Format
Teacher directed pre-session activities
- 10-15 minutes: Have student groups with computers go through the linked presentation found on the Teacher's Guide ("Why are National Parks Important?") Students do a worksheet to help them start thinking about cave environments (also found on the Teacher's Guide).
Test connection meeting
- Educator has a 10 minute connection test with our team. This allows time to sort any technical issues and understand your specific classroom’s needs.
Distance learning live session
- 40 - 45 minute Where Water Builds Worlds live session program. We will have 10-15 minutes at the end for student’s questions.
Objectives
1. Introduce students to national parks and Great Basin National Park
2. Share how our caves were formed through erosion, dissolution, and accretion
3. Share specific speleothems
4. Do a game on speleothem identification
5. Time for questions and answers.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
ESS2C 3-5 -- The roles of water in Earth's surface processes
Specific Next Generation Science Standards
3-LS4-3 - Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
4-ESS-1 - Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
4-ESS-2 - Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.
5-ESS2-1 - Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.