Content Notes
Unit Objectives
- Students will explain the differences between chemical and physical changes on Earth's surface.
- Students will explain the processes of and differentiate weathering, erosion, and deposition.
- Students will list the products of weathering: clay, sand, rock fragments, and soluble substances.
- Students will create a plan to solve problems around the school grounds related to weathering, erosion, or deposition.
- Students will explain how negative human impacts on changes in the Earth's surface can be solved.
- Students will explain the processes of and differentiate weathering, erosion, and deposition.
- Students will list the products of weathering: clay, sand, rock fragments, and soluble substances.
- Students will create a plan to solve problems around the school grounds related to weathering, erosion, or deposition.
- Students will explain how negative human impacts on changes in the Earth's surface can be solved.
Standards of Learning
Va Science SOL 5.7
The student will investigate and understand how Earth's surface is constantly changing. Key concepts include:
a) Identification of rock types
b) The rock cycle and how transformations between rocks occur
c) Earth history and fossil evidence
d) The basic structure of Earth's interior
e) Changes in Earth's crust due to plate tectonics
f) Weathering, erosion, and deposition
g) Human impact
The student will investigate and understand how Earth's surface is constantly changing. Key concepts include:
a) Identification of rock types
b) The rock cycle and how transformations between rocks occur
c) Earth history and fossil evidence
d) The basic structure of Earth's interior
e) Changes in Earth's crust due to plate tectonics
f) Weathering, erosion, and deposition
g) Human impact
Prior Knowledge
K.9, K.10, 1.7, 2.7, 3.8, 3.9, 4.7,4.8, and 5.7