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Engaging Earth Science: Understanding & Interpreting Weather Station ModelsBring meteorology to life in your classroom with this comprehensive, self-guided activity designed for 7th-grade through High School Earth Science students. This resource transforms complex meteorological data into an accessible, hands-on learning experience that helps students master the "shorthand" language used by professional scientists. Activity OverviewIn this lab, students gain a deep understanding of how to inte

In this activity, students get to know Alfred Wegener and why and how he came up with the idea of continental drift and the super-continent Pangaea. Students will complete some internet searches to discover what type of fossils Wegener used to help him come up with his hypothesis. Students will find the time period the fossils lived, which continents they were found on, and describe both the current climate and the climate in which they prehistorically lived. Students will also cut out the Pa

In this Earth Science activity, students will read and learn about the different types of precipitation. They will understand and demonstrate where air masses come from and what type of weather they are most likely to bring: continental polar, maritime polar, continental tropical, maritime tropical, continental arctic, maritime arctic. Students will then go to Intellicast.com and analyze the current surface weather maps as well as a deeper inspection of their local state surface analysis. In

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 web research activity, students will research 14 volcanoes via the internet. All of these volcanoes are famous for either their size of eruption or the continuous eruptions that they have. They are famous for causing large tsunamis, huge pyroclastic flows, and lahars, as well as some that might not be so dangerous but have flowed continuously for many years. Students will enhance their geography knowledge by plotting the volcano's location on a plate tectonic map. They will find out

In this activity students will determine the type of soil they have as well as figure out the pH level of the soil. Students will reinforce their soil vocabulary in this lab: sand, clay, silt, loam. Students will practice using a soil pyramid. For more Earth Science labs and activities visit: http://EarthScience.xyz

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

In this activity students will discover information about the four mass movement types: creeps, slides, falls, flows, slumps. They will discover the most costly and deadliest landslides in the USA. You can either print out copies for students or have them use Google Docs. Other words discussed are erosion, deposition, and lahar. Students will research what natural and human events can trigger landslides. They will also research methods that humans are currently using to try and prevent mass

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 Earth Science Earthquake activity, students will explore the USGS current earthquake website. Students will understand what is to be found on the USGS Earthquake website. They will discover how many earthquakes have occurred recently. Students will gain an understanding of what the Mercalli Intensity Scale is used for. Students will discover the 5 largest recent earthquakes that have occurred around the world. They will gain a better understanding of geography as well by using maps

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

NOTE: Make sure your computers can run Java-based software. Inside the preview, you can test the program out by clicking on the first link. This program will not work with Chromebooks as they can't run Java. In this digital seafloor spreading lab, students will use an online mapping program that has mapped the ocean floor. Students will discover that the ocean floor is younger near the middle of the oceans and gets older as you move to the shorelines. Students will read about Hess and his m

🐾 Mammal Characteristics Bingo | Science Game & Review Activity Make learning about mammals fun and engaging with this Mammal Characteristics Bingo Game! This low-prep science activity is perfect for helping students review and reinforce key mammal traits, animal classification vocabulary, and adaptations in an interactive way. Students will practice identifying important mammal characteristics such as warm-blooded, fur/hair, lungs, endothermic, and vertebrate, along with examples of ma

Make phonics practice fun and engaging with this Phonics CVC Bingo Classroom Set! Perfect for small groups or whole-class instruction, this resource helps students strengthen their consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) word recognition while playing an easy-to-learn bingo game. What’s Included 30 unique 5×5 bingo cards1 call sheet with all CVC words used in the setPrintable, classroom-ready formatEach bingo card features a mix of CVC words, allowing students to practice decoding and reading common p

Elementary students will have a fun chance of reinforcing their understanding of the ones and tens places by grouping numbers of aliens in groups of 10 and writing down how many are left over. Students will better understand what whole numbers are and that they can be represented by written symbols and be represented in amounts of tens and ones. For more resources head on over to my website at EducationalResource.org.

Students will compare the size of each pair of shapes. They will color each shape according to the comparison. Find more educational resources at EducationalResource.org

In this assignment, students will explore 25 features found in North and South America. They will circle, outline, and label specific locations on maps of North and South America. In the teacher instructions, you can also find a link to a Presentation that shows and discusses the geology and uniqueness of many of these locations. For more Earth Science labs and resources visit EarthScience.xyz

In this worksheet, students will read, understand and use the words, short, shorter, shortest, tall, taller, and tallest to compare the heights of 4 different animals. Find more resources at EducationalrResource.org

This multiplication and division assignment comes with 3 worksheets that help reinforce fact families. The worksheets come with answer keys. On the back of each fact family assignment are four word problems that reinforce previously taught word problem skills. There is one single step word problem per operation. Each worksheet also comes with a corny joke that your students can have fun with. For more worksheets and lesson ideas, visit http://EducationalResource.org and my classroom site, h

In this Earth Science activity, students will gain a better understanding of what gases the atmosphere is made out of. Students will need to work some math problems out, converting percents and decimal places to determine ppm, parts per million. Students will gain an understanding that greenhouse gases make up such a small amount of the atmosphere, but are extremely important in keeping the temperature balance in check. Students will demonstrate the amounts that each gas makes up in the atmosp