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7th grade The New Year archaeology resources for Microsoft Word
Types of Fossils Activity
Different types of fossils. True form, cast, mold, and trace fossils. Students will replicate each type of fossil and glue it to the handout.
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1st - 10th
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Geologic Time WebQuest | Earth Science, History of the Earth
Berkeley has a really nice interactive website about Geologic Time. This WebQuest walks students through the interactive in Part I, and in Part II, they get to research a dinosaur of their choice. This usually took my students one class period (40ish minutes). I used it in my 7th grade Earth Science class (I no longer teach 7th grade).The document is in Word, so feel free to modify it as needed for your class.*******WARNING: WEBSITES CHANGE ALL THE TIME. This is out of my control, and sometimes
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: The BIG Middle School Earth Science Bundle!
End Start Beginning of Year Bright Future Summer Bulletin Door Decor Editable
Hello! Welcome to Julie's Color Wheelby ♥Julie Marie>>>DESCRIPTION<<<This bright, fun bulletin board or door decor is the perfect way to show off your bright class! It includes the wording for "Our Future is Bright so grab your shades", a colorful matching border, editable sunglasses for student names, and an editable sun in two sizes for the teacher's name. All components are resizable by grabbing the corner of the page. Printable on 8.5x11 paper, just print, cut and hang.>
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PreK - 8th
Question Exploration: How do Index Fossils Help Relative Dating of Rock Layers?
How Do Index Fossils Help Relative Dating of Rock Layers? This Question Exploration helps Ss explain index fossils and relative dating using Steno’s law of superposition, the principle of original horizontality, and the principle of lateral continuity. Question Exploration Routine is an instructional methods that teachers can use to help a diverse student population understand a body of content information by carefully answering a critical question to arrive at a main idea answer. The Concept Co
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6th - 10th
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MS-ESS1-4
, HS-ESS1-6
, MS-ESS2-3
, HS-ESS2-1
Writing Prompt Pack Narrative Essay, Personal, Text-Based, Making Good Choices
In this easy-prep narrative writing assignment, students will read and analyze an excerpt from a popular film with an issue that all students faces: the internal struggle of making the right choice. Students are challenged to recall an experience in their own lives when they were called upon to do the right thing, and then they must relate that experience to the stimulus. It would be great for back-to-school, the New Year, or even end-of-year with 8th graders or seniors. Suggestions for teachin
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7th - 11th
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Time Capsule Letter to Your Future Self Creative Writing Assignment
Worksheet Print out and hand to your students. They'll love it! I give it to my 7th graders. The sheet goes through all topics for them to write about. Students are given one to two periods of class time and a weekend to complete it or make it as long as they'd like. They seal it up and put their graduation year on the front with their name.
Their senior year, they get the time capsule letter back and they LOVE reading it!
I've done this assignment for over 10 years and this sheet is
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6th - 9th
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Half-Life Labs with M&M's, Licorice, and Plain Paper
This product includes two versions of my M&M half-life laboratory activity. One version is a more traditional Earth Science radioactive dating lab. The other is slightly more advanced Physics inquiry based lab that requires the use of a graphing calculator, like the TI-83 or TI-84. Both versions allow for hands-on examination as in this lab, students will experiment with a half-life model in which M&M candies represent radioactive "m&mium" atoms. The imprinted "M" on each candy repre
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7th - 10th
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MS-ESS1-4
, HS-PS1-8
Also included in: StayGiant Candy Mix Bundle: Lab Investigations
Candy Bar Rock Layers
This is a hands-on modeling activity to help students better understand the law of superposition and relative aging of rocks. The activity is set up as a lab format.
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7th - 8th
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Mesopotamia Virtual Archeology: Sumer and Babylon Virtual Tour
Students learn about ancient Mesopotamia by using four virtual resources: A virtual tour of an archeological site in Babylon, a 3D Reconstruction of Babylon, An analysis of Sumerian artifacts from a museum, and a video of a Ziggurat. A worksheet is provided to analyze these sources, as well as links to all the sources.
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6th - 10th
Into the Inferno 2016 Netflix Documentary Werner Herzog volcanoes Movie Guide
Into the Inferno - 2016 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 47m – TV-PGWerner Herzog and volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer travel the globe and visit volcanoes in Indonesia, Ethiopia and even North Korea in an attempt to understand man's relationship with one of nature's most violent wonders.38 questions with time stamps (2 pages) Answer key (3 pages)
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7th - 12th
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Goal Setting Soccer Ball
Kids can set goals for the upcoming year. I displayed the balls on a giant soccer net made to look like a goal.
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K - 8th
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Create A Creature Taxonomy Project
In this activity, which is based on Carlos Linnaeus' animal classification system, student will identify a new creature that they have discovered. They begin by using their creativity to think of a creature that does not exist. It has them identifying the characteristics of three of the five Kingdoms and then takes them through identifying their creature from Phylum all the way to Species.
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6th - 9th
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History of Earth Webquest
Webquest that utilizes a phenomenal free lesson created by the University of California Museum of Paleontology program 'Explorations Through Time' A series of interactive modules that explore the history of life on Earth, while focusing on the processes of science.
