TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Making & Breaking: The Rock Cycle
Young scholars learn the components of the rock cycle and how rocks can change over time under the influence of weathering, erosion, pressure and heat. They learn about geotechnical engineering and the role these engineers play in the...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:3 Investigation 3 Weathering
This lesson plan describes activities which allow students to investigate four types of weathering and their relationship to soil formation. The four weathering forces investigated include wind, running water, plant roots and freezing...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Glaciers, Water and Wind, Oh My!
This hands-on activity explores five different forms of erosion (chemical, water, wind, glacier and temperature). Students rotate through stations and model each type of erosion on rocks, soils and minerals. The students record their...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: The Dirt on Soil
This interactive website explores the various soil layers and introduces you to the lifeforms that live in those soil layers.
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Earth Science: Rocks and Minerals: Defining Minerals
Instructional module focusing on minerals. Discussion includes chemical composition, chemical structure, and the formation process. The site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Aaas: Project 2061: Topic: Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
[Free Registration/Login Required] Create a science test that checks for student understanding in science, for common misconceptions, as well as for correct ideas. This is a list of key ideas related to Weathering, Erosion, and...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Building Up, Breaking Down
Smithsonian in the Classroom presents Building Up, Breaking Down. Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students investigate how buildings weather. See what happens to a building once it has been erected....
Utah Education Network
Uen: The Dirt on Soil
After completing this lesson plan, students will understand the source and the process for the formation of soil, the different types of soil, and the components of soil.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:3 Investigation 4 Erosion
Activities help students understand erosion.
Utah State Office of Education
Utah Science: Change Is My Game
Discover the ways in which the Earth's surface is always changing and what causes those changes through reference materials and a collection of activities.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Move It!
Fourth graders explore the erosive effects of waves, streams, glaciers, and wind.
Other
Bscs: Content Background Earth's Changing Surface
This is written to support and further your content learning about the dynamic nature of Earth's surface. The goal is for you to develop a conceptual understanding of landforms so that you will be able to more effectively teach...
University of Washington
Iris: Noaa Images: Erosional Landforms
Examples, with images, of different types of landforms created by water and wind erosion.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Water Erosion
In this video from Nature, learn about the erosive action of water on the Hawaiian landscape and human efforts to limit it.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Nature of the Land Around Us
An inquiry investigation which allows students to drive their learning by creating questions about the land around them. They collect varied data to analyze the nature of the land, and as a result, investigate erosion and weathering in...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Erosion
In this investigation, students will use sand to build a mountain and then use a straw and watering can to simulate wind erosion and water erosion. Students will make observations and then propose ways to slow the erosion and/or speed...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mapping the Glaciers
For this activity, young scholars will use Minnesota Geological Survey 3-D maps of the upper Midwest to trace the outlines of where they believe glaciers may have affected North America. They will identify landforms that resulted from...
Other
Mcwdn: Maps & Globes: Landforms Mountains
Informative site about mountains. Look at the picture and read all about mountains, then take a quiz to show how much you know!
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Showing the Difference Between Erosion and Weathering
In the lesson plan, the students will be learning about weathering and erosion. They will see examples of weathering and erosion and the difference between the two. They will be performing experiments that show weathering and erosion....
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weathering & Erosion
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of weathering and erosion, what they are, and how they alter the Earth's surface.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Landforms, Rocks & Minerals: Sedimentary
A slideshow, a karaoke song to sing along to, and a short multiple-choice quiz on sedimentary rocks and how they are formed.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Interpreting the Geologic History of Canyon De Chelly
Earth Science teachers will combine field observations with the information given in the classroom to interpret the geologic history of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona.