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INSIDE THE EARTH UNIT
Tectonic Plate Boundary Poster-fill in
Tectonic Plate Boundary Poster-fill in
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8.2 Tectonic Plate Boundary Poster.pdf
link to view the file.
◄ OPEN AND STUDY- three boundary pictures
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Vocabulary Measurement
metric paradigm blank
metric paradigm notes
2.2 METRIC CONVERSIONS PRACTICE 2
2.1 length lab
3.0 Area Lab
PPT worksheet and grad cylinder page back to back
4.1 volume lab-color drops
5.2 mass powerpoint and lab combined-print back to back
6 Density lab 8th grade
7 review all measures --gummy bear lab
8 SCIENTIFIC METHOD REVIEW-all
8.2 Practice Identifying Parts of the Scientific Method
3.1 Volume powerpoint
mass powerpoint
9 REVIEW METRIC SYSTEM AND MEASUREMENT UNIT
9 REVIEW METRIC SYSTEM AND MEASUREMENT UNIT KEY
TEXTBOOK- CH2 MINERALS
2.1 WORKSHEET-- matter
2.2 WORKSHEET--mineral formation and groups
2.3 WORKSHEET-- mineral properties
Mineral research activity
mineral concentration growth lab
mineral groups/ formula cart sort lab
Mineral Identification Lab
mineral identification lab LUSTER TERMS AND hardness scale
mineral identification lab poster
Stalactites stalagmite reading
stalactite stalagmite reading worksheet
MOVIE#1- MINERAL DEFINITION
MOVIE#1-Mineral Definition WORKSHEET
MOVIE#2-- Mineral groups
MOVIE#2- mineral groups WORKSHEET
MOVIE #4 Giant Crystal Cave
MOVIE#5 Extremophiles in Crystals
MOVIE #6 Mining
MOVIE#7-- What Exactly Are Minerals? worksheet
POWERPOINT--NOTES on minerals (take notes while watching)
NOTES minerals-student template
VOCABULARY minerals--Picture assignment
Mineral Jumble Vocab review
VOCAB minerals-- race game
TEXTBOOK- CH 3 Rocks
3.1 reading worksheet
3.2 reading worksheet
3.3 reading worksheet
3.4 reading worksheet
MOVIE 1- The Rock Cycle- Mr. Bradley (no worksheet)
MOVIE 2- How Rocks Are Formed (has worksheet)
MOVIE 2- how rocks are formed-WORKSHEET
MOVIE 3- 3 Types of Rocks and the Rock Cycle (has worksheet)
movie 3- 3 types of rocks and the rock cycle-WORKSHEET
MOVIE 4- igneous rocks (fill in graphic organizer)
MOVIE 5- sedimentary rocks (fill in graphic organizer)
MOVIE 6- metamorphic rocks (fill in graphic organizer)
GRAPHIC ORGANIZER for the 3 movies above
MOVIE 7 - three rocks WORKSHEET
GAME- rock cycle journey stations
GAME- rock cycle journey worksheet
Rock cycle reading handout PLATES
LAB igneous rock lab
LAB Igneous rocks lab information sheet
LAB sedimentary rock lab
LAB sedimentary rocks lab information sheet
Sediment Separation Lab
LAB metamorphic rock lab
LAB metamorphic rocks lab information sheet
MYSTERY ROCK LAB
Rock notes PPT ch 2-1 rock cycle
Rock notes PPT ch 2-2 igneous
Rock notes PPT ch 2-3 sedimentary
Rock notes PPT ch 2-4 metamorphic
Notes Chapter 2- student fill in
VOCABULARY rocks RACE
Rock Crossword
rock cycle PROCESSES picture
Rock Cycle Processes worksheet
ROCK JEOPARDY
Rock graph review
Ice Age Theory reading
ice age worksheet p1-5
Types of glaciers p 6-9 READING
Types of glaciers p6-9 WORKSHEET
TEXTBOOK Chapter 7 Glaciers
Chapter 7.1 glacial erosion and landforms (worksheet for textbook)
MOVIE#1 Ice World (watch at least 15 minutes)
MOVIE #2 worksheet- life and death of glaciers
MOVIE #4 and #5 Worksheet- How Glaciers are Defined + Glacial Erosion
MOVIE #6- glacial landforms YOUTUBE LINK
MOVIE #6- GLACIAL LANDFORMS worksheet
MOVIE #7- Glacier Melt YOUTUBE LINK (optional)
Glacier Virtual Field Trip
NOTES GLACIERS - Student notes template
PPT Notes 1 --Ice age
notes 1-- ice age -master
PPT notes 2-Glacier movement, glacier types and the 4 glaciations
glacier notes2- movement, types, glaciations master
PPT Notes 3- GLACIAL DEPOSITION, LANDFORMS, EROSION,
glacier notes3- deposition, great lakes formation MASTER
Day in the life activity
Ice age glacier types crossword
ONLINE- ice age animals activity
ONLINE SIMULATION LAB Glacier PHET
Glacier lab
Glacial landforms activity PICTURES
Glacial landforms activity WORKSHEET
Review Glaciers
Glacier jeopardy
MOVIE#1- Fossilization 1.3 minutes
MOVIE#2- National Geographic- Fossils 4 min
MOVIE#3 worksheet--rocks fossils earths history DIGITAL
MOVIE (FYI)- Why don't all creatures become fossils
