These extensions are brought to you by other teachers who have used this unit. They have not been evaluated by The Einstein Project. (Rev. 3/30/2012)
ACTIVITIES:
Lesson 5 - Use a balance scale to see which soil parts are the heaviest
Lesson 12 - Build a dam to keep a town from flooding (study Hoover Dam)
Lesson 13: Slope – Manual suggests 7-8" slope (too steep) - reduce to 3-½ to 4"
Combine Lessons 13 & 14 – have one-half the class do each, compare slope/erosion
Lesson 15-16 - "Protecting our Home sites", students become engineers & construct a stream table, place a home in a section of the table (objective is not to have their home flood)
Field Trips
- Green Bay Waterworks
- Green Bay Sewage Treatment Plant
- Trip to a dam
Do terrain creation such as dam building, city formation, etc.
Add weather information
Reports on rivers, highlighting words they learned
Have one class present their favorite experiments to other classes
VIDEOS:
"Glaciers" – National Geographic
"Rivers" – Eyewitness
"Erosion" - Bill Nye
Series from 100% Educational Videos – Earth Science Gr. 3-8
"Clean Bay Backers" program (Fox River & its tributaries)
BOOKS:
"Excuse Me Sir, That's My Aquifer" - Ann Bailey
"Water Dance" – Thomas Locker
"A Drop of Water" – Walter Wick
Architecture or Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright
Science Court Investigations: Water Cycle – book, poster, & CDROM
