Weathering and Erosion Science Games for Elementary School

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In this series of Weathering and Erosion Elementary games, your students will learn about how rainfall helps to shape the land and affects the types of living things found in a region. Weathering and Erosion learning objective — based on NGSS and state standards — delivers improved student engagement and academic performance in your classroom, as demonstrated by research.

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Concepts Covered

The geosphere includes Earth’s crust, mantle, and outer, and inner cores. Earth’s inner core is hot and mostly metallic. Earth’s mantle is hot, soft, solid rock. Earth’s crust contains rock, soil, and sediment. Rocks are hard materials found on Earth’s surface made of one or more minerals. Soils are formed by the weathering of rock and the decomposition of plant and animal remains. Sediment is a small piece of weathered rock.

The hydrosphere includes Earth’s water in liquid, ice, and gas form, including the water in the atmosphere, oceans, lakes, streams, soils, and groundwater. The atmosphere includes all of the gases surrounding the Earth. The biosphere includes all of the living organisms on Earth. Weather is defined as the conditions of the atmosphere at a particular place and time. Climate describes the typical weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.

Weathering is the process by which rocks, soil, and sediments are broken down into smaller particles. Some agents of weathering include water, ice, wind, gravity, and living organisms. Physical, or mechanical, weathering is the breakdown of rock into smaller pieces without changing the composition of the rock. Chemical weathering is the breakdown of rock into smaller pieces by chemicals that change the composition of the rock. Erosion is the process by which rock, soil, and/or sediments are transported from one location to another.

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Compare Two Numbers Estimated Duration: 4 minutes Compare Two Numbers
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Fishing Numbers Estimated Duration: 9 minutes Travel to the Great Lake, filled with plenty of different sized fish, and work with the greatest fisher mathling to catch a good haul of fish! However, he wants the correct amount of fish that have the correct numbers on them, as they are precious for his business. Learn to identify which number is greater or smaller than the other.
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Number Compare - Compare Estimated Duration: 10 minutes Create meaning of greater than, less than, and equal to by moving objects into two independent play areas and watching the graph in the middle update in real time. Choose between a bar graph and a number line, and hear the comparison statement read out loud in English and another language of your choice.
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Number Compare - Lab Estimated Duration: 10 minutes Use this interactive whiteboard to create addition, subtraction, or comparison problems without feedback. Organize objects into ten-frames to visually compare which has more, or whether the number of objects are equal. Be creative in how subtraction is modeled.
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Magical Forest Deluxe Estimated Duration: 15 minutes Find yourself in a magical forest full of treasures and adventures. Collect coins and berries, answer questions, earn points! Good luck!
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Robot Chef Estimated Duration: 18 minutes Congratulations, you are creating the first all-robot restaurant in the city! As you serve more customers, you will be able to build more robots to assist in delivering tasty treats. Attend Night School and answer questions to earn advanced robot chefs!
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