Math-Sci-Guy

This bundle contains most of the materials I use to teach an Astronomy 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/notes/worksheet/quiz. Documents included in this bundle: Altitude of Polaris Astronomy Project Constellation Project Deep Space Worksheet Eccentricity and Planet Motion Ellipses Worksheet Graphing Galaxies Activity How Big Is Our Sun Worksheet HR Diag

Enjoy this laboratory activity about Latitude and Longitude! It gives students practice reading and using the latitude & longitude coordinate system on various maps. Specific skills practiced are reading locations on a map, plotting locations on a map, contemplating time zones and how they relate to Earth's rotation and solar noon vs clock noon. 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, the

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 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 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 worksheet gives a graph (showing the temperatures of soil and water as they heat & cool) and asks students to calculate the rates of change on various intervals. The handout is printable in black/white/grey, and the answer key is attached (answers are filled-in in color). This worksheet is suitable for an Earth Science class as an application of specific heats and rates of heating/cooling, or a Math class as practice reading graphs and calculating slopes.

This notes sheet is set up grid-style, with the ten steps on Moh's Hardness Scale. It provides the steps, chemical formulas, and pictures of applications. Students will fill in the name of the mineral at each level and the common uses/applications. Answer key is included.

This is the handout for the Observing the Environment lab that I give during the Observation, Measurement, & Mapping unit. While completing it, students will observe a feature or object and make observations/inferences about it. I use this as an opportunity to take the class outside. Examples of objects/features to take students to are a boulder, unique flower, tree, or dirt pile. I like to take my classes to a grassy depression and hope they infer that it is a (purposely-designed) drainage d

This is the handout for the Density lab that I give during the Observation, Measurement, & Mapping unit. While completing it, students will measure masses and volumes of various substances and then calculate their densities. Feel free to modify it to suit the materials you have at your school, remove the scribble if you want students to write their data directly on this lab page instead of in their journals, etc. Materials Required: triple-beam balances, ruler, graduated cylinders, calculato