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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: A Paste With Taste

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this activity, students learn about the ingredients in toothpaste and develop a recipe for a new toothpaste, for which they must also create a slogan and an ad for marketing their product to consumers.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Dynamic Wetlands

For Students 9th - 10th
Young scholars learn about the importance of wetlands and construct models of two types. They then monitor them for two weeks and record their observations.
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Other

Teaching the Jah: Earth Day and the Environmental Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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,...
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Birdseed Mining

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, learners are given shallow pans with a mixture of birdseed and different colored beads. They must 'mine' the pan to extract seeds and beads, each of which is assigned a monetary value. They then calculate how much they...
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Other

Lunar and Planetary Institute: Explore! Discover Earth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A variety of hands-on activities, investigations, and explorations designed to engage learners in discovering planet Earth.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Geologic Age

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore geologic time of the Earth and learn how radioactive decay helps to establish a timeline.
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The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: Ms Ess3 1: Uneven Distribution of Earth's Resources

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard MS-ESS3-1: uneven distribution of Earth's resources.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Exploring Color Maps

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An activity where students study the Ozone Hole poster used that brings together colorful images of over 30 years of satellite observations of the ozone hole. Students interpret the color on the globes to see how the ozone hole has...
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Other

Teach With Movies: Lesson Plans Based on Shorts and Clips

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Links to many video-clip based lessons in the areas of health, English language arts & drama, mathematics, music, biology, earth science, inventions, astronomy, physics, chemistry, U.S. history and culture, and world history and...
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: The Great Continental Drift Mystery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A unit on plate tectonics designed for middle school students, this page must be read carefully to find the activities to be done in the class, but it provides a wealth of background for the teacher as well.

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