Wind
Readiness
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.
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.
- Supporting Lessons
- Extensions
- Assessment Ideas
- Literature Connections
- Related
TEKS - Additional Resources
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.
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.
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)
Additional Resources
An Introduction to Erosion: KidsGeo.com (website) - Descriptions and photos of the different forms of weathering and erosion.
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Grade 5
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