American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: A Paste With Taste
In this activity, students learn about the ingredients in toothpaste and develop a recipe for a new toothpaste, for which they must also create a slogan and an ad for marketing their product to consumers.
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Teaching the Jah: Earth Day and the Environmental Movement
As part of a larger lesson plan on the the environment and the environmental movement, this lesson focuses on the movement as part of a larger emphasis on social movements in the 1960s. Find information about the history of Earth Day,...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Birdseed Mining
In this activity, learners are given shallow pans with a mixture of birdseed and different colored beads. They must 'mine' the pan to extract seeds and beads, each of which is assigned a monetary value. They then calculate how much they...
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Lunar and Planetary Institute: Explore! Discover Earth
A variety of hands-on activities, investigations, and explorations designed to engage learners in discovering planet Earth.
NASA
Nasa: Introduction to Earth's Dynamically Changing Climate
NASA and PBS have joined forces to provide a lesson plan that will enable students to analyze data that documents a warming planet. Videos and other necessary documents for the lesson plan are provided. PBS TeacherLine also provides a...
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Earthquakes, Like Ripples on Water?
In this activity, students investigate the classic Earth science analogy, "Seismic waves radiate outward from an earthquake's epicenter like ripples on water."
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Hotspot Lesson: Mantle Plumes
A lesson that explains a theory on magma generation at hotspots called the mantle plume theory. The goal of this lesson is to introduce students to a theory that scientists are actively trying to prove or refute. Through this, students...
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