Grade Four Unit 1: Weathering and Erosion First Marking Period Unit Essential Questions Next Generation Standards Disciplinary Core (DCI) 1. What do shapes of landforms 4-ESS1-1: Identify evidence ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth * In this unit of study, students develop and rock formations tell us about from patterns in rock formations *Local, regional, and global patterns of understandings of the effects of weathering and the past? and fossils in rock layers to rock formations reveal changes over the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or support an explanation for time due to earth forces, such as vegetation. The crosscutting concepts of patterns 2. What can rock formations change in a landscape over time. earthquakes. The presence and location and cause and effect are called out as organizing teach about the history of Earth? of certain fossil types indicate the order concepts. Students demonstrate Make observations in which rock layers were formed. 4-ESS2-1: proficiency in planning and carrying 3. How can fossils help and/or measurements to provide out investigations and constructing explanations. determine the age of rocks and evidence of the effects of Students are also expected to use these practices rock layers? weathering or the rate of erosion ESS2.A: Earth Materials and to demonstrate understanding of the core ideas. by water, ice, wind, or Systems 4. What is mechanical and vegetation. *Rainfall helps to shape the land and chemical weathering and how affects the types of living things found does it affect the environment? in a region. Water, ice, wind, living organisms, and gravity break rocks, 5. What is erosion and how does soils and sediments into smaller it affect the environment? particles and move them around. 6. How does rainfall affect the environment? ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and System Interactions *The locations of mountain ranges, deep ocean trenches, ocean floor structures, earthquakes, and volcanoes occur in patterns. Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur in bands that are often along the boundaries between continents and oceans. Major mountain chains form inside continents or near their edges. Maps can help locate the different land and water features areas of Earth.
Grade Four Unit 1: Weathering and Erosion First Marking Period Unit Essential Questions Next Generation Standards Disciplinary Core (DCI) * In this unit of study, students develop understandings of the effects of weathering and the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation. The crosscutting concepts of patterns and cause and effect are called out as organizing concepts. Students demonstrate proficiency in planning and carrying out investigations and constructing explanations. Students are also expected to use these practices to demonstrate understanding of the core ideas. 1. What do shapes of landforms and rock formations tell us about the past? 2. What can rock formations teach about the history of Earth? 3. How can fossils help determine the age of rocks and rock layers? 4. What is mechanical and chemical weathering and how does it affect the environment? 5. What is erosion and how does it affect the environment? 6. How does rainfall affect the environment? 4-ESS1-1: Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for change in a landscape over time. 4-ESS2-1: Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation. ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth *Local, regional, and global patterns of rock formations reveal changes over time due to earth forces, such as earthquakes. The presence and location of certain fossil types indicate the order in which rock layers were formed. ESS2.A: Earth Materials and Systems *Rainfall helps to shape the land and affects the types of living things found in a region. Water, ice, wind, living organisms, and gravity break rocks, soils and sediments into smaller particles and move them around. ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and System Interactions *The locations of mountain ranges, deep ocean trenches, ocean floor structures, earthquakes, and volcanoes occur in patterns. Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur in bands that are often along the boundaries between continents and oceans. Major mountain chains form inside continents or near their edges. Maps can help locate the different land and water features areas of Earth.
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