Math-Sci-Guy

This bundle contains the materials I use to teach an Astronomy course. It contains notes, activities, tests, and review. Most answer keys are included at the end of each handout. -The notes are all fill-in-the-blank style, with answer keys for you to refer to while teaching. -There are also projects/activities for students to work on. -The tests are in Google Forms and will (mostly) auto-grade themselves. -The linked videos come with with comprehension quizzes (also self-grading in Google Forms)

This bundle contains most of the materials I use to teach an Observation, Measurement, and Mapping unit at the start of 9th/10th grade Earth Science. It contains notes, labs, activities, handouts, quizzes, and review. Most answer keys are included at the end of each handout. Documents included in this bundle: Shape of the Earth activity Drawing Isolines practice How Big is Our Sun? worksheet Jeopardy review Density lab Latitude & Longitude lab Observation vs Inference wkst Observing the Envi

This bundle contains most of the materials I use to teach a Weather unit near the middle of 9th/10th grade Earth Science. It contains notes, labs, activities, handouts, quizzes, and review. Most answer keys are included at the end of each handout. Documents included in this bundle: Air Masses notes Cloud Types notes & identification practice Fronts Practice Weather Jeopardy Fronts Lab Weather Station Models Lab Layers of the Atmosphere Midterm Review (of Observation/Measurement/Mapping, Astr

This bundle contains most of the materials I use to teach a Weathering, Erosion, & Deposition unit just after the middle of 9th/10th grade Earth Science. It contains notes, labs, activities, handouts, quizzes, and review. Most answer keys are included at the end of each handout. Documents included in this bundle: A Check for Understanding Erosion & Deposition Application Glaciers Worksheet Jeopardy Review Candy Weathering Rates Lab Settling Rates Lab Stream Tables Lab Watersheds Lab Mass W

This laboratory activity is about streams and erosion. It lets students watch erosion happen, deltas form, etc, and gives them experience trying to fight erosion. You will need stream tables, sand, buckets, etc to run this lab. This is one of the labs that I find my students have the most fun with. And honestly, the best lesson comes when some groups finish early and I tell them to try building dams and see how long they can stop the stream for. It usually only takes about a minute before som

In this lab, students practice correlating rock layers to determine the relative ages of fossils. The pictures in this lab were created as shapes in MS Word, so they do not get grainy when printed. :-) Note: Parts of the lab refer to the ESRT. This is New York State's Earth Science Reference Tables. Even if you don't teach in New York State, they are a fantastic resource (both of information and to help students practice finding information elsewhere, which they will often do in the real wo

This bundle is a collection of laboratory activities that I use for high school Earth Science. I will be adding more eventually. All diagrams (and some pictures) are created as shapes in MS Word, so they do not get grainy when printed. I do not want these floating around the internet. Please don't allow students to keep their labs, take pictures of them, take pictures of the correct answers, etc. Note: Parts of the unit refer to the ESRT. This is New York State's Earth Science Reference Tabl

Students graph coastal water levels for two different cities, and discuss relationships that exist. Skills Practiced: graphing, reviewing the main graph types, applying math concepts to real life

This bundle contains most of the materials I use to teach a Water & Energy unit near the start of 9th/10th grade Earth Science. It contains notes, labs, activities, handouts, quizzes, and review. Most answer keys are included at the end of each handout. Documents included in this bundle: Angles & Shadows graphing activity Energy & Phase Change Calculations worksheet Counting Porosity worksheet Energy Quiz Insolation Diagrams notes Energy Interactions illustrations Jeopardy Review Absorpt

This laboratory activity is about watersheds in New York State and the USA. It lets students explore some major watersheds and gives them experience noting specific features. Most of these pictures are created as shapes in MS Word, so they do not get grainy when printed. Note: Parts of the lab refer to the ESRT. This is New York State's Earth Science Reference Tables. Even if you don't teach in New York State, they are a fantastic resource (both of information and to help students practice findi

