Lessons and Activities

The Lithosphere and Tectonic Plates

Interactive flipchart to help students review the layers of the earth as well as better understand tectonic plates.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 5 | Age 11, Gr. 6 | Age 12, Gr. 7 | Age 13, Gr. 8 | Age 14

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Nov. 17, 2009

Posted by:

jennlarson

Rock Stories

This is a good old USGS powerpoint for teachers (schoolyard geography) that I turned into an interactive flipchart.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 3 | Age 9, Gr. 4 | Age 10, Gr. 5 | Age 11, Gr. 6 | Age 12, Gr. 7 | Age 13

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Nov. 30, 2009

Posted by:

jennlarson

Erosion

Unit lesson

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 9 | Age 15, Gr. 10 | Age 16

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Dec. 10, 2009

Posted by:

bapeel 

Minerals

Unit lesson

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 9 | Age 15, Gr. 10 | Age 16

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Dec. 10, 2009

Posted by:

bapeel 

Weathering

Unit lesson

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 9 | Age 15, Gr. 10 | Age 16

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Dec. 10, 2009

Posted by:

bapeel 

Ruaumoko

He rauemi tenei mo te Putaiao, e pa ana ki te Pahutanga o tetahi maunga Puia me te hurihanga toka. Ka taea nga taumata katoa, a, he tautoko, kei roto hoki i te reo Maori. (Erupation of a Volcano & is in Te Reo Maori)

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. K | Age 6, Gr. 1 | Age 7, Gr. 2 | Age 8, Gr. 3 | Age 9, Gr. 4 | Age 10, Gr. 5 | Age 11, Gr. 6 | Age 12

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Dec. 15, 2009

Posted by:

anna

Measuring Geological Time

Simple venn diagram, with key vocabulary words hidden, that students can use for review of relative and absolute time

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 9 | Age 15

• Subjects:

  Earth Sciences

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Mar. 22, 2010

Posted by:

mkalowe   

Resources

Inexhaustible, renewable, and nonrenewable resources

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 5 | Age 11

• Subjects:

  Earth Sciences

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Apr. 18, 2010

Posted by:

lacoffey

Weather Chart- Australia

A lesson naming the states of Australia, placing the capital cities in the correct states and building a weather chart.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 1 | Age 7, Gr. 2 | Age 8, Gr. 3 | Age 9, Gr. 4 | Age 10

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Aug. 10, 2010

Posted by:

monicac

What is Earth like?

explains spheres of the Earth

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 4 | Age 10, Gr. 5 | Age 11, Gr. 6 | Age 12

• Subjects:

  Earth Sciences

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Sep. 27, 2010

Posted by:

sstubbs005