- Anchors Away!
- A Rocky Test
- As Far As I Can Sea
- Bounce
- By All Indications
- Create a Crater
- The Great Diamond Heist
- Fossil Puzzler
- Get Cooking
- Going with the Flow
- How's the Weather?
- Impact!
- It's All Relative
- Keep It Up
- Layers of Earth
- Let's Get Carried Away!
- Look Out Below!
- Motion In The Ocean
- Play Ball
- Sand Shake
- School of Rock
- Shaky Ground
- Smoke on the Water
- Solar System Scale
- Splendid Soil
- Super Soaked Soil
- Tragedy of the Commons
- Warm Colors
- Watching Weather
- Water Cycle
- Weathering Cubes
- What Lies Beneath?
- What Am I?
- Will There Be Enough
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Hands-on Activity
Going with the Flow
Summary
Students will gain an understanding of the value of using a scale model and the effect of
water speed on erosion rate and stream formation.
Overview
Topic: Stream Formation
Real World Science Topics:
Real World Science Topics:
- An exploration of how erosion and stream formation are related
- An exploration of the speed of water flow changes the shape of a stream
- An exploration of how erosion and sedimentation can affect the landscape
Objective
In this activity, students use a stream table to model the processes of erosion and streambed formation.
The students observe changes to the stream environment and make predictions about how these changes will affect the stream.
They then study and sketch the resulting streams.
Activity Difficulty Rating: 3 Each hands-on science activity has been ranked based on difficulty of set up and how difficult they are to perform. The rating scale is from 1 to 5, with 1 being the easiest and 5 being the most complicated.
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TAKE FIVE
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