New World High School Daily Lesson Plan
Teacher: Benjamin Drexel
Unit/Topic
NYS Standard
Aim
Section: All 11th Grade Sections
Date: TBD
Landscapes and Landscape Development
Preparation for the New York State Regents
How will the Susquehanna River change over time?
Content
Objectives
SWBAT: Use the Relationship of Transported Particle Size to Water Velocity table found on page 6
of the Earth Science Reference Tables
SWBAT: Understand how a river’s meanders will influence the deposition and erosion of sediments
on a river.
Language
Objectives
SWBAT: Discuss as a class the predicted future of Susquehanna River.
Do Now Question
 What is a river and what are some characteristics we know about a river.
Do Now
Laboratory
Skills
Practice
Introduction to the Lesson:
Rivers are moving channelized bodies of water that move from areas of high
elevation to areas of low elevation. However a river can also move something other
then water, sediments. Remember that sediments are small weathered (broken)
pieces of rock (baby rocks) that can be eroded (moved) and then deposited (placed
in new locations). River can both erode and deposit sediments. Can I have a
volunteer to hand out today’s laboratory activity.
Students will
 Answer the laboratory practice questions
 The first page will be guided by the teacher and the second page will be
competed independently by students
Notes
Notes and
Discussion
Closing
Assessment
Homework
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The faster a river moves the larger the sediments that can be transported
The faster a river moves the more sediments can be eroded
At the outside curve of a meander a river will erode sediments
At the inside curve of a meander a river will deposit sediments
The older a river gets the more meanders it will have
Closing Questions
 On average the Susquehanna River moves at a velocity of _________ what
type of sediments can be transported by the river? What sediments cannot
be transported?
 Other then by meandering, how else do you think the velocity of a river can
be increased or decreased?
Group assessment, in class work and collection of responses
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