NASA
Erosion and Landslides
A professional-quality PowerPoint, which includes links to footage of actual landslides in action, opens this moving lesson. Viewers learn what conditions lead to erosion and land giving way. They simulate landslides with a variety of...
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Lesson Plan #3 ~ Ocean Currents
Sixth graders experiment to understand the ocean's currents. In this ocean current activity, 6th graders complete an experiment with two bottles of water and an index card to discover information about the ocean current. Students...
NASA
Hurricanes and Hot Towers with TRMM
Take cover because a wild presentation on hurricanes is about to make landfall in your classroom! An outstanding PowerPoint presentation is the centerpiece of this lesson. Not only does it provide information and photographs, but several...
Inclement Weather and Its Effect on People
Using http://www.ready.gov/kids/know-the-facts students will read about four different types of emergencies and what to do before, during and after. After reading, students must decide how each could impact the lives of the people,...
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Earthquake Challenge
For this earthquake facts review or quiz worksheet, students read descriptive statements and choose the correct multiple choice answer. Students write 13 answers.
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Mini-Landslide
Students explore how different materials (sand, gravel, lava rock) with different water contents on different slopes result in landslides of different severity. They measure the severity by how far the landslide debris extends into model...
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Current Earthquake Activity
Fifth graders record any earthquake activity throughout the school year on various maps. In groups, they identify a map locating the points given to them by their teacher. To end the lesson, they add the date, strength and damage to each...
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Plate Tectonics - Evolution of the Earth
Tons of photographs, diagrams, animations, and satellite images fill the slides of an education earth science presentation. It begins with volcanic activity and earthquakes, and then moves into plate tectonics, boundaries, and driving...
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Hazards: Fifth Grade Lesson Plans and Activities
After comparing earthquake and volcanic hazards to one another, fifth graders take a closer look at damage associated with a volcanic eruption. They then create a simulation of mudslides due to a volcanic eruption. Using different...
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Hazards: Third Grade Lesson Plans and Activities
Learners discover hazards related to volcanoes and predict the effects these hazards have on people and land. As blossoming geologists explore various volcanic eruptions, including the hazards associated with them, they create their own...
Teach Engineering
Earthquakes Living Lab: Designing for Disaster
Build and design to rock and roll. Pairs research building design in earthquake areas and use computer simulations to see the effects of earthquakes on buildings,. They then sketch and explain a building design that would withstand a...
NOAA
Currents
A deep ocean current circles the globe at a force that is greater than 16 times all the world's rivers combined. Groups analyze the effects of submarine topography on deep ocean current speed. They then determine how this speed affects...
Glynn County School System
The Earth as a Planet
What does our planet have in common with other planets? What makes it unique? Find out in a PowerPoint presentation highlighting many earthly facts! The lesson describes Earth's atmosphere in detail and adds many other important facts...
American Museum of Natural History
Volcanoes Magma Rising
Get ready for an explosive lesson! Learners read and interact with an online lesson describing the characteristics of volcanoes. They study specific historical volcanoes as well as the science of volcanic eruptions using animations and...
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Volcano Challenge
In this volcano facts worksheet, students respond to 14 multiple choice questions that require them to exhibit what they know about volcanoes.
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Earthquake
Students view a video and conduct a problem solving activity to explain the effect different waves have on the earth's structure and what effect they have on different structures.
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Earthquake Formation
Students explore earthquakes. In this natural disaster and engineer career education lesson, students identify features of the earth's surface that increase the likelihood of an earthquake. Students use visual aids to locate the earth's...
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Volcano Words Alphabetical Order
In this alphabetizing worksheet, students analyze 10 words that pertain to volcanoes. Students put these words in alphabetical order.
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Volcanoes Vocabulary
In this volcanoes activity, students read 10 words pertaining to volcanoes. Students match these words to their definitions in another column.
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Volcano Crossword
In this volcano crossword puzzle worksheet, learners use the 8 clues and the terms in the word bank to help them correctly complete the word puzzle.
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Volcano Word Search
In this volcano worksheet, students analyze 14 words in a word bank that pertain to volcanoes. Students find these words in a word search puzzle.
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Earthquake Alphabet Activity
In this earthquake activity worksheet, students examine 10 earthquake-related terms and then put those terms into alphabetical order.
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Earthquake Word Search
In this earthquake learning exercise, students recognize words relating to earthquakes. Students complete the word search by finding the thirteen earthquake words.
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The Ocean Floor
Practice reading comprehension by approaching oceanography through 2 pages of informational text. The text compares the ocean floor to the Grand Canyon to gives students perspective, and gives a brief coverage of the earth's crust and...
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