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12th grade earth sciences activities
Environmental Science Curriculum - Full Year of Lesson Plans, Labs, and Tests
These environmental lesson plans will help your students to take charge of their learning! This comprehensive course is interactive, hands-on, and student-centered! Students learn about major environmental issues in modern society through detailed lessons and activities. Units cover the four spheres of the earth (lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere), and human impacts on the environment are interwoven through each lesson to provide students with a good basis for any environmental
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Grades:
10th - 12th
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NGSS:
HS-ESS2-5
, HS-ESS2-3
, HS-ESS2-4
, HS-LS2-3
, HS-LS2-7
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My Ecological Footprint: Fun Online Activity and Worksheet about Climate Change
Take your class to the computer lab for a fun and engaging activity! Students will use an interactive website to find out how their lifestyle determines their ecological footprint and impacts our planet. This activity is the first step in a fun lesson that spans two classes and gets your students learning about the environmental impact of the choices we make every day. This lesson fits perfectly into a unit or course about climate change, environmentalism, geography or world issues. There is lit
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Bundle for High School
Geologic Time Scale and Evolution of Life on Earth Activities
This worksheet plus timeline activity provides excellent instruction on the geologic time scale, evolution of life on Earth, relative and radioactive dating, order of evolutionary events, transitional fossils, and more. See complete list of topics below. Students will complete a 6-page handout and a 2-page timeline of the history of life on Earth. This activity can be used as a classroom activity or a homework activity during your "History of Life on Earth" or "Evolution" units. Choose to use t
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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NGSS:
MS-LS4-1
Also included in: Biology Curriculum Full Year Bundle
Ring of Fire Mapping Activity and Questions - Earthquakes and Volcanoes
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ In this fun and engaging ring of fire mapping activity, students plot the coordinates of past earthquakes and volcanoes along the ring of fire using an easy to read Pacific-centered world map. Students will then draw other geologic features on their maps such as trenches, mountain ranges, hot spots, and mid-ocean ridge. After the map is complete, students will answer 25 analysis questions. Editable MS Word version, PDF version, and Google Slides version are all included!I complete this w
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-3
, HS-ESS2-1
, MS-ESS2-2
, HS-ESS1-5
Also included in: Plate Tectonics Growing Discount Bundle
Design A "Green" Island: Climate Change Project PBL (NGSS Aligned, Editable)
It is the year 2100 and climate change has become a more serious problem than ever. Global temperatures have risen higher than they have ever been in the past. A new island has been found that has been untouched by humans. In this project, students will compete to be the group to colonize that island. Their goal is to create an island that is desirable to live upon but also has a small carbon footprint. Students will be required to perform calculations and make choices about what types of food/a
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5th - 12th
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Ecological Succession: Primary & Secondary - Two Cut Out Activities
This product includes 2 cut-out & glue activities on primary and secondary succession from ecological succession. Students will cut out diagrams and place them on their correct position on the primary & secondary succession backgrounds. This product contains the activities in both black and white, and a colored version. Terms used: pioneer species, intermediate species, climax community, lichens, annual plants, perennials, shade tolerant, shade intolerant, pine, hickory, shrub, and et
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Hydrosphere Bundle- Water Cycle, Groundwater, Marine Biomes, Water Pollution
This bundle contains 6 weeks' worth of lessons, labs, and field activities to introduce your high school students to aquatic ecosystems, surface water, groundwater, marine biomes, and water pollution. Choices are integrated into the unit to provide options for teaching and learning in a variety of ways: lecture and notes, web-quests, and projects. The independent options are ideal for sub plans while activities and extension pages provide opportunities for class discussion and critical thinkin
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ESS2-5
, HS-LS2-3
, HS-LS2-7
, HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
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Environmental Science Unit: Intro to Environmental Science Lesson Bundle
This comprehensive set of lessons and activities will introduce your students to the basic principles of environmental science through an introductory discussion of scientific processes, economics, and environmental policy. Human impacts on the environment are interwoven through each lesson to provide students with a good basis for any environmental science or APES course. A PowerPoint, guided notes, web-quests, doodle notes, activities, extension pages, and assessments are all included in this
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Grades:
10th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-LS2-7
, HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, HS-ESS3-1
, HS-ETS1-1
WALL-E Movie Guided Questions For Environmental Science
My students love watching movies in science class! But, sometimes it can be difficult to find a movie that the students enjoy and that will culminate good discussion questions for the students. WALL-E is a cute, entertaining movie which has a lot of great content when it comes to environmental science, conservation, sustainability and taking care of our earth. This is a great movie to watch on Earth Day, or throughout the year!With these guided movie questions, students will be able to watch the
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: Earth Science Large Bundle of 33 Activities, Labs and Worksheets
Environmental Science Unit: Atmosphere, Weather, Wind & Biogeochemical Cycles
This is a bundle of environmental and earth science lessons on the composition and layers of the atmosphere, global wind and climate patterns, and biogeochemical cycles. Human impacts on the environment are interwoven through each lesson to provide students with a good basis for any environmental science or APES course. A PowerPoint, guided notes, web-quests, doodle notes, activities, extension pages, and assessments are all included in this lesson. All student pages come in both PRINT and DIGI
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Grades:
10th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ESS2-4
, HS-LS2-5
, HS-ESS2-6
, HS-ESS2-7
, HS-ESS3-1
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LAB - Graphing Human Population Growth, the Greenhouse Effect & Global Warming
In this lab, students will construct line graphs, bar graphs, and pie graphs to analyze the relationship between human population growth, greenhouse gas emissions, and global warming.
This lab has helped my students practice constructing the different types of graphs that are typically seen on the Earth Science Regents and Living Environment Regents.
Topics Covered:
Line graphs,
Bar graphs,
Pie graphs,
Human population growth,
Global carbon dioxide emissions,
Global temperatures changes,
Gre
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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Ocean Zones Poster Project - Layers of the Ocean
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Students follow clear step-by-step directions to create a poster of the five major ocean zones. Students include animals in each zone and facts about abiotic factors. Students will chart each layer’s depth and map the major features of the sea-floor. The handout and rubric are editable AND you will receive a detailed teacher's guide and a fact sheet about each ocean zone with your download. Google Slides versions are also included!⭐ You Will Receive ⭐- Teacher's Guide (PDF)- Fact Sheet A
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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Also included in: Earth Science and Astronomy Growing Resource Bundle
NGSS Seafloor Spreading Model MS-ESS2-3
In this activity, students will create a model that simulates the creative and destructive forces that result in seafloor spreading. There are movable tabs that are pulled on the sides that show how these horizontal layers of basalt are created and spread out in opposite directions. Relative ages of rock can be established. Given a scale, absolute ages can also be deduced.Materials needed are just copy paper, a small bit of tape, scissors, and coloring utensils.This activity is more chill than m
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6th - 12th
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Environmental Science Unit: Urbanization, Sustainable Forestry & Agriculture
This comprehensive set of lessons and activities will introduce your students to the topics of land use and sustainability in regard to urbanization, agriculture, and forestry. Human impacts on the environment are interwoven through each lesson to provide students with a good basis for any environmental science or APES course. A PowerPoint, guided notes, web-quests, doodle notes, activities, extension pages, and assessments are all included in this lesson. All student pages come in both PRIN
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Grades:
10th - 12th
NGSS:
HS-LS2-7
, HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, HS-LS2-5
, HS-ESS3-3
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Cookie Mining Lab - Natural Resources CER Edible Lab Activity
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Fun Hands-On C-E-R! Student model how surface mining impacts the environment with edible ingredients (a cookie!) and write a short CER about the health and environmental impacts of surface mining. Included with the lab handout are pre-lab questions, a step-by step procedure, student directions and map template, analysis questions, and a scaffolded claim, evidence, and reasoning writing activity. Also included in your download is a detailed lesson plan, rubrics, answer key, and differenti
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-4
Also included in: Ecology Bundle - Growing Ecology Resource Bundle
Explore Weathering and Erosion with a Google Maps Virtual Field Trip
All links verified working Feb 2024Click around this Google Maps Street View field trip to explore locations that showcase the process of weathering and erosion! This activity provides you with a link-embedded reading passage / response sheet to distribute to students. The reading gives students information about each of the following processes of weathering: mechanical (wind, moving water, glacial, ocean waves, ice wedging, organic weathering) and chemical (oxidation, carbonation, organic).Ther
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4th - 12th
