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7th grade earth sciences simulation pdfs
Atmosphere Virtual Lab: Air Pressure & Temperature
Looking for a no prep activity where students analyze data? In this virtual lab, students collect and analyze data from two digital lab activities about air pressure and temperature in the atmosphere to answer the question: How does altitude affect temperature and air pressure?After collecting and graphing the data, students read the included passage about air pressure and temperature in the atmosphere to support writing their CER argument to explain how altitude affects temperature and pressu
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6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-5
Also included in: Weather and Atmosphere Bundle for Middle School
NASA Space Centers Virtual Field Trip (Google Earth Exploration)
Take your students on a virtual field trip to three different NASA space centers across the United States. Using a combination of Google Earth™ 360-degree views, informational text, video, and visuals, your students will learn about NASA, research and contributions, space travel, and significant events.This virtual field trip covers::: NASA Headquarters:: Mary W. Jackson :: Field Centers :: Langley Research Center:: Apollo Lunar Landing:: Landing on the Moon:: Margaret Hamilton:: Johnson Space C
Grades:
5th - 7th
Also included in: End of Year Virtual Field Trip Bundle (Google Earth Exploration)
Ocean Floor Mapping Battleship Game
Teacher Review: "My students are obsessed with this activity! They even ask to play during indoor recess!" - Turner's Teaching Troop (January 22, 2020)Ocean Floor Mapping Battleship includes 36 unique maps of the ocean floor, a recording sheet, a detailed lesson plan with suggested pre-game activities, a blank map students can use to draw their own ocean floor, a diagram showing the layers of the ocean, and easy to follow game instructions. Field tested with sixth-graders, this game challenges s
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Earth Science Games Bundle
Half-Life Lab: Use a Candy Simulation to Teach Radioactive Decay!
Let your students explore the concept of half-lives while enjoying candy! This simulation can serve as an introduction to the topic or as a piece of reinforcement. Not to mention, your students will be gaining experience using a data table to build their graphing skills!
This purchase includes a teacher instructions page, student lab pages, and an answer key for teachers! Don't let your students get bored during your chemistry or geology unit!
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Grades:
6th - 11th
Rock Cycle Dice Simulation with Writing Connection
Looking for a way to integrate writing into your science curriculum? This dice simulation is a great way to to reinforce the science concept of the rock cycle while connecting it to writing. By performing the writing connection, students will cement their knowledge by writing creatively from the point of view of a piece of sediment going through the rock cycle. This simulation is a set of posters that you hang around the room and place a die by. Students are assigned a poster to start with and b
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3rd - 7th
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Extreme Weather Interactive Simulation Lab- Tornados, Thunderstorms & Hurricanes
**NO FLASH REQUIRED** This is an ONLINE, INTERACTIVE SIMULATION LAB about Extreme Weather. My students enjoyed this lab because it presents the material in a fun, game-like manner.Includes: PART I: Build a Tornado & determine the Fujita Scale based on the damage it caused. PART II: Build the largest Thunderstorm from three weather variables. PART III: Build a Hurricane and see how land and cold water weakens it and PART IV: EXTRA CREDIT - Another Hurricane Simulation..The Lab is Step by
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5th - 11th
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Gravity and Orbits PhET Simulation
Students use a PhET computer simulation of the Earth and Sun orbit to see how different variables affect the orbit and the force of gravity between the two objects. In this computer model, students change variables (mass and distance) of the Earth and Sun to see how they affect the force of gravity and the orbit of the Earth. In the first part of the activity, students observe the Earth’s orbit around the sun under ”normal” conditions. In part 2, students look at the relationship between mass a
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-PS2-4
, MS-ESS1-2
Also included in: Gravity and Orbits in the Solar System Bundle For Middle School
Biogeochemical Cycles: The Carbon Cycle Dice Simulation Journey of a Carbon Atom
A journey though the Global Carbon Cycle like you have never experienced before!With a roll of the dice, students will travel around the classroom visiting nine of Earth’s carbon reservoirs: atmosphere, terrestrial plants, terrestrial animals, soil, rock, marine plants, marine animals, surface ocean, & deep ocean.In the process, they will learn a whopping amount of information that will link to many other scientific units of study. Examples include: weather, circulation of air in the tropos
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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CCSS:
