Subject
Grade
Curricular Competency Group
Curricular Competency
Applying and innovating
Elaboration
- Sample opportunities to support student inquiry:
- Describe and evaluate the many ways in which technology and innovation have been applied in the discovery of new ore and fossil fuel deposits and in bringing these resources to markets.
- Co-operatively design a display or exhibit to educate the community on the geologic history of the local area, including plants, animals, landforms, and environmental conditions.
- Design and build structures that are resistant to surface wave ground shaking (e.g., sugar cubes or toothpicks and marshmallows on a shake table).
- Produce a plate tectonic map of a fictional terrestrial planet, showing evidence to support the types of plate boundaries.
- Create a model of a well in an aquifer with a working pump.
keywords
Applying and innovating