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NEW! Composition Of Ocean Water
What exactly is in ocean water? In this fun activity students color in 1,000 based on the
composition of a drop of ocean water.
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Weather Forecasting
Getting ready to teach weather? This lesson will introduce students to meteorologists, and get them interpreting weather maps.
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Biomes-Color Map
A simple but powerful little handout. After going through the temperature and precipitation table at the bottom, have students color the map so it looks just like the one in their book.
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Biomes- Graph Precipitation
Since students never get enough practice graphing, use this next time you're going through the biomes. After filling in temperature and annual precipitation data for each of the 7 biomes,
they'll make a bar graph. And then it will be easy for them to remember how much precipitation falls annually in each, and how they compare. Follow the directions in the notes section of the PowerPoint.
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Rock Cycle-YouTube Videos
Couple these 4 YouTube links with a few rock samples that you might have, and what you end up with is a lesson in which students know and understand what the 3 kinds of rock are.
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Humidity
Yes, you can measure temperature with a thermometer. But did you know you can also measure relative humidity with one? This lesson also sneaks in some background information about earth's atmosphere.
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Interactive Notes-Plate Tectonics
In this set of interactive notes students: 1.compare the shell thickness of a chicken egg with the earth's crust, 2.make tectonic plates that offer clues as to how things began,
3.observe what those plates do on a convection current, and 4.mark the path of the current.
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Earthquakes-Plotting Recent Activity
In this 2-day activity your students will set up a World and U.S. map and then plot earthquakes that happened as recently as minutes ago on it.
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Plate Tectonics-Electronic Scavenger Hunt
When was the last time your students actually had fun digging through their text book? Has it ever happened? If not, then you could definitely use this activity.
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Seasons-Two Reasons For The Four Seasons
A flashlight and a globe are all that students need to understand what causes the seasons. Before you even explain anything, they will see with their own eyes that it has little to do with how close we are to the sun.
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Earth Clock-A Timeline Past To Present
Can earth history can be fun? Yes! This lesson reaches back to the beginning of earth, some 4.567 billion years ago, and presents its entire life, up to now, on the scale of a 24-hour clock.
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