Mississippi Science E.4.9C.1
The Standard
- E.4.9C
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of how natural processes and human activities affect the features of Earth's landforms and oceans.
Analyze and interpret data to describe (i.e., NASA, NOAA, USGS) and predict how natural processes (e.g., weathering, erosion, deposition, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, or storms) affect Earth’s surface.
2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science · Earth’s Systems and Cycles
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare dated photos or measurements to spot how a storm, flood, or earthquake changed the land. They use that evidence to predict what could happen next.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can tell whether sediment moved away or built up by comparing photos and measurements. They predict a likely change after a similar event and point to the data that support it.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often call rock cracking erosion, even when nothing moves. They may call sand piled at a river bend erosion instead of deposition. Some predict the same damage after every storm without checking the data.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A beach is 20 meters wide before a storm, 17 meters after one storm, and 14 meters after a second similar storm. Name the process, predict its width after another similar storm, and cite the numbers that support your prediction.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Build a sand hill in a tray, pour one cup of water down it, then sketch where sand moved and where it settled.
Show NOAA before-and-after hurricane shoreline photos and ask, 'Where did the sand go, and what in the photos supports your answer?'
Give teams four paired river photos; have them sort the pairs into erosion and deposition, citing one visible change for each.
Show a photo of mud at a storm drain after rain; students mark a likely runoff path and predict where soil might collect next.
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