2-ESS2-1: Erosion Design Solution
Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land. (Stability and Change)
Clarification Statement: Examples of solutions could include different designs of dikes and windbreaks to hold back wind and water, and different designs for using shrubs, grass, and trees to hold back the land.
Assessment Boundary: none
Science Practices
Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
Disciplinary Core Ideas
ESS2.A: Earth Materials and Systems
ETS1.C: Optimizing the Design Solution
Crosscutting Concepts
Stability and Change
Assessments
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Instructional Resources
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Anchor Charts
Phenomena
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Lesson Plans
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Common Core Connections
ELA/Literacy
RI.2.3 - Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
RI.2.9 - Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
Mathematics
2.MD.B.5 - Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as drawings of rulers) and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
MP.2 - Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
MP.4 - Model with mathematics.
MP.5 - Use appropriate tools strategically.
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