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	Earth's Changing Surface
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Type of Resource:	SciPack
Average Rating:	based on 7 reviews
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Grade Level:	Elementary School, High School, Middle School

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SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning.

The Earth’s Changing Surface SciPack explores how Earth’s ever-changing surface is due to continuous natural processes such as tectonic activity, earthquakes, volcanic activities, weathering and erosion, and sedimentation and the reformation of rock. The focus is on topics supporting Standards and Benchmarks related to how and why these processes occur, and how elements cycle through the land, oceans, and atmosphere as a result of these processes. This SciPack looks at Earth as a system that exists in dynamic equilibrium.

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Science Discipline: (mouse over for full classification)	Global climate change Erosion Plate tectonics Weathering Energy sources Earth system evolution Environmental change Properties of materials
Intended User Role:	Elementary-Level Educator, Middle-Level Educator, Teacher
Educational Issues:	Inquiry learning, Professional development, Teacher content knowledge

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User Reviews

	Good overview for Earth Science
	Rebecca F (Elizabeth, WV) on November 4, 2012
	Earth Science is not my favorite topic, but this SciPack broke the subject down quite well and presented it in a way that was engaging and easy to follow.

	Informative SciPack
	Darlene Honaker (Georgetown, Indiana) on December 13, 2010
	I found this SciPack to be informative as a refresher. The content isn't anything that I did not already have knowledge of. However, the assessment put a lot of emphasis on boundaries and the land formations that can be caused from them while the training did not. I am not sure of the significance of the depth for this SciPack. I would have liked to have seen a more direct correlation between content and assessment.

	Informative and well illustrated.
	Nathan Steier (Billings, MT) on September 1, 2012
	The progression through the material had an easy flow. I really appreciated the diagrams and interactives throughout the descriptions. There was also a lot of interesting questions that were posed in the beginning that I could use in my own classroom.

	Great, but long
	Brandy Stewart on January 15, 2012
	I believe that this Sci Pack took me the longest to get through. I teach most of this material, which made it very relevant to me, but the way the material was presented was dry in a lot of areas. However, if you can get used to the "lecture style" of this Sci pack, you will come out of it knowing SO MUCH about the Earth and how it changes. I will definitely be using most of this information in the coming weeks of my teaching!

	A lot of overlap
	Eric Carlson (Royal City, WA) on March 8, 2012
	I felt like there was a lot of overlap between this SciPack and some of the others, with the others expanding more on the different sections in this. In that sense, this SciPack could be an introduction to the others. I'm thinking specifically of the Plate Tectonics and the Resources SciPacks That said, there is a lot of unique material in this SciPack--I don't think chemical weathering is covered anywhere else, so the SciPack is worth the time.

	Earth's Changing Surface
	James Johnson (Custer City, PA) on January 1, 2013
	As another teacher pointed out, there were a lot of typos in the material. It had not been edited as thoroughly as many of the other SciPacks. The audio program often didn't conform to the written text. Rough around the edges and redundant with some other Scipacks in the Earth & Space area. The final assessment, again, lacked consistancy in that some questions were superficial and others were trick questions having little value in measuring comprehension and mastery of the subject matter. The graph of the temperature gradiant and the melting rock/magma was a waste of time. Some of the pictures in the final were not clear enough to really determine what they were supposed to represent. Rather than lifting a poor picture from the SciPack exercise how about lifting a good picture. If you're going to cut and paste at least pick a picture that is a good example of something. Liked the SciPack but found the final test odious. This SciPack needs a lot of polishing. Diamond in the rough, for sure!

	The content was great, but...
	Danielle Jones on October 15, 2011
	There were several places throughout the SciPack where there were uncorrected typos. Also, in the section comparing the Colorado and Mississippi rivers the article stated that both rivers have been important to humans since the colonization of North America. This is incorrect. It should have said since the migration of humans to these areas of North America. Finally, in several instances the quiz told me that I was incorrect in an answer when I used a a synonym for the word the quiz identified as correct such as decreased instead of slowed down. Also, I was told I was incorrect when identifying specific regions on pictures even though I clicked on the right area because the link area was too small.

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