Sand, Sand, Sand

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Sand, Sand, Sand!!!
i am the beach breeze i am the beach at sea
seawaves/painter's brush sea waves painter's
brush dances over the canvas waves from his
palette the beach appears
beach crabs my beach walk little crabs run
light as breeze  
evening walk evening walk at beach the sea
leaps and roars as I make my wish
John Tiong Chunghoo
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Targeted Rhode Island Grade Span Expectations

• ESS1 - The earth and earth materials as we know
  them today have developed over long periods of
  time, through continual change processes.
• ESS1 (K-4) INQ 1 Students demonstrate an
  understanding of processes and change over time
  within earth systems by
• 1a describing, comparing, and sorting rocks,
  soils, and minerals by similar or different
  physical properties (e.g., size, shape, color,
  texture, smell, weight, temperature, hardness,
  composition).
• 1b recording and analyzing observations/data
  about physical properties (e.g., within a
  grouping, which characteristics are the same
• ESS1 (7-8) 3 Students demonstrate an
  understanding of processes and change over time
  within earth systems by
• 3a evaluating slow processes to determine how the
  earth has changed and will continue to change
  over time.

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From The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson Now I
hear the sea sounds about me the night high tide
is rising, swirling with a confused rush of
waters against the rocks below my study window.
Fog has come into the bay from the open sea, and
it lies over water and over the land's edge,
seeping back into the spruces and stealing softly
among the juniper and the bayberry. The
restive waters, the cold wet breath of the fog,
are of a world in which man is an uneasy
trespasser he punctuates the night with the
complaining groan and grunt of a foghorn, sensing
the power and menace of the sea. Hearing the
rising tide, I think how it is pressing also
against other shores I know - rising on a
southern beach where there is no fog, but a moon
edging all the waves with silver and touching the
wet sands with lambent sheen, and on a still more
distant shore sending its streaming currents
against the moonlit pinnacles and the dark caves
of the coral rock. Then in my thoughts these
shores, so different in their nature and in the
inhabitants they support, are made one by the
unifying touch of the sea. For the differences I
sense in this particular instant of time that is
mine are but the differences of a moment,
determined by our place in the stream of time and
in the long rhythms of the sea. Once this rocky
coast beneath me was a plain of sand then the
sea rose and found a new shoreline. And again in
some shadowy future the surf will have ground
these rocks to sand and will have returned the
coast to its earlier state. And so in my mind's
eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a
shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is
no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality -
earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.
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The Picnic Basket at the Beach

• Background
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle received his training as
  an eye specialist at the Edinburgh Infirmary as a
  student of Dr. Joseph Bell. He began writing
  Sherlock Holmes stories to fill time between
  patients. Many believe the Holmes character was
  based on Doyles mentor, Joe Bell.
• Sherlock Holmes became the worlds best known
  detective. His activities have been followed by
  millions of readers delighted by his ability to
  solve crimes through an amazing use of
  observation and deduction. Holmes drew incredible
  conclusions from minute details, such as a ticket
  fragment or a spot of mud or sand on a boot. His
  amazing powers of concentration and broad
  knowledge of science also helped him solve many
  mysteries. Doyle wrote a story in 1893 in which
  Holmes was killed, but public outcry forced him
  to bring Holmes back to life in another story.
  Dr. Watson, Holmes physician friend and
  assistance, observed in A Study in Scarlet that
  Holmes had a knowledge of
• Geologypractical, but limited. Tells at a
  glance different soils from each other. After
  walks has shown me splashes upon his
  trousers,--and told me by their colour and
  consistence in what part of London he had
  received them (Doyle, 1930).
• Doyle never did achieve success as an eye
  specialist but became famous as an author and a
  man of ideas. Though Holmes was a fictional
  character, H. Gross incorporated Holmess methods
  and ideas into the rapidly developing field of
  forensic science in Criminal Investigation, a
  handbook for investigators (Murray and Tedrow,
  1992). Literature affects science!

