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Adult education earth sciences activities
Solar System Activity: Scaled Down Size & Distance Model of Our Solar System
Bring the Solar System down to Earth with this activity that scales down the sun, planets, and distances between them! An excellent out-of-the-classroom group activity for your inquisitive students!Watch your students' eyes widen as preconceptions are challenged and misconceptions are swept away.Then watch their eyes light up while they work together to measure distances and hold up planets, fusing math and science together into one unforgettable experience.This activity is not only fun, but i
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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MS-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-3
Abiotic & Biotic Factors Card Sort for Living & Non-Living Things in Ecosystems
An abiotic & biotic card sort activity containing 102 living & non-living components of an ecosystem! Great hands-on activity for your ecology/ecosystem unit.Will there be terms your students don't know?Thankfully YES!This resource will not limit discovery and will encourage curiosity.All in the name of learning and vocabulary building!The entire class may collectively participate in sorting the wide variety of factors contained in this resource. Laminate, add some magnets, and sorting
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Ecology, Environmental Studies, and Earth Science Activities Bundle
World Map Printable,ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS,distance learning, Coloring ,Countries
World Map Printable, ACTIVITIES FOR KIDSdistance learning♥♥ I love designs that makes you feel good. ♥♥ This printable Beautiful Activates with World Map! include coloring the world map map, illustrate places over the word to match in world map around the world. educational Sheets that include the world map spaces for your kids to fill in the appropriate names of the continent and oceans on.Instant Download -Letter size- 10 SHEETS!DRAW,CUT,PAINT, WRITE LEARN ABOUT THE WORLD!♥ 1 PDF include 10 A
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of our Planet (Netflix) Educational Movie Guide
Breaking Boundaries, narrated by David Attenborough, follows the journey of world-renowned scientist Johan Rockström as he examines the vital planetary boundaries that keep our Earth stable and provides a road map to bring us back towards the safe zone for a thriving future.This engaging movie guide from Miss Nightingale is designed to highlight the film’s big ideas, prompt rich classroom discussion, and cement student learning. This guide includes:A warm-up activity designed to be completed bef
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Gas Laws Intro Lab 16 stations or chemistry demos
Thess ultimate Gas Laws 16 Lab Stations allows students to investigate direct and inverse properties of gases: pressure, volume, moles, and temperature. The guided student handout is editable and these gas laws lab activities incorporate particulate-level movement of gases (bead stations) as well as intentional questioning that leads students to link inverse or direct relationships of gas behaviors in an engaging, memorable way. Give your students experiences of how gases impact and are impacted
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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HS-PS1-7
Also included in: Gases Chemistry Activity and Lab Bundle print and digital
"San Andreas" Movie Questions
All of these questions relate to a natural disasters unit... no plot questions just for the sake of asking questions about the plot.This worksheet (with answer key) goes along with the movie San Andreas with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Find out what happens when California experiences several earthquakes above magnitude 7.0. This is a great introduction or review to any earthquake or tsunami unit!You must buy or rent the movie.Included:- A 22-question movie guide.- An answer keyBe sure to follo
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Earth Sun Moon Activities Solar System & Planets Choice Board Space Exploration
Astronomy and Space Exploration Choice Board with Activity Research Organizers, Google Classroom, Print & Digital Distance Learning | Earth Science Activity | DifferentiationEarth Science Graphic Organizers, Earth Science Digital Interactive Notebook, Earth Science Summer School, Earth Science Google Activities INCLUDED IN SEVERAL BUNDLE TO SAVE $$$:Astronomy and Space Exploration BUNDLEEARTH SCIENCE MEGA BUNDLEEARTH SCIENCE CHOICE BOARDS (Google or Paper Versions)Includes: 2 pages of choice
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5th - 9th, Adult Education
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MS-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-3
, MS-ESS2-1
, MS-ESS1-1
Also included in: Earth, Sun, Moon, Planets BUNDLE (Earth Science BUNDLE) Astronomy Bundle
Plate Tectonics LAB: Yummy! Eat Your Boundaries (Graham Crackers and Fluff)
EAT YOUR PLATES AND YOUR ASTHENOSPHERE! Graham cracker based plate tectonic boundaries lab. A dynamic tutorial on plate boundaries and model manipulation that kids LOVE! You can eat it too!
Loaded with COLOR and IMAGES!
