its surface is constantly changing. The student is expected to: Student Expectation
• 4.7B: Observe and identify slow changes to Earth’s surface caused by weathering, erosion, and deposition from water, wind, and ice.