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Effects of Plate Tectonics
Explore our world from within as you lead young scientists on a thrilling adventure. Pupils examine the location of plate boundaries to determine earthquake and volcano distribution around the globe and explore the cause of hot spots in...
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GED Vocabulary: Earth and Space Science-Glaciers and Populations
In this earth and space science worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle given 7 clues and a word bank on topics such as glaciers, weathering and population density.
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What's Inside the Earth?
For this earth's composition worksheet, young scholars read about the layers within the earth and they answer 3 multiple choice questions. They color a diagram of the earth's core using different colors to represent the solid metal, the...
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Plates of the Earth's Crust
In this Earth's crust and continental plates worksheet, students are given a diagram of the plates of the Earth. They choose a color to draw each different plate so they can be distinguished from one another.
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EARTH DAY WORD SEARCH
In this Earth Day word search worksheet, students are given 15 environment-related words to find in a flower shape. This activity sheet is suitable for most 2nd - 5th graders.
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Earth Day Maze
In this Earth Day maze, students help the apple core find its way to the trash can. This activity can be integrated with any Earth Day activities.
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Earth Day Crossword Puzzle
In this Earth Day activity instructional activity, students use the 20 clues to identify the words needed to complete the Earth Day crossword puzzle.
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Earth Day Word Search
In this Earth Day activity worksheet, learners use the 10 holiday terms in the word bank to locate and identify them in the word search puzzle.
Study Stack
Earth Science Crossword Puzzle
In this online interactive anatomy crossword puzzle worksheet, students use the 8 clues to find the appropriate answers to complete the word puzzle.
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If I Was A...? Worksheet: Planet Earth
In this writing about Earth activity, 5th graders pretend they are Planet Earth and then use their knowledge of Earth to answer the questions.
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Planet Earth KWL Worksheet
In this Earth chart worksheet, students complete a KWL chart for the planet Earth. Students list what they know, what they want to learn, and what they have learned about the planet Earth.
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Chapter 3 Science Word Search Puzzle
In this science and language arts instructional activity, students study 15 words in a word bank pertaining to geology and Earth science. Students find the words in a word search. The meaning of the title is not clear.
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Waterdrops Water Cycle
In this earth science activity, students read an article about the water cycle. Then they continue the story about the travels of a water droplet through time and space. Students also complete sentences by writing in the correct word...
Carnegie Mellon University
Bathtub Model
Using a colorful infographic handout and a guide sheet, hold a class discussion about how a bathtub can serve as a model for the greenhouse effect created by Earth's atmosphere. Participants will understand that as energy or matter is...
Random House
Recipe for an Ecosystem
Creating an ecosystem is as simple as baking a cake. Well, maybe not, but using a recipe analogy helps learners realize that ecosystems consist of different components that come together in unique ways. Offer this worksheet as an...
K12 Reader
Taking Care of Earth
Provide a brief introduction to ecology and conservation with a reading passage. Learners can read the text, answer the five related questions that are included on the page, and discuss the reading.
Texas State Energy Conservation Office
Investigation: Automotive Emissions and the Greenhouse Effect
It is recommended that you conduct this fabulous experiment as a whole-class demonstration. Collect air samples from the environment, human exhalation, and car exhaust, then compare them for carbon dioxide content using bromthymol blue...
Freeology
Nature Observations Journal
A journal template makes observing nature a breeze. Super scientists identify an interesting object in nature, draw it, list its details, and compose a written descriptions of their artwork.
NASA
Is It Alive?
Determining whether or not something is living can be more difficult than it seems. Put your young scientists to work defining their own criteria to identify life, then work with three samples to see if they are alive or...
It's About Time
Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Emerging biochemists more fully understand the flow of energy in ecosystems as they explore the laws of thermodynamics and relate them to energy transfer in food chains. They also investigate heat loss from the human body and how...
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Earthquakes, Tsunamis & Volcanoes (Online Interactive)
In this earth science worksheet, students learn about earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes by reading a 3 paragraph text. Students answer 9 fill in the blank questions. This is an online interactive worksheet.
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Clouds
Test your learners' science and/or reading comprehension skills with this activity, which provides a page of information about clouds and cloud classification. Both an earth science teacher and a language arts teacher could use this...
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Weather Internet Scavenger Hunt
In this earth science worksheet, students visit the weather sites listed to answer the weather questions on the sheet. They define super cell and complete the paragraph. Students also name and sketch three types of snowflakes.
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What Makes Day and Night?
In this What Makes Day and Night worksheet, students explain what makes day and night by looking at pictures of the earth and sun and reading 11 related words. Students also write interview questions for a scientist and investigate day...