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The Regents Item Bank provides questions from past Regents exams aligned with the content of this unit.

Students collaborate in groups of 2-3 to review factors that affect deposition of particles.

For nearly five billion years, the Earth's surface has been constantly built up and broken down by processes taking place above and below the Earth's surface, resulting in the wide range of beautiful and complex landscapes we see today. In this unit, students will continue to make connections between the Earth's systems when they study interactions between the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere by investigating the rock cycle, and the erosional processes of streams, wind, wave action, and mass movement.

In this task students sort minerals by different characteristics, in order to learn the mineral classification system. Students then compare and contrast mineral molecular models in order to craft an explanation that accounts for differences in mineral properties.

Students sort and classify minerals, then learn concepts that allow them to explain why each type of mineral has its own set of unique properties.

Students will engage in a hands on lab activity that will allow them to make observations of different types of weathering and erosion in action.

Using evidence from a samples of rock collected at two different monuments on Earth, the ESRT, and activities from class, develop a scientific claim about which monument is in most immediate need of repair, and support this claim with specific evidence referenced from this unit.

The dynamic nature of streams is vital to civilizations, providing civilizations with drinking water and water for farming. Running water transports more material on Earth's surface than any other agent of erosion. In this 5E sequence students learn about the patterns of erosional-depositional systems in streams through observations of a stream table. Students will also work to develop their own explanation as to how rivers and streams work to constantly alter the surface of Earth.

Students will explore the processes associated with stream erosion by observing an actual small-scale erosional-depositional system.

Students will explore the processes associated with stream erosion by observing an actual small-scale erosional-depositional system.

Using this pre-assessment task, the teacher can get a sense of students' prior knowledge about topics covered in the unit.

This booklet can be used with teams of teachers to work through the resources in Unit 3. The focus of this PD is on stations to model weathering and erosion.