Description
Do you want to teach upper elementary students about earthquakes? Students will analyze maps to learn about Earth’s features. Students will compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans. Students will love learning about Earthquakes and the science behind them. Includes over 90 pages and slides!
This resource includes:
- hands-on activities
- lab pages
- map work
- interactive notebook flaps
- five pages of informational text passages
- comprehension pages
- a slide show
- a WebQuest
- sorting cards
- QR code research
- worksheets
- answer keys!
- quiz
Teachers Love This Unit!
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My students benefitted from my use of this resource. It was well prepared and helped to clarify our unit on earthquakes further. Thank you.
This unit integrates ELA and science in meaningful ways.
This resource addresses the following standards for NGSS:
NGSS 4-ESS2-2. Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.
4-ESS3-2. Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.*
This resource is also aligned with Utah SEEd
Standard 5.1.1 Analyze and interpret data to describe patterns of Earth’s features.
Standard 5.1.5 Design solutions to reduce the effects of naturally occurring events that impact humans.
Concepts are aligned with NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas from Earth’s History, Earth’s Materials and Systems, Human Impacts on Earth’s Systems, Plate Tectonics, and Large-Scale System Interactions, Natural Hazards, Designing Solutions to Engineering Problems.
There are five pages of informational text passages! This unit is aligned with CCSS for Reading Informational Text for 4th grade, making this an integrated unit on earthquakes. The passages are also aligned with Utah Core standards for reading informational text.
This resource has 90 pages altogether and should take about two weeks to complete. Answer keys are included.
Science Concepts Included:
- Plate Boundaries
- Plate Tectonics
- Earthquake Faults
- Earthquake Damage
- Tsunamis
- Liquification
- San Andreas Fault
- Normal Fault
- Reverse Fault
- Strike-Slip Fault
- Making an Argument from evidence
- Seismic Waves
- Interpreting Data From Maps
- Engineering
- Design Thinking
- Making Inferences
- How earthquakes can change the Earth’s features
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