Students examine the culture of the Fremont people prior to creating their own copies of their pottery. With teacher-supplied clay, students follow instruction sheets to make their own replicas based on the Fremont pottery designs.

Middle schoolers identify the different sections of a landfill. In this ecology lesson, students brainstorm ways that they can help in proper trash disposal. They write a reflection journal about their thoughts on the subject.

High schoolers will identify the factors that contribute to erosion and weathering. They will start by differentiating between chemical and mechanical weathering. They then apply what they learned by playing the online jeopardy game. Key...

Students simulate archaeologists as they dig through a bag with found items in order to arrive at conclusions about the people they are studying.

A boss who can't do math? Oh, no! Young entrepreneurs use linear and exponential models to determine which discount will yield the most profit on ticket sales.

Young scholars create a simple machine that includes a cart and lever system that could have been used to build the ancient pyramids. In this simple machine lesson, students learn about the wheel and the axle as simple machines that help...

Third graders examine what makes soil by creating a Venn Diagram.  In this Earth environment lesson, 3rd graders identify the different components that soil is made from. Students bring soil from their homes to examine and create a...

In this gallery scavenger hunt worksheet students answer 18 questions about the displays in the Airborne & Special Operations Museum.

Students explore groundwater and issues relating to groundwater. They discus the problems involving groundwater. Students write a newspaper story addressing groundwater problems. They create a comic strip addressing groundwater...

Students participate in groups to show how two legged and four legged dinosaurs walked. Using fossilized footprints, they identify the two and four legged dinosaurs shown. They use the internet to determine what happen by a specific...

Fourth graders use manipulatives to practice math patterns.

An activity where students in teams observe and classify different types of rocks.

Describe and sort rocks by their physical properties.

Describes the three different types of rocks and provides a diagram showing where they fit into the rock cycle.

Describes different landform types and their features. includes many good quality photographs.

In this classroom guided inquiry activity, students will become geologists. They will investigate rocks and the properties we can use to describe them. Students will observe, record, and reflect on their findings. They will record their...

A rock chart the describes the texture, appearance, characteristics, type, and where each is formed.

The purpose of this lesson plan is to provide teachers with some activities they can do on school grounds. Activities include mapping, describing sedimentary rocks, and solving a mystery.

The Franklin Institute describes the way sedimentary rock is formed, with links to descriptions of several types of sedimentary rocks.

Presents facts about metamorphic rocks and describes the different types.

Describes the different types of mechanical weathering and how each of them breaks down rocks.

An 81-page slideshow that looks at the principles of geology with respect to relative dating, at different concepts describing geological processes, at absolute age and radiometric dating, at the eons and eras in the geologic time scale,...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how solid rock is worn down through weathering.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes various types of mechanical weathering.