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This webquest has students visit the website https://geology.blogs.wm.edu/ to research the geology of Virginia. The assignment is broken up into physiographic provinces, features many helpful images, and introduces students to the geologic timescale. This can be completed in class as a lab or given to complete as sub plans.

Explore strange new worlds and report on their habitability!Instructions: Visit https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/strange-new-worlds/ and explore each exoplanet. Color in the hypothetical visualization of each one. How many light-years is it from Earth? Click on View - System to see if the planet falls within the habitable zone of its star. Click on the + next to the exoplanet's name to find out the year it was discovered and if it is a Gas Giant or Super Earth.

Examine the relationships between the tides along the Atlantic Coast and the phase of the moon, orbit, and earth's rotation by graphing and analyzing tidal data.

The Mars rovers Spirit, Curiosity and Opportunity have collectively driven over 35 miles on Mars. Some days a rover may drive less than one meter, or not at all. Other days may see the rover drive over 100 meters. The engineers who plan the drives, called Rover Planners, must define their criteria for success–what the rover must do for the drive to be considered a success. They must also take into consideration the constraints that may limit the rover’s ability to successfully complete a drive.

There are two main ways in which crystals form in nature. One is the production of crystals from a solution. As the solvent evaporates, it leaves behind the solute in solid crystalline form. Today, you’re going to perform a slightly more difficult crystal growth procedure, growing crystals from a melt - like the solidification of magma and lava. You will take a solid substance, phenyl salicylate (AKA Salol), melt it over a lighter, and allow it to cool and re-crystallize.

We all know that rocks are not the most fun thing in Earth Science. This activity gets students up and moving (if you want them to) or can be completed all as a packet. In this activity, students get to choose what stage in the rock cycle they want to start as (Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary, Sediment, or Lava/Magma), but then they'll roll dice to determine the rest of their journey. Watch out for getting trapped as sediments or magma for a long, long time!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no97PQJZx0o&t=90sWatch the video & answer the questions as you go.

Calculate the density of 8 mystery liquids. Draw in color what each mystery liquid looks like in its numbered box. First, measure the mass (minus the mass of the beaker ____ g). Then, use the beaker itself to measure the volume. Lastly, calculate the density and identify the liquid using the formula: D = m / v Once you have identified all substances, work with the teacher to create a density tower! (Draw & label the tower in color)

This assignment is intended for students to complete in Google Slides and submit virtually or print when completed. However, the data and graph could be printed and students could complete by hand. In this assignment, students are provided the temperature and luminosity of 27 stars. Students are responsible for using the "Fill color" tool to change the color of each star, and then drag it to its correct spot on the H-R Diagram. As extension, students could be instructed to alter the size of each

This assignment is intended for students to complete on a chromebook. Students will visit a website with 30+ images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Students will list the name of the image, zoom and pan to explore the image, and then take a screenshot of their favorite part of the image and paste it onto the worksheet. This is a great assignment for teaching about the Big Bang, the universe, galaxies, and the contributions of space technology.

Mapping LabPart A: Parts of a Map Part B: Using a Map Scale Part C: Using a Compass Rose Part D: Label the Continents and Oceans Part E: Mapping the Earth Part F: Latitude & Longitude

Try to trace each of the items back to their original source, the Earth. The Sun’s energy, of course, is important to all of these. For example, the egg you had for breakfast came from a chicken which ate grain which grew from the Earth.

The word “coquina” is Spanish for “tiny shell” and is the name given to organic sedimentary rocks that are a mixture of shell fragments and quartz grains (sand) held together by calcium carbonate. It is essentially a rare form of limestone. In this hands-on lab, students will use pasta shells and glue to simulate the lithification of coquina.

This research assignment can be completed as part of your Geologic History and Fossils unit. It makes a great assignment to be completed when you have a substitute or to just keep in your emergency substitute folder. It can be paired with many different websites and builds research skills.