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Soil Texture Triangle Practice for use with AP Environmental Science or Earth Science course.  Image by NatureServe via Flickr Estimated Time: Total Time: ~15 MinutesPart 1: Student Completion (15 Minutes)You can also access most public student materials at my website - https://sciencewithhiggins.scihigg.com/ ---- Included in this DownloadStudent Print - Docx & PDF formatsTeacher / Educator Key - Docx & PDF Formats ---- Legal / Reuse InformationI  release my material under a Creative Com

A documentary worksheet for the National Geographic video 'Before the Flood' Quote from DiCaprio about this film (Wikipedia) - "Before The Flood is the product of an incredible three-year journey that took place with my co-creator and director Fisher Stevens. We went to every corner of the globe to document the devastating impacts of climate change and questioned humanity's ability to reverse what may be the most catastrophic problem mankind has ever faced. There was a lot to take on. All that w

Crash Course Geology - GROWING BUNDLE This series is currently ongoing on YouTube. I will continue to add to this series every week or so until its completion.BUY IT EARLY! I will add a worksheet / key bundle to the growing one as they are published. Flesh-out your course or supplement it with this guided notes sheet with key for discussion. Image Credit: Crash Course ---- Legal / Reuse InformationI  release my material under a Creative Commons 4.0 International By Non-commercial (CC4-BY-NC) li

Guided Notes & Key for the Bozeman Science - AP Environmental Science -  011 - Biogeochemical Cycles video. Flesh-out your course or supplement it with this guided notes sheet that also provides additional information for a review / discussion phase. Copied from Bozeman Science: ‘Paul Andersen explains how biogeochemical cycles move required nutrients through the abiotic and biotic spheres on our planet. Matter on the Earth is conserved so producers must receive required nutrients through the wa

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell: 4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour Copied from Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell:  ‘ Earth is 4.5 billion years old - which is approximately the same amount of time it took us to create this video.We’ve scaled the complete timeline of our Earth’s life into our first animated movie! Every second shows about a million years of the planet’s evolution. Hop on a musical train ride and experience how long a billion years really is.’ Image Credit: Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell Free download

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell: All Of Human History In One Hour Copied from Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell:  ‘ Modern humans have been around for around 200,000 years. With Earth being 4.5 billion years old, this might seem like only a small speck of time, yet our story is long, rich, and full of transformation. And now, we've turned the entire history of humanity into our second animated movie! From the first humans in Africa to ancient tools, art, rituals, catastrophes, and civilizations, experience

Crash Course Physics #5 - Newton’s Laws of Motion Copied from Crash Course: ‘ I'm sure you've heard of Isaac Newton and maybe of some of his laws. Like, that thing about "equal and opposite reactions" and such. But what do his laws mean? And how do they help us understand the world around us? In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks to us about just that.’ Free product in this series: Crash Course Physics #1 - Motion in a Straight Line WS & KeyImage Credit: Crash Course ---- Include

Crash Course Geology #6 - Where do rocks come from? Flesh-out your course or supplement it with this guided notes worksheet with key for discussion. Copied from Crash Course:  ‘ Where do rocks come from? In this episode of Crash Course Geology, we’ll discover how the rock cycle transforms one type of rock into another, while recycling Earth’s materials over and over again.’ Image Credit: Crash Course Free product from this series: Crash Course Geology 1 Intro to Geology WS and Key---- Included

PBS Eons: The Mystery of the Missing Deep-Sea Fish Flesh-out your course or supplement it with this guided notes worksheet with key for discussion. Copied from PBS Eons:  ‘ Despite starting out in the water, the fossil record suggests that vertebrates conquered both the land and the air before they conquered the depths. So what took them so long?’ Image Credit: PBS Eons Free download in PBS Eons Bundle #1: PBS Eons - Land Bridge Triggered an Ice Age WS and Key---- Included in this DownloadStude

PBS Eons: How Dinosaurs May Have Cursed Us With Aging Flesh-out your course or supplement it with this guided notes worksheet with key for discussion. Copied from PBS Eons:  ‘ Even though the dinosaurs that once hunted us are long gone, we still, in a sense, may be living in their shadows…Because, it turns out, those terrible lizards might be the reason we age faster than any other vertebrate group.’ Image Credit: PBS Eons Free download in PBS Eons Bundle #1: PBS Eons - Land Bridge Triggered an

PBS Eons: When the Earth Had Supermountains Flesh-out your course or supplement it with this guided notes worksheet with key for discussion. Copied from PBS Eons:  ‘ Supermountains are so ridiculously enormous that, as far as we know, they’ve only ever formed twice, far back in deep time, and they lasted for just a small fraction of our planet’s history. And both of the times when Earth had supermountains seem to coincide with some of the most profound evolutionary shifts in the history of life.

