Runoff Roundup: Investigating Erosion and Weathering
My students need a hands-on kit for investigating the effects of erosion and deposition on landforms and water sources.
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My Students
Visualize the formation of deltas, meanders, and oxbow lakes. Many adults do not even know what these formations are, much less how they come to be. These are things that take many years to form in nature. Simulating these formations hands-on is a must for comprehension!
My class consists of 26 eager to learn fifth graders.
They enjoy my science lessons and are always involved and questioning how things work. Our school is in a low economic area of our state. Most of my students have never personally been away from our local area. Our state has some of the most diverse landforms in the United States. Unfortunately, most of my students have never experienced them, by any other means than videos and photos. Our school does not have any science materials with which to model and demonstrate the formation and natural changes involved in land formations. Being able to analyze and predict outcomes of various situations relating to nature requires an in-depth understanding of our world's workings. Being able to visualize the effects of erosion and deposition is an abstract skill. What determines where and how much erosion will occur? What happens to eroded materials? How are oxbow lakes and meanders formed by runoff? Understanding these concepts creates more
My Project
The understanding and comprehension of how our Earth has formed and continues to be formed through erosion, weathering and deposition is a required skill in our state's fifth grade. With the use of a streaming model, I will be able to provide my students with a direct, personal visual of how nature works in this area. I will be able to simulate various rates of erosion with various speeds of runoff. Students will also be able to manipulate "landforms" and predict ways of decreasing erosion. Using the models, I will be able to demonstrate the formation of meanders and simulate their effect on surrounding land. This will gradually lead to a greater understanding of how our Earth's great landforms, such as the Grand Canyon, have emerged over hundreds of years. My students will be able to manipulate landform creations that they would never otherwise be able to experience. We can fast track a natural process that usually takes hundreds of years and simulate creations within minutes.
Please help my students to "speed up" natural processes into their lifetimes and our class time.
Help them to visualize processes that take hundreds of years to form naturally. Feed their curiosity of our growing and changing world. Help me to teach real life processes and cultivate the future leaders of our world. The more understanding they have of our world, the better prepared they will be to make wise decisions for the future of Earth's changing environments.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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