Product Features
In their exploration, students learn:
- The basic internal structure of Earth
- How plate tectonics creates mountains and volcanoes on Earth's surface
- The different ways solid rock can respond to pressure from plate tectonics
- The formation of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock
- The rock cycle
- How fossils form in sedimentary rock
- How wind and water work to weather and erode rock on Earth's surface
- About stratification and the Law of Superposition
- How the combined forces of uplift and erosion help expose fossils on the surface
- How to work as a team by:
Meets State and National Standards
Your students will:
- Communicate scientifically by viewing, reading, and discussing
- Work collaboratively as a scientific team
- Understand systems in life and earth sciences
- Interpret data and graphs
- See how scientists use models to describe the world and solve problems
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