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Tips & Comments: Our Changing Earth

The links below lead to full descriptions of methods and sites that KSN staff and teachers recommend related to Our Changing Earth.

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Stream Table Modeling
Although their set-up is bigger and more sophisticated than the ones you will use in the Land and Water (STC) kit, this page from the University of Nebraska shows real stream-table results and explains some of the river features you are likely to see in your classroom. Written for adults, it is probably best used to help you prime yourself to assist students in sense-making and to help them take their investigations to a deeper level.

Find Rock Samples for the Classroom
Terrific, practical tips on finding good samples of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks in your own community, mostly for free!

The Franklin Institute gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the National Science Foundation and Unisys Corporation.

The Franklin Institute is the Demonstration Site for the Eisenhower Mid-Atlantic Consortium, providing science and math resources for teachers.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9819641.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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