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8th grade earth sciences Common Core RST.6-8.2 resources
Solar and Lunar Eclipses Activity Tides Worksheets
PERFECT FOR THE SOLAR ECLIPSE 2024! Teach your students about tides, lunar, and solar eclipses through a teacher presentation, notetaking activity, science worksheets, graphic organizers, and digital check-ins. Your students will learn about the characteristics of low, high, spring, and neap tides, as well as lunar and solar eclipses. In addition, students will understand the relationship between the Earth, moon, and sun. Also included are links to various NGSS approved simulations to deepen stu
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6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-1
Also included in: Full Year Science Curriculum
Sun Layers and Atmosphere Activity
Inform your science students of the sun's interior and atmospheric layers using the included three pages of PRINT and DIGITAL reading worksheets, comprehension questions, and sketch note review activity. Students will learn about the core, radiation zone, convection zone, photosphere, chromosphere, and corona. They will also learn about special features of the sun, such as sunspots, the prominence, solar flares and solar winds. Like this activity? Check out my earth science bundle and save 20% b
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5th - 8th
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Earthquake Jello Lab Activity STEM
This lab or activity is a hands-on and collaborative learning lesson that incorporates the following:
STEM
Earthquakes
Geology
Engineering
Design
Real-World Connections
Problem Solving
Inferencing and Predicting
Materials: this handout, mini-marshmellows, toothpicks, jello
Overview: Students will work together to tackle a real-world problem: engineers are constantly working to design and build buildings that can survive the impact of serious earthquakes. I show students some videos and picture
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5th - 10th
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Natural Disasters News Report Project
This project was created to help students cultivate their researching skills, literacy skills, and science skills. Make research fun with this Natural Disaster News Report Project! Materials Include: -Initial task and "big idea" questions -Research packet with guiding questions to help with research -Scaffolded script pages with sentence stems that directly fit with the research packet-Unscaffolded script pages -Research and Presentation Checklists-Rubric
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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NGSS:
4-ESS3-2
Reuniting Pangaea- Continental Drift Lesson
In this 2 part-lesson, students will collect data on fossil evidence and create their own landmass map with various colors to represent the locations of fossil discoveries. Then, they will cut out the landmasses and reassemble them logically to create a giant supercontinent (Pangaea). Students will share their decision and reasoning on the evidence with their group or partner, along with answering 4 conclusion questions.
The teacher will post the correct landmass model key and students will g
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Sandra V.
Erosion Activity and Project STEM Conservation NGSS Middle School MS-ESS3-1
This PDF resource is a fun, creative, and engaging NGSS middle school research and engineering project incorporating STEM that challenges students in 6 different erosion and soil conservation scenarios to save their house/land! In this PBL (problem-based learning) resource with worksheets, students research the type of erosion and brainstorm, design, build, and present a product to prevent or stop it. It teaches students about the effects of erosion on various places and how the uneven distribut
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Grades:
4th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ESS3-1
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
Also included in: NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
Earth Science Curriculum
Do you need ways to engage your earth science students on the topics of lunar phases, stars, galaxies, solar system, Earth's layers, Earth's rotation and revolution, tides, eclipses, weathering, erosion, rocks, and minerals? This bundle of earth science curriculum lessons offers a variety of learning methods to help students better understand concepts related to planet earth. This earth science curriculum includes science text worksheets and digital Google Slides, comprehension questions, projec
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6th - 8th
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Topographic Mapping Lesson with Worksheet, Power Point, and Map Reading Activity
This lesson goes over how topographical maps are constructed, what their symbols mean, and what we use these maps for. The worksheet follows along with the power point presentation to keep students engaged. The map reading activity gives a students a simple topographic map that they have to answer questions by interpreting the map. This lesson is designed for late elementary through intermediate grades.
