Teacher Recommended Resources - Land & Water

These extensions are brought to you by other teachers who have used this unit. They have not been evaluated by The Einstein Project. REV. 4/24/08

Lesson 13: Slope – Manual suggest 7-8” slope-this is too steep. If reduced to
3 ˝ -4” – works better

Combine Lessons 13 & 14 – have ˝ the class do each, easier to compare slope/erosion

Field Trips:  Green Bay Waterworks
Green Bay Sewage Treatment Plant
Trip to a dam

Used a balance scale in Lesson 5 to see which soil parts were the heaviest

Video:  Glaciers – National Geographic
            Rivers – Eyewitness
 Erosion  - Bill Nye video
 Series  from 100% Educational Videos – Earth Science Gr. 3-8
 Hoover Dam

Lesson 12:  build a dam to keep a town from flooding
 Studied Hoover Dam

Lesson 15-16:  “Protecting our Home sites”, students become engineers & construct a stream table, place a home in a section of the table, and the objective is not to have their home flood when water flows

Used the “Clean Bay Backers” program – deals with the Fox River & its tributaries

Reports on rivers, highlighting words they learned

One class presented their favorite experiments to other classes

Books: Excuse Me Sir, That’s My Aquifer -  Ann Bailey
  Water Dance – by Thomas Locker
 A Drop of Water – Walter Wick

Architecture or Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright

Science Court Investigations: Water Cycle – book, poster, & CDROM

Do more terrain creation such as dam building, city formation, etc.

Added Weather information