In this Earth movements worksheet, learners compare and contrast earthquakes and volcanoes. Students write a short essay about the similarities and differences and then complete 4 matching questions.

Students relate meteorites to the mantle and crust of asteroids.  In this planetary lesson students complete experiments to model the separation of light.

Fifth graders use common household items to build landforms and simulate weathering and erosion.

In this data worksheet, students match information with the best type of graph to display it. Students also make a chart and graph to display information in a given paragraph.

Students recognize the three main types of clouds. In this clouds lesson, students create a cloud mobile to understand clouds.

In this science worksheet students will complete a word search puzzle. Students will locate 15 words associated with the different uses of minerals.

For this mass worksheet, students determine the number of moles from a given molar mass and volume being sure that they use the correct conversion factors. This worksheet has 12 problems to solve.

In this water on planetary surfaces learning exercise, learners read about the Galileo spacecraft and the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. They read about the energy needed to keep the water in a liquid state on Europa. Students solve 4...

Students study volcanoes. In this volcanoes lesson, students read several volcano paragraphs and study the pictures or diagrams. Students then make an erupting volcano, complete website research about volcanoes, and answer several...

Students define the properties of minerals and their uses in their world. In this multi-lesson unit, students contribute actively to discussions of mineral mining, mining methods and mine safety. A role play lesson asks students to...

Students complete activities that lead to greater understanding of the variety of natural disasters that occur all over the world.

Students investigate primary and secondary waves and how to measure the magnitude of waves. They discover how to find the epicenter of earthquakes. They examine why waves are more destructive in some areas than others through these...

Fifth graders explore the use of fossil fuels and relate it to effects on the environment.

In this ecology activity, students read the vocabulary words and then categorize a species found in a field, meadow, or fencerow in their state or region. Students complete 6 problems.

Students explore earthquake activity in California. They observe the historical data and create databases and graphs of the earthquakes. Students analyze the data and form a hypothesis about future earthquakes.

In this life skills vocabulary worksheet, students fill in a crossword puzzle as they figure out the answers to fourteen clues associated with emergencies.

Learners demonstrate that setting of plaster and cement is a change, which involves a release of heat energy, use data collected experimentally to construct comparison graphs and analyze the graphs to make predictions about future...

Students define the origin of rock samples and how surface core samples can tell us about the history and make-up of Mars. Candies are used as a Martian surface sample. Students study the samples and make a hypothesis about the cause of...

Students investigate thermal waters and geologic provinces. They examine provided maps of geothermal springs and thermal wells in the state of Idaho and their locations relative to Idaho's geologic provinces. Afterward, they use the maps...

In this volcano vocabulary instructional activity, students match vocabulary words on the left with definitions on the right. Worksheet is labeled as a quiz but may be used as practice or review.

Students research landforms created by tectonic movement.  In this landforms lessons, students discuss caves, canyons, mountains, valleys, and undersea vents and the ecosystems unique to these environments.

Pupils explore the use of lasers. In this "lasers" science and career education lesson, students search the Internet to find uses for lasers and make a list of companies that use or produce lasers. Pupils complete a lasers and making...

In this earth science fill-in-the-blank worksheet students complete 8 questions about an geology. They see a picture of a rock and a volcano on the page. They check their work with the word bank at the bottom of the page.

Students will enjoy smashing the two tectonic sandwich plates together in faulting and compression fashions! They may even desire to capture their instructional destruction in a slideshow.