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Essential Info

  • When:
    Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays

    11am-12:30pm (groups should arrive by 10:45am)
  • Cost:
    $105 per class (maximum of 35 students, minimum of 3-5 chaperones)
  • Register:
    Call Central Reservations at (212) 769-5200, Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.

Landforms

Journey into the Museum's Hall of North American Mammals and observe three different landforms: the Great Plains, Devil's Tower and the Grand Canyon and learn how erosion played a role in shaping the landscape and how geologists use this information today. Student will sketch and label landforms while identifying key geological features.

Grade 5 Science

Essential Question: What are the processes that help shape the land?

Key Concept: Waves, wind, water, and ice shape and reshape the earth's land surface by eroding rock and soil in some areas and depositing them in other areas, sometimes in seasonal layers.

Students will be able to:

  • locate and identify a variety of landforms using Museum maps;
  • make predictions of how landforms might have formed;
  • explore the processes that help shape the land.

New York City Scope and Sequence Science Unit 2: Earth Science

New York State Science Core Curriculum Major Understandings: PS 2.1e: Rocks are composed of minerals. Only a few rock-forming minerals make up most of the rocks of Earth and PS 2.1g: The dynamic processes that wear away Earthss surface include weathering and erosion.