Key Terms Include:
- topography
- contour lines
- contour intervals
- index contours
- scal
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4th - 8th
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World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky Marine Science Earth Day Lesson
World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky Marine Science Earth Day Lesson is one of the most popular middle school science books that brings awareness to overfishing, biodiversity and ecosystems, toxins in food chains, human ocean pollution, evolution, adaptation, and extinction of the species. Concepts covered: The theory of natural selectionBiologically and commercially extinct fishBiodiversity & ecosystemOver-fishingHuman ocean pollution Effects of toxins in food chainOcean salinity and temper
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Soil Conservation No Prep Lesson with Power Point, Worksheet, and Vocab Activity
This lesson goes over the different ways that we can conserve our soil and keep it fertile. This lesson also covers the Dust Bowl that occurred in the 1930s. The worksheet follows along with the power point presentation to keep students engaged it also works for review. The vocabulary matching activity provides all the definitions and vocabulary words used in the lesson. This lesson is designed for late elementary through intermediate grades.
Key Terms Include:
- natural resources
- fertility
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4th - 8th
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Soil Formation Lesson with Power Point, Worksheet, and Web Soil Survey Activity
This lesson goes over how soil is defined, what soil is composed of, and how it is produced. The worksheet follows along with the power point presentation to keep students engaged and works as a review sheet. The web soil survey takes you to the USDA's Web Soil Survey application and allows students to pin point what sort of soil surrounds their school or home. This lesson is designed for late elementary through intermediate grades.
Key Terms Include:
- soil
- humus
- fertility
- loam
- bedroc
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5th - 8th
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Air Pollution Lesson with Power Point, Worksheet, and Review Page
This power point presentation goes over different types of air pollution such as emissions and the effects of air pollution. I have used this presentation at the late elementary school level to eighth grade. It could also be used as a refresher course in early high school science classes.
The terms that are defined in this presentation are:
- air pollution
- emissions
- photochemical smog
- temperature inversion
- acid rain
- indoor air pollution
- carbon monoxide
- radon
- the ozone layer
- t
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Grades:
4th - 10th, Higher Education
Air Masses and Fronts Lesson with Power Point, Worksheet, and Review Page
This is a power point presentation that covers how air masses are formed and how they move. It also covers how fronts react when they collide. Diagrams are included in the presentation to help the lesson sink in. I have used this presentation successfully in the middle school grades as well as late elementary.
Key Terms Discussed
- air mass
- maritime polar
- maritime tropical
- continental polar
- continental tropical
- prevailing westerlies
- jet streams
- fronts
- cold fronts
- warm fronts
Grades:
5th - 8th, Higher Education
Tides Unit: High/Low, Spring/Neap
PowerPoint w/ worksheet and word-search focusing on TIDES.
Covers: High Tide, Low Tide, Spring Tide, Neap Tides, Tidal Range.
This informative PowerPoint will serve as an EXCELLENT supplemental resource for your Tides Unit.
Worksheet is set up for students to fill out as teacher works through PowerPoint.
Word-search consists of key words dealing with TIDES.
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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Phases of the Moon Unit
Students will learn about the moon and moon phases using this print and digital activities unit. The phases of the moon unit includes a teacher presentation, two student packets, moon phases activities, a graphic organizer, one moon lab activity, a moon diary, a lunar phases review, and a birthday moon project. Like these activities on the moon and lunar phases? Check out the earth science bundle and save 20% by clicking here. Students will demonstrate knowledge of: the moon; how it was formed,
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5th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-1
Distribution of Natural Resources NGSS MS-ESS3-1
With this earth science curriculum students will learn about how the uneven distribution of natural resources as a result of past and current geoscience processes. Students will review what they have learned and then focus on Earth's mineral, energy, and groundwater resources. This resource has six lessons. Included are a standards poster, photos for stimulating discussion, task cards to aid in student research, links to data, and informational articles about minerals and weathering & erosio
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-1
Also included in: Middle School Science Earth and Human Activity BUNDLE
Middle School Science Bundle: Worksheets
Providing outstanding teaching resources on TPT since 2015. Discover the Ultimate Science Learning Bundle for Teachers! Elevate your classroom experience with our meticulously designed package featuring 41 hassle-free science worksheets and three captivating posters. Dive into a diverse range of exciting topics, covering everything from the environment and space to the human body, medicine, weather, drugs, and even Coronavirus. These resources are not only effortlessly printable but also ideal f
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5th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-LS1-5
, MS-ESS1-4
, MS-ESS2-3
, MS-LS1-7
, MS-ESS3-2
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Population Growth and Consumption of Natural Resources NGSS MS-ESS3-4
Do you need to teach your students about the human population and its impact on the consumption of natural resources? Do you want to save yourself a lot of valuable time and energy? This resource has six lessons. Included are a standards poster, photos and data charts/graphs for stimulating discussion, task cards to aid in student research, links to data, an informational article about deforestation, and a rubric for grading the student's claim. There are also short readings about solar, wind,
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-4
Also included in: Middle School Science Earth and Human Activity BUNDLE
Environmental Issues Lesson with Power Point, Notes Page, and Activity Sheet
This is a Microsoft power point presentation that covers a lot of current environmental issues including: offshore drilling, polar ice caps melting, and new energy resources. It also has activities that gets students thinking about what their viewpoint is using development, preservation, and conservation.