PBS Eons: Does T. rex Have The Wrong Name Flesh-out your course or supplement it with this guided notes worksheet with key for discussion. Copied from PBS Eons:  ‘ Of all the names given to this dinosaur over the years, maybe T. rex shouldn't have been the one that stuck at all…’ Image Credit: PBS Eons Free download in PBS Eons Bundle #1: PBS Eons - Land Bridge Triggered an Ice Age WS and Key---- Included in this DownloadStudent Print - Docx & PDF formatsTeacher / Educator Key - Docx & PDF Form

PBS Eons: The Lagoon That Puzzled Paleontologists for 250 Years Flesh-out your course or supplement it with this guided notes worksheet with key for discussion. Copied from PBS Eons:  ‘ At the Solnhofen formation in Germany, over 500 fossils of 15 pterosaur species have been found. But it might be hiding a dark secret, one that’s been massively distorting our view of who was living and dying there, and why they left so much evidence behind.’ Image Credit: PBS Eons Free download in PBS Eons Bundl

PBS Eons: Your Teeth Went From the Outside In Flesh-out your course or supplement it with this guided notes worksheet with key for discussion. Copied from PBS Eons:  ‘ If you’ve ever experienced dental pain, you've probably wondered why our teeth would evolve to function like an oversensitive alarm system.To find the answer, we have to go way back to when teeth first evolved, as part of the armored skin of ancient fish.’ Image Credit: PBS Eons Free download in PBS Eons Bundle #1: PBS Eons - Lan

PBS Eons: 130 Million Years Ago, the World Caught Fire Flesh-out your course or supplement it with this guided notes worksheet with key for discussion. Copied from PBS Eons:  ‘ It seems that for flowering plants to take over the world, first they may have had to help burn the old one away…and then put those fires out.’ Image Credit: PBS Eons Free download in PBS Eons Bundle #1: PBS Eons - Land Bridge Triggered an Ice Age WS and Key---- Included in this DownloadStudent Print - Docx & PDF formats

Crash Course Geology 5 - How Do Minerals Form? Flesh-out your course or supplement it with this guided notes sheet with key for discussion. Copied from Crash Course:  ‘ Minerals are amazing and they’re all around us, in the food we eat and even in our very bones. But what actually is a mineral? In this episode of Crash Course Geology, we’ll learn the basics of mineral identification and uncover the surprising connections between minerals and life itself.’ Image Credit: Crash Course Free product

PBS Eons: When Ancient Weeds Fooled Us Flesh-out your course or supplement it with this guided notes worksheet with key for discussion. Copied from PBS Eons:  ‘ Ancient weeds began mimicking early crops again and again over the course of the agricultural revolution, as ancient farmers made similar mistakes in different places at different times.And it turns out, some of our closest plant friends today actually started out as uninvited guests that hid their true identity. From a certain evolution

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell: We Fell For The Oldest Lie On The Internet Copied from Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell:  ‘ “Your blood vessels stretch a staggering 100,000 kilometers, enough to wrap around Earth twice!" Sounds amazing, right? We spent over a year trying to confirm this claim, and let's just say – things aren't as they seem. Join us on our year-long journey that uncovered outdated science, speculation, and a lot of dead ends.’ Image Credit: Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell Free download in In a

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell: There Is Life Hiding Inside Earth Copied from Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell:  "We've found a new planet, home to octillions of the most extreme beings living in the most absurd and deadly hellscape. In absolute darkness, crushed by the weight of mountains, starved of oxygen, cooked alive, bathed in acid, salt or radiation. And yet, they live for thousands, perhaps millions of years! It turns out, this planet is not in space – it is inside the crust of Earth!This is the

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell: Why Scientists Are Puzzled By This Virus Copied from Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell:  ‘ You’ve got trillions of viruses inside you – right now! But these aren’t the viruses you fear. Some of them are your body’s secret protectors, keeping deadly bacteria in check and even killing cancer cells. But what happens when they turn against you? Let's look at the wild world of the human virome.’ Image Credit: Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell Free download in In a Nutshell Bundle #1: H