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Browsing Earth Concepts

Helping teachers connect concepts, standards and DLESE educational resources

Scientific concepts and seeing how concepts are interrelated helps teachers and learners. The broad subject areas below link to corresponding maps of interrelated concepts. From there you can find classroom resources to help teach the desired concept and see the associated education standard.

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You can either click a subject area (concept map) below or search on a term of interest, in which case relevant maps will be suggested for your selection. Then explore interrelationships of the map's concepts by grade level and subject, find the educational resources in DLESE that can help teach the concepts, and identify the education standards associated with the resource.

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Changes in the Earth's Surface Earthquakes And Volcanoes Rates Of Change Weathering And Erosion Rocks And Sediments   Plate Tectonics The Earth's Interior Evidence Of Plates Earthquakes And Volcanoes   Evidence and Reasoning in Inquiry Lines Of Reasoning Observations And Evidence   Scientific Investigations Control And Conditions Reliability Of Results Record-keeping Kinds Of Investigations   Solar System Relative Motion Phases Of The Moon Observations Of The Sky The Planets Telescopes   States of Matter Emergent Properties Heat Energy Changes Of State   Gravity Relative Motion Observations Of The Sky The Earth's Gravity Forces And Motion   Flow of Energy in Ecosystems Energy In Living Things Plants Making Food Food Web   Flow of Matter in Ecosystems Plants Making Food Food Web Matter Cycles

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