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8th GRade SCience End of the Year Flip Video Review

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore video taping.  In this science review instructional activity, students create a video of an assigned science unit as a peer study tool.
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Making Materials for Parts of a Fossil

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners create fossil books to study the process for crinoid fossilization. In this fossils lesson, students color and identify the fossilization process of a crinoid. Learners then create a booklet out of the information.
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Parts of a Crinoid

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners study the parts of a crinoid. In this parts of a crinoid lesson, students look at pictures of a crinoid fossil or examine an actual fossil if one is available. They match names to pictures of the parts in the second part of the...
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Evolution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this evolution worksheet, students review genetic variability, gene mutations, biodiversity and adaptations. This worksheet has 22 fill in the blank and 10 short answer questions.
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Evolution and Geological Time

For Students 7th - 12th
In this evolution worksheet, students review the geological time scale and how evolution has taken place over time. This worksheet has 13 fill in the blank questions.
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Books for Teaching Dinosaurs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students investigate dinosaurs through books. In this lesson about dinosaurs, students read a variety of books about dinosaurs. Students become familiar with dinosaurs through reading about them. Students learn that reading is...
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Becoming Human

For Students 9th - 12th
In this evolution worksheet, students access a specific website and then answer questions about human evolution based on what they discovered at the website. This worksheet has 19 short answer questions and 3 essay questions.
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The Third Location and Millennium Wall Exercise

For Students 5th - 8th
In this third location and millennium wall exercise worksheet, students sketch the fossil in a given diagram. Students use their imagination to sketch what the animal may have looked when it was alive.
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The History of Life

For Students 9th - 12th
In this history of life learning exercise, high schoolers review 4 vocabulary words associated with the beginnings of life. Students place these terms into a crossword puzzle and then complete 2 fill in the blank questions.
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Super Scientists Code

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science activity, students use the key code on the right to unscramble each of the scientists. They also match each of the scientists found to their correct description.
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Dinosaurs

For Students 5th - 6th
In this earth science worksheet, students match each vocabulary term, that names something specific related to earth science, with its correct description found in the right column. They identify different types of scientists and various...
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World of Dinosaurs Game

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science worksheet, students write each of the vocabulary terms that relate to earth science listed in the spaces of the bingo card provided. Then they use the clues at the bottom of the sheet to match to its correct science term...
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Adopt-A-Dinosaur Project

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students research a dinosaur of their choice. Then they create a picture page that includes a slogan that describes their dinosaur. Students also complete a fact sheet, including all of their resources used.
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Connect the Dots: Fossils

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this social studies worksheet, young scholars will complete a dot to dot. Students will connect the dots from one to seventy-two to create an ancient fossil.
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5th Grade Science Word Search Puzzle

For Students 5th
In this 5th grade science vocabulary word search worksheet, 5th graders will find and circle nine words or phrases such as "organism" and "fossil".
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Earth Science--Letter "F"

For Students 5th - 8th
In this earth science worksheet, learners locate and identify vocabulary terms related to earth science that begin with the letter "F." There are 24 words located in the puzzle.
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Crystals & Fossils

For Students 5th - 10th
In this earth science worksheet, students identify and locate vocabulary terms related to crystals and fossils. There are 32 words located in the puzzle.
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Glacier Puzzle

For Students 4th - 8th
In this glacier activity, students identify and locate vocabulary terms related to glaciers. There are 17 words located in the word search.
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History Theory of Evolution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify fossils. They identify evidence of change over time when given pictures of fossils to determine the proper sequencing. In addition, they determine evolutionary relationships by comparing embryonic structures.
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"Making a Good Impression"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are shown how fossils are formed and to learn how extinct organisms lived based on their remains and surroundings. They are shown TAKS review problems on the overhead related to evolution and fossil evidence. Students discuss...
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Darwin's Theory

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Pupils write an essay about evolution. They summarize Darwin's Theory and discuss its strength and weakness of evolutionary theory. Students discuss the struggle of existence and survival of the fittest. They discuss the evidence of...
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Fossils

For Teachers 1st
First graders write a brief informational description of a real life object, person, place or event using information gained from observations. They create their own fossil imprints and write a brief description about the fossil that...
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Geology of Connecticut

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students examine the geology of Connecticut, including plate tectonics, glaciation, and fossil formation. After reviewing past lessons, they write essays about what life may have been like in the Mesozoic Period. Following a field...
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Fossil Evidence

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students evaluate each other's fossil imprints and they try to identify the original object. They comprehend the importance of accuracy in identifying a fossil imprint. Students create an answer sheet that has space for the names of the...