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Amazon Water Cycle Role Play
Students participate in a role play where they play clouds, the ocean, rain drops, and more in order to learn about the water cycle. For this water cycle lesson plan, students have discussions and learn vocabulary.
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What Goes Around Comes Around!
Learners create an ecosystem in a jar to show a model of the water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle. Working in small groups, they research and present orally the information they find on this cycle.
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Moon: NC Summer Tour Lesson 2007
Young scholars investigate craters and marea. In this crater and marea lesson, students conduct an experiment to create craters. Young scholars participate in a dance activity.
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Groundwater
In this groundwater worksheet, students use 12 given terms and match them to their definitions related to characteristics of groundwater and the components of the ground where the water travels. Students also fill in 5 blanks with given...
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Types of Weathering
In this weathering worksheet, students compare the two types of weathering: mechanical and chemical. This worksheet has 11 matching questions.
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Visualizing Succession
Ecosystem change is easier to understand when you use hands-on activities.
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Micro-Organisms
For this identifying the definitions of micro-organisms worksheet, students match the correct key words with the correct definitions. Students match 8 answers.
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One Part A Mini Lab: Water Contamination
Students investigate the effects of ground water contamination. In this ground water contamination lesson plan, students create a mini well and simulate ground water flow through the well with a contaminate (food coloring). They make...
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An Erosion Survey
For this erosion worksheet, students draw a map of their school ground or neighborhood, mark examples of weathering and erosion, and list the examples on spaces provided. A chart with examples of different types of weathering and erosion...
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The Flow of Fresh Water
In this water flow learning exercise, learners complete 15 word puzzles, a word search, and 2 picture puzzles about the flow of water and erosion.
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Trees and Erosion
Learners examine the connection between trees and erosion. In this erosion lesson students experiment with the effects of rain on a hillside. Learners investigate the number of trees and the amount of erosion.
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Surface Water and Groundwater
Students examine distribution of water and minerals. In this surface and groundwater activity, students conduct an experiment with fresh and salt water making hypothesis and drawing conclusions about minerals.
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Weathering
Second graders explore weathering and how the water cycle plays a part in weathering. For this weathering lesson, 2nd graders put gravel and sugar cubes in a jar and shake, simulating weathering. Students use the scientific method...
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Making a Terrarium
Students construct and maintain model of natural habitat, suggest improvements to the model of the natural habitat to make it more realistic and habitable, and demonstrate careful observation and recording of how animals survive in their...
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A Model Aquifer
Middle schoolers build a model that depicts how water is stored in an aquifer. They examine ways in which groundwater can become contaminated.
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Parts of an Ecosystem
Fourth graders study the Great Salt lake and the ecosystem that encompasses it. They study the relationship between an individual of a species, a population of that species, a community that includes that population, and the...
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Dinosaur Traces
Students identify and interpret the type of evidence found at a typical dinosaur dig and mimic a paleontologist by taking crayon rubbings of simulated bone impressions. After the rubbings are taken, the students reconstruct the complete...
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Earth and Space Science: Let it Flow
Students engage in a activity in which volcanoes be explored and examined. After watching a video, students create volcanoes out of clay.
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How Much is Dirt Worth?
Fourth graders graph the percentages of the materials that make up the Earth and complete computations based on their results. In this topsoil instructional activity, 4th graders diagram the different layers of Earth's composition.
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Gallery Walk Questions about Energy and Material Cycles
Students state the physical, chemical or biological processes associated with these environments: Pelagic ocean zone, California coat Cave, Indiana Barrier island beach, North Carolina Sand dune, Dunes National Park, Colorado Wetland and...
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Atlas Vocabulary
In this atlas terms and definitions online interactive instructional activity, students read the definitions and match them with Atlas vocabulary words. Students match 49 answers.
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Unearthing the Past
Students analyze artifacts from an early society to determine information relating to daily life in that society. They consider which artifacts from our society would be most valuable to future archeologists.
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Acid Rain
Students understand the dynamics of acid rain and its impact on the living and non-living environment. They hypothesize how acid rain affects water pH levels in two lake systems with differing watershed features.
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Fifth Grade Life Science Review/Quiz
In this life sciences review or quiz instructional activity, 5th graders use recall of knowledge to answer multiple choice questions. Students answer 20 questions.
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