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In this self-driven Earth Science activity, students will take data from both Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Andrew to plot the direction, wind speed, and path of the hurricanes. Students will get an appreciation of the relationship between atmospheric pressure and wind speed. Students will plot on a double "y" axis chart the pressure and wind speed of Hurricane Katrina. Students will research and fill in a table about the different categories of hurricanes. They will define the word "susta

In this Earth Science Lab, students will gain an understanding of what relative humidity and dew point are. There are four parts to the lab. The first part will help them understand the relationship between the ability to evaporate and humidity. Students will then use psychrometers to determine the humidity outside as well as inside. They will calculate the wet-bulb depression and then use the relative humidity chart to determine the percent of water in the air outside and inside the classro

This is an assignment I give my students before they actually take their mineral identification test. In this activity, the minerals have already gone through the individual characteristics tests such as luster, hardness, color, streak, and other mineral properties. This assignment is to give students practice using a dichotomous key that can help them identify minerals. This assignment also contains vocabulary words commonly used when identifying minerals. For more Earth Science labs and res

In this student self-guided Earth Science activity, students will read about and work their way through the different techniques used in Relative Dating. Students will first gain an understanding of what relative dating is by solving a puzzle of "which came first?". Students will define and use the word strata often. Students will learn the following types of Relative Dating techniques: Law of Superposition, Index Fossils, Cross-Cutting, unconformities, disconformities, angular unconformities

In this observation lab, students will use stream tables to observe how rivers form. When students are done they will understand how natural landslides can cause river course changes, how meanders are formed, how heavier sediment gets deposited quicker than lighter sediment like silt and clay, why rivers take the path they do, and how deltas are formed. Teacher notes, observations, suggestions, an answer key and reflections are included. For more Earth Science activities and resources visit,

In this lab/demonstration, the teacher will demonstrate how convection currents in the atmosphere occur. This demonstration is very visible and can easily be done without any special equipment except for a hot plate. Students will fill out a science lab sheet that has them hypothesize and then diagram how air currents are moving. As part of the lab, students will get some reinforcement as to what high and low air pressures are and what causes them. Students will also be able to demonstrate t

This is a set of worksheets that are scaffolded to help students round. The first math worksheet has students round to the nearest 10. The second rounding worksheet has students round to the nearest 100. The third worksheet has students round to the nearest 10 and 100. This worksheet also has students use number lines that they can show why numbers are rounded to the nearest 10. The last three questions on the worksheet are word problems. The fourth rounding math worksheet reviews rounding

Two volcano vocabulary activity worksheets. The first one is a 20-word search. The word search contains images of a shield, cinder, and composite volcano. There are some fun volcano puns that encourage reading and are fun to share. The second worksheet is a crossword puzzle containing a word bank with more words than students need. This helps eliminate students counting how many boxes there are for each word. The vocabulary words used are ash, vent, lava, flow, caldera, fissures, eruption,

Your students will read about Skip, a squirrel with a problem.  He doesn't like to eat his vegetables.  Skip and his friend come up with a solution.  As students read the cloze reading story, they will use a word bank to fill in the blanks.  Students will change the words into contractions. I use this contraction worksheet during that same time I am teaching about expository text structures and use this to illustrate Problem and Solution. My students enjoy the story. For more elementary school

This lab will only work if you have Java on your computers. It should work fine on Windows machines. In this digital Phet lab, students will gain a better understanding of some of the landforms formed due to plate tectonics. They will understand how density affects the plates. Students will compare and contrast different types of crust, oceanic and continental. Students will understand how crust composition determines density of the crust. They will understand how temperature and size of cr

After teaching what suffixes are, use this suffix bingo game to review. There are 31 pages. One is a call sheet and the other 30 are unique bingo cards. Call off the definition and students will mark off the word with a prefix. You can also purchase the prefix bingo game.For more activities and resources, visit EducationalResource.org.

I use this Bingo activity as a review of multiplication strategies in my 3rd-grade classroom. There are 30 student cards and a teacher call sheet. This activity reviews groups of, repeated addition, using number lines to multiply and arrays. There are 16 squares per card and 25 different squares in the game. This way each card is unique and not all kids have all possible answers. When a student gets "Bingo" I actually have them go "Mmmmm, Multiplication" as if multiplication tasted good. I

A simple worksheet to give students a chance to practice calculating elapsed time using a number line. The directions instruct students to label the number line and to circle their final answer. The problems are based on actual students and activities that they enjoy! This practice sheet also features a clock for fast-finishers to color.

This worksheet provides students with three problems to practice finding start time by labeling and using a number line. The directions instruct students to label each number line and then to draw a dot on where they believe the start time is on their number line. Questions are based on actual students and things that they enjoy to do in real life! This worksheet includes a clock that fast-finishers can color.