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ROADS on Icy Worlds: Unit 2 Lesson 3

Landform Dynamics

Lesson Level Question: What surface forces create and change the surface features of planetary bodies?

Lesson Summary: Students will examine and compare features of Earth and Europa. Then, they will design and carry out experiments to try and recreate the features they see. They will use the observations from these experiments and other sources of information to make a claim about how the features on Europa formed.

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