OER Commons

Read the Fine Print

Rating

This lesson provides experience working on a real-life scenario by allowing students the opportunity to use topographic maps to design a hiking trail system based on access from road, range of habitats, and other specified criteria. They will also complete a data sheet and produce an informational brochure.

Subject:: Astronomy; Chemistry; Geoscience; Physical Geography; Physical Science; Physics; Space Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Interactive; Lesson Plan
Provider:: UCAR Staff
Provider Set:: New York State Earth Science Instructional Collection
Author:: Becky Remis; Rose Hochmuth
Date Added:: 11/06/2014

More Less

Read the Fine Print

The Story that Rocks Can Tell

Rating

In this activity, students are assigned a geologic profile based on a set of rock samples and are asked to arrange the samples from oldest to youngest. They then identify each rock type and record their observations of what processes might have formed it, what type of sediment it is made of, what sort of environment it might have formed in, and what agents of erosion or deposition might have been at work. Using this information, they will write a story explaining the geologic history represented by their profile and describe in detail how it might have formed.

Subject:: Astronomy; Chemistry; Geology; Geoscience; Physical Science; Physics; Space Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Interactive
Provider:: UCAR Staff
Provider Set:: New York State Earth Science Instructional Collection
Author:: Becky Remis; Rose Hochmuth
Date Added:: 11/06/2014

More Less

Education Standards

Subject Area

Education Level

Material Type

License Types

Content Source

Primary User

Media Format

Educational Use

Language

Providers

2 Results

Search Resources