This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Forces of Nature: Inside and Out." In this activity, students create a model to investigate the effects that earthquakes of varying magnitudes have on buildings and the surface of the Earth.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Forces of Nature: Inside and Out." It is a slide presentation that provides images that show the effects of earthquakes.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Forces of Nature: Inside and Out." It is a slide presentation which provides background information and images to be used during the lesson.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Forces of Nature: Inside and Out." It is a reading selection about tsunamis.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Forces of Nature: Inside and Out." This performance indicator can be used to assess student understanding of the concepts covered during the lesson. Students will draw and describe illustrations for events occurring before, during, and after an extreme event that changes the surface of the Earth.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Forces of Nature: Inside and Out." It outlines the procedure and provides a sample concept map for an activity students will complete during the lesson.

This scientific article discusses three different hypothesis regarding the extinction of dinosaurs: 1. a meteor impact, 2. a vulcanic eruption, 3. a slow evolutional change makes space for new species. A weblink opens a page with interview questions directed to a German dinosaur researcher. The text child-friendly and appropriate for children of age 8 and up.

Students will create a model in order to investigate how a glacier carves an area and label the characteristics formed by the glacier's movement.

In this lesson, students will learn about weathering and erosion. Then students will be placed in small groups to do simple experiments that illustrate a type of weathering or erosion.

Students will create a model of a coastline and model hurricane conditions that produce storm surge. Students will make observations concerning the winds' impact on the coastline. Please note that the referenced link is to the student activity only. Details regarding instructional implementation can be found on page 18 of the Kids' Crossing Guide for Educators found at: www.eo.ucar.edu/educators/UsingKC_class_all.pdf

In this activity, students will use common household items to build landforms and simulate weathering and erosion.

Students will read a passage and use context clues to determine the meaning of vocabulary in the passage. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

This resource supports the English language development of English language learners. This student web lesson explores various forces that can cause the breaking and weathering of bedrock and larger rocks. Students go along with Joe Boulder, a reporter for the Bedrock Beat newspaper as he writes an article about where smaller rocks come from. The audio for this site works only with Internet Explorer.

Students will make a model glacier and observe how glaciers shape the land.

Students will use stream tables to create a landslide and explain why erosion changes the land on mountaintops.

In this activity, four forms of mountain formation are demonstrated and/or discussed. Students will be assessed through a short constructed response writing assignment.

In this short video and accompanying activity and readings, students learn how each rock has a unique story about how it formed and how the forces of erosion shape what it looks like today. There are places where, long ago, big pockets of magma cooled deep underground, and after years and years of erosion, we can now see this igneous rock at the surface of the Earth. This video shows how we can see one of these locations in North Carolina - a granodiorite pluton called Stone Mountain.

This graphic organizer helps students research and find evidence of slow/ fast changes within North Carolina's state parks.