Study Earth's surface using an apple as a model of the Earth.

In this activity, students learn about the technique of core sampling of the Earth by investigating the layers in cupcakes that they bake.

Students conduct a large-group brainstorming session on the various places where liquid water can be found on Earth. Then they create a list of places, such as oceans, lakes, rivers, aquifers and trace the path the water travels.

This course is composed of eight sessions, each with a one-hour video program addressing a topic area in Earth and Space Science that emphasizes the science content that is likely to be part of any elementary school science curriculum.

Great lesson plans covering a wide-range of science-related subjects. A wonderful resource for wonderful teachers!

A collection of links to activities and lessons that could be used for Earth science concepts including the foil record, creating a timeline of Earth's history, plate tectonics, dinosaurs, and the progression of life on Earth.

Teachers in search of extra resources to help educate students on Earth Day will find an abundance of worksheets, lesson plans, activities and much more from Teachnology.

[Free Registration/Login Required] How can you treat the earth with more respect? Check out this resource featuring links to elementary activities to celebrate Earth Day. You will find word searches, crossword puzzles, reading...

This site is loaded with science activities for elementary students. There are role plays, recipes, dances, writing exercises and craft ideas. You can also raise you own luna moths, praying mantids, ladybugs or carnivorous plants. Lots...

A large collection of lesson plans on environmental topics. The lessons are broken up into the broad categories of air, water, and waste, and look at issues around quality, pollution, conservation, and recycling. There are activities for...

Scientifically based information on Kentucky's geology and mineral and water resource from the Kentucky Geological Surveys.

In this activity, students examine soil. They choose a location and describe it. They then dig a hole, measure the depth of the topsoil and subsoil, take samples of each, and describe their composition and characteristics.

Get ready to set a course for sky exploration. The following activity is designed to help students learn to listen, read, and communicate in both written and oral formats about the sky.

Students demonstrate the relationship of groundwater to wells.

To get a better idea of how meteorologists make weather predictions, students will begin their own weather journals and make rain gauges.

In this activity, students monitor how much water is used if the water is left running while they brush their teeth. They use that information to calculate how much the whole family would use. They learn how much water can be conserved...

Students use chocolate in this activity to model sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks, mimicking what happens during transformations in the rock cycle.

Students learn how to create a disaster preparedness kit in this activity.

Students carry out a number of activities that demonstrate the concepts of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and soil moisture and runoff. Then students construct a terrarium as a way to observe the water cycle. Immediately...

Lesson plan with subsequent pages to use with the lesson. Images with landform word match up and additional work on earth modeling.

A glossary of science terms, including terms for life, earth, and physical science.

Explore different landforms and bodies of water around the world, observe and map landforms and water features, and practice observation and analysis skills through a virtual landscape and animated adventure in Plum's Island Explorer....

This unit contains a series of lessons that allow students to explore the effect of sunlight on Earth's natural surfaces of sand, soil, rock, and water. In addition, students explore how the color and material of a surface affects how...

Find the biggest, baddest, most extreme of everything science all in one place. Includes wild topics in earth science, life science, space science, weather, oceanography, and technology.