Earth Science

Forces that Shape the Earth

Grades K-2 Important Concepts

• Growth of a River (modified for ADEED)
• Identifying and Locating Lakes and Rivers
  (modified for ADEED)
• Mountains and Valleys (modified for ADEED)
• Islands (modified for ADEED)
• Weighing Rocks (modified for ADEED)
• Sifting Sand (modified for ADEED)
• Are Your Rocks Attractive? (modified for ADEED)
• Rockhounds Rock! (modified for ADEED)
• Rocky Bits (modified for ADEED)
• Rockin' on the Inside (modified for ADEED)
• Shake, Rattle and Roll (modified for ADEED)
• Slip Slidin' Away (modified for ADEED)

Grades 3-5 Important Concepts

• Vanishing Coast: Erosion (modified for ADEED)
• Rills and Thrills: Erosion Affects Me (modified for ADEED)
• Identifying And Locating Glaciers (modified for ADEED)
• Fluvial Erosion (modified for ADEED)
• River System (modified for ADEEDD)
• Where is Our Land Going? (modified for ADEED)
• Cave Formation (modified for ADEED)
• What’s on your Plate? (modified for ADEED)
• Born of Fire (modified for ADEED)
• An Island Story (modified for ADEED)
• Island Mobile (modified for ADEED)
• Look Out, Lahars! (modified for ADEED)
• Volcanoes and Tsunamis (modified for ADEED)
• Earthquakes and Tsunamis (modified for YFSD)
• Landslide! (modified for ADEED)
• Water, Water Everywhere (modified for ADEED)

Grades 6-8 Important Concepts

• Convection Current (modified for ADEED)
• Scale Drawing of the Earth (modified for ADEED)
• Sliding Plates (modified for ADEED)
• Layers as Clues (modified for ADEED)
• Layering the Soil (modified for ADEED)
• Locating the Epicenter (modified for ADEED)
• Finding Fairweather Fault (modified for ADEED)
• Interpreting Topographic Maps (modified for ADEED)
• Why Should I Care about Soil Erosion?

Grades 9-12 Important Concepts

• Always Frozen (modified for ADEED)
• In a Slump (modified for ADEED)
• Ice Water: Rivers and Permafrost (modified for ADEED)
• Meander Curve (modified for ADEED)
• The Case of the Disappearing Lakes
• Plate Tectonics Scavenger Hunt (modified for ADEED)
• Surface Features and Plate Tectonics
  (modified for ADEED)
• Plate Tectonics and Ecological Connections
  (modified for ADEED)

Also see Place-based Project Ideas.