Ice
Readiness
TEKS Objective
Recognize how landforms such as deltas, canyons, and sand dunes are the result of changes to Earth’s surface by wind, water and ice.
Essential Understanding
The student knows Earth’s surface is constantly changing and consists of useful resources.
Science Background
Landforms of Glaciation: Physical Geography.net (website) - Because of their abilities to erode soil and rock, and transport or deposit sediments, glaciers have important roles in shaping some landscapes. Find an overview here..
Landforms of Glaciation
Physical Geography.net
How Do Glaciers Affect the Land? National Snow and Ice Data Center (website) - Learn how glaciers carve fjords and chisel mountains, such as Switzerland’s famous Matterhorn.
How Do Glaciers Affect the Land?
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Common Questions and Myths about Glaciers: USGS (website) - Find answers to questions such as, Why are glaciers blue? Is glacier ice colder than regular ice?
Common Questions and Myths About Glaciers
US Geological Survey
Signature Lesson
Glaciers: Antarctica, 90 Degrees South (website) - Students recognize how glaciers cause changes in the Earth’s surface by creating a “glacier” and observing the effects of its movement.
- Supporting Lessons
- Extensions
- Assessment Ideas
- Literature Connections
- Related
TEKS - Additional Resources
Supporting Lessons
Plaster and Ice: ScienceViews (website) - Background information on weathering, and an activity on ice weathering that demonstrates the power of frozen water.
Plaster and Ice
ScienceViews, www.scienceviews.com
Weathering and Erosion: Illinois State Museum Geology Online (PDF) - Students explore the process and effects of erosion by ice. Have student teams complete Part II, Erosion Stations 2, 3 and 5.
Weathering and Erosion
Illinois State Museum Geology Online, www.geologyonline.museum.state.il.us
Elaboration Lessons and Extensions
Shape It Up: Science NetLinks (website) - Students identify the geologic processes (such as wind or ice) and timeframe behind the formation of different landforms, using an online interactive game.
Erosion: Ask ERIC Lesson Plans (website) - Series of activities that demonstrate various types of erosion, increase students’ awareness of erosion, and enable students to make intelligent decisions about land use.
Assessment Ideas
Shape It Up! An Earth Changing Erosion Activity: Kinetic City (website) - Use this animation to assess how much students have learned about erosion.
Shape It Up! An Earth Changing Erosion Activity
Kinetic City, www.kineticcity.com
Literature Connections
Cracking Up: A Story About Erosion. Bailey, Jacqui (ISBN-10: 1404819967)
Mountains. Collier, Michael (ISBN: 9781931414180)
Weathering and Erosion: Wearing Down Rocks. Hoffman, Steven M. (ISBN-10: 1448827116)
Erosion (Early Bird Earth Science). Riley, Joelle (ISBN-10: 0822559498)
Learning about Rocks, Weathering, and Erosion with Graphic Organizers. Estigarribia, Diana (ISBN-10: 1404250425)
The Disappearing Mountain and Other Earth Mysteries: Erosion and Weathering. Spilsbury, Richard and Lingard, Darren (ISBN-10: 1410919552)
Weathering and Erosion (Looking at Landscapes). Gifford, Clive (ISBN-10: 1583407316)
Additional Resources
Our Environment: Glaciers – Interactive (website) – Interactive, narrated animations about glaciers.
Our Environment: Glaciers Interactive
Summits of Canada
Erosion Unit: Hotchalk (website) - Students identify and predict the outcomes of various forms of erosion.
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Grade 5
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