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The lesson plan from the 3/5/13 DAIT team on helping students write an essay about where sand comes from the FLEE thinking map for scaffolding the essay- the concept map they created for the unit.

Other ideas for the unit:

Extend the stream table lab 11a by having the kids try to come up with engineering solution to prevent flooding.

Follow up the stream table activity with a field trip to Whitewater Preserve to check out erosion and deposition in action. email Caroline Conway at; Caroline Conway ‎[caroline.c@twc-ca.org]‎ for details.

Or take a field trip of weathering at your site using resources from [|USGS SChoolyard Geology]

Use the internet (Google earth is a good tool) to look for examples of landforms on pp 248.

The "My Journal" activity on pp 237 of the student text.

Model wind erosion with the stream table filled with dry sand and a blowdryer.

IMAX has a great movie about Lewis and Clark going up the Missouri River that can be used to teach about rivers.

videos on United Streaming:

Cave Formation: the role of deposition http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/DEF7B4CC-7723-4F8E-8319-40A13B8C3E78

Deposition: How eroded rock builds new landforms: http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/A2113BD8-AD8B-4D7F-9014-B40705FC565D

Water Erosion and Pressure: http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/588A1806-2AF6-4952-8059-20BD7C9FDF3C

Fighting Erosion: http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/C18132DD-A763-4270-8417-F461309F5284

Wind Erosion in the Desert: http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/BF653A97-7DFB-4DFC-99FF-2FF8EC79F779

Grand Canyon Example of Water/Ice Erosion: http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/F094D3EC-9E7F-4B19-B8CD-7D6E452E91A4