In this design challenge lesson students explore the Denver Public School District���s solid waste plan and discuss how their school can save or decrease emissions by reducing solid waste at our school.

This lesson provides guidance for students to create and practice a presentation about design challenge results that they developed in the previous unit lessons and how to present it to the school administration.

In this activity students utilize collected data and propose solutions to mitigate food waste in their school.

This lesson outlines for students how to design and carry out an investigation to audit their school���s food waste system.

Students explore the greenhouse effect in this lesson using a computer simulation and develop a model for how it works.

In this design challenge lesson, students examine their school food system and develop an investigation about food waste in order to know what should change.

In this lesson, students investigate the life history characteristics of different Antarctic penguin species and identify the changes that their populations have experienced.

This lesson contains instructions and patterns for preparing seven three-dimensional paper models that schematically illustrate common earth faults and associated landforms.

The faults described are:
1. normal
2. reverse
3. right
4. left-lateral
5. strike-slip
6. oblique-slip

There are also models and discussions of two fault-produced landforms, a graben and a horst.

These models are intended to help students and others visualize the principal classes of faults and learn some of the terminology used by geologists to describe faults.

By constructing and examining these models, students will obtain a greater appreciation of the relationship between fault displacements and
the landforms that result.

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In this lesson, students explore how human activities will continue to impact Antarctic ice, discuss human contributions to climate change, and investigate what we can do to stop/reverse these negative effects.

Students create a weather station to record and analyze data in finding relationships and patterns to predict weather. 

There are several common minerals that tend to be referenced and used in texts, NY Regent Tests and released Virginia SOL tests.

I call these the Super 8.
Sulfur | Magnetite | Mica | Halite | Pyrite | Calcite | Quartz | Diamond

This resource requires samples of each mineral be sorted and available for manipulation. Students should perform this lab in small groups 3 or 4 and use the spreadsheet provided write the features observed according to categories the teacher wants students to master.

The lab should take about 20-30 minutes.

The Earth Science textbook by Glenco or the attached reference sheet may be used by students.

There are several common minerals that tend to be referenced and used in texts, NY Regent Tests and released Virginia SOL tests.

I call these the Super 8.
Sulfur | Magnetite | Mica | Halite | Pyrite | Calcite | Quartz | Diamond

This resource requires samples of each mineral be sorted and available for manipulation. Students should perform this lab in small groups 3 or 4 and use the spradsheet provided write the features observed according to categories the teacher wants students to master.

The lab should take about 20-30 minutes.

The NY Regents Earth Science Reference Table or a textbook reference may be used as a group reference for look up.

The videos in Virtual Virginia provide a general overview of Relative and Absolute Geologic Time. this lesson plan is intended to give students data to analyze and interpret to reconstruct the geologic history or rocks in Virginia for the Early to Middle Paleozoic. For more information contact: Dr. William Schmachtenberg, email: william.schmachtenberg@frco.k12.va.us

This is a set of three, one-page problems about the size and area of solar panels used to generate power. Learners will will use integer arithmetic to tally the number of hydrogen, oxygen and carbon atoms in a molecule and determine the number of methane atoms that can result. Options are presented so that students may learn about how NASA is using signs of methane gas to search for life on other planets, such as Mars, through a NASA press release or about how astrobiologists who are looking for life beyond Earth are using spectroscopy to identify methane plumes on Mars by viewing a NASA eClips video [7 min.]. This activity is part of the Space Math multi-media modules that integrate NASA press releases, NASA archival video, and mathematics problems targeted at specific math standards commonly encountered in middle school.

This is a great introductory 6-minute video clip to help students understand Pangaea and the theory of plate tectonics. This can be used before notes or as part of a review.

This is a complete 5 E lesson covering weather and weather maps. Materials will be available that can be used for teacher instruction on weather maps. Students will have opportuities to investigate and analyze weather maps and make predictions using maps for impending weather.

This lesson explores if it is normal that world temperatures are rising at the currently observed fast pace.

LAND AND PEOPLE : FINDING A BALANCE

Land and People: Finding a Balance is an environmental study project that engages high school students in studying earth science resource issues. The project focuses on the interaction between people and the environment in three regions of the United States:
Cape Cod
Los Angeles
the Florida Everglades.

Students use a Focus Question to guide their reading of the attached materials. Each Activity clearly describes what students will need to complete the Activity, explains the procedure, and in some cases, suggests extension activities.

Each section has Activities that are suggested to be done with the particular unit. The recommended lesson plan for this activity is attached.

LAND AND PEOPLE : FINDING A BALANCE

Land and People: Finding a Balance is an environmental study project that engages high school students in studyingearth science resource issues. The project focuses on the interaction between people and the environment in three regions of the United States: Cape Cod
Los Angeles
the Florida Everglades.

Students use a Focus Question to answer and also provide them with several types of information they should use to answer the questions. Each Activity clearlydescribes what students will need to complete the Activity, explains the procedure, and in some cases, suggests extension activities.

Lesson Options
-Study sections in any order
-Complete all three sections or just one
-Read the entire set of student materials for a region then complete all or selected activities.

Requirements
-Each student will need a copy of the student materials. Student worksheets are designed to be photocopied clearly and easily.
-Students will also need copies of the maps and other data that accompany the activities in the teacher materials.

 OVERVIEWThe purpose of this lab activity is to help students develop a better understanding of  the layers  of Earth’s atmosphere.  Earth’s atmosphere is composed of  thin layers of gases that protect the planet and its life forms.   The students will work in small groups and combine different liquids that will stay separated because each liquid has a different density and therefore relates the concept back to the layers of the Earth’s atmosphere.