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Earth sciences study guides for Easel Activities
Seasons - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Do your students struggle with scientific literacy? Do you find yourself at a loss for how to promote vocabulary retention? Are waning attention spans becoming a larger and larger problem in your classroom from year to year? If you answered yes to any of those questions then this resource is for you. I believe that teaching literacy is the job of every teacher, not just the heroes in English and Language Arts. And the only way we can help our students improve is by modeling and giving them chanc
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6th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-1
Also included in: Earth's Place in the Universe Bundle
EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANOES AND TSUNAMIS. ACTIVITY PACKET (NGSS ESS1.C, ESS2.B)
EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANOES, TSUNAMIS, ACTIVITY PACKET, 37 pages, fully printable, no prep needed, print and go! Information, activities, assessments, teacher notes, plate tectonic, seafloor spreading, plate boundaries, mountain formations, mountains, biologyguy, middle school science, NGSS assessments.Thank you for purchasing this NGSS aligned resource “Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis”. This resource includes information and activities, which cover the core ideas from ESS1.C: The History of Plan
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Ecosystems, Biomes, Food Chains, and Food Webs Project Choice Board
This project choice board is an awesome way to have students review ecosystems and biomes, including food chains and food webs. This project choice board has 9 activities, such as create a test, free thinker, create a diorama, be a reporter, animal research, study resources, be the teacher, draw a picture, and Venn diagram. Choice boards are a great way to differentiate instruction in your classroom!
Includes:
- choice board
- directions
This choice board covers Georgia Performance Standards:
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Biomes, Ecosystems, Food Chains, and Food Webs Unit Bundle
Types of Precipitation Classroom Posters
These classroom posters are a great visual when teaching about the different types of precipitation. You can also print these posters out and have your students glue them into their notebooks as a study tool!
Includes:
- 1 poster with all 4 types of precipitation
- rain
- snow
- sleet
- hail
These classroom posters cover Georgia Performance Standards:
S4E3. Students will differentiate between the states of water and how they relate to the water cycle and weather.
e. Investigate different fo
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Weather & Water Cycle Unit Bundle
Water Cycle Classroom Posters
These water cycle posters outline the most important parts of the water cycle, including the 3 states of water. You can print and laminate these posters to display around your classroom or print them out to put in your student's notebooks!
Includes:
- 3 states of water poster
- evaporation
- condensation
- precipitation
- collection
- runoff
- infiltration
- water cycle model
These classroom posters cover Georgia Performance Standards:
S4E3. Students will differentiate between the states of
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Weather & Water Cycle Unit Bundle
Ecosystems Biomes Food Chains and Food Webs Review Task Cards - Set of 28
These review task cards are an awesome way to check your student's understanding of simple machines and force and motion. These task cards can be used as a SCOOT game, a game of memory, or even Jeopardy! Task cards cover ecosystems, abiotic factors, biotic factors, producers, consumers, decomposers, energy, predator versus prey, food chains, scavengers, adaptations, camouflage, color & mimicry, behavior, and extinction.
Includes:
- 28 task cards
- recording sheet
- answer key
These task ca
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Biomes, Ecosystems, Food Chains, and Food Webs Unit Bundle
Biomes, Ecosystems, Food Chains, and Food Webs Study Guide and Test
This study guide and test set is the perfect way to wrap up your biomes, ecosystems, food chains, and food webs unit! Both study guide and test cover vocabulary, abiotic and biotic factors, relationships in ecosystems, producers, consumers, decomposers, food chains and food webs, adaptations and extinction.
Includes:
- 4 page study guide
- study guide answer key
- 5 page test
- test answer key
This study guide and test covers Georgia Performance Standards:
S4L1. Students will describe the rol
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Biomes, Ecosystems, Food Chains, and Food Webs Unit Bundle
Solar System Study Guide & Test
This study guide and test set is the perfect way to wrap up your solar system unit! Both study guide and test cover vocabulary, stars, planets, phases of the moon, day/night, seasons, and telescopes.
