Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Science Grades: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This unit focuses on mountain building as a tool for teaching mountain formation, erosion, rocks, minerals, the rock cycle, faulting, folding and deformation of the crust, as well as plate tectonics, earthquakes and volcanoes. It reinforces the concept that mountains have a history and that it is possible to use clues from the shape, composition, and... 2 Living in Earthquake Country Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Science Grades: Grade 8 Professional Commentary: This unit investigates how and why earthquakes cause damage by exploring a number of different things including: seismic waves, the ability of scientists to predict the likelihood and severity of earthquakes at specific locations, the difference between magnitude and intensity, the occurrence of earthquakes along patches of planar faults, and the potential damage caused by earthquakes such as landslides,... Resource Type: Assessments Discipline: Science Grades: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Students will measure the rate of sinking of a test tube into a beaker of "glop", representing a model of the interaction between the Earth's crust and upper mantle. This task assesses students' abilities to make simple observations, collect, record, and represent data, use a graph to represent data, relate the model to their... |