Humans have been affected by severe drought throughout history; in this lesson students explore this concept by analyzing environmental data to classify patterns and practice communicating their findings.
Students build an understanding of flooding in Colorado using multiple data sources in a jigsaw format.
This is a streamlined lesson for students to prepare for a Community Resilience Expo, focusing on drought.
This lesson teaches the students about the different layers of the Earth and how they work together. Students will be able to: Name and label the four layers of the Earth; Identify the main minerals that make up each layer; Explain how scientists formulated the idea that the Earth is comprised of four layers.
Students interact with a flood StoryMap to explore the Colorado Resiliency Framework.
This is a streamlined lesson for students to prepare for a Community Resilience Expo, focusing on flood.
Students explore geomagnetism with compasses, navigation exercises, and a geo-caching activity and explore aurora and space weather, with an optional field trip to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
In this interactive game, students work in three "resilience teams" to solve community challenges that arise during the course of an extreme drought event by using available individual and community resources.
This interactive game has students work in three ���zone response teams��� to solve community challenges that arise during the course of an extreme flooding event by using available individual and community resources.
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.
LINK: https://prd-wret.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/atoms/files/Seven%20Paper%20Models%20that%20Describe%20Faulting%20of%20the%20Earth.pdf
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.
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.
A globe is a world map on the surface of a small sphere that
represents the Earth. Of all the world maps, the globe is the easiest
to understand because it gives us the most realistic picture of the
Earth and has the same attributes as the Earth; round and immense,
and impossible to see all at once. Spatial attributes such as distance,
direction, shape, and area are preserved as well as the continuity of
the all-curved surface. Globes represent the best possible map
projection because they include a minimum of distortion and are the
ultimate in geographic realism.
This lab requires students to construct 2 globes using tennis balls as the base structure and the world maps linked here.
LINK: https://prd-wret.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/atoms/files/Make%20Your%20Own%20Earth%20and%20Tectonic%20Globes.pdf
Each of the world maps is composed of twelve gores that are
designed to be attached to a tennis ball.
Each gore has a width of 30°, the time it takes the sun to travel two hours over the surface of the Earth.
The twelve gores can be cut into four groups of three gores each and glued onto the tennis ball, or the gores can be glued on as a group of twelve.
Either way, it is important to have the equator divide the tennis ball into two equal parts and for the equator to be in a straight line.
See instructions described in the link above for proper construction on pages 9 and 10 the report linked above.
This lesson activity has students conduct an experiment that reinforces one component of the water cycle.
Views of the National Parks can be used in the classroom in many different ways. Most simply, it can be made available for students to explore on their own. Lesson plan available: Biodiversity Right Outside – Biodiversity is the abundance and variety of life-forms (animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms) at all levels of organization (ecosystems, species, and genes). In this activity students will learn about biodiversity, the importance of biodiversity to ecosystems, and will conduct their own biodiversity study.
Mike Sammartano Youtube Videos
Teachers:
I use several videos published by an 8th grade teacher Mike Sammartano to intoduce or reinforce a Geologic topic. This short lesson on Minrals was one of the first I saw. I use it every term.
This site summary below is posted on Mr. Sammartano YouTube site. I am a subscriber!
Hi there, and thanks for visiting my channel! Most of my videos are flipped classroom videos used in my 8th grade Earth Science classroom. You can find the videos, along with the associated worksheets and diagrams at science.mikesammartano.com. I have also created quite a few educational technology videos including many tutorials on using Apple Keynote in the classroom. Enjoy - and don't forget to subscribe!
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a7p1NFn64s