In this tennis themed instructional activity, students read and search for 12 tennis themed vocabulary words in a word search puzzle with a moderate level of difficulty. A word bank is provided.

Learners experiment to determine classmates taste and smell to find out which sends the clearest message to the brain.

Students analyze the risk factors for cardiovascular disease and classify them according to whether or not they are controllable. They discover how to reduce the probability of high blood pressure through diet and exercise.

Students visit Time Machine's San Francisco Earthquake Era. They understand how the Earth's layers interact to cause changes in the Earth's surface. They review information about earthquakes and Earth's layers.

Eighth graders identify the different layers of the earth. In this earth science lesson, 8th graders choose a project to do from a given list according to their learning style. They present their finished project in class.

In this lesson, learners will create three-dimensional (3-D) blocks out of paper to learn about the types of faulting that occur at the Earth's surface and its interior. Students will manipulate three fault blocks to demonstrate a normal...

Students construct a model that demonstrates how a block of rock is extended by a normal fault.

This interactive tutorial on visualizing geologic features contains animated block diagrams that show how the surface expressions of dipping layers, folds, igneous intrusions, and faults are related to subsurface structure and cross...

Animation of the single-block "Earthquake Machine" model shows how "Forces, Faults, and Friction" interact. [0:16]

Site from the Southern Kings Consolidated School about mountains. Learn what mountains are and how they form.

Informative site about mountains. Look at the picture and read all about mountains, then take a quiz to show how much you know!

Site for general information about mountains. There is a downloadable PDF of this article with pictures.

Read about the different types of mountains and how they are formed.

Builders of brick walls need to be especially aware of fault lines which can easily lead to the collapse of the wall. Students are challenged, here, to use polyminoes to design patterns for brick walls which do not contain fault lines....

A contour map from the vicinity of Elizabethtown showing the rectangular pattern of relief and drainage lines in fault-block mountains of the eastern Adirondacks.

A contour map from 1911 of a fault-block mountain in the Trans-Pecos Highlands, Texas, showing typical relief and drainage patterns.

The NPS offers a good overview of the forces that create a plateau and experiments to help students understand. Lesson plan.