Earth Space Science Activities Bundle - Google Slides™ and Print

This is a bundle of print and digital interactive science notebook resources that use Google Slides These resources are perfect for a middle school Earth/Space Science class! There are 6-8 interactive activities for each unit. The activities vary depending on the unit. A preview is available for each resource to demonstrate what is included in each activity. Perfect for online learning or in-person instruction!

Use these activities for:

• Sub Plans
• Test Prep (Florida SSA, Texas STAAR, NGSS)
• Online Learning
• Homework
• Independent review
• Stations
• Interactive Notebook Activity
• Early Finishers

Many include either drag and drop or short answer text activities.

INCLUDED IN THE BUNDLE:

1. Weathering Erosion and Deposition Google Slides™ Activities

This is a print and digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 6 interactive activities related to Earth's changing landforms including weathering, erosion and deposition. These activities are perfect for an Earth Science class with no prep! These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for distance learning!

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand visual representations and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
⭐ Earth's changing landforms (weathering, erosion, deposition)

⭐ Mechanical Weathering vs Chemical Weathering
⭐ Vocabulary such as deltas, groundwater, dunes, abrasion, glacial drift, floodplain, oxidation)

⭐ How rivers impact erosion and deposition

⭐ Erosion prevention methods

2. Earth's Layers Google Slides™ Activities

This is a print and digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 6 interactive activities related to the layers of Earth including crust, mantle, core and the physical layers. These activities are perfect for an Earth Science class with no prep! These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for distance learning!

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand diagrams and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
⭐ Earth's Physical Layers (Lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core)

⭐ Earth's compositional layers (Crust, mantle core)
⭐ Elements within Earth's layers

⭐ Vocabulary (layers, convection)

3. Rock Cycle Google Slides™ Activities

This is a print and digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 6 interactive activities related to the rock cycle including changes in type (igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary) These activities are perfect for an Earth Science class with no prep! These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for distance learning!

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, write a story and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
⭐ Rock Types (igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary)

⭐ Process of the rock cycle
⭐ Reviews weathering, erosion, intrusive, extrusive, magma

⭐ Researching typed of rock including granite, limestone, gneiss, sandstone, slate, basalt

⭐ Vocabulary

4. The Water Cycle Google Slides™ Activities

This is a print digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 6 interactive activities related to the water cycle including changes in state, energy in the water cycle and interactions of water on Earth. These activities are perfect for an Earth Science class with no prep! These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for distance learning!

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, write a story and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
⭐ Changes in states of matter (condensation, precipitation, sublimation, evaporation, melting, sublimation)

⭐ Interactions of the water cycle (transpiration, ground water, infiltration, runoff, percolation)
⭐ Hurricane formation and the transport of material through rivers/streams

5. Earth's Atmosphere Google Slides™ Activities

This is a print and digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 6 interactive activities related to Earths atmosphere including layers of the atmosphere, the ozone layer and greenhouse gases. These activities are perfect for an Earth Science class with no prep! These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for distance learning!

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
⭐ Atmospheric Layers (Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere & Exosphere)
⭐ Greenhouse gases
⭐ Ozone layer
⭐ Air pressure and temperature in the atmospheric layers
⭐ Air composition

6. Interactions of Earth's Spheres Print and Google Slides™ Activities

This is a print and digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 6 interactive activities to Earths spheres including geosphere, hydrosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. These activities are perfect for an Earth Science class with no prep! These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for distance learning!

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
⭐ Geosphere
⭐ Hydrosphere
⭐ Atmosphere
⭐ Biosphere
⭐ How Earth's spheres interact with one another

7. Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift Digital Google Slides™ Activities

This is a print and digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 6 interactive activities to review the Theory of Plate Tectonics, continental drift and Earth's structures. These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for distance learning!

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
⭐ Earth's Layers
⭐ Plate Boundaries (convergent, divergent, transform)
⭐ Plate collisions (oceanic-oceanic, continental-continental and oceanic-continental)
⭐ Evidence for plate tectonics and continental drift (mid-ocean ridge, magnetic anomalies and sea-floor spreading)
⭐ The Ring of Fire
⭐ Oceanic vs Continental Crust

8. Earthquakes and Volcanoes

This is a print digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 7 interactive activities related to earthquakes and volcanoes. These activities are perfect for an Earth Science class with no prep! These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for distance learning!

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand visual representations and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
⭐ Types of Volcanoes (shield, composite, cinder cone)

⭐ Parts of a volcano (lava, vent, ash cloud, magma)
⭐ Vocabulary such as Lava, Focus, Hot Spot, Magma, Fault, Epicenter, Vent.

⭐ Recent volcanic eruption research

⭐ Parts of an earthquake (focus, fault, epicenter)

⭐ How earthquakes can cause tsunamis

⭐ Earthquakes and plate boundaries

⭐ Types of faults (normal, strike-slip, reverse fault)

9. Weather

This is a print and digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 7 interactive activities related to weather and severe weather. These activities are perfect for an Earth Science class with no prep! These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for distance learning!

