IPTV Land and Sky: Geology Storyline v1

Storyline SkeletonDriving Question

What does Iowa’s surface look like?

Why does Iowa have the surface landform features that is has?

How could glaciers have changed Iowa’s land?

How long does it take for the landto be changed?

Do other places look the same ordifferent from Iowa? What caused thoseplaces to look the way they do?

What are the geologic processescurrently impacting Iowa’s surface?

Student created drawings of what they think Iowalooks like based on their personal experiences.Video montage of Iowa geologic features showing a variety of diverse landforms and geological features.

Glaciers can form different land features and where many of those resulting features are geographically located within Iowa.

The processes that created Iowa’s surface features took place over a long period of time and are mostly due to glacial and interglacial periods, the most recent occurring about 11,000 years ago.

The processes that created Iowa’s surface features are both similar and different than those processes that shaped the landscape of places around the world. Some of the processes took place over a long period of time and some happened very fast.

Erosion is a process currently impacting and changing the surface of Iowa, but there may be ways to engineer solutions to minimize the negative impacts of erosion.

Construct an explanation based on evidences from student’s experiments during glacier modeling lab that describe how water’s movement could change the land’s surface.

Construct a model based on evidence to observe and study the scale of time over which the geoscientific systems have occured and shaped Earth’s landforms and surfaces.

Develop an emerging model that represents the current surface of the Earth, beyond those of Iowa.

Construct explanations based on evidence for processes that could have caused land surfaces similar and different those of Iowa and how those processes took place over a variety time scales.

Develop an emerging model that represents the processes currently impacting Iowa’s surface, with particular focus on erosion.

Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria for success.

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Funding provided by the Resource Enhancement and Protection Conservation Education Program (REAP CEP) and the Gilcrest Foundation.

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