The terms included in this presentation:
renewable resources
non-renewable resources
population growth
pollution
environmental science
development
preservation
conservation
Both the presentat
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Grades:
4th - 9th, Higher Education
Hazardous Waste Lesson with Power Point, Worksheet, and Signs Activity
This power point goes over what different kinds of hazardous waste there are. It also includes the harmful effects it has on humans, and how it it currently being disposed of. Finally, it includes what we can do to reduce the amount of hazardous material we create.
Terms Discussed in the Presentation:
-toxic
-explosive
-flammable
-corrosive
-radioactive
-short term exposure
-long term exposure
-landfills
-incineration
-decomposition
-rock storing
This file has been left as a pptx so they buyer
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Grades:
4th - 9th, Higher Education
How the Earth was Made--Complete Season 2
Videos can be a valuable part of your students’ education. The History Channel show titled “How the Earth was Made” explains the geologic processes that have shaped different parts of our planet. Each episode covers different topics, like glaciation, subduction, the rock cycle, earthquakes, volcanoes, etc.----------------------------------------------------This growing bundle is now ⭐COMPLETE⭐!----------------------------------------------------In this product you will find notes sheets and answ
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Grades:
6th - 12th
NGSS:
MS-ESS2-3
, HS-ESS2-3
, HS-ESS2-1
, MS-ESS2-2
, HS-ESS2-7
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The Water Cycle - A Drop In The Desert (NGSS MS-ESS2-4)
In this explore and explain sequence, students identify where water can be "found" in the desert by participating in a "reader's theater" activity and analyzing the story. Then, students participate in a simulation where they move through the water cycle as a molecule of water, tracking how they move and in what state of matter. They use this information to develop their understanding of the ways energy from the sun and gravity drive the movement of water through Earth's systems. They reinfor
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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CCSS:
NGSS:
MS-ESS2-4
Also included in: The Water Cycle - 5E & NGSS MS-ESS2-4 & MS-LS2-1
Elements of Earth’s crust graphing, reading, wordsearch NO PREP TX TEKS 6.5B
NO PREP elements in Earth’s crust graphing and data interpretation lesson to introduce or review your students over the concepts surrounding the elements that make up the Earth’s crust. Includes bonus word search! This lesson was designed to cover key topics that appear on standardized tests and review graphing skills at the same time! A bonus word search activity is included for early finishers or as a homework assignment. This fun and engaging lesson was created for upper elementary or middle
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6th - 8th
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Freshwater Biomes WebQuest-Aquatic Biomes- Ecology
There are two major types of aquatic biomes, the marine and the freshwater. The freshwater biome is defined as having a low salt content versus the marine biome which is saltwater like the ocean. Your students will read for information and learn all about this collection of aquatic biomes. Supports:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.1-8.1CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.2-8.2CCSS.RST.6-8.1 and CCSS.RST.6-8.2Answer Key includedI added an Easel version of this webquest. I made the links active within Easel and provi
Grades:
4th - 8th
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