Lesson Plan
Curated OER

India: Where Remarkable Differences Are Ordinary

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students research India and Indian culture. In this Indian research lesson plan, students research and report on the lives of Indian children. The report will be in the form of a mock interview between a journalist and an Indian child....
Worksheet
Curated OER

Vocabulary Building

For Students 5th - 8th
For this vocabulary worksheet, students answer definition and fill in the blank questions about various vocabulary words. Students complete this for 4 pages with 6 words each and 18 questions each.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

WWJD: What Would Jimmy Do?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students interpret historical evidence presented in primary and secondary resources. In this 1973 oil crisis lesson, students research details regarding President Carter's policies regarding the oil crisis that produced a scarcity...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Virginia: Reading Comprehension

For Students 4th - 7th
In this Virginia reading comprehension worksheet, students read a multiple-page selection regarding the state and then respond to 10 true or false questions.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Evolution and Geological Time

For Students 7th - 12th
In this evolution worksheet, students review the geological time scale and how evolution has taken place over time. This worksheet has 13 fill in the blank questions.
Interactive
Curated OER

Dig Magazine Archeology Quiz #103

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Dig Magazine archeology quiz, students answer 12 multiple choice questions complementing the May 2009 issue. Page contains answer and additional resources link.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Present-Day Rapid Extinctions

For Students 9th - 12th
In this extinction worksheet, students review the different human activities that are leading to present-day rapid extinctions. This worksheet has 9 short answer questions.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Influential Scientists Spiral Puzzle

For Students 4th - 5th
In this influential scientists activity, students use 8 clues given at the bottom of the page to complete a word puzzle. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Math Maven's Mysteries: Race Against Captain Devious

For Students 6th - 7th
In these math word problem worksheets, students help solve the mystery about the 'Race Against Captain Devious.' Students must solve the distance travel word problem using kilometers and rounding their answers to the nearest whole number.
Website
University of Kentucky

University of Kentucky: Important Dates and Cool Creatures in Earth History

For Students 9th - 10th
A bullet list of important events in Earth's history broken down by eons, eras, periods, and epochs.
Article
Other

Planetary Society: Relative and Absolute Ages in Histories of Earth and the Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
A lengthy scholarly article that discusses the geologic time scale, its history of development, age-dating events that occurred in different eras, and how absolute and relative dating are used to assess the ages of the Earth and Moon....
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Earth History and Clues From Fossils

For Students 9th - 10th
How scientists can learn information about the past from fossils. [Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Earth History and Clues From Fossils

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How scientists can learn information about the past from fossils.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Earth History and Clues From Fossils

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How scientists can learn information about the past from fossils.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Earth Science: Relative Ages of Rocks

For Students 4th - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Looks at how stratigraphy can be used to determine the relative ages of rocks, how unconformities occur, ways to match rock layers in different areas, and how...
Handout
Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Climate Change: Ice Cores and History of Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Article describing research done in the West Antarctica, where ice cores were removed to a depth of two miles, providing information on climate change over the last one hundred thousand years. (Date published: Feb. 2, 2011)
Lesson Plan
University of California

Ucmp: A Relative Dating Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
An learning activity to help learners grasp the concept of relative dating and geologic time.
Handout
PBS

The Dating Game: Radiocarbon Dating

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of PBS-NOVA Online. An excellent explanation of how radiocarbon dating is done and why it works. Great material for earth science, history or biology classes.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: History of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how scientists learn about the past by examining and dating fossils.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: History of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This comprehensive lesson by CK-12 explains how scientists learn about the past by examining and dating fossils.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Determining Relative Ages

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Distinguishes how to tell which rock unit is older than the ones around it and so reveal the geologic history of the region.
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Earth Forms and Life Begins Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for a unit on the origin of life.
Website
Other

Radford University: Environmental History Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Worrying over the environment is nothing new, just the term "environmental" is. Investigate the history of concerns dating back to ancient civilization and looking forward into the future.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Radioactive Decay Calculator

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use this online Radioactive Decay Calculator to compute radioactive decay, timed decay, and timed solid disposal for a databank containing 116 isotopes. This calculator also features University of British Columbia disposal...