This is a can’t miss lab! You can use the images provided OR use actual lab materials to mimic the lab procedure provided!
This lab includes the following:
-Terminology-asthenosphere, lithosphere, plate boundaries, convergent, divergent, transform, oceanic crust, contin
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4th - 9th, Adult Education
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Dinosaurs Skeletons
This set contains 40 images. Each dinosaur includes skeleton image in color and black line version, also includes mud silhouette for each dinosaur skeleton in color and black line version. Images saved at 300 dpi in png files.Dinosaurs included are:- Allosaurus- Brachiosaurus- Brontosaurus- Parasaurolophus- Pterodactyl- Spinosaurus- Stegosaurus- Tyrannosaurus Rex- Triceratops- VelociraptorPLEASE NOTE: These are not exact dinosaur skeletons are graphical representation only.Check out these rel
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: Science Mega Growing Bundle 1
Layers of the Atmosphere Build an 8-foot Scaled-Down Model of our Atmosphere
Create an 8-foot-tall (2.4m), scaled-down model of our atmosphere and discover cool information about our atmosphere at the same time! Students will also learn a little history about humankind's ventures into our atmosphere.Includes Troposphere, Tropopause, Stratosphere, Stratopause, Mesosphere, Mesopause, Thermosphere, and Exosphere. No prep.The only way to get a true sense of atmospheric scale is with a model this big!Crosscutting concepts: scale, proportion, & quantity, systems & sy
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Ecology, Environmental Studies, and Earth Science Activities Bundle
Plate Tectonics 2 SURFFDOGGY
(19 pages) Included are two excellent hands-on activities. In the first, students will color code the locations of rock and fossil evidence on giant sized continents. Students then cut out these continent models and position them according to the ancient evidence. The goal is to arrange the continents in the positions they were in 225 million years ago based on the evidence of rocks, fossils, glaciers, and mountains. The second hands-on activity is a model of sea floor spreading and helps studen
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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House Plant Guided Drawings
The only thing more relaxing than surrounding yourself in a room of house plants, is learning how to draw said beautiful plants! Let your love of greenery spill onto the pages of your sketchbook or into your classroom with this how to draw different house plants guide. In this guided drawing document you and your students will learn how to draw a plant as simple as a cactus, to a more complicated Monstera Deliciosa. Even though this is just a beginner guide to just show you how to draw, you can
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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History of Astronomy- Famous Astronomers, Geocentric, Heliocentric
This PowerPoint is an updated version of the old power point, it has all of the same information, but goes into more depth with 67 more slides of information, activities, assessments, and small projects to do during the unit. This should now take a good couple of weeks to cover in depth and to complete all of the activities. It not only details the major events in the history of astronomy, examining the famous astronomers, such as Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe, Keppler, Galileo, It covers the ma
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Rocks and Minerals Clip Art
This set contains 32 images as shown on preview pages (16 color / 16 black line version ). Images saved at 300 dpi in png files.Included in this set: diorite, felsite, granite, basalt, obsidian, conglomerate, dolomite, limestone, sandstone, shale, marble, quartzite, shist, serpentine, gneiss.It also includes an empty box to classify the different types of rocks and minerals.Check out these related clip art set:Rocks Combo PackVolcano Clip ArtRocks and Minerals Clip ArtSedimentary Rocks Formati
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Science Mega Growing Bundle 1
Plate Tectonics, Pangaea, and Continental Drift LAB (Lots of FUN!!!)
Meet the ULTIMATE Super Continent! PANGAEA! Come experience an in depth tutorial and analysis of Pangaea, its before, and its after. A variety of fun and engaging pedagogical strategies (some you have probably never seen before) including:
-Puzzle construction: colorful with differentiated symbols to denote: cynognathus fossils, mesosaurus fossils, glossopteris fossils, lystrosaurus fossils, young rock formations, and old rock formations. Using a color/symbol coded key students assemble a
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5th - 9th, Adult Education
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Climate Change and Global Warming Unit - Lessons, Assessments and Worksheets
Climate Change and Global Warming Unit - This Unit will take place over 2-3 weeks and includes a MULTI-DAY lesson (student and teacher versions of the presentation), a Climate Change Bell Ringer activity, an Exit Ticket to check for student understanding, NINE videos, a Climate Change research activity, 1 Test with answer key, and a student lesson handout as a word document. The presentation is fun and applicable with THREE videos embedded into the presentation and many opportunities for inquiry
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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HS-ESS2-4
, MS-ESS2-4
, HS-ESS3-4
, MS-ESS2-5
Also included in: Climate Change Mega Bundle - Lessons, Activities, Assessments
Mega Earthquakes and Tsunami Clip Art Set {Messare Clips and Design}
This realistic Earthquake and Tsunami Clip Art Set contains 61 individual high resolution graphics. All color graphics are shown in the downloadable preview and come with the black and white paired image.
