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A middle-school Earth science lesson unit teaching how mechanical and chemical weathering shape Earth's surface, combining readings, vocabulary, and a hands-on lab.
Includes: objectives/vocabulary intro (Old Man of the Mountain hook) · Reading #1: what is weathering (sediment, sand/silt/clay) · mechanical weathering section (plants and animals, ice wedging)
A complete, NGSS-aligned full-year (36-week, 10-unit, 96-lesson) Grade 7 science curriculum covering life, physical, and Earth science plus engineering design, delivered as 8 files (teacher guide, lesson plans, labs/STEM, assessments, answer keys/rubrics, reading passages/guided notes, worksheets/vocabulary, and projects/review).
Includes: File 1: Teacher Guide & Curriculum Overview (12 pages: year overview, scope & sequence, pacing guide, standards alignment) · File 2: Lesson Plans, 36 Weeks (113 pages, 96 lessons across 10 units) · File 3: Labs, STEM Investigations & Materials (103 pages, 2 labs + 1 quick investigation + 1 STEM challenge per unit, 40 total)
A two-day middle school Earth science lesson teaching weathering (physical and chemical), erosion, and deposition processes.
Includes: student lesson outline / fill-in-the-blank notes (4 pages) · student-facing slide presentation (36 slides) · teacher/full slide presentation with answers (36 slides)
Teach 9-12 year old students earth science concepts (earth structure, landforms, rivers, coastal landscapes, oceans) through a photocopiable activity and experiment booklet.
Includes: Teachers' Information page · Teachers' Notes for each of 5 sections · diagram-labelling activity pages
A collection of 12 hands-on Earth science labs/activities (The Earth's Place in Space, Earth in Motion, Earth and Its Moon, An Earth Full of People, Earth's History, A Close Look at the Earth, Earthquakes, Our Moving Continents, The Earth's Water, The Earth's Air, The Earth's Rocks, The Earth's Soil) for elementary classroom use, with a teacher…
Includes: 000-ETLC10363i.pdf
Teach a high-school-level earth science lesson on sediment: what it is, how it forms, and its three main types (detrital, chemical, biochemical).
Includes: Sediments student.pptx - fill-in-the-blank slide deck (20 slides) · Sediments.pptx - complete/answered slide deck (20 slides) · Sediments.pdf - slide deck as PDF (20 pages)
A multi-station 'lab station' rotation activity teaching plate tectonics and earthquakes (tectonic plates, plate boundaries, seafloor spreading, earthquake causes/measurement) for middle/high school earth science.
Includes: Applicability Reading - Earthquakes (5-page article with 7 comprehension questions and a full answer key, plus a references/citations list) · Lab Station Cards (12 pages, station signage/instructions) · Lab Station Passport (2 pages, student tracking booklet for the 9 stations)
A slide-based lesson that builds students' understanding of how astronomers measure vast distances in space, introducing kilometers, astronomical units, light years, and parsecs.
Includes: Student version slide deck (fill-in-the-blank, .pptx) · Teacher/answer version slide deck (blanks filled in, .pptx) · Student Lesson Outline document (fill-in-the-blank, .docx)
A 2-day slideshow-based lesson package introducing middle/early-high-school students to the science of climate change: the greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases and their sources, the carbon cycle and carbon sinks, and the effects and history of climate change.
Includes: teacher slideshow (40 slides, answers filled in) · student slideshow (39 slides, fill-in-the-blank) · student lesson outline
A high-school earth science lesson teaching Earth's layers, plate tectonic theory, primary/secondary tectonic plates, continental drift evidence, plate boundary types, and their resulting geologic features.
Includes: teacher-version slide presentation (Tectonic Plates.pptx/.pdf, 37 pages) · student-version slide presentation with key content removed (Tectonic Plates student.pptx, 36 pages) · 4-page fill-in-the-blank Student Lesson Outline (.docx) matching the teacher presentation
A middle-school Earth-science lesson teaching how caves form, covering what caves are, speleology, cave formation via weathering/erosion/deposition, stratigraphy, and cave features (stalactites, stalagmites, columns), delivered as a slide presentation with an auto-graded exit ticket and embedded videos.
Includes: teacher-version presentation (PPTX) · student-version presentation (PPTX) · student lesson outline (docx, referenced)
A published earth-science unit book teaching the causes, characteristics, and effects of hurricanes and tornadoes through informational readings, diagrams, hands-on experiments, and vocabulary/research activities.
Includes: Introduction: Changing Weather reading + Air Pressure hands-on activity · How to Make a Barometer hands-on activity · From Thunderstorm to Hurricane reading
A senior/upper Earth-science lesson package teaching how caves form, covering speleology, sediment deposition, stratigraphy, and cave features (stalactites, stalagmites, columns), delivered as a slide presentation with an auto-graded exit ticket and supporting videos.
Includes: teacher-version presentation (PDF and PPTX) · student-version presentation (PPTX) · student lesson handout (referenced; not directly reviewed in this extract)
Deliver a full-year (36-week, 10-unit) NGSS-aligned Grade 6 science curriculum covering life science (cells, human body systems), physical science (matter, energy), Earth science (Earth's interior, plate tectonics, weather, climate), and engineering design.
Includes: File 1: Teacher Guide & Curriculum Overview (year overview, scope & sequence, pacing guide, standards alignment) · File 2: Lesson Plans for 36 weeks / 96 lessons across 10 units · File 3: Labs, STEM investigations & materials lists (40 labs/investigations/challenges)
A beginning-of-year grade 3 science diagnostic assessment and follow-up review system used to measure what students already know across the four science strands and drive targeted reteaching.
Includes: Part 1: Beginning-of-Year Science Review (23pp) - the 47-question student diagnostic assessment covering Life Science Q1-14, Earth Science Q15-25, Physical Science Q26-37, Scientific Practices Q38-47 · Part 2: Scoring and Analysis Tools (16pp) for scoring by strand and grouping students · Part 3: Targeted Follow-Up Practice (14pp) with 12 practice pages tied to assessment strands
An NGSS-aligned end-of-year Grade 4 science review packet covering energy, waves, plants/animals, Earth science, and resources, with worksheets, an answer key, a teacher's guide, and games.
Includes: student worksheet (39 pages, Section 1 = Energy captured; further sections per title page listed as waves, plants/animals, Earth, resources) · answer key (9 pages) · teacher's guide (10 pages)