Plum's Island Explorer: Land and Water

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Science

Grade(s)

2

Overview

Navigate around the island to explore various landforms and water bodies in this interactive game from PLUM LANDING. Journey around the island and pick up trash to unlock information—including videos and ground-level and aerial images—about specific landforms and water bodies. Students use the game and associated supports to observe, identify, and record characteristics of common landforms and water bodies as they navigate and represent the landscape from an aerial perspective on a map.

Science (2015) Grade(s): 2

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Create models to identify physical features of Earth (e.g., mountains, valleys, plains, deserts, lakes, rivers, oceans).

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Vocabulary

  • Physical features
  • Models
  • Mountains
  • Valleys
  • Plains
  • Deserts
  • Lakes
  • Rivers
  • Oceans

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The physical features of Earth can be modeled, as on a map.
  • The relationship between components their model and kinds of land and bodies of water in a given area.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Create a model that represents both land and bodies of water in an area.
  • Make connections between their model and the shapes and kinds of land and water in an area.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Models can represent patterns in the natural world like the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area.

Scientific and Engineering Practices

Developing and Using Models

Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns
Science (2015) Grade(s): 2

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Collect and evaluate data to identify water found on Earth and determine whether it is a solid or a liquid (e.g., glaciers as solid forms of water; oceans, lakes, rivers, streams as liquid forms of water).

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Vocabulary

  • Collect
  • Evaluate
  • Solid
  • Liquid
  • Glaciers
  • Oceans
  • Lakes
  • Rivers
  • Streams
  • Frozen
  • Ponds

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Water is found in many places on Earth.
  • Water exists as solid ice and in liquid form.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify which sources of information are likely to provide scientific information.
  • Collect and evaluate data to identify water found on Earth.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There are observable patterns as to where water is found on Earth and what form it is in.

Scientific and Engineering Practices

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns

CR Resource Type

Interactive/Game

Resource Provider

PBS

License Type

Custom
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