Learning about the Earth's Changing Surface

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North

Dec 19 2025 8:00 AM

North Elementary School fourth graders in Ms. Audrey Belliveau's class learned about the earth's ever-changing surface in their geology lesson this week.

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Using a new literacy curriculum called Amplify CKLA, Ms. Belliveau first went over the vocabulary words that were in the content they were going to read that day.

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She would say the word, the students would repeat it and then if they heard one of the words while they were reading they had to snap their fingers.

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ML Resource Teacher Mr. Matthew Agrall also worked on the same lesson with another group of students at the back of the room.

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Vocabulary words they went over that day included "observation," fossil," "geologist" and "continental drift."

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The teachers read out loud about the earth's changing surface, asking the students to follow along in their books while pointing to the content.

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When they finished a page the students were asked to talk about what they had just learned with their classmates to help reinforce the information.

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They followed the same process page by page.

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When they were done, the students cut out images from their book and glued them onto another page titled "what is the cause?," citing the evidence they had just learned.