Elevate Science Lesson Plans
Grade 6
Unit: Introduction to Matter Topic: 9, Lesson 2: Erosion Date:
and Deposition
Standards:
Students will describe and give examples
of processes that change Earth's surface,
MS-ESS2-2 such as
MS-ESS3-2
DCI ESS2.A Earth’s Materials and Systems erosion and deposition.
DCI ESS3.B Natural Hazards
CCC.1 Patterns Students will describe
CCC.3 Scale, Proportion, and Quantity
SEP.4 Analyzing and Interpreting Data
how mass movement of rock and
SEP.6 Constructing Explanations and Designing
soil on Earth's surface changes
Solutions that surface.
Connection to Engineering, Technology, and
Applications of Science Students will describe
how wind contributes to erosion
and deposition and causes
changes to Earth's surface.
Connect: Vocabulary: Sediment, Deposition, Mass
Class Discussion: Models of Erosion and Movement, Deflation, Sand Dune, Loess.
Deposition Academic Vocabulary: Similar, Significant.
Describe What happens when gravity
pulls sediment from the side of a hill?
(The sediment is pulled down.) DOK 1
Explain Explain the connection
between weathering and
erosion. (Weathering breaks smaller
pieces of rock from larger rocks and
erosion helps move the pieces.) DOK 2
Distinguish How is mass movement
different from other Earth processes
that move sediment downhill? (Other
processes, such as water, usually
move smaller amounts of Earth’s
surface.) DOK 3
Synthesize How do landslides,
mudflows, slumps, and creep move
sediment differently? (Landslides occur
when land and rock slip down a hill;
mudslides occur when water mixes
with land and rock and moves it;
slumps occur when landslides down in
a block; and creep is the slow
Grade 6 Lesson Plan Topic 9 Lesson 2
movement of land in a downward
motion.) DOK 3
Investigate: Differentiation:
Interactivity: Predicting Disasters Support Struggling Students:
Interactivity: Material Slope Angle Find images on the Internet or in
Video: Erosion and Deposition magazines to represent volcanoes,
uInvestigate Lab (hands- on): Small, Medium hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes.
Also, find images of the changes in
and Large
Earth’s surface that each one can
Career Video: Civil Engineer cause. Have students connect each
image of a natural disaster to the
Synthesize image of the damage it causes.
Show students images of Devils
Quest Check-In Lab: Ingenious Island Part 1 Tower, Wyoming. The location has
Quest Check-In Interactivity: Changing been used for many movies because
Landscapes of its unique look. Explain that what
Enrichment: Slow and Steady Creep students are seeing are the effects of
erosion: The Tower is actually
magma that turned into rock before
it could blast out of the ground or
from a volcano. Over millions of
years, the rock
surrounding the magma eroded away
and all that’s now left is the remains
of the hardened magma. Ask: How
did the land surrounding the magma
likely erode?
(Wind or water chipped away at it for
millions of years, carrying little
pieces away until all the outside rock
was gone.)
Support Advanced Students:
Have students work in pairs to
research ways in which the following
natural events can cause mass
movements: volcanoes, hurricanes,
rainstorms, floods, and earthquakes.
When they have completed their
research, ask them to present what
they
have learned to the class.
Demonstrate/Assessments: Required Materials: Refer to masters
Lesson Quiz material’s list.
Careers: Civil Engineers
Grade 6 Lesson Plan Topic 9 Lesson 2
Notes/ Reflections:
Grade 6 Lesson Plan Topic 9 Lesson 2
