Earth’s Changing Surface: Science Unit 7, Grade 4 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Earth’s Changing Surface is Unit 7 of Energy, Waves, and Living Systems: Grade 4 Science (Grade 4), the Letters & Devotion Science course, complete in one printable PDF: 11 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 57 pages.

• The distinction between weathering and erosion
• The weathering/erosion location test applied to a single labeled photo
• The bottom-equals-oldest stacking rule applied to a single simple diagram
• Weathering, erosion, and deposition as distinct but connected processes
• The mismatch between the speed of surface processes and the length of human observation
• Rock layers as a time-ordered record of deposition
• Flow rate as the manipulated variable in a stream-table erosion test
• The cause-and-effect relationship between flow rate and erosion pattern
• Patterns of Earth’s surface features shown on maps
• The relationship between flow rate and erosion, supported by two data sources
• Landform origin inferred from visual evidence of formation rate

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.