Excellent way to explore the Law of Superposition and Relative Dating. Students are heavily engaged as they learn about fault lines and intrusions while updating layers with index fossils! Creative learning at its best!
Students divide into groups- Sound and Light waves. Next, teacher will say "vacuum" and the light waves should move fast while the sound waves stop in place.
The students have such fun creating a city on a white piece of paper. They spend 20-30 minutes adding housing and parks, etc. Then, HUMAN IMPACT. Student choose slips of paper that impact their city. The city must adjust!
Have your students see the effects of heat transfer with this innovative "Thermometer lab". Students construct their own thermometer and watch the red solution move up and down the straw due to molecular movement alterations due to changes in thermal energy.
Here is a PowerPoint to fully instruct your students in the Ecology and Interdependence unit. They can self learn or you can present! Active note taking can take place with vivid images and useful facts!
Understand how humans impact the environment through desertification, deforestation, and urbanization. The students create a city and then discover what happens when Human's Impact the area.
Create a food web and construct a matching energy pyramid. A great resource for forming concepts and assessing students who grasp the Ecology and Ecosystems standards. Standards as always are listed on on top of assignment worksheets!
The most comprehensive 2 pages you will find for plate boundaries! Includes specific landforms, movements, and features. Plus diagrams! I use for students as a study guide for 7th grade Plate Tectonics!
Students love to be creative in Science! What a great way to engage the students with the Scientific Method than to have them research and design a Scientific Method Pamphlet! They learn and retain information more expediently with this method and process of activity.
The Powerpoint lesson allows students to define and compile a vocabulary list for Human Impact. After the definitions are complete, students design a city with specific parameters. This is a one pager activity. After the students finish their dream city, they take a slip of paper (example: population explosion- build housing for 1000 new residents). Students really see how human activity impacts the Earth!
Students love to engage in hands-on experiments and learn basics of lab procedures and etiquette. The powerpoint walks students through 2 separate penny labs and one heart rate lab! This is a great activity for a Fun Friday!
This resource includes 6 Individual topics that cover Evolution and Natural Selection. Break students up into groups of 3 or 4 and have them select a slip of paper. Then, students have 15-30 minutes to research the topic and prepare a one pager for presentation! Students love this group work and learn so much!
The lesson includes all 4 pieces of evidence supporting Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Hypothesis. The PowerPoint shows images of the San Andreas Fault and reviews Pangea.
Have your students create this clever trifold to review the concepts of Symbiosis. This is a marine themed trifold but you can adapt for land mammals and plants!
Easy experiments to perform in your science class. Quick to set-up and break down. Students learn valuable lessons and work extremely well with their table partner or individually.
6th - 8th
Biology, Earth Sciences, Science
$4.00
Original Price $4.00
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