NGSS:
MS-LS1-7
, HS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-3
, HS-LS2-5
, MS-LS2-4
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Also included in: Ecology, Environmental Studies, and Earth Science Activities Bundle
Climate Factors Bundle - 5E and NGSS Aligned (MS-ESS2-6)
This Bundle Includes:0 Describing Climate With Data: Climographs & Death ValleyIntroduce and engage students in the basic concepts of climate, the climate of the Mojave Desert specifically, and the impact of climate on solar energy generation in this activity that introduces an investigative phenomenon and launches student learning. In this activity, studentsanalyze climate data to create (or, to scaffold the activity, simply interpret) climographs that allow them to easily compare the clima
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ESS2-6
Big Bang Evidence: Red Shift - Virtual Lab Simulation
NO FLASH NEEDED! Students will explore the early steps of the Big Bang and then prove the Universe is expanding by manipulating the light of a galaxy moving away from or towards Earth. This virtual lab is excellent for remote or in-class laboratory exploration. The virtual lab simulation worksheet contains auto-fill in blanks, so no annotation software is needed. The links for the free sites used are located within the lab.
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Grades:
6th - 11th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-4
, MS-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-3
, HS-ESS1-2
Crumpled Paper Watershed Lab - Water Supply Activity - Middle School Science
Are you looking for a hands-on, inquiry-based lab for your middle school students that covers watersheds and human impact on water supply? This lab will provide students with the opportunity to observe how water travels from areas of higher elevation to lower elevation due to gravity and how humans impact the environment by pollutants being transported by the rainwater. This lab also includes detailed step by step instructions and post-lab questions. Answer Key is included.Materials needed: mark
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Grades:
6th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ESS2-4
Also included in: Middle School Science Labs Bundle
"Deer Dash!" Populations and Carrying Capacity Ecology Activity
This resource is an excellent chance to allow your students to have fun together in a friendly competition, while either learning or solidifying their understanding of several ecology concepts and key terms. This activity focuses on carrying capacity and population concepts, but can be used to explore predation, competition, community relationships, ecosystem balance, resource pulses, and other environmental factors contributing to the fluctuation of animal population. This large space activity
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-4
, MS-LS2-1
, HS-LS2-4
, MS-ESS2-1
, MS-ESS3-4
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Weather Lab- Meteorologist for a Day
I love using virtual labs in my classroom, but an accompanying worksheet helps slow them down and keep them honest, so they do not miss the entire point of the assignment. I have created this student guide to provide teachers with evidence of student learning and analysis questions designed to deepen student thought and assist with classroom discussion. This assignment is student-centered, and after a brief explanation, students will be working independently and with purpose.This worksheet is a
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5th - 9th
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Eco-Games: Outdoor Science Simulations for Life and Earth Sciences
Children of all ages love games. Educators can turn this natural affinity to their advantage by using games as an instructional strategy. In this book, educators will learn 15 Eco-games that cover ecological and environmental topics connected to the Science and Geography curriculum. Games work well in an outdoor setting, such as a school yard or nature field centre. Eco-games are designed to be easy to reproduce for teachers. There are codes for students to crack, secret environmental messages,
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1st - 12th, Adult Education
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Carbon Cycle Passport Activity
Get students out of their seats to track the movement of Carbon in the environment. From Photosynthesis & Cellular Respiration to Ocean Acidification & Fossil Fuel Combustion will be discovered in this fun activity. Students choose any station to begin their carbon journey. At the station, students will learn about carbon's role in that part of the environment. Students then roll the dice to learn where (and how!) carbon goes from there. Stations: Atmosphere, Land Plants, Land Ani
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Pollution Dice Simulation with Writing Connection
Looking for a way to integrate writing into your science curriculum? This dice simulation is a great way to to reinforce the science concept of the way that pollution travels through the environment while connecting it to writing. By performing the writing connection, students will cement their knowledge by writing creatively from the point of view of pollution. This simulation is a set of posters that you hang around the room and place a die by. Students are assigned a poster to start with and
