K-4 Bowling Ball Beach
Bronze level
Published on 8/1/2014
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Learning objectives
- Reading: Informational Text: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.5 Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locat...
- Reading: Informational Text: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas o...
- Reading: Informational Text: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.7 Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words i...
Created for
Age 7 and below
Ages 8 - 10
Subject
Environment
Natural Sciences
Technology/ICT
Twenty-first century skills
21st Century Skills
Knowledge building & critical thinking
Global awareness & civic literacy
ICT for learning
Problem solving & innovation (creativity)
Required hardware
PC
Instructional approach
Project based learning (PBL)
Independent study
Learning activity details
(Just south of Point Arena, California is a stretch of beach on the Pacific where the waves have eroded away soft sedimentary material to reveal concretions, boulders buried within. This is Bowling Ball Beach. Ocean tides have smoothed the rocks out, so that during low tide, the beach can look like the rack of bowling balls at your local lanes.)
Why is the ocean salty?
© Patrick Smith/Getty Images
Why is the ocean salty?
© Patrick Smith/Getty Images