MOVIE (for fun)- Timelapse Fossil Reveal
BOOK Chapter 12 Geologic Time .pdf
Chapter 12 directed reading WORKSHEETS
BOOK ch6 History of life on Earth
chapter 6 directed reading WORKSHEETS
NOTES ch 12 + ch 6-- STUDENT FILL IN
NOTES- 12-1
NOTES- 12-2
NOTES 12-3
PPT earth organisms over time
PPT NOTES 6-2-Geologic Time Scale
MASTER NOTES ch 12 + ch 6
1.2 ROCK RELATIONSHIPS LAB
1.3 Cross cutting relationships handout
Which came first- rock layer events practice
Which came first- practice worksheets (use with powerpoint)
2.1-Relative time-Worksheet STUDENTS
4.2 THE THREE UNCONFORMITIES activity
4.1 CORRELATION LAB
4.2 Types of unconformities
4.3 fossil making lab
6.1 index fossil + relative dating information
6.1 index fossil + relative dating lab
6.1 index fossil + relative dating set A
6.1 index fossil + relative dating set B
7.1 Absolute Age Dating Lab
8.1 PHET- radioactive dating game lab
9.0 movie--rocks fossils earths history
9.3 Geologic Time activity- REFERENCE CHART
9.3 Geologic Time activity- pictures to cut out for questions 18 19
9.3 Geologic Time activity - Student questions
9.3 Geologic Time activity- TIMELINE
9.3 Geologic Time activity- pictures to cut out for question 24
13 REVIEW Fossils, Dating, + Geologic time
BOOK Chapter 08 Earthquakes and Earths Interior
BOOK Chapter 09 Plate Tectonics
8.4 worksheet
9-1 through 9-4 worksheets
MOVIE#1 Why does the Earth have layers
MOVIE#2 the mystery of Earth's core explained
MOVIE#3-earth’s magnetic shield
MOVIES 1,2,+3- Earth Layers WORKSHEET
MOVIE#4- Continents Adrift: Intro to Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics-youtube link
MOVIE#4- Continents Adrift: Intro to Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics WORKSHEET
MOVIE#5 -tectonic plates mini movie- no sheet
MOVIE#6 -Animated map: all earthquakes of the past 15 years
MOVIE extra- plate tectonics theory lesson- no sheet
MOVIE extra- Why It Took Scientists So Long To Accept This Very Obvious Idea- no sheet
Earth Layers Rap
Earth Layers song 2
POWERPOINT for NOTES 8-4
POWERPOINT for NOTES 9-1 and 9-2 drift and spreading
POWERPOINT for NOTES 9.3 and 9.4
notes 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4 STUDENT TEMPLATE- take notes on these sheets
Earth layers drawing lab
Density Column and Earth's layers lab
Structural Zones Labeling activity
LAB evidence of continental drift-- student questions
LAB evidence of continental drift-CUT OUT CONTINENTS
LAB evidence of continental drift-info sheet
LAB Sea floor spreading
LAB magnetic reversal
LAB earthquake boundaries--build your tectonic globe
LAB earthquake boundaries
OPEN AND STUDY- three boundary pictures
LAB tectonic plates posters stations
LAB Cracker Plate Tectonics
Concept mapping - plate boundary types
LAB subduction zones
REVIEW- EARTH’S INTERIOR AND TECTONIC PLATES
REVIEW KEY- EARTH’S INTERIOR AND TECTONIC PLATES
6.3 notes ch 9-1 and 9-2 master
TEXTBOOK Chapter 08 - Earthquakes and Earths Interior
8.1 8.2 8.3 reading worksheets
MOVIE #1 Earthquakes worksheet
MOVIE #3 - Determining the Epicenter Distance of an Earthquake
LAB EARTHQUAKE MACHINE
Anatomy of an Earthquake
Measuring Earthquakes activity
LAB- P and S Wave Earthquake Lab
LAB -Epicenter and Seismic Wave Lab
LAB- travel time graph review lab
POWERPOINT- NOTES ch 8 - earthquakes
6 Notes 8-1 8-2 8-3- student fill in
6 Notes 8-1 8-2 8-3 master
TEXTBOOK Chapter 10 Volcanoes
CH 10 packet worksheets
MOVIE #2- Volcanoes Mountains of fire WORKSHEET
MOVIE #3- What is a Volcano
MOVIE #4- Volcanoes Mothers of Disaster
MOVIE #5- Intrusive Igneous Formations
MOVIE #5 Intrusive Igneous Formations-WORKSHEET
MOVIE #6 - National Geographic- Volcanoes 101
Hotspot Lab
Volcanism types graphic organizer
LAB-CARD SORT volcano types-CARDS
LAB-CARD SORT volcano types student sheet
interactions of Earth's 4 spheres
volcanic landforms
volcanic gasses, lava, pyroclastic material
volcanic vocabulary riddle
crossword
POWERPOINT -VOLCANOES NOTES
volcano notes 2023 STUDENT FILL
volcano notes 2023 MASTER
REVIEW- earthquakes and volcanoes
REVIEW- earthquakes and volcanoes KEY
chapter 17 worksheets
BOOK Chapter 17 Earths Atmosphere
Michigan daylight hours assignment
Michigan daylight hours graph
Movie #1-Why do we have different seasons
Movie #2- what causes summer and winter?
