Unit E: Planet Earth

Learn about mines and mining in Canada

Learn about the characteristics and uses of minerals.

Canada has some amazing landforms. Learn how weathering, erosion and deposition shape landforms.

Water is a precious natural resource. What happens if it gets polluted? Learn how water can be cleaned with this hands-on activity?

The fracking process gets natural gases out of rocks. This process can have effects on freshwater, water quality and even earthquakes!

Products of the rock cycle are visible all across Canada.

The surface of the Earth is constantly moving, and earthquakes and volcanoes occur, because of plate tectonics.

The water in the oceans has travelled vast distances. It has even time spent deep below the surface of the Earth, trapped inside the mineral ringwoodite.

Sodium is a useful chemical element. You consume it as table salt regularly. Learn about salt mining, sodium uses, and what problems too much sodium can cause.

Learn about how craters are formed and about some of Canada's impact craters.

Using a toy dinosaur and some plaster of Paris, learn how dinosaur footprints could become fossils.

Learn how geologists used radioactive dating to uncover geology shared by both Canada and Australia.

Learn what makes a crystal a crystal.