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TEKS Objective

The student is expected to 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

Eolian (Wind) Processes and Landforms: PhysicalGeography.net (website) - Eolian landforms, such as sand dunes, are created by wind. Learn how wind changes the surface of the Earth.

Eolian (Wind) Processes and Landforms
Physical Geography.net

Eolian (Wind) Science: Great Sand Dunes National Park (website) - Interactive Introduction to how wind creates different kinds of sand dunes.

Eolian (Wind) Science
Great Sand Dunes National Park, www.uen.org

Physical Geology Slides, Wind Erosion: University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (website) - Examples of wind erosion, presented in photos and text.

Physical Geology Slides, Wind Erosion
by Steven Dutch, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, www.uwgb.edu

Signature Lesson

Erosion by Wind: Utah Education Network (website) - Students use paper dots to model how wind erodes sand or soil, and shapes the landscape.

Erosion by Wind
Utah Education Network, www.uen.org

Supporting Lessons

Investigating Erosion: Minnesota Science Teachers Education Project (website) - In this investigation, students build models to simulate and observe wind and water erosion, propose ways to slow erosion, and relate the erosion processes to weathering and sediment deposition. (Wind erosion and water erosion are explored together in this lesson.)

Investigating Erosion
Minnesota Science Teachers Education Project, www.serc.carleton.edu/sp/mnstep

Erosion in our World: Minnesota Science Teachers Education Project (website) - Students work in groups of 2-4 to investigate erosion around the schoolyard and record their findings in their science journals.

Erosion in our World
Minnesota Science Teachers Education Project, www.serc.carleton.edu/sp/mnstep

Shape It Up: Science NetLinks (website) - Students identify the geologic mechanisms (such as wind or ice) and time frame behind the formation of different landforms, using an online interactive game.

Shape It Up
Science NetLinks, www.sciencenetlinks.com

Elaboration Lessons and Extensions

Shape It Up: Science NetLinks (website) - Students identify the geologic mechanisms (such as wind or ice) and time frame behind the formation of different landforms, using an online interactive game.

Shape It Up
Science NetLinks, www.sciencenetlinks.com

Assessment Ideas

1.    Have students make a poster or a clay model representing the landform terminology discussed during the unit.

2.    Have students make a before/after poster or model of a land formation affected by wind erosion.

Literature Connections

Weathering and Erosion: Wearing Down Rocks. Hoffman, Steven M. (ISBN-10: 1448827116)

Mountains. Collier, Michael (ISBN: 9781931414180)

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)

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(5.7A) Formation of Rocks and Fossil Fuels
The student is expected to explore the processes that led to the formation of sedimentary rocks and fossil fuels.

(5.7D) Fossils
The student is expected to identify fossils as evidence of past living organisms and the nature of the environment at the time using models.

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5.12B   The student is expected to use experimental results to make predictions.

Additional Resources

An Introduction to Erosion: KidsGeo.com (website) - Descriptions and photos of the different forms of weathering and erosion.

An Introduction to Erosion
Kidsgeo.com

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