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earth science week 188 middle school 142 6-8 135 high school 104 9-12 98 elementary school 82 k-5 geosource 82 more ...
earth science week 188 middle school 142 6-8 135 high school 104 9-12 98 elementary school 82 k-5 geosource 82 more ...
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In this activity, students will explore their creativity and critical thinking while they imagine a cave environment and create an organism that lives in their cave. Their cave will be one of the types mentioned in the preceding pages, but their organisms will be of their own imagination.
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By American Geosciences Institute (AGI);
Association of American State Geologists (AASG);
Earth Science Week (ESW)
With this activity from the Association of American State Geologists, students can use local geologic maps to research types of rock in their area.
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How is the world connected to the pencil you hold in your hand? Complete this activity to find out.
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By American Geosciences Institute (AGI);
Earth Science Week (ESW);
Geological Society of America (GSA)
An EarthCache is a special site that people can visit to learn about a unique geoscience feature or aspect of our Earth. Visitors to EarthCache sites can see how our planet has been shaped by geological processes, how we manage the resources and how scientists gather evidence to learn about the...
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By American Geosciences Institute (AGI);
Earth Science Week (ESW);
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
The Ozone Hole poster used in this activity brings together colorful images of over 30 years of satellite observations of the ozone hole. Once you understand the meaning of the color scale, you can interpret the colors on the globes and see how the ozone hole has changed over time.
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Caves form through a variety of natural processes depending on their local geology and climate. Flowing lava, melting ice, dissolving rock, and crashing waves are the major processes that form these wondrous environments. In this activity, students will observe a model of how the most common type of...
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Scientists, engineers, and others create geologic maps to determine the best places for people to settle, build, farm, and use land in a variety of ways. They also use geologic maps to monitor the ways that human activity might be changing the land itself over time. As the Geologic Map of Karst in...
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By American Geosciences Institute (AGI);
Earth Science Week (ESW);
National Energy Education Development (NEED)
Just as your GPS helps you make sure you’re getting from point “a” to point “b” correctly, maps help scientists draw important conclusions and visualize important concepts they study. The right map can help a petroleum engineer find the best drilling site, or help a meteorologist make the...
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If you have ever used Google Earth, what was the first place you tried to find? For many people the answer is “my home.” Where humans choose to live is one of the fundamental influences on the surface of our planet. People influence and change Earth’s systems (atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere,...
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By American Geosciences Institute (AGI);
Earth Science Week (ESW);
Minerals Education Coalition (MEC);
Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME)
Density is an intrinsic physical property of minerals that relates to the composition of the mineral and to the pattern in which the mineral’s atoms are arranged. “Intrinsic” means that the property is the same for the mineral, no matter what the size or shape of the sample. In this activity,...
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In this activity, you’ll investigate dynamics in Earth’s crust that explain multiple Earth science phenomena.
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By American Geosciences Institute (AGI);
Earth Science Week (ESW);
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
This activity will provide you with an introduction to a series of lessons — Survivor Earth — about water resources on Earth. You’ll investigate Earth systems by making observations in nature and identifying systems in the natural world. Ultimately, you will understand how the four spheres, or...
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By American Geosciences Institute (AGI);
Earth Science Week (ESW);
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
How are people affecting your local environment? How is our planet changing? Join the “citizen science” movement, and you can help discover the answers. Citizen science is a form of open collaboration in which members of the public participate in the scientific process to address real-world...
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By American Geosciences Institute (AGI);
Earth Science Week (ESW);
United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
The Wilderness Act, signed into law September 3, 1964, celebrates its milestone 50th anniversary in 2014. The legislation poetically defines this natural resource: “A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where...
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By American Geosciences Institute (AGI);
Earth Science Week (ESW);
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
We find carbon everywhere on Earth ─ in trees, rocks, fossil fuels, oceans, and even you! Carbon doesn’t stay in one place, through. Scientists study how carbon moves from one place to another. This is the carbon cycle. The Industrial Revolution, starting in the 1700s, saw a move to large-scale...
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Explore mountain ranges and why they become so big.
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By American Geosciences Institute (AGI);
Consortium for Ocean Leadership (COL);
Earth Science Week (ESW)
This activity gives your students a glimpse at the difficulty of seafloor surveying, as well as the challenges the JOIDES Resolution faces during each expedition. Your students also will learn about latitude and longitude and plotting coordinates.
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A tropical storm is brewing in the Atlantic Ocean. It's causing rain and thunderstorms over the Caribbean, and it will soon be a tropical depression — the beginning of a hurricane. By the time Hurricane Mitch leaves the Central America, more than 11-000 people will be dead and as many as...
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This activity is designed to give you practice using a geologic map to assess the likelihood and location of a particular natural hazard — earthquakes — in California.
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This activity is designed to give you practice using a geologic map to understand how awter shapes the land , nad is stored within the land , in part of the Grand Canyon.
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