3 Ways of understanding Erosion

Date: Tuesday June 7 2016

Name of Activity: 3 Ways of understanding Erosion

Unit: What makes you Rock

Learner Profile: Knowledgeable

Attitude: Curiosity

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In the past few days, we have been learning a lot about erosion. Erosion is when the earth's surface changes. Here are the 3 ways we got to understand erosion:

1. Bill Nye the Science guy:

We learnt that there are several different types of erosion in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BLAkJeyNn8

Here are two of them: 1. Wind erosion 2. Sandblasting 
Watch the video to find out more info about erosion.
2. Skype interview w/ scientist
We just came back from a Skype interview with a geologist named Phil. He told us about his job and how it affects the earth's surface. He told us that when he and his workers finish mining, they fix up the "damage" they made to the surface by making the big hole in the earth a lake. It may take a few years to do that though. Then he told us that he mines for gold and silver. He showed us some of it. Phil also explained that gold is soft, which I certainly didn''t know!
3. The egg
Just before writing this blog post, my teacher showed the class how an egg is very similar to the earth and it's layers and most of all, erosion. So first she began to crack the egg. Then the started sort of squishing the cracks of the shell together to create erosion on the egg. It was a great example of how earthquakes are made. You see, there are plates inside of the crust of the earth (the part you and I live on) called plate tectonics, and when the mantle (the layer of earth below the crust) moves the plate tectonics, that's when an earthquake happens. 

How these activities showed being Knowledgeable is because if you can't use what you already know to write at least one report on erosion and earth and it's layers, then you won't be able to understand the unit itself!

How these activities showed Curiosity is when you have to write notes on what you understand in a video explaining erosion, then you won't be able to remember what erosion is or what causes it.

I think that I could improve on writing notes when watching the Bill Nye video because I'm not the best note-taker.