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Standard 3
Students will understand that gravity, density, and convection move Earth’s plates and this movement causes the plates to impact other Earth systems.
 
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  • Low-level Nuclear Waste: A Geographic Analysis
    Students will analyze the problems associated with nuclear waste and propose possible solutions.
  • Natural Resources Extraction
    Students consider the environmental, cultural, and human rights issues that are frequently associated with the extraction of natural resources. They will conduct Internet research on specific resources and create presentations.
  • Physical Characteristics of Places: The Fossil Rec
    This lesson asks students to consider how the movement of the Earth's tectonic plates alters the physical characteristics of places over geologic time. They will also investigate how climate has changed in specific world regions since the time of the dinosaurs.
  • Physical Processes in Shaping Places
    In this lesson students will analyze the roles of climate and other physical processes in shaping places. Although this lesson focuses on places in the United States, the lesson can easily be adapted to other regions of the world.
  • Rain: Friend or Foe?
    This lesson will help students appreciate the complex relationships between various physical processes and the physical features they modify.
  • The Ring of Fire
    Students improve their understanding of the theory of plate tectonics and the Earth's geological history as they investigate the region known as the Ring of Fire.

 

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