This bundle contains most of the materials I use to teach a Dynamic Crust (aka Shake 'n' Bake, aka Earthquakes and Volcanoes) unit near the end of 9th/10th grade Earth Science. It contains notes, labs, activities, handouts, quizzes, and review. Most answer keys are included at the end of each handout. Documents included in this bundle: Earth Layers wkst Earthquake pics Earth's Interior wkst EQ Seismogram Examples Interpreting Seismograms Jeopardy Review Just Checking homework Continental Drift

This bundle contains most of the materials I use to teach a Rocks and Minerals unit three-quarters of the way through 9th/10th grade Earth Science. It contains notes, labs, activities, handouts, quizzes, and review. Most answer keys are included at the end of each handout. Documents included in this bundle: Igneous Rocks wkst Jeopardy review Classifying Lab Igneous Rocks Lab Mineral Identification Lab Rock Candy Lab Sedimentary Rocks Lab Metamorphic Rocks wskt Mineral Tests wkst Moh's Hardness

This bundle contains most of the materials I use to teach a Climate unit near the middle of 9th/10th grade Earth Science. It contains notes, labs, activities, handouts, quizzes, and review. Most answer keys are included at the end of each handout. Documents included in this bundle: Climate Quiz Climate Jeopardy review General Climate Types notes Lab: US Climates North America Climate Types notes Climate Factors notes Temp and Pressure notes Planetary Winds notes Practice Water Budget Quiz 1 W

This activity guides students in studying how spherical the earth is. I would use this after students have already learned the term "oblate sphereoid," so that you can then use this to discuss with them How oblate is it? Students will do some simple calculations (basic ratios) to discover the relief that the highest and lowest elevations on Earth would have if the earth were shrunk down to the size of a (32cm diameter) classroom globe.

This laboratory activity about Earthquake Depths is a great math-science crossover! It gives students practice with latitude & longitude and helps them process the fact that earthquakes don't just happen at Earth's surface but at varying depths. Specific skills practiced are plotting latitude & longitude coordinates on a map, plotting longitude vs depth on a graph, and visualizing the same data from multiple perspectives. This is real earthquake data from actual earthquakes in South America.

Everybody loves Christmas songs, but as teachers we also prize mental stimulation. This activity has the names of many popular Christmas songs written verbosely; the goal is to figure out the original titles. This is a great activity to do on the last day before winter break. (After doing this with my students, some of them learned that they don't know as many Christmas songs as they thought they did, and others learned that they know a lot of Christmas songs but only remember them after hear

In this laboratory activity, students will use a loop of string and two tacks to draw one circle and four different ellipses. They will then measure the focal distance and major axis of each of these, and use this data to calculate the eccentricity of each ellipse (and the circle). The analysis questions lead students to discover the overall patterns and apply the knowledge learned in this activity to planetary orbits. Note: Parts of the lab refer to the ESRT. This is New York State's Earth

Bundle includes: Lab Report Format (handout) Lab Report Format (for printing poster-size) Correct-This-Lab This is the format for all labs students turn in throughout the year. It works great for me for the NYS Regents lab requirement, but is a great format anywhere. I've also made a printout to be used as an activity with the class, picking out the errors of a "bad" lab and correcting them. I have included Word documents and PDFs for your convenience.

This printout gives students an opportunity to explore a (possibly) real-life situation, empirically determine the minimum number of moves required to accomplish the task, then gather the data and find a pattern to describe it. The activity is completely printable (which also gives students the opportunity to do something with their hands (cutting) and lets them practice fine motor coordination, though if you want to spice it up students could cut discs out of corrugated cardboard (

Kids do lots of homework/practice/exercises, generally for a test. I wanted to give my students something that wasn't tested but would still be valuable to their lives/development. So far, I have typed up enrichment activities that have kids exercising, baking, improving how well they deal with uncertainty, typing equations (instead of hodgepodging it), learning an easier quadratic formula (because I'm a math teacher, after all), learning new study skills, improving communication, and learning