Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: The Dirt on Soil

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
After completing this lesson, students will understand the source and the process for the formation of soil, the different types of soil, and the components of soil.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Letter & Number Tracing

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Letter & Number Tracing is a great way for children to practice letter and number formation. Children can choose to trace upper case letters, lower case letters or numbers. A guide will appear before each stroke to show where lines...
Website
Other

Puna Ridge: Voyage to Puna Ridge

For Students 9th - 10th
On January 3, 1983, fountains of lava erupted from a fissure on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, sending rivers of molten rock flowing towards the sea. Nearly 16 years later, the eruption continues with no sign of letting up. This site provides...
Lesson Plan
Energy4Me

Energy4me: Name That Tune

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students will learn that scientists use seismic technology (sound waves) to map patterns of rock formations below the surface of the earth and that different types of rocks affect sound waves.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: How the Earth Is Built

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores the ways the earth is built. It studies different types of rock formation and earth forms. Charts, graphs, and linking pages make this flipchart interactive
Handout
Indiana University

Indiana University Bloomington: Sedimentary Structures

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource explains the depositional processes that occur in sedimentary rock formation to produce stratification, cross-bedding, graded bedding, rippled effects, and solidified mud cracks. Includes photographs of each type.
Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Denver Basin, 1911

For Students 9th - 10th
A geologic map of a section of the Colorado Front Range near Denver and Golden showing the structure and topography of the common border between the Great Plains and Southern Rockies. The map is keyed to show rock types, formations, and...
PPT
Other

Western Oregon University: Earth System Science: Geologic Time [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Geo Logic: Volcanologists

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With the help of GEOLogic puzzles, students are asked to resolve how many days each of several volcanologists spent at a volcano and what day they started for the volcano.