Bedlam in Bedrock

Laurie Ayers
Beacon Learning Center (Bay District Schools)

Questions

What is change? What changes?
Does the Earth change? How?

Unit Matrix and Standards

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Lesson Plans

Water, Water, Everywhere
This lesson is for Days 2 and 3 of the unit, Bedlam in Bedrock. Students explore the concept of change and associate it with changes in their lives, in nature, and eventually with changes in the Earths water cycle.

A Rocky Situation
This lesson is for Days 4 and 5 of the unit, Bedlam in Bedrock. Students use reference materials to explore how rocks can be broken down to form soil, the processes of weathering and erosion, and how landforms change over time.

Changing Ways
This lesson is for Day 8 of the unit, Bedlam in Bedrock. Students use reference materials, sketches, diagrams, and models to understand scientific ideas about ways landforms change over time.

Forces of Change
This lesson is for Days 9 and 10 of the unit, Bedlam in Bedrock. Students create a class reference book about ways landforms change over time and share their Earth Explorer projects.