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Abcteach: Earth Day Activities
[Free Registration/Login Required] How can you treat the earth with more respect? Check out this resource featuring links to elementary activities to celebrate Earth Day. You will find word searches, crossword puzzles, reading...
PBS
Pbs: Nova: Learning About Earth's History With Ice Cores
This resource explains how ice cores are used to analyze past events like air pollution, volcanic activity, climate changes, and radioactivity.
PBS
Pbs Newshour Extra: What Does Earth Day Mean Today?
This article explains what Earth Day is and why it was founded. It also presents criticisms of the holiday. Includes suggestions for things we can all do to take care of the Earth.
Planet Pals
Planet Pals: Earth Day
This PlanetPals.com site provides the "Greatest Earth Day Pages Ever!" Includes activities, teaching aides, earth science and history, and more.
Other
K 3 Learning pages.com: Earth Day Links
How can you celebrate Earth Day in your classroom? This collection features several downloadable Earth Day worksheets including word searches and coloring pages. Students and teachers can plan the perfect way to recognize the environment.
Other
Envirolink: Earth Day
A concise site that gives the students the opportunity to learn all about how Earth Day was started.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Earth History: Crayon Rock Cycle
Introduce to the students the three main types of rocks and the processes that form them. Wax crayons are eroded into sediment, compacted into sedimentary rock, partially melted and pressed into metamorphic rock, and finally melted and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Personal Timeline
Use this activity to help students understand the history of Earth by creating their own timeline of their life. By creating their timeline, students can see the resemblance and make connections between Earth's history and their own....
Other
Digital Library for Earth System Education (Dlese)
This resource provides materials for teachers on a huge array of topics. Search site by topic, grade level, and desired output (such as lesson plan, case study, assessment or tutorial). Site is focused on earth science, geography, and...
Other
Teaching the Jah: Earth Day and the Environmental Movement
As part of a larger lesson plan on the the environment and the environmental movement, this lesson focuses on the movement as part of a larger emphasis on social movements in the 1960s. Find information about the history of Earth Day,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: This Threshold Today
An activity for students to research the conditions that allowed for the formation of our planet. Is there any resources that exist today that existed then?
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky: Earth Science Classroom Activities
A collection of links to activities and lessons that could be used for Earth science concepts including the foil record, creating a timeline of Earth's history, plate tectonics, dinosaurs, and the progression of life on Earth.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating the Geologic History of Southeast Minnesota
This activity is an inquiry-based, earth science field investigation of the geology of southeast Minnesota. Students will make observations of rock outcrops and landforms in the region using maps, pictures, and field sampling, then use...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Grow Rock Candy
Students can carry out an investigation using sugar and water to determine whether heating or cooling a substance may cause changes that can be observed. This activity reinforces the ideas that the properties of materials can change when...
Globio
Glossopedia: Earth Day
Earth Day is a worldwide celebration held annually on April 22nd. The purposes of Earth Day, the history of and the various activities held around the world are described. Activities and projects that can be done daily or year round are...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Global Volcanism Program: This Dynamic Planet
Interactive activity that allows the learner to make their own regional map using layers of their choice such as volcanoes, craters, plate tectonics, or earthquakes. This map of the Earth zooms in and out, highlights essential processes,...
Story Behind the Science
Story Behind the Science: How Volcanic Activity Fit Into Systems of Earth [Pdf]
Article explaining the history of our scientific understanding of volcanic activity, ending with questions for students about scientific methods and historical contexts.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Geologic Provinces of the United States: Records of an Active Earth
Discover what geological treasures abound all around the nation. The United States has been organized into provinces based on geological features. Click on a province on the map, or on the links below it, to view a page of information...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Nhmu: Our Ancient Earth the Stratigraphy Cup
Activity provides students an opportunity to make a stratigraphy cup.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Earth Exploration Toolbox: Cool Cores Capture Climate Change
A collection of activities which provide background for educators and learners on the role of sediment cores in revealing the climate change history of Earth.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Physics & Chemistry: Mass
Defines inertial and gravitational mass, their scientific history, formulas used in their calculation, the definition of weight, units used for mass, and mass as perceived in the theory of special relativity.
University of California
Ucmp: A Relative Dating Activity
An learning activity to help learners grasp the concept of relative dating and geologic time.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: This Dynamic Planet
Research and explore past earthquake and volcanic activity on this interactive world map. User can manipulate which notable events and other map characteristics to view depending on the type of study being done.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Evaluating Writing
Students can learn how to grade an essay with a rubric in this activity. The essay is a sample from Big History essay called "Early Earth". The goal of this activity is for students to understand the rubric so they can write their own...