Lesson Plans and Potential Resources

For resources, see our educational resource publications

  Grade 4

Basic landforms and Earth history:

• Earth processes (weathering and erosion)
• Earth structures
• Fossils and ancient environments
   

Educational Series Publications — ES 1, Rocks and Minerals of Pennsylvania; ES 2, Common Fossils of Pennsylvania; ES 4, The Geological Story of Pennsylvania

  Grade 7

Describe earth features and processes:

• Layers of the earth
• Processes that formed Pennsylvania’s geologic structures and resources (e.g. erosion, mountain building)
• Rock cycle
• Environmental geology (landslides and earthquakes)
   

Educational Series Publications — ES 1, Rocks and Minerals of Pennsylvania; ES 9, Landslides in Pennsylvania; ES 10, Earthquakes Hazard in Pennsylvania; ES 11, Sinkholes in Pennsylvania; ES 2, Common Fossils of Pennsylvania; EG 2, Environmental Geology for Land Use Planning

  Grade 10

Relate earth features and processes that change the earth:

• Plate tectonics
• Topographic map interpretation
• Geologic map interpretation
• Geologic time
   

Educational Series Publications — ES 1, Rocks and Minerals in Pennsylvania; ES 13, Reading and Using Maps; ES 4, The Geological Story of Pennsylvania; and others.

  Grade 12

• Analyze and evaluate earth features and processes
• Evolution
• Radioactive Decay
• Formation and degradation of geological structures