With all that we figured out, we celebrated the end of our Mt. Everest unit by focusing on four questions that drove our learning! And to have some fun, we may have made some Mt. Everest memes. Way to go 6th graders!
Now that we know the top of Mt. Everest is covered in the same type of rock and fossils found typically on a seafloor, we see how much of it is gone. How can this be? We're suspecting erosion, but how does that really work with really strong rock? We've seen examples of this before in other landscapes around the world, so we think there are many examples of this all over the globe!
We are noticing that the change is small and takes a bit of time (the glacial video was a timelapse) and the pieces of sand coming off the dunes are tiny. But if we add up a lot of little pieces over a long period of time, it certainly seems like the top of a mountain can certainly "disappear!" Students were asked to model this process over millions of years to today.
Even though we're asynchronous this week due to state testing, students are seeing how we can combine ideas from various models to showcase our thinking of two things:
The mountain is certainly not the same it was millions of years ago, and there's definitely evidence to suggest it's moving different directions as well as looking different! Now that we see how mountains can be changing in so many ways due to so many factors, it looks like we can return to our DQB and celebrate all that we've figured out! |
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