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11th grade earth sciences laboratories
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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Plate Tectonics Lab - Modeling Plate Boundaries and CER Edible Lab Activity
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Fun Hands-On CER! In this Plate Tectonics Lab, students model different plate boundaries with edible ingredients and write a short CER about how the model is representative of the actual plate boundary. Included within the lab handout are pre-lab questions, step-by step easy to follow procedures for each type of boundary interaction, scaffolded claim, evidence, and reasoning writing activities, and a rubric. Also included are a teacher's guide and lesson plan, a student reference sheet,
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ESS2-3
, HS-ESS2-1
, MS-ESS2-2
Also included in: Plate Tectonics Growing Discount 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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Grades:
6th - 12th
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End of Year Human Impact or Summer Activity STEM MS-ESS3-3 MS-ESS3-4 HS-ESS3-4
If you’re looking for a little to no PREP, engaging and authentic learning mini-unit of lessons that is PBL (problem-based learning), uses evidence, and teaches students about the human impact on the environment and Earth’s natural resources as a result of overpopulation, then this is the perfect investigation, project, or even assessment for you! It is even perfect for an end of Year Science Activity or Summer Project! So, “Will humans always have enough resources to survive on Earth?” Download
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Grades:
6th - 11th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, MS-ESS3-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-4
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Also included in: NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
Gravity Lab - Weight, Mass, and Gravity Jump Lab Activity
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ A classic fun lab activity made for secondary science students! Editable MS Word, PDF, and Google Slides versions included! Students learn mass, weight, and gravity and then calculate their weight and jump length at various locations in the solar system.⭐ This Lab is Broken Down Into 5 Different Tasks ⭐•Task 1- Pre-Lab: Students watch a short modern video about mass, weight, and gravity, and answer questions.•Task 2 - Weight On Other Planets: Student calculate their weight using the forc
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Grades:
7th - 11th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ESS1-4
, MS-ESS1-2
Also included in: Introduction Astronomy, Gravity, and Kepler's Laws GROWING BUNDLE
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
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-4
Also included in: Ecology Bundle - Growing Ecology Resource Bundle
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
Subjects:
Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ESS2-5
, HS-ESS2-3
, HS-LS2-7
, HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
...
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
...
Climate Change CER, Reading Comprehension, and Graphing Lab
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Everything you need for a climate change unit! Students will read, graph, analyze, draw conclusions, and write about climate change, the greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, and human impact on the environment. This bundle includes a climate change reading comprehension and questions, graphing climate change data activity (with real NASA data!) and graph analysis questions, a climate change CER graphic organizer, a climate change CER essay assignment with rubric, teacher lesson plan, and
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ESS3-1
, HS-ESS3-5
Also included in: Climate Change Growing Discount Bundle
Climate Change Stations Lab - Student-Led Climate Change Stations
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Student-led lab stations are a great way to get your kids moving and interacting with content in a variety of fun and engaging ways! Students will learn, interact, and engage with new content about climate change, global warming, and the greenhouse effect! These ten stations focus on greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide emissions, greenhouse effect, and the causes and effects of climate change. All stations are neatly presented, have easy to understand directions, and require minimal prep fr
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ESS2-4
, MS-ESS3-5
, HS-ESS3-1
, HS-ESS3-5
, HS-ESS3-6
...
Also included in: Earth Science Stations Labs Growing Discount Bundle
Balancing Chemical Equations Candy Lab
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Students practice balancing simple equations using candy (like skittles) or provided paper candies. First, student read background information to review chemical equations and balancing equations. Then, students answer pre-lab questions pertaining to the background information. Students then balance and model five different chemical reactions using candies.A detailed lesson plan with objectives, standards, materials, and procedure is included. Also included is a full answer key in both P
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-PS1-7
, MS-PS1-5
, MS-PS1-1
Volcanoes Lab - Types of Volcanoes Edible CER Lab - Low Prep and Fun!
