Acadia National Park Education District
Fire and Ice Program
Grades 6 - 8
PROGRAM GOALS:
- To increase the students’ knowledge and appreciation of Acadia’s geology
- To create a sense of stewardship towards the park’s geologic resources.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
Students will be able to:
- Define four geologic terms e.g. geology, mineral, erosion, etc.
- Name the three types of rocks and explain how each is formed.
- Identify one local example of each rock type.
- Explain the rock cycle.
- Describe the formation of the shatter zone.
- Define plate tectonics and its role in forming our present scenery.
- Identify and explain three geologic processes.
- Describe glaciation and two glacial features.
- Tell how soils are formed and why soils differ.
- Give one reason why geologic resources are protected by Acadia National Park.
- Name two things a person can do to protect Acadia’s geologic resources.
ALIGNMENT WITH MAINE’S LEARNING RESULTS FOR MIDDLE GRADES:
Science and Technology
B. Ecology
Students will understand how living things depend on one another and on non-living aspects of the environment.
Students will be able to:
- Describe succession and other ways that ecosystems can change over time (B-3).
- Describe various mechanisms found in the natural world for transporting living and non-living matter and the results of such movements (B-5).
F. The Earth
Students will gain knowledge about the earth and the processes that change it.
Students will be able to:
- Describe how soils are formed and why soils differ from one place to another (F-2).
- Explain the evidence scientists use when they give the age of the earth (F-3).
- Describe factors that can cause short-term and long-term changes to the earth (F-4).
- Classify and identify rocks and minerals based on their physical and chemical properties, their composition, and the processes which formed them (F-5).
- Describe the impact of plate movement and erosion on the rock cycle (F-3)*.
- Describe ways that scientists measure long periods of time and determine the age of very old objects (F-4)*.
- Demonstrate how rocks and minerals are used to determine geologic history (F-5)*.
* Indicates learning results for secondary grades
Alignment with additional Learning Results may occur during programming.
4-2004
