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Earth's Land Resources Benchmarks: - Identify how moving wind, water, and ice shape the land
- Recognize the importance of natural resources
- Recognize the people produce large amounts
of trash and by reducing waste, we save energy
Standards:
- Students can understand concepts and relationships in Earth/Space Sciences
- Knows that smaller rocks come from the breakage and weathering of bedrock and larger rocks
- Knows
how features on the Earth's surface are constantly changed by a combination of slow and rapid processes
- Knows environmental and external factors that affect individual and community health
- Knows
how individuals, communities and states cooperate to control environmental problems and maintain a healthy environment
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Activities: http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/BreakingNews/default.htm explores various forces that can cause the breaking and weathering of bedrock and larger rocks (Author -
Laurie Ayers) http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/foss/scope/folio/pdfs/Earth_Materials_Matrix.pdf four sequential investigations dealing with observable characteristics of solid materials from the earth— rocks and
minerals. The focus is on taking materials apart to find what they are made of and putting materials together to better understand
their properties.
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