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The Picnic Basket at the Beach
The Crime Scene Who stole my basket? Last
Saturday when I returned to the beach blanket
from my swim in the ocean, I immediately realized
that my picnic basketfull of delicious food,
snacks, and drinks for the afternoon was gone!!!
The only thing I were able to spot that might
lead to the capture of the thief was a huge sandy
footprint right where the basket was originally
located. During the beach polices
investigation, they gathered some sand samples
and with this evidence they rounded up four
suspects in a week. Whoever stole my picnic
basket has the same sand from the beach
underneath his or her shoe. Your job is to help
me and the detectives identify the thief. To do
this you will need to determine that the sand
from the thiefs shoes matches the sample from
the crime scene. Luckily you have your Sand
Sleuth Toolkit to help me solve the crime.
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The Picnic Basket at the Beach

• The Usual Suspects
• Tony The Sand Flea Gneiss
• Wrackline Willy Quartz
• Buddy The Lifeguard Cianci
• Bobby The Beachcomber Bennett
• The Suspicious Sand Footprint
• The sand that the detectives recovered from the
  footprint on the beach blanket has the following
  characteristics
• contains garnet, feldspar, and magnetic minerals
• very few shell pieces
• medium to fine sized grains
• angular sand particles.
• Report
• Prepare a convincing argument for the arrest of
  one of the suspects based on the evidence from
  your sand analysis.
• Good luck using your Sand Sleuth Toolkit to solve
  the crime.
• Source Frazier, J.J. (1996). Sand studies. The
  Science Teacher, May, 14-17.

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Extension Sea Prints

• For years, the sea has held mystery and
  fascination for humans. Observe people who visit
  the ocean and you will see that they spend a
  great part of their time looking
  seaward-searching. Are they looking at incoming
  waves to check for swimming conditions, seeking
  out a speck on the horizon that will alter
  materialize as a ship, or searching for treasures
  washed up be the waves? Or do people become
  spellbound by the soothing sight and sounds of
  ocean waves repeatedly washing upon the beach?
  While experiencing the tranquility of watching
  the sun rise or set across the ocean waves, do
  they become lost in the sheer mystery and
  vastness of the blue horizon? The sea has become
  the focus for expression in art, music, and
  literature.
• You will be using sandpaper, crayons and an
  iron to create a sea print. Following are
  instructions for creating a sea print
• Use crayons to create a sea picture on a sheet of
  sandpaper, firmly pressing on the crayons to get
  a thick coat. After the scene is completed, fill
  in the background with and appropriate color.
• Place the colored sandpaper face up in a thick
  stack of newspapers.
• Place a sheet of manila paper over the print.
  Center the paper so that the print is in the
  middle.
• Slowly press the print with a warm iron until you
  are able to see evidence of the crayons being
  transferred to the manila paper.
• Trim and frame the print with a contrasting piece
  of construction paper.
• Source National Science Teachers Association
  (1997). Project Earth Science Physical
  Oceanography, Arlington, VA Author.

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Extension Sand Library

• Make a Sand Library
• When you travel to a beach be sure to take along
  some empty clear soda bottles. Collect samples in
  the bottles and label with location of beach and
  date. After a short time you should have quite an
  extensive library. Contact friends in other
  countries to develop a global sand library. Try
  to obtain tropical, temperate, and subarctic
  samples.
• Procedure
• Obtain a sand sample that looks interesting to
  you.
• Study the appearance of the sand, its color,
  texture, grain size.
• Make a note of those characteristics.
• Obtain a Sand Library card. Record any available
  information on the back side of the card.
• Use a glue stick to apply a 2 circle of glue in
  the middle of the card.
• Pour some sand on the Sand Library Card. Shake
  off excess sand. Let dry.
• Make a hole punch in one corner and insert this
  in a ring. Repeat the process and youll have a
  Sand Library of your very own!
• Source Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management
  (Charting Our Course The Massachusetts Coast at
  an Environmental Crossroads.

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Sand, Sand, Sand!!!
For in the end we will preserve only what we
love, love only what we understand, understand
only what we are taught.
B. Douim
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Sand Sleuth Toolkit
Somewhere Oh, to be lying, On a beach,
Somewhere, With sand in my toes, And the wind,
In my hair. And only the sound, Of the
seagulls, On high, On a beach, Somewhere,
Under sunny blue sky. The gentle caress, Of
the waves, On the shore, And you close, Beside
me, Could I ask for more? A soft sandy beach,
That goes on, Forever, You, me, And a beach,
So happy together.  Linda Harnett