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Space - Symbol Supported Picture Reading Comprehension for Special Education
Designed for non-to-beginning readers, symbol picture support helps special education students be more successful at reading in these outer space symbol stories about our solar system and planets! Digital interactive worksheets available on Google Slides.These eleven reading passages are all about space including: Astronauts, Spaceship, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune!Each story includes: a short and simple 4-5 sentence story, a cut and paste cloze (fill in
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K - 12th
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Solar System Activity: Scaled Down Size & Distance Model of Our Solar System
Bring the Solar System down to Earth with this activity that scales down the sun, planets, and distances between them! An excellent out-of-the-classroom group activity for your inquisitive students!Watch your students' eyes widen as preconceptions are challenged and misconceptions are swept away.Then watch their eyes light up while they work together to measure distances and hold up planets, fusing math and science together into one unforgettable experience.This activity is not only fun, but i
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Grades:
5th - 12th, Adult Education
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CCSS:
NGSS:
MS-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-3
Environmental Science Unit: Minerals, Mining, Soil Formation & Conservation
This comprehensive bundle of lessons, worksheets and lab activities will introduce your students to rocks and minerals, mining, soil horizons and layers, soil texture, and soil composition. Human impacts on the environment are interwoven through each lesson to provide students with a good basis for any environmental science or APES course. All student pages come in both PRINT and DIGITAL versions for efficient use in class or through distance learning.➤What's included?-10 Teacher Planning Pages
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Grades:
10th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ESS2-5
, HS-LS2-7
, HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, HS-ESS3-2
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Natural Disasters Project Craft - STEM - PBL
Click here to purchase the 100% EDITABLE version of this product! Great for differentiation!Engage your students in project-based learning!Natural disasters are naturally occurring events that negatively affect a large population of people. Natural disasters can unfortunately cause loss of life, as well as property, economic and environmental damage. Although by definition, natural disasters are ‘natural’, most scientist agree that human behaviour also plays a role. Certainly, the more we unders
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5th - 12th
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David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet (Documentary Guide)
Digital and printable tasks for the urgent and ground-breaking Netflix documentary ‘David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet’. This learning package includes:Pre-watching vocabulary and prediction tasks30 while watching questions (Google Forms or printable)Post-viewing creative and analytical tasksEach task is designed to unpack and draw out the lessons of the documentary and encourage students to reflect on their own environmental impact. Optimized for Google Suite, PowerPoint and print, this i
Grades:
6th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ESS3-5
, MS-ESS3-4
, MS-ESS3-3
Also included in: Documentary Study BUNDLE (Digital & Print)
Geosphere or Lithosphere Bundle- Plate Tectonics, Minerals, Soil, Energy Sources
This bundle contains 9 week's worth of environmental science or earth science lessons on landforms, minerals, rocks, soil, erosion, fossil fuels, and renewable energy. The notes and projects are designed to facilitate independent learning and are ideal for sub plans or simply to encourage self-instruction of concepts. Activities and extension pages provide opportunities for class discussion and critical thinking. Human impacts on the environment are interwoven through each lesson to provide st
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ESS2-5
, HS-ESS2-3
, HS-LS2-7
, HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
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World Map Printable,ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS,distance learning, Coloring ,Countries
World Map Printable, ACTIVITIES FOR KIDSdistance learning♥♥ I love designs that makes you feel good. ♥♥ This printable Beautiful Activates with World Map! include coloring the world map map, illustrate places over the word to match in world map around the world. educational Sheets that include the world map spaces for your kids to fill in the appropriate names of the continent and oceans on.Instant Download -Letter size- 10 SHEETS!DRAW,CUT,PAINT, WRITE LEARN ABOUT THE WORLD!♥ 1 PDF include 10 A
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Mars Virtual Field Trip Explore the Mars Rover
Take a virtual field trip to space and to Mars and explore the Mars Rover. Perfect activities, worksheets, and tasks for middle and high schoolers for Mars and Space Science. This PRINT and Go resource is perfect for distance learning or classroom use to help students explore and take a field trip without ever having to leave the classroom. All questions and activities can be answered from exploring the virtual field trip site. Rather than just look around using the 360 view, these tasks give
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Grades:
4th - 12th
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