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12th grade earth sciences resources for Microsoft Word
Cycles of Matter Webquest
Updated as of 01/20/23!! This webquest takes students through animations of the water cycle, carbon, oxygen and phosphorus cycles, and nitrogen cycle. There are fill-in-the-blank and short answer questions that go along with each animation. This activity introduces students to the big idea that all matter is recycled and is never created or destroyed. *Answer Key included
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7th - 12th
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Planet Earth: The Complete Series Videos Questions
All of the BBC Planet Earth Videos: From Pole to Pole, Mountains, Freshwater, Caves, Deserts, Ice Worlds, Great Plains, Jungles, Shallow Seas, Seasonal Forests, Ocean Deep, Saving Species, Into the Wilderness, and Living Together are included in this packet of video questions. These video questions are meant to guide students through the films while emphasizing the interesting scientific facts found in the series. These video questions are appropriate for general middle science classes as well a
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5th - 12th
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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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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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NGSS:
HS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-5
, HS-ESS3-6
, HS-ESS3-4
Also included in:Â 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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6th - 12th
PBS The Dust Bowl Ken Burns Movie Guide Answer Key Episode 1 2 Part Documentary
The Dust Bowl - 2012 ‧ Documentary ‧ 4 hoursThe 1930s drought of North American prairie farmland, and its consequences during the Great Depression.Episode 1 – The Great Plow Up – 2012 - TV-PG – 1h 51mIn the early 20th century, homesteaders converge on the southern Plains, where wet years, rising wheat prices and World War I produce a classic boom. Then, in 1931, a decade-long drought begins, exacerbated by the Great Depression.38 questions with time stamps and answer keyPart 2 Reaping the Whirlw
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6th - 12th
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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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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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NGSS:
HS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-1
, HS-ESS3-5
Also included in:Â AP Environmental Science Unit 9 Bundle
Photographing Environmental Science or Final Exam Project
We are now in digital learning through the end of the year and what are you going to do about a final exam? Try this project out for your class! It is easily edited to correlate with your curriculum for Environmental Science. I have it set up for what we covered second semester, but you can easily change it out to fit your classroom. This is a great project idea that is engaging for students. They have to explore their house and neighborhood to find "terms" or "concepts" learned in class. Then,
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9th - 12th
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Earth Science Praxis Exam Study Guide
Need to get the extra certification to become more qualified? Say no more!
I made this study guide based on the PDF from the Praxis site: https://www.ets.org/s/praxis/pdf/5571.pdf
Includes all test specifications and sections needed to know for the exam!
> I passed for my state standards from studying this study guide I made! Good luck, studying one page a day helps!
MY STUDY TIPS:
• Study every day.
• Study a page a day, and also go back to old material to refresh.
• Pick a time of
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7th - 12th
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Evolution Unit - Natural Selection (Six 90min Lesson Bundle with Assessment)
Everything you need to teach Evolution in a science classroom. This bundle includes six 90 minute lessons (which can easily be split into twelve 40 minute lessons) and an assessment. Topics covered include Natural Selection Inquiry, M&M Selection lab, Evolutionary Theory, Population Genetics, Speciation, & a Variation Lab. After covering these topics with your class, review and assess their understanding with the assessment (two versions with keys included).Your purchase includes everyth
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6th - 12th
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Determining and Predicting El Nino and La Nina Years
By Sue WadsworthStudents will use past sea temperature data from NOAA to determine past El Nino and La Nina years as well as predict future events. Students will graph data, answer questions, and work on extension activities designed to help them see patterns and propose solutions to problems.
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7th - 12th
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Properties of Water: Stations Lab
This EDITABLE stations lab asks students to explore basic properties of water – a substance they use every day, but actually know little about! I use this after introducing the properties of water, as a good hands-on and visual support for some of these obscure concepts. It includes: eight hands-on stations with directions and questions, student answer sheet for easy response recording and grading, and teacher-setup and troubleshooting notes.• Station 1: Universal Solvent• Station 2: High heat
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7th - 12th
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HS-ESS2-5
Also included in:Â Biochemistry Bundle
Ecological Footprint Activity (updated 2018), AP Environmental Science
Have students use an online ecological footprint calculator to determine their personal Earth Overshoot day, their ecological footprint, how many earths would be needed if every human lived like they do, etc. Then students go deeper into data and compare their results with data from other countries around the world. Internet access required for this activity.