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand visual representations and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
⭐ Influences on weather including jet stream, winds, ocean currents, fronts, air masses, water cycle and global wind patterns.

⭐ How the water cycle influences the weather
⭐ Variables used to describe the weather including temperature, air pressure, wind, humidity, relative humidity and dew point.

⭐ Cloud Types including stratus, cumulus and cirrus.

⭐ High-pressure and low-pressure systems and the types of weather they bring.

⭐ Cold fronts, warm fronts and stationary fronts

⭐ Severe weather including thunderstorms, tornadoes and hurricanes.

10. Climate

This is a fully digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 6 interactive activities related to climate. These activities are perfect for an Earth Science class with no prep! These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for distance learning!

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand visual representations and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
⭐ Influences on climate including latitude, altitude, topography, surface ocean currents, winds, water cycle and temperature.

⭐ Compare and Contrast weather vs climate.
⭐ How latitude and energy from the sun affects climate.

⭐ Effects of the water cycle, large bodies of water and proximity to coastlines on climate.

⭐ Differences between climate zones (polar zones, temperate zones and tropical zones) and their latitudes.

⭐ Surface ocean currents and the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt's effect on climate.

11. Earth's History: Geologic Time Scale

This is a print and digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 6 interactive activities related to Earth's History and the Geologic Time Scale. These activities are perfect for an Earth Science class with no prep! These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for distance learning!

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand visual representations and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
⭐ Influences on climate including absolute dating, relative dating, index fossil, radioactive decay, geologic column, unconformity and half-life.

⭐ Research on fossils: Preservation in rock, amber, petrification and trace fossils.
⭐ Compare and contrast relative dating vs absolute dating.

⭐ The Law of Superposition. Identifying younger vs older rocks by looking at diagrams.

⭐ Stratigraphy and Disturbances in sedimentary rock layers such as tilting, folding, intrusions and faulting.

12. Human Impact on Earth and Conservation

This is a fully digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 6 interactive activities related to human impact on Earth and conservation. These activities are perfect for an Earth Science class with no prep! These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for distance learning!

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand visual representations and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
⭐ Nonrenewable and renewable resources

⭐ Human Impact on Land including desertification, deforestation, erosion and urbanization.
⭐ Water pollution including thermal pollution, biological pollution, eutrophication and chemical pollution.

⭐ Marine debris, marine plastics and the time it takes for them to decompose/how they affect marine organisms.

⭐ Global warming and it's indicators.

⭐ Making a difference in the world to improve the health of the planet.

13. Scientific Investigations and Inquiry

This is a fully digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 6 interactive activities to review scientific investigations and the scientific method.

Students will review vocabulary, real-world examples, independent and dependent variables and design a quick investigation.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. Answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:

⭐ Experiments vs Observations

⭐ Creating a Hypothesis

⭐ Variables (Independent, Dependent, Constant)

⭐ Scientific Method Steps

14. The Solar System

This is a fully digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 8 interactive activities related to the solar system. These activities are perfect for an Earth and Space Science class with no prep! These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for distance learning!

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand visual representations and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
⭐ Vocabulary such as centripetal force, astronomical unit (AU), gas giants, dwarf planet, terrestrial planets, Kuiper Belt and solar nebula.

⭐ Geocentric vs Heliocentric Model and involved scientists (Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler)
⭐ Gravity in the solar system and how distance/mass affect gravitational force.

⭐ Inner Planets (Terrestrial Planets) and Outer Planets (Gas Giants)

⭐ Meteoroids, meteors and meteorites

⭐ Comets & parts of the comet (dust tail, ion tail, nucleus and coma)

⭐ Asteroids

15. Properties of Stars and the Sun

This is a print and digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 8 interactive activities related to properties of stars and the sun. These activities are perfect for an Earth and Space Science class with no prep! These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for distance learning!

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand visual representations and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
⭐ Vocabulary such as apparent magnitude, convection, absolute magnitude, luminosity, sunspot, photosphere, prominence.

⭐ Types of stars by color and temperature (red, yellow, blue and white)
⭐Hertzsprung–Russell diagrams (H-R Diagram) and application.

⭐ Researching a star and identifying it's classification, radius, temperature, distance from Earth, and image and other facts.

⭐ Layers of the Sun ( Core, radiative zone, convection zone, photosphere, chromosphere and corona)

⭐ Apparent magnitude vs absolute magnitude

⭐ Star Structure and parts of the sun (photosphere, sunspot, radiative zone, corona, solar flare, core, prominence, chromosphere and convection zone)

⭐ Solar properties (sunspots, prominences and solar flares)

16. Earth Moon Sun System

This is a print and digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 6 interactive activities related to the solar system. These activities are perfect for an Earth and Space Science class with no prep! These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for distance learning!

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand visual representations and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
⭐ Movement of Earth (Rotation, Revolution, tilt on axis)

⭐ Differences/Facts about the Earth, Sun and Moon.
⭐ Tides (Neap tides, spring tides, moon phases, low tide, high tide)

⭐ Seasons on Earth

⭐ Moon phases

⭐ Solar Eclipses and Lunar Eclipses