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3rd - 7th
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Introduction to Ecology: Draw a Beaver Pond Inquiry Activity + STEM project
Need an interactive introduction to ecology and ecosystems? Want to see what your students already know? Try this critical thinking activity where students are learning while being creative!In this activity, students are tasked to draw the ecosystem around a beaver dam and the pond created from it. Students will access knowledge they already have and use information provided to identify and then explain interactions between biotic and abiotic factors in the pond ecosystem.This activity could b
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4th - 8th
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Oil Spill Dice Simulation with Writing Connection
Looking for a way to integrate writing into your science curriculum? This dice simulation is a great way to to reinforce the science concept of an oil spill and how it affects the environment while connecting it to writing. By performing the writing connection, students will cement their knowledge by writing creatively from the point of view of a piece of oil after an oil spill.This simulation is a set of posters that you hang around the room and place a die by. Students are assigned a poster to
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3rd - 7th
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Moon Phases: Phases of the Moon Activity with Viewing Wheel Distance Learning
This Phases of the Moon activity will help your students quickly and easily understand why we see the phases of the Moon as we do!***Completely Redesigned March 2020.***-Great for distance learning - students may complete the activity with little to no teacher assistance.-Activity is now a TpT Digital Activity. This allows you to post student instructions to your Google Classroom - saving you time and photocopying. (Worksheet and spinner still require photocopying/printing.)Step-by-step student
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Grades:
4th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-ESS1-1
SONAR Calculations and Graphing
In this classroom activity, students are guided through the calculations necessary to obtain ocean depth from SONAR data. Then they use data to complete a profile of the part of ocean floor from which the data came. Please note: this does not show all the parts of the ocean floor. Image and activity where adapted from Naval History STEM H.
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6th - 12th
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Augmented Reality Sandbox Teaching Tools & Activities
If you need some vocabulary, higher-level thinking questions, and interactive activities that will help you use an Augmented Reality (AR) sandbox with your students, then this is the resource for you!
Included in this resource is:
-An information sheet about what a topographic map is
-Relevant vocabulary for using in conversation about the AR sandbox (2 sheets included, one with the definitions already filled in, and one with only the vocabulary words that students can fill the definitions i
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4th - 7th
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Moon Phases Activity | Genially Interactive | Digital Resource
Getting ready the study the moon and the phases of the moon? This moon phase digital activity uses the power of Genially to engage students in learning about what causes the phases of the moon! Perfect for small group work or independent practice. Students click to read nonfiction text, explore diagrams, pictures and games to build a strong understanding of how the moon's orbit and our perspective impact our view of the moon throughout the month. Digital interactive games are very motivating f
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Grades:
6th - 7th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-1
Earth Wind and Ocean Currents Online Interactive
Students will visit the website https://earthnull/about.html and explore the interactive global map of winds, ocean currents, particulates, and chemicals all updated live every three to five hours. In this lesson, learners will explore current surface winds, jet streams, ocean currents, and CO in the air. They will add color to the global maps for each of the areas of interest, answer content related questions and go deeper with embedded inferencing questions. As a summary to the lesson, stud
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6th - 12th
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Computer Model: Water Pollution Web Game activity - Bio Man Bio simulation
This handout guides students as they investigate water pollution, water quality, species diversity and species abundance in an aquatic ecosystem. Students use The Peril River Problem interactive web game on the BioManBio website: https://biomanbio.com/HTML5GamesandLabs/EcoGames/ecodetectiveshtml5page.htmlIn this online experiment, students monitor dissolved oxygen levels and the population growth of species to evaluate the human impact on ecosystems. Students apply key concepts on watersheds and
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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