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Grade 4 Social Studies
Unit 1: Map Skills - Examining the World and the United States Activity 3: Physical Processes of Earth (GLE: 10)
CC: Write the following terms on the board or present them in a PowerPoint presentation: terra firma, continental drift, folding and faulting, earthquake and volcanism.
Use PowerPoint software to create a presentation of the terms. PowerPoint template - "Physical Processes of Earth"
CC: Write the following on a storyboard or present them in a PowerPoint presentation: Rocky Mountains, Appalachian Mountains, Great Lakes, Grand Canyon, and Hawaiian Islands. Include photographs of these places.
Use PowerPoint software to create a presentation of these landforms. PowerPoint template - "Our Changing Earth"
Web Sites for Research Project: World Book Online (Search terms: Rocky Mountains, Appalachian Mountains, Great Lakes, Grand Canyon, and Hawaiian Islands) http://www.louisianaschools.net/worldbook/
Gale Group (Kids InfoBits: Search terms - Rocky Mountains, Appalachian Mountains, Great Lakes, Grand Canyon, and Hawaiian Islands) http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/lap37ops
Major Mountains http://www.4to40.com/earth/geography/index.asp?article=earth_geography_majormountains
Grand Canyon Explorer http://www.kaibab.org/geology/gc_geol.htm
Additional Web Sites: NASA: Continental Drifts and Plate Tectonics http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/pangaea/index.html
Activities: Faulting and Folding http://www.mii.org/pdfs/mtnbuilding.pdf
Layer Cake Geology http://www.beloit.edu/%7ESEPM/Earth_Works/Layer_Cake_Geology.html
Folds and Faults (playdough activity) http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/FoldsFaultsTe.html
Unitedstreaming video clips: http://www.unitedstreaming.com
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