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Adult education earth sciences resources under $5
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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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-3
Abiotic & Biotic Factors Card Sort for Living & Non-Living Things in Ecosystems
An abiotic & biotic card sort activity containing 102 living & non-living components of an ecosystem! Great hands-on activity for your ecology/ecosystem unit.Will there be terms your students don't know?Thankfully YES!This resource will not limit discovery and will encourage curiosity.All in the name of learning and vocabulary building!The entire class may collectively participate in sorting the wide variety of factors contained in this resource. Laminate, add some magnets, and sorting
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Ecology, Environmental Studies, and Earth Science Activities Bundle
Plate Tectonics / Boundaries Graphic Organizers - PRINT & DIGITAL
Teaching about plate boundaries and plate tectonics? -These graphic organizers are a great way for students to review different plate boundaries, learn about the Theory of Plate tectonics and organize their notes /ideas. Excellent for review or for group work. Includes 3 graphic organizers to mix and match, a Review/Challenge Activity Summary Activity, Mapping Worksheet, and Extension / Lesson Ideas. Includes answer keys for the graphic organizers.This resource also includes a link to a digita
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Plate Tectonics / Earthquakes / Volcanoes Organizers | PRINT & DIGITAL
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of our Planet (Netflix) Educational Movie Guide
Breaking Boundaries, narrated by David Attenborough, follows the journey of world-renowned scientist Johan Rockström as he examines the vital planetary boundaries that keep our Earth stable and provides a road map to bring us back towards the safe zone for a thriving future.This engaging movie guide from Miss Nightingale is designed to highlight the film’s big ideas, prompt rich classroom discussion, and cement student learning. This guide includes:A warm-up activity designed to be completed bef
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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El Niño and La Niña Coloring Page and Graphic Organizer
El Niño and La Niña is a topic that could be confusing for students. Use this coloring page and graphic organizer to make it a bit easier.Ideas for Implementation:• Give students the black and white filled-in version. Have students color the document for a relaxing break (for you and them).• Give students the black and white blank version. Watch a youtube video, read an article, or lecture about the topic. Have students fill in the blank sections.This download includes:• A BLANK copy of the colo
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
"San Andreas" Movie Questions
All of these questions relate to a natural disasters unit... no plot questions just for the sake of asking questions about the plot.This worksheet (with answer key) goes along with the movie San Andreas with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Find out what happens when California experiences several earthquakes above magnitude 7.0. This is a great introduction or review to any earthquake or tsunami unit!You must buy or rent the movie.Included:- A 22-question movie guide.- An answer keyBe sure to follo
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Earth Sun Moon Activities Solar System & Planets Choice Board Space Exploration
Astronomy and Space Exploration Choice Board with Activity Research Organizers, Google Classroom, Print & Digital Distance Learning | Earth Science Activity | DifferentiationEarth Science Graphic Organizers, Earth Science Digital Interactive Notebook, Earth Science Summer School, Earth Science Google Activities INCLUDED IN SEVERAL BUNDLE TO SAVE $$$:Astronomy and Space Exploration BUNDLEEARTH SCIENCE MEGA BUNDLEEARTH SCIENCE CHOICE BOARDS (Google or Paper Versions)Includes: 2 pages of choice
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5th - 9th, Adult Education
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-3
, MS-ESS2-1
, MS-ESS1-1
Also included in: Earth, Sun, Moon, Planets BUNDLE (Earth Science BUNDLE) Astronomy Bundle
Blue Planet 2 - All 7 Episodes - Worksheets & Keys - PDF & Digital
These Video Response Worksheets and Keys are based on the BBC documentary series "Blue Planet II" as narrated by David Attenborough.You will receive a zip file which contains a multi-episode bundle of all 7 Video Response Worksheets and Keys in PDF format and access to all 7 TpT Digital Activities for students (worksheets only).Video Response Worksheets will turn your history or science lesson into a rich educational experience that keeps students attentive, engaged, and accountable. The questio
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Ocean Currents Fill in and Color Doodle Notes
Ocean Currents Color and Fill in the Blank Anchor Chart/ Doodle Notes are to help students grasp concepts quickly. It has pictures that students can color and fill in the blanks. You can use it as a quiz, graphic organizer, review for a test, as a mini-lesson, centers, or a teaching tool. I have included a black and white version of this document. An answer key is included. Students can fold in half and paste in their interactive notebook. Makes great center activities!
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Earth Layers Model: Decoding Compositional and Mechanical/Structural layers
Students will complete a colored model of earths layers that will clarify the main differences of compositional and mechanical layers both visually as well as conceptually. They will also be able to identify trends of temperature, gravity, pressure, and density. This is a great activity that will allow students to better comprehend the dynamics of plate tectonics. This could also serve as a earth science practical type of assessment.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Earth Layers: Decoding Mechanical and Compositional Layers with Quiz
Plate Tectonics 2 SURFFDOGGY
(19 pages) Included are two excellent hands-on activities. In the first, students will color code the locations of rock and fossil evidence on giant sized continents. Students then cut out these continent models and position them according to the ancient evidence. The goal is to arrange the continents in the positions they were in 225 million years ago based on the evidence of rocks, fossils, glaciers, and mountains. The second hands-on activity is a model of sea floor spreading and helps studen
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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House Plant Guided Drawings
The only thing more relaxing than surrounding yourself in a room of house plants, is learning how to draw said beautiful plants! Let your love of greenery spill onto the pages of your sketchbook or into your classroom with this how to draw different house plants guide. In this guided drawing document you and your students will learn how to draw a plant as simple as a cactus, to a more complicated Monstera Deliciosa. Even though this is just a beginner guide to just show you how to draw, you can
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Watersheds...Ground Water vs. Surface Water Foldable
Students can use this foldable to summarize the similarities and differences after they model the effects of human activity on groundwater and surface water in a watershed.
