Fast and Slow Earth Changes
4th grade Earth changes sort: volcanoes, landslides, canyons, dunes, and glaciers as fast or slow, plus three picture tasks. NGSS 4-ESS1-1.
4th Grade Earth's Processes Worksheets
NGSS 4-ESS1: identifying evidence from rock formations and fossils in rock layers to explain changes in a landscape over time.
4th Grade Science6 worksheets
Earth's Processes worksheets to download
Rock Layers and Fossils Labeling
Label a canyon with its youngest, middle, and oldest rock layers, a river channel, and land plant and marine shell fossils. 4th grade, NGSS 4-ESS1-1.
Reducing Natural Hazard Impacts
4th grade natural hazards mind map: earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, and tsunamis, their impacts, and engineering fixes to compare. NGSS 4-ESS3-2.
Changing Landscapes Recap
4th grade landscapes recap: oldest rock layers, a mountaintop sea shell fossil, the Grand Canyon, and a landscape biography. NGSS 4-ESS1-1, 4-ESS2-1.
Reading Landform Maps
4th grade landform map worksheet: Rockies and Mississippi, the Ring of Fire, ocean trenches and ridges, and a prediction task. NGSS 4-ESS2-2.
Weathering and Erosion Sort
Sort 12 flashcards, from roots splitting rocks to floods moving topsoil, into weathering or erosion, then rank three rates of change. 4th grade NGSS.
Curriculum objectives covered
4-ESS1-1
“Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.”
4-ESS3-2
“Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.*”
4-ESS2-1
“Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.”
4-ESS2-2
“Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth's features.”
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