Uncovering student ideas in earth and environmental science : 32 new formative assessment probes /
This book gives you 32 engaging questions that can reveal what your students already know--or think they know--about core Earth and environmental science concepts. Armed with those insights, you can present Earth and environmental science in grade-appropriate ways so students will learn the content...
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Arlington, Virginia :
NSTA Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- SECTION 1. Land and water
- 1. What's beneath us?
- 2. What do you know about soil?
- 3. Land or water?
- 4. Where is most of the fresh water?
- 5. Groundwater
- 6. How many oceans and seas?
- 7. Why is the ocean salty?
- SECTION 2. Water cycle, weather, and climate
- 8. Water cycle diagram
- 9. Where did the water in the puddle go?
- 10. Weather predictors
- 11. In which direction will the water swirl?
- 12. Does the ocean influence our weather or climate?
- 13. Coldest winter ever!
- 14. Are they talking about weather or climate?
- 15. What are the signs of global warming?
- SECTION 3. Earth history, weathering and erosion, and plate tectonics
- 16. How old is Earth?
- 17. Is it a fossil?
- 18. Sedimentary rock layers
- 19. Is it erosion?
- 20. Can a plant break rocks?
- 21. Grand Canyon
- 22. Mountains and beaches
- 23. How do rivers form?
- 24. What is the inside of Earth like?
- 25. Describing Earth's plates
- 26. Where do you find Earth's plates?
- 27. What do you know about volcanoes and earthquakes?
- SECTION 4. Natural resources, pollution, and human impact
- 28. Renewable or nonrenewable?
- 29. Acid rain
- 30. What is a watershed?
- 31. Is natural better?
- 32. The greenhouse effect.