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Layers of the Atmosphere Build an 8-foot Scaled-Down Model of our Atmosphere
Create an 8-foot-tall (2.4m), scaled-down model of our atmosphere and discover cool information about our atmosphere at the same time! Students will also learn a little history about humankind's ventures into our atmosphere.Includes Troposphere, Tropopause, Stratosphere, Stratopause, Mesosphere, Mesopause, Thermosphere, and Exosphere. No prep.The only way to get a true sense of atmospheric scale is with a model this big!Crosscutting concepts: scale, proportion, & quantity, systems & sy
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Ecology, Environmental Studies, and Earth Science Activities Bundle
Natural Resources / Energy Resources
Energy & Alternative Energy - Teaching about energy and energy resources? A great package to help you and your students organize their learning.
Includes 6 pages:
- two comparison charts for renewable energy resources
- comparison chart for non-renewable energy resources
- blank chart for you to use to compare resources of your choice
- organizer for students to more closely evaluate an energy resource of their choice
- 10 extension activity ideas
(c) Addie Williams, Addie Education
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6th - 10th, Adult Education
Rock Cycle Word Wall Coloring Sheets (4 pages)
This Word Wall Coloring set includes the geology words: Rock cycle, Igneous rock, Sedimentary rock, Metamorphic Rock.Coloring pages have recently become a huge hit all over the world. In my new series of word wall coloring pages, you can bring the excitement of coloring into your middle school and high school science classrooms. Word Walls are an instructional tool used primarily in an elementary classroom. While teaching in Texas my administrators decided they wanted secondary teachers to use t
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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HS-ESS2-3
Stream Tables Interactive Lab
Unleash the Power of Water: An Engaging Stream Table Lab Activity!Bring the fascinating world of rivers and erosion to life with this captivating stream table lab!This comprehensive resource offers:Hands-on Learning: Students actively explore stream erosion and deposition using a stream table.Multiple Activities: Engage students with diverse activities including:Observing the impact of water velocity and stream gradientsInvestigating stream loads and dischargeLearning about different river featu
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Earth's Rotation Causes Day and Night
Students can use this foldable to summarize (after a demonstration) that Earth rotates on its axis once approximately every 24 hours causing the day/night cycle and the apparent movement of the Sun across the sky;
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Water Cycle Beaded Bracelet Activity
This interactive water cycle activity is a BLAST for introducing how interconnected the water cycle is on Earth. Students learn the water cycle moves from lakes, oceans, animal waste, glaciers, etc and never stops! Nine station sheets are included. For this activity, you MUST buy the following: 9 different colors of beads (pony) in bowls, strong bracelet per students (like a pie cleaner or cord), and 9 die. Students roll the die at each station and read on the poster where his/ her drop of water
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2nd - 5th, Adult Education
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How to Make a Terrarium
A terrarium is a self-sustaining ecosystem. Strictly speaking, a terrarium refers to plants being kept in an enclosed glass container. However, some has preferred to grow an open terrarium (which should really be called a table-top garden instead).
I've used this presentation to conduct a terrarium making workshop for young adults and have guided young children (1-to-1) to make their own terrarium. In the presentation, I've used an open glass bowl as an example to show the steps, which would be
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Earthquakes / Faulting Graphic Organizer | Print & Digital
Earthquakes / Faulting Graphic Organizer - A great way for students to organize information on earthquakes and faulting. Instead of asking students to take traditional notes, they fill in the graphic organizer - either as review or instead of standard question and answer in a textbook. Excellent for review or group work. Includes 4 pages of organizers and all answer keys!Also includes a link to a Google™ Slides version of the organizers so students can add text, images, color and more while wo
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8th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Plate Tectonics / Earthquakes / Volcanoes Organizers | PRINT & DIGITAL
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
Astronomy: When We Left Earth Series Video Worksheets (Parts 1-6)
Astronomy: When We Left Earth Series Video Worksheets (Parts 1-6)
This includes video worksheet questions for all 6 parts of the "When We Left Earth" series, which can be found on Netflix.
ALL worksheets are in Word format and the ANSWER KEY is included
Part 1 Ordinary Supermen (13 questions)
Part 2 Friends and Rivals (14 questions)
Part 3 Landing the Eagle (13 questions)
Part 4 The Explorers (19 questions)
Part 5 The Shuttle (20 questions)
Part 6 A Home in Space (15 questions)
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Praxis Exam 5442 Middle School Science | Resource Guide
Greetings from the Test Prep Institute!We are excited to offer custom resource guides for education majors and novice teachers working to earn their teaching license. The document includes a list of resources available online for your exam. Some resources are free and others require a fee. Your purchase includes a free 30-day subscription to 240Tutoring.com. Please email info@thetestprepinstitute.com after your purchase to retrieve your subscription. Please note, this document is for individuals
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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