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5th - 8th
King Tut's Final Secrets, Viewing Guides
National Geographic: King Tut's Final Secrets follows a group of scientists as they use artifacts and technology in order to reconstruct the history of the supposed curse that haunts the tomb of the famous king, bringing untimely death to those who disturb the sacred resting place ~Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Movie Length: 95 Minutes
You will receive the Viewing Guides for this movie. The DVD is not included, but it is readily available on Blockbuster, Netflix, etc.
Viewing Guide 1 cover
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6th - 12th
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Weathering, Erosion, Deposition - Hands-on STATIONS
I use this after students have learned the basics about weathering, erosion, and deposition. My on-level or special needs students use their notes about WED to help them with the follow-up questions to the activity at each station.
Students travel in groups around the room to complete each activity. Warning: as with most hands-on activities, it can get a little messy, but it's well worth it as students remember this activity and you can reference it as you go forward through the geology conte
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5th - 8th
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Info Reading Text - Weird Histroy: Easter Island Mysteries
Click here for "Author's Purpose" additional activityAn informational text article about Easter Island, and its mysterious moai statues! A great activity for studying ancient civilizations, use it as a supplement, extra credit, or substitute teaching plan anytime! This can be done as a web quest assignment using the site. The information is from History.com, the questions are
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Info Reading Text - Weird History Bundle #7
Bill Nye Science Guy Movie – Fossils. Video Worksheet & Key: Fun + Knowledge!
Work while watching a video and after that:
• fill in the blanks, answer to the questions;
• what new facts and words have you learned for the past 23 minutes of video?
• express your feelings about the movie: WHAT episode you like the most and WHY?
Suitable for all grade levels science worksheet
• helps to ignite the thinking process;
• enhances picture analysis, vocabulary building and writing skills;
• initiates classroom discussions.
Activities in this printable worksheet can be comple
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3rd - 11th
Geologic Time PowerPoint Project
Geologic Time Scale intro or culminating activity - this creative project has students creating a PowerPoint Presentation about an assigned portion of the Geologic Time Scale (teacher decides to assign eras, epochs, etc. based on class configuration). Info sheet, rubric, project checklist, final grade sheet, and individual evaluation sheet included. Also attached to document is a .mov file of an actual student ppt sample. Great option for differentiating! Word document can be modified for your
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6th - 8th
"The Gods Must Be Crazy" Film Questions / Article Activity
Provided in this lesson are film questions for the classic 1984 film, "The Gods Must Be Crazy" as well as a discussion article and questions that talks about the movie's star and his effect the movie had on his people, the "bushman" of South Africa. Great for a World History or World Cultures class
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7th - 12th
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Question Exploration: What is Radioactive Dating? (carbon-14 dating)
What is radioactive dating? (such as carbon-14 dating). This Question Exploration help Ss explain half-life decay. Radioactive nuclei decay in different amounts of time based on their half-lives. Radioactive decay is the process by which a nucleus becomes stable.Question Exploration Routine is an instructional methods that teachers can use to help a diverse student population understand a body of content information by carefully answering a critical question to arrive at a main idea answer. Stud
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7th - 10th
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MS-ESS1-4
, HS-ESS1-6
, HS-PS1-8
Also included in: StayGiant Earth Science Bundle: The Biosphere (biogeochemical cycles)
Rock Layers 3D Illustration Project (Law of Cross Cutting & Superposition)
Students are required to use their knowledge of the Law of Cross-Cutting and Superposition to give relative and absolute age of rock layers.
Regular Science and Pre-AP Science Rubrics included.
Students can either make a stand alone representation or a poster, but the poster must be 3D, made with textures.
Students can use anything (cereal, twigs, glitter, ANYTHING, etc. to give texture to each layer).
Students present their project (I grade with the rubric WHILE it is being presented)
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5th - 12th
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Find Someone Who - New Year's Resolutions (After Winter Break)
Time for a brain break! It's the first days back from Winter Break ❄️ and a chance for team building in the classroom. Let your middle and high school students walk and talk about their New Year's Resolutions with this "Find Someone Who..." activity.Teenagers like to talk about what they do during their free time. These partner and circulating speaking tasks will maximize the participation in your classroom. This activity is in Microsoft Word .doc form so that you can customize the discussion t
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Find Someone Who: Happy Everything Winter Holidays Brain Break Bundle
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution: Study Guide and Activity Pack
Generate excitement and engagement in your classroom as your students learn about the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution.
This packet has a 30 question Study Guide covering the NEOLITHIC AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION. I have included five highly interdependent cooperative group activities using the STUDY GUIDE. They are structured to motivate students to be engaged with one another as well as content.
Five different games are also included. You are shown how to play all of the games with the STUDY G
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6th - 12th
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New Year or Start of School Bulletin Shine or Door Decor, Editable in WORD
Hello! Welcome to Julie's Color Wheelby ♥Julie Marie>>>DESCRIPTION<<<This fun, colorful bulletin board or door decor is the perfect way to celebrate the start of the school or the New Year in January! It includes the wording for "It's Your Year To Shine", a matching bulletin/door border, and 6 different editable name glitter stars, and colorful diamond clipart. Plus, an "___is my year to shine" writing prompt page in two line styles. Printable on 8.5x11 paper, just print, cut,
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PreK - 8th
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