Math-Sci-Guy

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 is an expanded version of the free isolines practice that I offer. In addition to the isolines practice that that file has, this one also includes notes about isolines to go over with students, as well as answer keys to the notes and practice worksheets.

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 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.

This lesson has structured (Google Doc) notes that walk through a real-life example, teaching students about limiting factors/carrying capacity. The teacher will walk students through the introduction, then students will read the illustrated story to fill in the rest of the notes on their own.

This printout of some NASA news article headings gives teachers the chance to discuss the crash of the Mars Climate Orbiter, which happened because one contracted company built part of the computer to think in metric units and another built a different part to think in imperial units. That's $193 million wasted because people didn't carefully label their units! The back of the printout has the SI unit prefixes, so this can be an introduction to them, and how metric conversion is so much simpler

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

some simple worksheets so students can practice connecting the dots to form isolines

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

This is a simple one-page fill-in-the-blank notes sheet to use while introducing Latitude and Longitude to students. An answer key is included.

Here is a Jeopardy-style review game. For implementation, I write the categories and dollar/point amounts on the board and erase them once students pick that amount and I've read the question. This includes questions and answers for the teacher to read to students as a Jeopardy-style game to review for an Earth Science unit test, for an Observation, Measurement, & Mapping unit. Feel free to remove questions or add more of your own, to make each category have an equal number of questions.