Students will learn about land formation, fossils, and erosion from the WyomingPBS documentary "Over Wyoming".  In the accompanying lesson plan (found in Support Materials), students will watch portions of the PBS documentary “Over Wyoming” to learn about land formation, fossils, and erosion. Students will observe a teacher-led demonstration on how tectonic plates create land formations, will make observations and draw conclusions from fossils, and will conduct an experiment on water erosion.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 

• Students will be able to identify and use the following vocabulary words: geologist, glacier, tectonic plate, fossil, erosion. 
• Students will define “tectonic plate” and describe how plate tectonics create landforms. 
• Students will analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago. 
• Students will identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
• Students will make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.

View the Entire documentary here Over Wyoming