Your fingernails grow at approximately the same rate Earth's continents move. The video discusses Earth as a planet, its layers, our magnetic field, the atmosphere, and the human impact on Earth. It provides interesting facts that surprise many scholars throughout the video.

Concepts

the earth, planet earth, the earth's layers, the earth's magnetic field, the earth's atmosphere

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Research the science fiction concept of terraforming and discuss how it relates to the lesson

Classroom Considerations

• Relies on prior knowledge of the formation of the solar system
• Be aware some of the comments include language not appropriate in most classrooms

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• List of source material contains many high-quality publications
• Offers subtitles in Arabic, Dutch, English, Portuguese, and Spanish

Cons

• None

Common Core

RST.6-8.4 RST.9-10.4 RST.11-12.4