This activity is an indoor lab where students build a model to observe the effects of weathering and erosion.
- Author:
- Krisann Berglund
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In this field activity students will discover some of the factors that influence weathering of rock by making observations, asking questions and completing an investigation of their own design in a local cemetery.
- Author:
- Ann Catlin Markegard
In this lab, students will observe and compare fossils with living organisms.
- Author:
- Chris Bakke
This activity is a field investigation where students observe and interpret the rocks types, geologic features, and processes typical to the north shore of Lake Superior. Students use their data to develop questions that could be further investigated and to predict the sequence of events leading to the formation of these rocks and features.
- Author:
- Laurie Severson
- Laurie Severson
This activity is a guided inquiry where students develop questions around a group of rocks, use their observation skills to describe the attributes, record and analyze their findings, and use their data, in conjunction with available resources, to categorize the rocks .
- Author:
- Jean Karschnia
In this classroom guided inquiry lesson, students will explore the properties of rocks. Students will make observations of granite and develop a hypothesis explaining what makes a rock.
- Author:
- Leah Bulver
This activity is a lab presentation where students gather data about rocks from their area and hypothesize what the rocks are and where they came from.
- Author:
- Matt Weingartz
This activity is a field investigation where students will increase their knowledge of SE MN geology including rock layers, fossils, and Karst topography. They will also learn how Karst Geology impacts our water quality.
- Author:
- Amy Woxland
A field investigation to the Mawikwe Bay Sea Caves of northern Wisconsin along Lake Superior in the winter. Students will investigate deposition of sedimentary rocks and weathering of the rocks to produce sea caves.
- Author:
- Beth Hoagland
This activity is a field investigation where students will observe the topography of Big Stone Lake and generate questions about the history of this area.
- Author:
- Tracey Raguse
- Tracey Raguse
This observational inquiry activity involving careful descriptions of rocks and fossil including age will be used to create a scalar accurate geologic time scale. Students will observe and learn that the geologic time scale was created based on changes in fossil, rock, and atmospheric changes.
- Author:
- Kim Atkins
- kim Atkins
Students will make observations of weathering on different rock types in a cemetery. Students will also make observations of rock types of the Minneopa Falls.
- Author:
- Sherry Miller
This activity is a lab inquiry-base lesson on the rock cycle. Students will look at the parts of the rock cycle by examining three rocks. Based on their observations and data they collect they should be able to develop a hypothesis and an experiment to test this hypothesis.
- Author:
- Jeff Ballman
This activity is a quantative writing activity where students will use writing and illustrations to show their knowledge of the basic rock cycle.
- Author:
- Leah Campbell
- Alissa Naymark
This activity is a field investigation where students go out to a water source and observe erosion that has taken place.
- Author:
- Amy Anderson
This model-making activity gives students an opportunity visualize Newtonian forces acting on a single point as well as combined forces acting to produce synclines and anticlines in Earth's crust. Students will analyze models to interpret findings of plate movements.
- Author:
- Margy Schipper
This activity is a field investagation where students will discover answers to their questions about the rock cycle.
- Author:
- Jason Morzenti
- Jason Morzenti, Minneapolis Urban League Academy, Minneapolis, MN
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Students learn about landslides, discovering that there are different types of landslides that occur at different speeds from very slow to very quick. All landslides are the result of gravity, friction and the materials involved. Both natural and human-made factors contribute to landslides. Students learn what makes landslides dangerous and what engineers are doing to prevent and avoid landslides.
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Engineering
- Geology
- Physical Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Denise W. Carlson
- Integrated Teaching and Learning Program,
- Malinda Schaefer Zarske
- Tim Nicklas
- Date Added:
- 09/18/2014
This activity is a active learning activity where students will observe and represent the layers of the Earth from the core to the lithosphere.
- Author:
- Karen Thyne
In this classroom lab, students will investigate particle sorting and deposition.
- Author:
- Scott Nemetz