Includes:
- 4 page study guide
- study guide answer key
- 4 page test
- test answer key
This study guide and test cover Georgia Performance Standards:
S4E1. Students will compare and contrast the physical attributes of stars, star patterns, and planets.
a. Recognize the physical attributes of
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Solar System Unit Bundle
Weather & Water Cycle Study Guide & Test
This study guide and test set is the perfect way to wrap up your weather and water cycle unit! Both study guide and test cover vocabulary, states of water, the water cycle, types of precipitation, fronts, weather forecasts, and weather/climate.
Includes:
- 4 page study guide
- study guide answer key
- 5 page test
- test answer key
This study guide and test cover Georgia Performance Standards:
S4E3. Students will differentiate between the states of water and how they relate to the water cycle
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Weather & Water Cycle Unit Bundle
Clouds Classroom Posters
These cloud posters give a short to the point description of each type of cloud. You can print and laminate these posters to display around your classroom or print them out to put in your student's notebooks!
Includes:
- cirrus
- stratus
- cumulus
- cumulonimbus
- altostratus
- altocumulus
- stratocumulus
- cirrocumulus
These classroom posters cover Georgia Performance Standards:
S4E3. Students will differentiate between the states of water and how they relate to the water cycle and weather.
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Weather & Water Cycle Unit Bundle
Solar System Project Choice Board
This project choice board is an awesome way to have students review the Solar System, including stars, planets, constellations, phases of the Moon, and seasons. This project choice board has 9 activities, such as create a test, journal entries, game maker, write an essay, free thinker, flash cards, Venn diagram, presentation maker, and draw a picture. Choice boards are a great way to differentiate instruction in your classroom!
Includes:
- choice board
- directions
- additional resources
This
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Solar System Unit Bundle
Kelp Forest and Sea Otters the Keystone Species NGSS Marine Science Lesson
Kelp Forest and Sea Otters the Keystone Species NGSS 3-LS4-3; NGSS 3-LS4-4 NGSS Marine Science Lesson is ideal for teaching about kelp, parts of kelp, world kelp forest habitats, ecological balance and the kelp forest food web, physical and behavioral adaptations of sea otters, their diet, survival and much MORE! Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems Unit This lesson includes: Learning Objectives KLW ChartWhat is Kelp?Parts of KelpKelp Forest ReadingWorld Kelp Forest HabitatsEcological bal
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
Solar System Review Task Cards - Set of 32
These review task cards are an awesome way to check your student's understanding of the Solar System. These task cards can be used as a SCOOT game, a game of memory, or even Jeopardy! Task cards cover planets, stars, Moon phases, seasons, and day/night!
Includes:
- 32 task cards
- recording sheet
- answer key
These review task cards cover Georgia Performance Standards:
S4E1. Students will compare and contrast the physical attributes of stars, star patterns, and planets.
a. Recognize the phy
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Solar System Unit Bundle
Before the Flood Documentary Movie Guide | Questions | Worksheet (PG - 2016)
Before the Flood Documentary Movie Guide | Questions | Worksheet (PG - 2016) challenges students to break down and understand the plethora of information in this climate change documentary. Explore how the action items at the end of the film can be realized in your students' lives and what obstacles they will need to overcome. Ask students to ponder how a carbon tax would affect their country, business and their personal lives as a consumer.Check the preview file for high resolution sample quest
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Two Degrees by Gratz Earth Day Novel Guide Middle School
Two Degrees by Alan Gratz Earth Day Middle School Global Climate Change Novel Guide is great for teaching about climate change across North America. From California's wildfires, Florida hurricanes, to Canadian polar bears. This novel guide includes: Learning ObjectivesKWL ChartChapter-by-chapter reading comprehension questions and answersBackground geographical information on wildfiresMapsNew Vocabulary ActivitiesBackground information on Churchill, ManitobaBackground information on hurricanesHu
Grades:
4th - 7th
Parts of a Plant & Plant Tissue Types: Student Note Organizer
Comprehensive note organizer for students to use as they research and learn about the different parts of a plant and plant tissues. *Now a fillable pdf document.Extremely beneficial when conducting online research! These sheets will help consolidate the wealth of information in an organized, easy to visualize, format.Completed chart may be taped together to form a wall chart of plant parts, from shoot to root.The four types of plant tissue (meristematic, dermal, ground, and vascular) and the p
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6th - 11th
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NGSS:
HS-LS1-2
Also included in: Ecology, Environmental Studies, and Earth Science Activities Bundle
Video Worksheet (Movie Guide) for Bill Nye - Earth's Crust
These video worksheets allow students to follow along as they watch the listed Bill Nye video.
