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Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: How Does Erosion Shape Landforms

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the natural process of erosion.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Influences on Weathering Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Get an overview of the influences of weathering.
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Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: How Does Weathering Shape Landforms?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn the basics of the process of weathering.
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Article
eSchool Today

E School Today: Physical Weathering

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how weathering changes rocks.
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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Rock Cycle: How Rocks Change

For Students 5th - 9th
Find out how rocks and rock layers change with erosion and weathering.
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Article
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Erosion: Facts and Information

For Students 2nd - 8th
Explains erosion, its effects, causes, and how it can be controlled.
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Activity
Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Erosion Explosion

For Students K - 1st
Try this at-home science experiment to learn about how erosion works.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Earth Changes: Looking at Weathering and Erosion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will explore weathering and erosion, what causes them, and the difference between them. They will be able to find evidence of weathering and erosion in the environment around them.
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Lesson Plan
The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: 4 Ess2 1: Weathering and Erosion

For Teachers 4th
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard 4-ESS2-1: weathering and erosion.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Landforms From Erosion and Deposition by Gravity

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Indicates the factors that lead to landslides and other mass movements, what their characteristics are, and how to avoid them.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fourth Grade: Earth Science: Erosion and Deposition by Flowing Water

For Students 4th - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how flowing water causes erosion; describes how runoff, streams, and rivers change Earth's surface; and identifies features caused by groundwater erosion.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Earth Science: Erosion and Deposition by Waves

For Students 4th - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how waves cause erosion of shorelines, features formed by wave deposition, and ways to protect shorelines from wave erosion.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Weathering

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces the concepts of weathering and erosion. Both physical and chemical weathering, and their causes are discussed. Video is embedded. The flipchart also has assessment questions...
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Activity
Other

Weathering

For Students 9th - 10th
Studies weathering and provides a brief overview of what weathering is and how it effects the environment.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Glaciers, Water and Wind, Oh My!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This hands-on activity explores five different forms of erosion (chemical, water, wind, glacier and temperature). Students rotate through stations and model each type of erosion on rocks, soils and minerals. The students record their...
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Unit Plan
Geographypods

Geographypods: Theme 2: Natural Environments

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich collection of highly engaging learning modules on topics related to the natural environment. Covers four main areas - plate tectonics, forms and processes, weather and climate, and rainforest and desert. Within each of these,...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Move It!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the erosive effects of waves, streams, glaciers, and wind.
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Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Your Revision Notes on Rocks

For Students 4th - 7th
Covers the three main types of rocks, different weathering processes, erosion, and the rock cycle.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Coastal Geological Processes

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive resource adapted from the National Park Service describes the many forces that affect shorelines, including tides, weathering, erosion, and deposition. Includes background reading handout and discussion questions.
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Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Landscape Regions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab activity where students study the" relationships between landscape appearance, topography and underlying geology". In this particular activity students explore the landscape region of New York State to see the effects of...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering for the 3 Little Pigs

For Students 3rd - 5th
The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate the importance of rocks, soils and minerals in engineering and how using the right material for the right job is important. The students build three different sand castles and test them for...
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Graphic
University of Washington

Iris: Noaa Images: Erosional Landforms

For Students 9th - 10th
Examples, with images, of different types of landforms created by water and wind erosion.
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Article
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: What Are the Biological Processes of Weathering?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about biological factors in the weathering and breakdown of rocks.
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Article
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: What Is Weathering?

For Students 9th - 10th
A definition of the process of weathering.

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