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9th - 12th
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Planisphere Lab Activity: A Star Wheel for Constellation Exploration
Inexpensive and ingenious! Planispheres are a unique tool for learning astronomy: a make-it-yourself star map, adjustable for any time of night in any month of the year. They are designed to show the position of prominent constellations in the night sky. It's a low-tech way for Ss to learn the location (and thus give meaning to key vocabulary terms) of the horizon, zenith, meridian, ecliptic and celestial equator on the celestial sphere. This lab includes two types of planispheres: one for stan
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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NGSS:
HS-ESS1-4
, 5-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-1
Also included in:Â StayGiant Earth Science Bundle: Astronomy (space exploration)
Identifying Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources - distance learning
This worksheet resource helps students identify resources as renewable or non-renewable and can be used as pre-learning, formative or summative assessment.Students discuss what renewable means as well as renewable and nonrenewable resources.Then, students are given a list of 24 resources to identify as renewable (regenerating in less than 100 years) and nonrenewable. Students must also determine how long a renewable resource takes to generate from daily as in solar energy to 100 years for soil.A
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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HS-ESS3-1
Also included in:Â Unit 6: Energy Bundle for AP Environmental Science
Movie Guide: PLASTIC PARADISE
This 57 minute film about the giant garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean was oustanding. Available on NETFLIX this documentary explores the giant floating patch of garbage and how it affects albatross populations and other wildlife on the Midway Island atoll. Journalist Angela Sun travels to Midway to explore the situation and its hazards to wildlife and also touches on how BPA's find their way from plastics to the ocean into our food. She also covers health hazards of BPA's from packaging and f
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6th - 12th
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Cladograms Worksheet and Practice
This worksheet allows students to work through the information found within a cladogram. This worksheet references Paul Anderson's Cladogram YouTube Video and then allows the students to practice making their own cladogram via a card set (uploaded as Cladogram Cards).
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9th - 12th
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Ozone Depletion Data Analysis 5E Lab-- Computer Lab
Use this inquiry lab with in-person or distance learning students. 7 pages for students with key included. This lab is not a simulation, but rather looking at data from various sources.Time: 2-4 days (90 minutes to 3 hours depending on level of students and whether you choose to assign the elaborate and evaluate)Students use real online data to determine trends in ozone depletion around the globe and trends in ozone-depleting chemicals along with the science and current trends.Use with Environme
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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NGSS:
HS-ESS3-6
, HS-ESS3-4
Also included in:Â AP Environmental Science Unit 9 Bundle
Finding Nemo Earth Science Ocean/ Ocean Floor Activity
This is a multi-part project that goes with the movie "Finding Nemo". Students use their knowledge of the ocean, ocean life and zones and topography of the ocean floor to complete four separate activities.
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4th - 12th
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The Universe: Secrets of the Sun Video Questions
The Secrets of the Sun video questions in the Universe Series Season 1 focuses on the energy, layers phenomena and life cycle of the sun. The video sheet has twenty-two questions and includes an answer key.
Other Universe Series video questions:
The Most Dangerous Places in the Universe Video Questions
The Universe Series: Mars the Red Planet Video Questions
The Universe: The End of the Earth Video Sheet
The Universe: The Life and Death of a Star Video Questions
The Universe: The Moon Video
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6th - 12th
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Pollution - Groundwater Lab (Earth Science)
This is an Earth Science lab where students create a model of buried pollution to see the effects of water and draining on the pollution.
Materials needed:
plastic container
sand
Kool-aid
water
book (used to elevate the container)
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5th - 12th
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Climate Change and Cities Experimental Design Lab-Distance Learning possible
Update for distance learning: This lab can be done at home if student have a simple, inexpensive thermometer. The picture shows an infrared thermometer, but this is not necessary as a regular, cheap thermometer works fine.This is a wonderful, engaging lab for students that helps them practice planning and carrying out experiments (NGSS Science and Engineering Practice #3 and AP Science Practices).Students work together to design an experiment testing which surfaces are hotter than others outside
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Unit 5 Bundle for AP Environmental Science
High School Earth Science Worksheet - Greenhouse Effect & Climate Change
Use this worksheet for guided practice in teaching your students about the greenhouse effect and global warming. There are multiple choice and extended response questions and an answer key.
Greenhouse effect, global warming, carbon dioxide, infrared radiation, ultraviolet radiation, radiation, insolation, solar, absorption, reflection, incoming, outgoing, long wave, short wave
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9th - 12th
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Rocks & Rock Cycle Review Activity (Editable)
TYPES OF ROCKS and THE ROCK CYCLE - A fun and engaging activity to review the concepts related to the Rock Cycle and Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic Rocks. Although often used with elementary students, my middle school and high-school-aged students have just as much fun playing "I Have, Who Has"! Includes 32 game cards, instructions, and a template for you to add your own terms and concepts. Includes a full answer key. This document CAN be EDITED in MS WORD.**This item is also included
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Rocks and Minerals - Types of Rocks, Rock Cycle, Minerals and More!
AP Environmental Science Unit 6 Test: Energy Resources and Energy Use
This test covers all of the content from the College Board curriculum from unit 6 for AP Environmental Science.There are fifty multiple choice questions and one free response question. It contains matching, stimulus based multiple choice, reading selections to analyze, math problems, and a free response question. All questions in this assessment are original and not found online for students to access.The content covers renewable and nonrenewable energies, pros and cons of fossil fuel energy use
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Nine Unit Tests and Nine Unit Quizzes for AP Environmental Science
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