Watching a video is no longer a passive activity!! Students are engaged during the video as they must listen AND write at the same time; definitely an important skill for students to master.
Each video worksheet includes fill-in-the blank, true/false, and/or short answer questions. Count this as a grade or go over the answers at the end of the video as a supplement to notes or a test study guide.
A
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Grades:
6th - 10th
Also included in: Video Worksheets (Movie Guides) for Bill Nye - Earth Science Bundle
Visual Volcano Guide/Worksheet
Volcanoes are already awesome, but with popular anime style and easy reference, they can be student-friendly as well!This guide is intended to visually represent the three main varieties of volcanoes (composite, cinder, shield) and 3 volcano status types (active, dormant, extinct).The visual provides quick representation but also encourages students to research two defining features of each volcano and find an example in the world for each "type" on their own (Vesuvius, Mauna Loa, etc).Keywords:
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5th - 9th
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Eclipses, Lunar Phases, Tides, and Seasons Practice Packet
This must-have packet will reinforce middle school science students’ understanding of Earth’s seasons, the tides, eclipses, and the lunar phases.Students will perform the following tasks in this lesson.Sketch a few select lunar phases.Draw and label the moon's position in relation to Earth and the sun during a solar eclipse.Draw and label the moon's position in relation to Earth and the sun during a lunar eclipse.Draw and label the umbra and penumbra for both eclipses.Differentiate waxing from w
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6th - 9th
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Volcano Formation Coloring and Analysis Classification Activity
I created this full-page worksheet to help my middle school earth science students compare and contrast the formation and properties of three different structural types of volcano - cinder cone, composite, and shield. Students will draw, color, and label the progression of eruptions for all three classes of a volcano on the first page. Students will color and trace the edges of the growing layers of igneous rock as well. On the backside, students will identify whether the sixteen informative sta
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Middle School Earth Science Activity Bundle Special
High School NGSS: Earth and Space Sciences: Year-Long Planning (CAST Targets)
This document is meant for year-long planning. It shows detailed information on each of the Earth and Space Sciences Performance Expectations listed on the CAST High School Blueprint document. Teachers will see: the PE; content that could be included in assessment items; DCIs associated with each PE; Targets item writers use when developing test items; possible student misconceptions; "released" sample items; and vetted lesson plans (100 lesson links). The lessons can be used by teachers to
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Grades:
10th
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NGSS:
HS-ESS2-5
, HS-ESS1-6
, HS-ESS2-3
, HS-ESS2-1
, HS-ESS1-4
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Faults, Stress, and Crustal Deformation Review Worksheet
This full-page worksheet reinforces the stresses that act upon the earth’s crust and the faults and the deformations that result. I created it for my middle school earth science class. There are four sections. In the first section, students write the geologic term that is opposite in meaning, in orientation, or in association to the provided term or phrase in the table. I provided a word bank for the first section. In the second section, students circle the pair of terms in each row of terms tha
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Middle School Earth Science Activity Bundle Special
Stresses and Deformation of Earth's Crust Fill-in-the-Blank Review Activity
This full-page activity is a fill-in-the-blank guide for a unit in middle school earth science about stresses and deformation of Earth’s crust. There are seven paragraph-long sections, each containing a boxed-in word bank. The themes for the sections are as follows.StressDeformations Faulting Faulted mountains and valleysFolding Fault or fold? Plateaus, domes, and the floating crust Some of the terms covered are anticline, syncline, ductile, rift valley, fault, fold, dome, plateau, mantle, conti
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Middle School Earth Science Activity Bundle Special
Plate Tectonics Fill-in-the-Blank Study Guide
This full-page study guide about plate tectonics features six fill-in-the-blank sections, each with its word bank. I annually assign it in my middle school earth science class. The layout provides adequate space for students to write their answers on the lines. Each section covers a different subtopic with the convenient grouping of terms for compare and contrast review purposes. The titles of the sections in this fill-in-the-blank reading guide are drifting continents of Earth, evidence, the sp
Grades:
7th - 9th
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Also included in: Middle School Earth Science Activity Bundle Special
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