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Forest Foundation

Waste Not - Want Not

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Recycling is the focus in the sixth of a nine-lesson series devoted to forest ecosystems. Class members read an article about the responsible use of natural resources and ways to reduce land fill.
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Lesson Plan - Appearances are Deceiving

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Herre is a lesson on divergent and convergent evolution. It has links to terrific video clips, an associate worksheet, and more. The analysis questions have been reviewed separately on Lesson Planet if you would like more information....
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Season Worksheet #5

For Students 6th - 9th
Sunrise, sunset, swiftly fly the years! Your earth scientists can also fly through a year of daylight data. They analyze a graph and then answer five multiple choice questions about the rising and setting of the sun, the total number of...
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Teach Engineering

An Inflated Impression of Mars

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Help your class understand the magnitude of the distance between Earth and Mars with an activity that asks small groups to use balloons to create scale models of the Earth, Moon, and Mars. Class members figure out the distances...
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Oceanography Worksheet #1

For Students 6th - 9th
If you are teaching physical oceanography to middle school earth scientists, here is a terrific multiple choice worksheet. Learners look at a diagram of a landscape created by glacial sediment deposition and the resulting ocean floor....
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Why Does the Ocean have Waves?

For Students 4th Standards
Six short answer questions challenge scholars to show what they know after reading an informational text that examines waves—what they are, what causes them, and how different Earth factors affect their size and strength.   
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K5 Learning

The Astronomy Project

For Students 5th Standards
A passage about an astronomy lesson may leave readers starstruck. Fifth graders read about a class's exploration into the makeup of the galaxy and its constellations before answering six questions about the terms and vocabulary...
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Questions - Appearances are Deceiving

For Students 9th - 12th
Five evolution-related questions are answered by beginning biologists on a separate sheet of paper. First, they are asked to list adaptations that allow organisms to survive under various conditions. The second question refers to...
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K12 Reader

Natural Resources

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
What natural resources are available in your area? Your learners can consider this question after reading a brief passage about natural and renewable resources. After reading, class members respond to five questions related to the reading.
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K12 Reader

Endangered Species

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Your learners have likely heard about animals going extinct. By reading this passage, they can find out some reasons why this happens and how to protect endangered species. After reading, individuals respond to five related questions.
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National External Diploma Program Council

Capitalization Review

For Students 2nd - 7th Standards
Using correct grammar is a capital idea! Elementary readers review the rules of capitalization, including proper nouns, abbreviations of organizations, and holidays, before correcting the errors in two sets of sentences.  
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Nosapo

Reading, Vocabulary, Comprehension

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Whether you teach mainstream elementary classes or older English learners, a set of reading comprehension resources is a great addition to your language arts curriculum. Ten activities each include a reading passage and set of...
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Plates of the Earth's Crust

For Teachers 5th - 7th
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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What's Inside the Earth?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In 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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Earth Day Word Search

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this Earth Day activity worksheet, students use the 10 holiday terms in the word bank to locate and identify them in the word search puzzle.
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Earth Science Crossword Puzzle

For Students 5th - 8th
In this online interactive anatomy crossword puzzle activity, students use the 8 clues to find the appropriate answers to complete the word puzzle.
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Gods, Goddesses and Planets

For Students 9th - 12th
In this planets instructional activity, students unscramble the names of the different planets, place the planets in order, and determine which planet matches with which Roman god or goddess. This instructional activity has 9 word...
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Vocabulary for Earthquakes and Volcanoes

For Students 6th - 10th
In this plate tectonics worksheet, students define 27 terms associated with earthquakes and volcanoes such as subduction zone, mantle, and divergent plate.
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Weathering and Erosion and Driving the Rock Cycle

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students find the vocabulary terms related to weathering and erosion. The answers are found at the bottom of the page by clicking the button.
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If I Was A...? Worksheet: Planet Earth

For Students 5th
In this writing about Earth worksheet, 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

For Students 4th - 5th
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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Earth In Space Vocabulary Sheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this space science vocabulary worksheet, students read the definitions for 6 common terms. Students then look up 4 words and write the meanings. Students alphabetize the vocabulary words on another piece of paper.
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Waterdrops Water Cycle

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this earth science worksheet, 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...
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Mars Pathfinder

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science worksheet, students read about the Mars Pathfinder. Students also answer 2 comprehension questions about the reading.

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