Description
Students are learning about how to Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
Examples of evidence from patterns could include rock layers with marine shell fossils above rock layers with plant fossils and no shells, indicating a change from land to water over time; and, a canyon with different rock layers in the walls and a river in the bottom, indicating that over time a river cut through the rock.]
Key Questions
What are different types of rock formations?
Where can we see rock formations?
How do we know what happened to a particular area of rocks over time?
When people talk about weather or erosion, why does that matter and what does that look like?
Are dinosaurs fossils?
Expected Outcomes
How they can apply this to their lives, what is the local impact and why is this important to understand.