Description
Students will love these engaging activities on weathering and erosion. Changes in the Earth’s surface will be studied. Students will love these easy-to-do labs. This is a great unit for Earth Science. Reading passages on weather and erosion are included.
This resource includes:
- hands-on activities
- informational text passages on weathering and erosion
- a lab
- lab pages
- answer keys
This resource is designed to meet the standard for NGSS Earths Systems:
MS-ESS2-2. Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at
varying time and spatial scales
For the lab, you will need sand, water, salt rock, and containers.
And the Utah SEEd
Standard 7.2.2 Construct an explanation based on evidence for how processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales.
These science reading passages including are rich in content and students will practice their reading informational text skills while learning more about weathering and erosion.
The following science concepts are addressed:
weathering and erosion
chemical weathering
mechanical weathering
oxidation
hydrolysis
organic weathering
hydration
carbonization
glaciation
observation
recording data
comparing and contrasting
measuring
research
making an Argument from Evidence