Realistic Earth Science Lessons

We hope one thing noticeably missing from our website and earth science lessons, or at least used sparingly, are the words “easy” and “simple” (we’re not fans of exclamation points either!!!!!). Nowadays those two words tend to be overused, and in most cases they exaggerate a claim. If you’ve ever had trouble assembling something that the directions said to just “simply” do, then you understand where we’re coming from.

The other reason we try to avoid the words “easy” and “simple” is that there’s nothing particularly easy and simple about a well-done earth science lesson. An easy and simple earth science lesson would amount to giving students a worksheet or pushing “play” on the vcr. Guiding a class of 30 students through a 45 minute journey through a topic in which everyone in the room learns something meaningful is actually pretty hard to do.

How We Chose Our Earth Science Lesson Demonstrations

With all the demonstrations available to use in our earth science lessons, you might be wondering why we selected the ones we did. In most cases the choice was hard to make, but we use several criteria to guide that decision:

• Each demonstration obviously need to illustrate the earth science lesson topic
• And work every single time it’s tried
• It shouldn’t over-excite students
• Or be complicated for you to explain or for students to do
• It also needs to be fascinating to watch
• And have the ability to hold every students’ attention while it's being done and then explained

Teaching Tips That Will Help You Teach Better Earth Science Lessons

We all know that there is more to teaching earth science lessons than just running off copies and grading papers. To help reduce your work load and combat some of your more mundane tasks, we've come up with some clever time and energy savers we think you'll like. Check out our Teaching Tips page. In it you’ll find ways to improve and speed up how you do things. New tip will appear often, so be sure to keep checking back.

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