Movie #3-reason for the seasons
3 PASS THE GLOBE MINI LAB
seasons drawing worksheet
MOVIE 4 -What is Heat? A brief introduction at the particle level
MOVIE 5- Convection currents demo
MOVIE 6- Heat transfer: Radiation
MOVIE 7- conduction, convection, radiation--heat transfer
Radiation, Conduction, Convection practice page (graded)
Sun wave angles - energy transfer lab
Sun wave angles graph paper
Why temperatures vary activity
Heating power of the sun lab
LAB specific heat & coastal cities
CH17 notes STUDENT TEMPLATE
CH17 MASTER notes
BOOK Chapter 18 Moisture Clouds and Precipitation
ch 18 worksheets
How psychrometers work- mini video
Dewpoint Lab
mini movie- relative humidity demonstration
mini movie-adiabatic compression and expansion simulation
18.2 lab activity
Cloud Sorting Activity #1 LINK
Cloud Sorting Activity #1
18.3 mini movie#1- bergeron process explained
18.3 mini movie#2- visual of bergeron process
18.3 mini movie#3- see bergeron process in action (just watch up to 1:30 to see ice crystals)
18.3 mini movie#4- cloud types
18.3 mini movie#5- precipitation types
18.3 mini movie#6- what is hail
18.3 mini movie#7- types of precipitation
18.3 mini movie#8- what is graupel
CH 18 NOTES STUDENT TEMPLATE
CH 18 NOTES
CHAPTER 18 REVIEW
TEXTBOOK Chapter 19 Air Pressure and Wind
19.0 GLOBAL CONVECTION CELLS
19.1 activities
19.2 activities
19.3 ACTIVITIES
Ch 19 notes MASTER
Ch 19 notes STUDENT TEMPLATE
Ch 19 review
@ BOOK Chapter 20 Weather Patterns and Severe Storms.pdf
20.1 Air Masses activity
20.2 Fronts activity
20.3 MOVIE questions
NOTES CHAPTER 20- master
NOTES CHAPTER 20- student template
REVIEW CHAPTER 20
MOVIE#1- accretion
MOVIE#2- solar system formation
NAT GEO INNER PLANET VIDEOS- worksheet
MOVIE#3 NAT GEO--Overview of Planets
MOVIE#4 Mercury movie- nat geo
MOVIE#5 Venus movie- nat geo
MOVIE#6 Earth movie- nat geo
MOVIE#7 Mars movie- nat geo
NAT GEO OUTER PLANET VIDEOS-worksheet
MOVIE#8 Jupiter movie- nat geo
MOVIE#9 Saturn movie- nat geo
MOVIE#10 Saturn's Rings
MOVIE#11 Uranus movie- nat geo
MOVIE#12 Neptune movie- nat geo
Asteroid belt movie worksheet- use with movies 13,14,15
MOVIE#13- asteroid belt (video 1 on the worksheet)
MOVIE#14- Pluto, Comets, Asteroids, and the Kuiper Belt (video 2 on the worksheet)
MOVIE#19-cosmic collisions worksheet
MOVIE- how sunspots form from twisted magnetic fields
CHEERIOS GRAVITY MODEL lab
Planets Size Lab
Toilet Paper Solar System lab
carbon cycle picture - use to fill in your picture
carbon cycle picture- fill in for review
nitrogen cycle picture - use to fill in your picture
nitrogen cycle picture--fill in for review
Planets , cycles and spheres activity- review carbon and nitrogen cycles first
NOVA Online Sun Lab
ONLINE LAB- ORBITS AND GRAVITY
PPT - notes on inner planets
PPT- notes on outer planets
SOLAR SYSTEM BOOK -use to take notes from powerpoints
POWERPOINT- fusion in the sun
SUN-lecture and NOTES
NOTES Sun STUDENT TEMPLATE (fill in for a grade)
NOTES Sun (MASTER COPY)
SEQUENCE MAP-- how sunspots work
SEQUENCE MAP-- how fusion works
DOUBLE BUBBLE-- nuclear reaction versus chemical reactions
REVIEW planets and sun
Inner and outer planet worksheets combined
Other objects and Spiral Review combined
VOCABULARY- sun unit
MOVIE#2- PHASES OF THE MOON
