Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
Crosscutting Concepts
Stability and Change
Knowledge
Students know:
- Wind and water can change the shape of the land on Earth, sometimes slowly and sometimes quickly.
- Solutions that can slow or prevent wind or water from changing the land impacts the natural world.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Examine changes caused by Earth's events, like winds and floods.
- Test, compare, and evaluate solutions (technologies) that address changes caused by Earth's events.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Earth's events may change the land slowly or rapidly.
- Developing and using technology has an impact on the natural world.
Vocabulary
- Examine
- Compare
- Test solutions
- Earth's events/natural phenomena
- Flooding
- Erosion
- Wind breaks/technology
- Dams/dikes/technology
- Ask
- Imagine
- Plan
- Create
- Improve
- Engineering Design Process
