Red River Land: History of the Red River: Part 2
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Erling Rolfsrud explains how the glaciers affected the geography of the Red River Valley. The film also covers the history of mammoth Lake Agassiz, including how it originally formed and historic water levels that have affected the way the Red River Valley looks today.
Source
Red River Land, Prairie Public & NCCST, Erling Rolfsrud.
Grade Level
3 - 12
Subject Matter
Social Studies, Science
Standards
Explain changes in the real world using a model (e.g., erosion, volcano, stream table, wing designs for airplanes)
Identify changes that can be steady or irregular (e.g., floods, earthquakes, erosion, tooth decay)
4.3.4. Identify the effects forces may have when applied to objects (i.e., start, stop, change direction)
Explain how models can be used to illustrate scientific principles (e.g., osmosis, cell division)
Explain how landforms are changed (e.g., crustal deformation, volcanic eruption, deposition, weathering, erosion)
Explain the changes Earth has undergone over geologic time (e.g., fossil record, plate tectonics, climate change, glaciation)
Explain how models can be used to illustrate scientific principles
Explain how scientists create and use models to address scientific knowledge
Use geographic tools (e.g., maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, almanacs, GIS) and concepts to locate and describe physical features of places
Identify geographic similarities of early civilizations (e.g., the significance of river valleys from the beginning of civilization, mountains created isolated cultures)
Explain how physical processes (e.g., wind and water erosion, climatic changes, plate tectonics) create, maintain, and modify Earth’s physical features and environments