MOVIE#5 eclipses mini movie
MOVIE#6 eclipses mini movie
MOVIE#7 eclipses mini movie
MOVIE#8 Moon features mini movie
MOVIE#9 Moon features mini movie
MOVIE#10 Moon features mini movie
MOVIE#11 TIDES - mini movie
MOVIE#12 TIDES - mini movie
MOVIE#13 TIDES - mini movie
MOVIE#14 TIDES - mini movie
TEXTBOOK CH 22 MOON
CH 22 moon worksheets/ packet
TEXTBOOK ch 16.2 TIDES
CH 16.2 tides worksheet/ packet
MOON PHASES DRAWING
2 MOON PHASES lab
3 moon calendar wheel + instructions
3 Moon calendar lab questions
4 ECLIPSE LAB
4 why eclipses dont happen every month-LAB
4 why eclipses dont happen every month-LAB REDO
7 Moon FEATURES activity
7 moon features activity- pictures needed
7 TIDES powerpoint
8.1 tides lab
9 moon notes presentation
9 MOON NOTES- student template- phase,eclipse,features,tides
9 MOON NOTES- master- phase,eclipse,features,tides
10 MOON review - PRINT
10 moon jeopardy
TEXTBOOK -- Ch25 STARS, GALAXIES
CH 25- worksheets that go with book (packet)
MOVIE#1- A look to the stars WORKSHEET
MOVIE#2- Star size comparison -youtube
MOVIE#3- How to use a spectrascope (watch before doing spectral lab)
MOVIE#4- The Life and Death of Stars- youtube
MOVIE#4- The Life and Death of Stars- WORKSHEET
Hertzsprung-Russel diagram --Fill this in while watching the video
Hertzsprung-Russel diagram TAKE NOTES ON THIS ONE
Hertzsprung-Russel diagram WORKSHEET
LAB- analyzing spectra
STARLIGHT STAR BRIGHT activity
FORMATION OF STARS concept map & OBSERVING STARS worksheet
CROSSWORD- stars
Galaxy sorting lab
Representative sampling lab
Galaxies worksheet
HR diagram simulator lab
PPT STARS NOTES- watch then fill in notes
NOTES star -student template
PPT galaxies-NOTES- watch then fill in notes
NOTES Galaxy-student template
10 REVIEW STARS AND GALAXIES
REVIEW STARS AND GALAXIES
movie 1- seafloor features and landforms
MOVIE 1– Seafloor Features and Landforms
movie 2- seamounts by National Geographic
movie 3- california seamount video#1
movie 4- california seamount video#2
movie 5- california seamount video#3
movie 6- california seamount video#4
movie 7- california seamount video#6
movie 8- How Atolls Form
MOVIES 2through 8- seamounts and atolls WORKSHEET
movie 9- Netflix "High Seas"
Movie 10- giant tube worms
MOVIE 10- giant tube worms WORKSHEET
Movie 11- Major Global Ocean Currents
Movie 12- Is Earth's Most Important Ocean Current Doomed?
Ocean currents movies (1-4) - worksheet
CH 14 BOOK The Ocean Floor
CH 14 packet worksheets
CH 15 BOOK Ocean Water Ocean Life
CH 15 packet worksheets
CH 16 BOOK currents
CH 16 packet worksheets
ocean floor features drawing
clarity lab
Ocean water Density Lab
marine life zones activity
online-- life in the oceans assignment
Energy pyramid activity cards
Energy pyramid activity
Plankton decline READING
Plankton decline reading WORKSHEET
Plankton math
Identifying Ocean currents lab
Major Surface Currents Activity
Pangea activity directions and questions
Pangea activity page for drawing currents
9.1 Ecology Review PPT
10 deep sea life
11.1 Plankton in the Oceans
12.0 upwelling pics
14.1 El Nino PPT
15.0 El Nino PPT
15.2 el nino ACTIVITY
OCEAN NOTES- student template
OCEAN NOTES- master
17 Review -study guide oceans
El Nino Notes
LAB tectonic plates posters stations ►