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Earth sciences Common Core 6.RP.A.1 resources
Volcano Shelter STEM Challenge
Volcano Shelter STEM ChallengeYour students will have a blast working in teams to build a shelter that can survive a volcanic eruption! This product is complete with detailed instructions, hand-outs, and extension activities for a quality STEM challenge to be used in the classroom or afterschool. The activity guides your students through the engineering design process and connects math topics to real-world applications. Our students have loved this activity, and we know yours will too! This enga
Grades:
2nd - 6th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Year-Round STEM Engineering Challenges Bundle (Middle School STEM)
Ultraviolet Light Shelter STEM Challenge (Solar Space Science & Engineering)
Ultraviolet Light Shelter Engineering Design Challenge: Updated with digital journals! Students are on a mission to protect an astronaut from ultraviolet light over-exposure in this engaging STEM challenge. Using UV-sensitive beads, students explore how different materials absorb UV light and use the engineering design process to build a UV-safe shelter. This design challenge allows students to work in teams, apply the engineering design process, and connect science topics to real-world applicat
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
Fall/ Halloween Pumpkin Volcano Shelter STEM Challenge
Your students will have a blast working in teams to build a shelter that can survive a volcanic eruption from a pumpkin! The activity guides your students through the engineering design process and connects math topics to real-world applications. Our students have loved this activity, and we know yours will too! **Note: this product is the same challenge as our Volcano Shelter STEM Challenge, but with a Fall/ Halloween theme!**This engaging, student-driven activity includes an optional simulated
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Also included in: Fall & Halloween STEM Challenges Activity Bundle
All About The Moon Choice Board - Google Slides - Distance Learning
This product is a digital download in google slides that allows for an easy google classroom upload! It can be used through the week as a warm up each day, it can be used as a project for the week, or it can be used as nightly homework! Whichever you choose! There are nine activities in this choice board for the students to do! Each activity has a youtube video attached for instruction so that this choice board can be done independently without direct instruction! There are;Four youtube videos w
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ESS1-3
, MS-ESS1-1
Also included in: INTRODUCTION TO SPACE - Three bundled activities
Human Impact on the Environment (6th Grade)
In this project, students will create a solution to minimize human impact on the environment. Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS):MS-ESS3-3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment. Science and Engineering Practices: Apply scientific principles to design an object, tool, process or system. Crosscutting Concepts: Energy and Matter: Relationships can be classified as causal or correlational, and correlation does not nece
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Grades:
6th
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Maps - Compass Rose and Scale Interactive Notebook
Using in conjunction with the Powerpoint presentation introducing map compasses and map scales, allow students to interact with the information as they learn. This interactive resource allows students to practice labelling 4 cardinal and 4 intermediate directions, as well as 3 different opportunities to practice reading and converting using a map scale. A key is provided at the end of the document for the first 2 activities.
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Earth's Place in the Universe
In this investigation, students will use an online tool to set size, distance, orbital velocity, and tilt angles for the Earth/Moon system. Students will develop different models which accurately describe different features, such as eclipses, of the Sun, Earth, and Moon system.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-3
, MS-ESS1-1
Weather Factors: Part 1 (Air Pressure and Temperature)
1 of 2 PowerPoints describing 2 of the 4 main factors of weather: Air Pressure and Temperature
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-LS2-1
Also included in: Meteorology Unit
Math & Science: Unit Rate & Dot Plots + Weather Fronts
This document contains information and practice activities for finding the unit rate and reading dot plots as well as the 4 types of weather fronts. The document slides may be printed as worksheets, uploaded to Google Drive / Classroom to be used online similar to Boom Cards, or presented as a whole group activity.The goal is practice/review.
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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Adopt a Habitattitude
Adopt a Habitattitude(TM) is a series of classroom-tested, electronically available activities designed to be used by teachers and informal educators in grades 6-12. These innovative and engaging activities can help students learn about and prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species (AIS). In order to protect and sustain our water bodies for future generations, youth—our future decision makers and leaders—need to acquire relevant knowledge about AIS to become effective and responsible decisi
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 12th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-5
, MS-LS2-2
, MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-5
, MS-LS2-4
...
Absolute Dating
This is a 15 slide Powerpoint presentation that begins by distinguishing between Relative and Absolute Dating and ends with the applications of understanding Half-life and Absolute Dating that allows cross-cutting of several scientific fields.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Maps - Compass Rose and Scale Introduction
Provide students information about the compass rose and map scale using this free Powerpoint presentation.
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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