Cavetoad Science

Minerals are all around us. They are necessary for life, they are part of the walls in the school, they help heat our houses and provide us with clean drinking water. But what are they? Where do they come from? What do they really look like? How do we get them? What are they worth? This project leads students to investigate a mineral of their choice and create a presentation or poster about it. I have included a rubric for grading the work (20 points, 15, 10, and 5 points) to help students und

Use the Jigsaw style of activity with these notes to help students improve their understanding of how air moves around the earth. These notes also can be used as teacher notes or as a stand alone student handout.

An activity that combines some notes and some graphing for students to learn about the layers of the Atmosphere. Students will answer direct and applied questions about the graph and the diagrams in the notes and will create a graph of the atmosphere.

Use this slideshow to introduce your students to the exciting world of the Paleozoic. From the Cambrian Explosion of life on Earth to the Permian Extinction and all the periods in between! This presentation uses simple language to explain the big picture concepts of each of the 6 periods of this time in Earth's history.