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11th grade earth sciences resources for Easel Activities
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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MS-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-3
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
Plate Tectonics Activity: Reading Tectonic Maps Worksheets
Reading Plate Tectonics Maps: This resource was created to help middle school students gain confidence and comfort in reading and dissecting plate tectonic maps. There are three separate maps with questions. Each handout has an answer key. With each map, students are asked to count the number of plates, find plates, decipher direction, speed, or identify land features created by tectonic movement. Use these for classwork, homework, or leave with a sub. This is a print-and-go resource. Please see
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6th - 11th
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Also included in: Plate Tectonics Activity Bundle: Worksheets - Notes - Activities
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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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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4th - 12th
Space Differentiated Leveled Journal Writing for Special Education / Autism
Do you have students who have difficulty writing and coming up with their own thoughts? With three different levels included, this space journal prompt pack about our solar system is perfect for all of your non-writers, emerging writers, and writers! This pack is great for science class and lessons on planets, the solar system and outer space. There are 10 differentiated journals included, enough to get you through 2 full weeks if you do a journal each day. Journals include: Sun, Mercury, Venus,
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PreK - 12th
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Rock Cycle and Types of Rocks Webquest Activity
This webquest makes learning about the rock cycle and types of rocks easy and engaging. Students will learn about:What rocks are The types of rocks and their characteristics Igneous rocks Sedimentary rocksMetamorphic rocks The rock cycle and how rocks change The difference between rocks and mineralsThis resource works great as an introduction to the rock cycle and the types of rocks, as a sub-plan, or as a reinforcement activity. Students will access subject matter and student appropriate digita
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6th - 11th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-1
, HS-ESS2-2
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
Weather for Interactive Notebooks (Distance Learning & Google Classroom)
Now you can add an interactive layer to this PDF and assign it to your students through Google Classroom!This PDF includes 38 full pages of various flippables, graphic organizers and activities for an Interactive Science Notebook to be used during a unit on Weather (14 pages are teacher answer keys). Most foldables and flippables are left blank on the inside. This will allow you to fully customize each one for whatever curriculum or grade you teach with the information you want your students to
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Grades:
4th - 11th
Also included in: Special Bundle for Lauren P.
Before the Flood Movie Questions: Climate Change and Global Warming Documentary
Before the Flood is an important documentary on Climate Change presented by National Geographic and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Climate Change is quickly becoming one of the most important issues of our time. It's our job as educators to make sure students are aware of the impact that climate change might have on their futures. Before the Flood is the perfect way to introduce the topic of climate change and environmentalism in your classroom!This resource contains four pages of questions about t
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Bundle for High School
Earth's Layers Anchor Charts, Plate Tectonics Anchor Charts, Earth Science
Earth's Layers Plate Tectonics Earth Science Anchor Charts Great as Bellringers, Word Walls, Study Guides, and Concept Boards | Great for ESL Students | Google Link for Distance Learning This product can also be purchased in a EARTH SCIENCE MEGA BUNDLE The following topics are represented with anchor charts: Earth’s LayersEarth’s SpheresLithosphereFoldFaultPlate Tectonics TheoryPangaea Continental Drift-Plate Tectonics TheorySeafloor Spreading-Plate Tectonics TheoryOcean Floor FeaturesTopograp
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-3
, MS-ESS3-2
, MS-ESS2-2
Also included in: Earth's Layers and Plate Tectonics Earth Science Bundle, Print & Digital
Fossil Fuels Virtual Field Trip
Explore fossil fuels and global warming first hand with this virtual field trip. Learn all about oil, coal, and natural and conservation and how these fossil fuels are formed. Perfect for earth science classes and conservation climate change unit! Take a Virtual Field Trip:Learn what fossil fuels are and how they are formedExplore coal mining and coal uses and formation in detailLearn about how oil is drilled and formed and used by peopleSee first hand how natural gas is gathered and its usesFo
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4th - 12th
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Scrumptious Soil Lab Activity- Create an Edible Soil Profile Model
Lab activities involving food are always a big hit in my classroom. Why not bring the fun to your classroom with this delicious lab activity?
This lab activity requires students to implement their knowledge of soil profiles and horizon characteristics to create a tasty treat.