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Students will learn about and model three types of volcanoes using a cookie, chocolate chip, and a chocolate kiss. They will link the data collected from the models to complete CER activities and draw volcanoes to scale. A Volcanoes Reference Sheet (anchor chart), detailed lesson plan, editable lab handout, Google Slides version, and answer key with rubric are all included!Low prep and easy to follow – this lab is sure to be a hit in your classroom!Students will learn, eat, and use acade
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Grades:
7th - 11th
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Also included in: Earthquakes and Volcanoes Growing Resource Bundle
Hurricane (Latitude and Longitude) Lab Project (Digital and Paper)
Hurricanes are often in the news near the start of the school year. This EASY NO PREP ACTIVITY is a great way to engage students with real science, or during a unit on latitude and longitude, weather and storms, or at other times during the year. Students will use real hurricane data to plot the path of the hurricane on a hurricane tracking map, use a planetary wind diagram to analyze and make inferences about the data. Lastly, students make suggestions for an emergency plan.It is great to sup
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Grades:
8th - 11th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-5
Also included in: Earth Science: Buy The Store Lifetime Money-Saving Bundle
Air Pollution Lab
In this experiment, your students will be able to visually see the air pollution that they breathe in on a daily basis. Prior to this lab your students should have an understanding of how to use microscopes, as they will use them to observe and collect data.Materials Needed: Compound microscopes, slides (gridded or plain), cover slips, cotton swabs, petroleum jelly, and petri dishes. Included are 2 versions of this lab:1. In version 1, students use gridded microscope slides (see picture in previ
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Grades:
9th - 11th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ESS3-4
, HS-ESS3-6
Exploring Plate Tectonics: Age of Crustal Rocks -- Data Lab (NGSS HS-ESS1-5)
Investigate how the ages of Earth’s crustal rocks provides evidence for the theory of plate tectonics in this minds-on data lab. Students will use a key to color oceanic crust by ageanalyze the data to identify patterns and infer that new crust is created at mid-ocean ridgesinfer the movement of plates at mid-ocean ridges and identify these as divergent boundaries (suggested by the age of rocks increasing as they move away from the boundary)This activity provides students with the opportunity to
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ESS1-5
Gas Laws Intro Lab 16 stations or chemistry demos
Thess ultimate Gas Laws 16 Lab Stations allows students to investigate direct and inverse properties of gases: pressure, volume, moles, and temperature. The guided student handout is editable and these gas laws lab activities incorporate particulate-level movement of gases (bead stations) as well as intentional questioning that leads students to link inverse or direct relationships of gas behaviors in an engaging, memorable way. Give your students experiences of how gases impact and are impacted
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Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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NGSS:
HS-PS1-7
Also included in: Gases Chemistry Activity and Lab Bundle print and digital
Trees, Forestry and Deforestation 5E Lab-Distance learning possible
Update for distance learning: Students could do this lab at home with a tree in their backyard, neighborhood, or park. They need a cheap measuring tape, a cardboard triangle, string and a weight. Through zoom or a video, teachers can help students through the math. Another option is for the teacher to make a video measuring a tree and the corresponding math. Students can do the follow-up questions on their own.This is a full 5E designed for inquiry. It is advanced enough for AP, but accessible f
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
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NGSS:
HS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-5
, HS-ESS3-6
, HS-ESS3-4
Also included in: Unit 5 Bundle for AP Environmental Science
Tides Lab Using Water Balloons - Hands On Experience That Kids LOVE!
This lab is a really fun way to use discovery and investigation to teach students how gravity and inertia cause tides, along with the moon. The cost is low (a package of water balloons and yarn) and it is a great activity to get kids moving and outside. They work in small groups and go through a series of steps and procedures and record data. This was one of the most fun labs of the year for students and was instrumental is having kids understand why we have high tides on the side of the Earth c
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change Data Analysis Virtual Lab
Updated links as of March 2022. This lab for in-person or distance learning uses a variety of data from NOAA and other websites to help your students understand greenhouse gases, where they are found and whether they are increasing or decreasing. Then, students analyze data about the effects of climate change with real-time data about temperature, precipitation and other data. Then, students delve into longer term data including ice-core data.This lab walks students through each graph and data s
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Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
Types:
NGSS:
HS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-1
, HS-ESS3-5
Also included in: AP Environmental Science Unit 9 Bundle
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition Unit Bundle
These resources make different types of weathering and erosion very exciting, visual, and hands-on. These materials can be used as a complete unit, stations, or used only in pieces as labs or introductory lessons. Includes a complete pack of labs, vocabulary, review/assessment, and student learning objectives, suggested scope and sequence, and tips and materials for each lab. You may also be interested in: Landscape Virtual Tour and Student Sheet ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★Don't forget that leaving
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Types:
CCSS:
NGSS:
HS-ESS2-1
, MS-ESS2-2
Scientific Method Task Cards for Middle and High School
This set of 32 Scientific Method Task Cards will provide Middle and High School Students with Review and Reinforcement of the concepts found while studying the Scientific Method.The following concepts are covered in this set of Task Cards:Collecting Data, Theory, Inference, Data Tables, Hypothesis, Observations, Steps of the Scientific Method, Controlled Experiments, Dependent Variables, Independent Variables, Control Group, Writing a Hypothesis, Sample Size, Conclusions, Error, Experimental Res
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Scientific Method - Measurement - Microscope - Safety Task Card Bundle
Climate Change Station Activity
This station activity is designed to give students an overview of the human impact on climate. It is not intended to be a deep dive into climate change, but an overview of how we measure climate change and what might happen if we don't change our actions. Station 1: Students will use Google earth engine time lapse to observe changes in Earth over time. A laptop or tablet is required at this station. Station 2: Students will analyze the famous "hockey stick" carbon dioxide emission graph. Station
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Grades:
9th - 11th
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Also included in: Weather and Climate Bundle
Edible Soil Horizons & Compare Climates/Biomes, AP Environmental Science Lab
Many teachers have students make soil horizons with pudding and cookies because we all know students are motivated by food! I created this lab to bring more AP content knowledge into this fun activity. Instead of all making the same soil profile from pudding and cookies, a group of students create 5 different soil profiles that correspond to 5 different biomes and climate characteristics. They need to make observations and answer questions about each profile, and answer other general questions a
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Biochemistry- Properties of Water- Virtual Video Lab- Digital Google Form
Looking for a virtual replacement for your properties of water lab? Look no further!I designed this lab to simulate a stations lab I normally do which demonstrates each of the properties of water. In this version, students complete a Google Form where they watch videos and answer questions about the properties demonstrated in the videos. For example, one video shows a Basilisk Lizard running across the surface of water. Students must identify which property is being shown and justify their res
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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Also included in: Properties of Water Resource Bundle- Slides, Guided Notes and Lab
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