Students will gain a basic understanding of earthquakes, how and why they happen, and how they can change the landforms.

Passage describing plate tectonics, plate boundaries, earth's layers and earth's magnetic fields. Includes vocabulary definitions.

This microcredential is the first in the Cause and Effect in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #4 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential, applicants identify causal relationships and mechanisms to explain changes and predict phenomena in life science, physical science, and earth and space science concepts through planning and carrying out investigations.

This microcredential is the second in the Cause and Effect in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #4 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential, applicants demonstrate the ability to ask and refine scientific questions that lead to descriptions and explanations of causal relationships that can be empirically tested as a way to understand the natural world.

This microcredential is the fourth in the Cause and Effect in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #4 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential applicants demonstrate an ability to promote effective and equitable science instruction both in personal practice and in the science education community.

This microcredential is the first in the Classroom Practice in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #6 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential, applicants identify how crosscutting concepts and disciplinary core ideas support sensemaking.

This microcredential is the second in the Classroom Practice in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #6 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential applicants demonstrate understanding of how to prepare and enact three-dimensional science instruction that is based on authentic phenomena and problems and supports the development of students’ conceptual science understanding and scientific literacy.

This microcredential is the third in the Classroom Practice in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #6 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential applicants demonstrate an ability to promote effective and equitable science instruction both in personal practice and in the science education community.

This microcredential is the first in the Matter and Energy in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #3 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential applicants demonstrate an understanding of matter and energy in systems through developing and using models.

This microcredential is the second in the Matter and Energy in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #3 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential educators demonstrate an understanding of science discourse by critiquing and revising models of matter and energy.

This microcredential is the third in the Matter and Energy in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #3 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential applicants demonstrate understanding of how to prepare and enact three-dimensional science instruction that is based on authentic phenomena and problems and supports the development of students’ conceptual science understanding and scientific literacy.

This microcredential is the fourth in the Matter and Energy in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #3 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential applicants demonstrate an ability to promote effective and equitable science instruction both in personal practice and in the science education community.

This microcredential is the first in the Nature of Science and Engineering microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #1 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential, educators: Demonstrate conceptual understandings of the key aspects of the Nature of Science. Identify discourse and reflective experiences of the Nature of Science in order to explain how scientific knowledge is developed and communicated, used to influence social and economic decisions, and improves life. Explain the history of science as a valuable context to understand the structure of and access to science learning.

This microcredential is the second in the Nature of Science and Engineering microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #1 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential, educators: Demonstrate conceptual understandings of the key aspects of the Nature of Engineering, and Demonstrate foundational understandings of how the Nature of Science in concert with the Nature of Engineering influences individual and societal decision making and approaches to scientific literacy.

This microcredential is the third in the Nature of Science and Engineering microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #1 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential, educators: Demonstrate how the Nature of Science connects with three-dimensional science instruction and Prepare to enact three-dimensional science instruction that is based on authentic phenomena and problems and supports the development of students’ conceptual science understanding and scientific literacy.

This microcredential is the Fourth in the Nature of Science and Engineering microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #1 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential, educators demonstrate an ability to promote effective and equitable science instruction both in personal practice and in the science education community.

This microcredential is the first in the Stability and Change in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #5 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential applicants demonstrate understanding of how changes occur in natural systems and construct explanations and arguments supported by evidence of how systems in dynamic equilibrium are stable due to a balance of feedback mechanisms within the system.

This microcredential is the second in the Stability and Change in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #5 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential applicants demonstrate understanding of how changes occur as natural systems interact through constructing explanations, and improving them through argumentation. Additionally, educators demonstrate an understanding that change in systems occurs in differing temporal scales (change can happen suddenly or over a long period of time), spatial scales (changes occur based on the shape, orientation, location, direction or trajectory), and scales of magnitude (small changes can lead to big effects or big changes cause many small effects).