week 4 blog post

 This week I learned how to take a larger scientific idea like how weather can affect land and cause erosions into a digestible lesson for children. I really like use of sand in this lesson and I think it makes its really engaging for young children to model a scientific idea in a fun way. I can definitely see myself getting inspiration from this lesson for my future classroom and incopperating sand into a lesson for modeling. 

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