Land and Water

Lesson 15
Planning Our Homesites: Designing and Building a Landscape

Using scientifically gathered information from the previous lessons, students will design a landscape suitable for a home.

1. Content Standards

2. Concepts

3. Lesson set up and Management

4. Teacher Tips

5. Literacy Support

 

1. Content Standards:

INQB: Scientists plan and conduct different kinds of investigations, depending on the questions they are trying to answer.

INQF: A scientific model is a simplified representation of an object, event, system, or process created to understand some aspect of the natural world.

APPA: Technology involves changing the natural world to meet human needs or wants.

APPD: Scientists and engineers often work in teams with other individuals to generate different ideas for solving a problem.

APPE: Possible solutions should be tested to see if they solve the problem. Building a model or prototype is one way to test a possible solution.

ES2C: Erosion is the movement of Earth materials by processes such as wind, water, ice, and gravity

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2. Concepts

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3. Lesson set up and Management

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Student Management:

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4. Teacher Tips

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5. Literacy Support

Writing Support:

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Last updated 07/08/2009