This custom request set was designed specifically to illustrate the following concepts and elements of Earthquakes:
Earthquake Destruction
Epicenter and focus of an earthquake
Basic principles of a seismograph
The various Faults
Measurement of magnitude and intensity of an earthquake
The rich
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Water Cycle Beaded Bracelet Activity
This interactive water cycle activity is a BLAST for introducing how interconnected the water cycle is on Earth. Students learn the water cycle moves from lakes, oceans, animal waste, glaciers, etc and never stops! Nine station sheets are included. For this activity, you MUST buy the following: 9 different colors of beads (pony) in bowls, strong bracelet per students (like a pie cleaner or cord), and 9 die. Students roll the die at each station and read on the poster where his/ her drop of water
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2nd - 5th, Adult Education
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Rock Cycle Word Wall Coloring Sheets (4 pages)
This Word Wall Coloring set includes the geology words: Rock cycle, Igneous rock, Sedimentary rock, Metamorphic Rock.Coloring pages have recently become a huge hit all over the world. In my new series of word wall coloring pages, you can bring the excitement of coloring into your middle school and high school science classrooms. Word Walls are an instructional tool used primarily in an elementary classroom. While teaching in Texas my administrators decided they wanted secondary teachers to use t
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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HS-ESS2-3
Biogeochemical Cycles: The Carbon Cycle Dice Simulation Journey of a Carbon Atom
A journey though the Global Carbon Cycle like you have never experienced before!With a roll of the dice, students will travel around the classroom visiting nine of Earth’s carbon reservoirs: atmosphere, terrestrial plants, terrestrial animals, soil, rock, marine plants, marine animals, surface ocean, & deep ocean.In the process, they will learn a whopping amount of information that will link to many other scientific units of study. Examples include: weather, circulation of air in the tropos
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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NGSS:
MS-LS1-7
, HS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-3
, HS-LS2-5
, MS-LS2-4
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Also included in: Ecology, Environmental Studies, and Earth Science Activities Bundle
Bill Nye the Science Guy - Fossils
Includes 3 different handouts with answer keys to accompany the Bill Nye the Science Guy video for Fossils. The handouts include 2 fill-in-the-blanks (same questions, but 1 includes a word bank) and a fill-in-the-blank for the song at the end! You can use any of the handouts to fit your needs including just singing the song at the end without filling in the blanks! The questions are in order so they do not have to worry about searching all over the page to complete it all.
The videos can be p
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Astronomy Star Spectra 2 SURFFDOGGY
(21 pages) This activity is an easy and effective introduction to spectra. Learning about spectra is interesting and important because each element’s spectra is like a fingerprint - no two are exactly alike. Incredible! Spectra are obtained from a star’s light, and it has been said that perhaps 75% of everything we know about the cosmos is due to spectroscopic studies. A star's spectra provides astronomers with clues as to the star's age, mass, motion, temperature, and destiny. In this activity
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Agriculture Word Search Puzzle BUNDLE
Agriculture BundleGreat for: Early Finishers, Emergency Sub Plan, Homework, Unit Supplement, Sponge Activity, Classwork, Test Review, Bell Ringer, No Prep Activity, Warm-Up, Homeschool, Do Now, Mini-lessons, Distance Learning …Simply Print and Go!Download the preview for a closer look.Included:- Agriculture Word Search- Agricultural Products of the United States Word Search- Organic Farming Word Search- Aquaponics Word Search- Hydroponics Word Search- Sustainable Agriculture Word Search
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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How to Make a Terrarium
A terrarium is a self-sustaining ecosystem. Strictly speaking, a terrarium refers to plants being kept in an enclosed glass container. However, some has preferred to grow an open terrarium (which should really be called a table-top garden instead).
I've used this presentation to conduct a terrarium making workshop for young adults and have guided young children (1-to-1) to make their own terrarium. In the presentation, I've used an open glass bowl as an example to show the steps, which would be
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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