This product includes:
- Teacher notes for preparation and implementation of the lab activity
- An optional vocabulary worksheet
- A 3 page student lab worksheet with step-by-step instructions as well as pre-lab, l
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Soil Labs BUNDLE
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
An Inconvenient Truth (2006): Complete Video Guide & Graphic Organizer
Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.This 22-question video guide will help your students get the most out of this powerful and insightful movie. This movie guide comes with an answer key. This movie also comes with a graphic organizer (it is up to the teacher to decide) that allow
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: An Inconvenient Truth 1 & 2: Discounted Bundle
NOVA: Hunting the Elements Video Questions Worksheet PDF
Science writer and "Tech Guru" David Pogue hosts this special 2-hour episode of NOVA, where he travels the globe exploring the history of the periodic table and the important features of many of the elements. David is an insightful and funny host, and he provides an entertaining and engaging viewing experience. David meets a variety of people involved with the elements, including popular author Theo Gray, who shows David a periodic table "table".The eight page video worksheet (four pages double
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7th - 12th
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Specific Heat Lab Activity: Land and Sea Breeze Lab
Students often struggle with the concepts of specific heat, land and sea breezes, and heating and cooling times of land and water until they can see it in action, and practice foundational science inquiry skills at the same time. In this ready-to-go lab activity students model for land and sea breezes, by heating and cooling both land and water, and collect data, graph, and analyze their data to understand applications. This activity fits well in a unit on specific heat, climate, weather, atm
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Grades:
8th - 11th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-1
, MS-PS1-4
, MS-ESS2-6
Also included in: Earth Science: Buy The Store Lifetime Money-Saving Bundle
Understanding Weather Fronts by Analyzing Surface Weather Maps Activity
In this Earth Science activity, students will read and learn about the different types of precipitation. They will understand and demonstrate where air masses come from and what type of weather they are most likely to bring: continental polar, maritime polar, continental tropical, maritime tropical, continental arctic, maritime arctic. Students will then go to Intellicast.com and analyze the current surface weather maps as well as a deeper inspection of their local state surface analysis. In
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7th - 12th
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NGSS:
HS-ESS2-2
, MS-ESS2-5
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
Reason for the Seasons (complete lesson) (Distance Learning Compatible)
Now you can add an interactive layer to this PDF and assign it to your students through Google Classroom!GREAT INTRO ACTIVITY FOR SEASONS!First students will read a brief passage titled "Reason for the Seasons" and fill out a related graphic organizer (modified version included). Then the students complete an activity in which they color, fill out, and assemble a seasons foldable using the information from the passage. (2 different versions of the foldable are included - one for letter-sized pa
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Custom Bundle for Jade C.
Journey to the Center of the Earth Movie Viewing Guide & Worksheet
Add another interesting element to your Basics of Earth Science or Geography Units with this "Journey to the Center of the Earth" Movie Viewing Guide and Worksheet.This lesson includes a pre-screening activity with basic questions about Geography and Earth Science concepts that might require students to conduct a little bit of research.The viewing guide is split into four sections to go along with the movie. Each of the four sections contains questions that are designed to make students think ab
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: ★ GROWING BUNDLE ★ All Social Studies Lessons (30% Discount)
The Day After Tomorrow Movie Viewing Guide & Worksheets
Add another interesting element to your Weather and Climate Unit with this "The Day After Tomorrow" Movie Viewing Guide and Worksheets.This lesson includes a pre-screening activity with basic questions about the weather and climate that will require students to conduct a little bit of research. The viewing guide is split into four sections to go along with the movie. Each of the four sections contains questions that are designed to make students think about the people and ideas at play in the f
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Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: ★ GROWING BUNDLE ★ All Social Studies Lessons (30% Discount)
Renewable Energy Research Poster Project - PDF & Easel Version
* This is the PDF version. I also have an EDITABLE Google Doc version of this product. See my store.Give your students the opportunity to research and present about a renewable energy source that is interesting to them! This project includes options for many of the common renewable energy sources but also includes some new cutting edge technologies.This product includes: -A student instruction sheet and scoring guide-Three guided student research pages and student diagram page-Audience note page
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Grades:
9th - 12th
NGSS:
HS-ESS3-2
, HS-ESS3-4
Weather and Climate - Text and Exercise Sheets
Weather is the state of the atmosphere in a certain place at a certain time. Weather always changes and is different all around the world. It depends on many elements . It may be warm and sunny in one place, but cold, windy and rainy somewhere else.Climate refers to the weather conditions in a certain area over a longer period of time.Contents : 16 pagesIntroductionElements of the weatherTemperatureAir pressureHumidityPrecipitationGlobal wind systemsAir massesClimate ZonesWeather forecastingExt
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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