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Geography 4 kids

Geography4 kids.com: A Cozy Blanket Around the Earth

For Students 3rd - 8th
Understand the layers in the atmosphere that wrap around the earth.
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PBS

Pbs: Scientific American Frontiers: Earth on the Move

For Students 9th - 10th
The interactive resource examines the plate tectonics, magnetic reversals, and continental drift of the Earth. An animation of the Earth's continental drift over the last 750 million years is included.
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Earth Days: Timeline:the Modern Environmental Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Trace the advance of the environmental movement from 1948 through the 1980s. Read about the legislation promoting a healthy environment passed under both Democratic and Republican presidents.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Cupcake Core Sampling

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this activity, students learn about the technique of core sampling of the Earth by investigating the layers in cupcakes that they bake.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Dating Popcorn

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use popcorn to simulate the process scientists use to date layers in an ice core.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Fossil Fuels and the Carbon Cycle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In the following lesson students learn how geologists locate fossil fuels by using a straw to extract "core samples" from a model that has different layers. Student sheets are provided in English and in Spanish.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Oil Trap Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students make and study a 3-D model of a cross section of the earth where oil has formed.
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: The Earth at Work

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from PBS provides a description of the mechanisms behind the plate movements, types of movements, and the resulting earthquakes, faults, and images and animations of several of the topics presented.
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Other

The Amazing World of Science With Mr. Green: Introduction to the Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
This teacher website provides a comprehensive lesson unit on the structure of Earth's atmosphere and how it sustains and impacts life on Earth and its ecosystems. Includes labeled diagrams, student worksheets, a slideshow, flashcards,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Searching for Bigfoot and Others Like Him

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Cryptids, creatures of questionable existence, are used as a source of data to guide students into the creation of their own GIS data layer in Google Earth. The activity serves the purpose of a tutorial to teach students how to make data...
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Oklahoma Mesonet

Oklahoma Climatological Survey: Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
This two-part resource explores the vertical structure of Earth's atmosphere. Content details the atmospheric layers, and the relationship between pressure and height in the atmosphere.
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The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute: Land Mass Formation

For Teachers K - 1st
The Franklin Institute has provided a demonstration that theorizes how the earth's crust was formed. This is a lesson plan that needs only a few materials.
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Other

Moorland School: Earth Science Zone: The Earth's Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the properties of the thin layer of gas that surrounds the Earth. Understand the mixture of gases that make up the atmosphere as well as the different layers. Also explained are issues that affect the atmosphere like the...
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PurposeGames

Purpose Games: Layers of the Earth

For Students 3rd - 8th
Players will test their knowledge of the layers of the Earth. Know terms such as core, crust, and upper and lower mantle.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: The Earth's Atmosphere

For Students 6th - 8th
The Earth's atmosphere is a thin layer of gases that surrounds the Earth. It composed of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.9% argon, 0.03% carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of other gases. This thin gaseous layer insulates the Earth from...
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abcteach

Abcteach: Earth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Ready made worksheets for any earth science unit on water cycles, the layers of the earth, or volcanoes.

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