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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating the Geologic History of Southeast Minnesota

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is an inquiry-based, earth science field investigation of the geology of southeast Minnesota. Students will make observations of rock outcrops and landforms in the region using maps, pictures, and field sampling, then use...
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Dead Diatoms Do Tell Tales

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students take on the role of climate detectives in this climate investigation. Teams make a model of sediment cores using glass beads and sand, study the core samples, and tell something about the hypothetical paleoclimate that existed...
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Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Dinosphere

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners will learn how dinosaurs were classified, compare shapes and sizes, and explore how paleontologists make discoveries. They'll analyze how dinosaurs interacted back in the day, and make their own dinosaur drawings and a fossil cast.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Nhmu: Our Ancient Earth the Stratigraphy Cup

For Teachers 4th
Activity provides students an opportunity to make a stratigraphy cup.
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Other

Greenpeace: Stop Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Greenpeace offers an in-depth look at climate change (or global warming). Content includes a look at the cause of climate change, the scientific evidence that supports it, the problems that occur during climate change, foreboding...
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Other

Travel Montana: Montana Kids: Maiasaur

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Maiasaur is a kind of hadrosaur, a dinosaur that lived in the Upper Cretaceous Period. Much of what is known about the Maiasaur came from the fossils found at Egg Mountain in Montana. Jack Horner, a well known paleontologist,...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Buried Bones

For Students 3rd - 8th
A how-to science project with instructions to make a complete dinosaur bone dig site burying chicken bones in plaster of Paris. Click on the starred words to learn more about the topic.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Alternative Energy Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Society is beginning to recognize the limited supply of fossil fuels. In this project, students will investigate alternative energy sources. Conservation of resources is discussed and while conservation is an important step, at some...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Do We Know What Color Dinosaurs Were?

For Students 9th - 10th
The microraptor was a four-winged carnivorous dinosaur with iridescent black feathers. But if our information about this dinosaur comes from fossils, how can we be certain about its color? Len Bloch shows how making sense of the evidence...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Building a Dinosaur From a Chicken

For Students 9th - 10th
Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Correlation Using Relative Ages

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How rock layers in different locations can be connected to make pictures of a region's geology.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Correlation Using Relative Ages

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How rock layers in different locations can be connected to make pictures of a region's geology.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Be an Energy Saver

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the scarce and non-renewable nature of fossil fuels in order to stimulate student thinking about energy conservation. It emphasizes the fact that saving energy can be good for the wallet as well as the earth's...
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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: The Inside Story of Modern Gasoline

For Students 9th - 10th
The inside story on gasoline as told by the Standard Oil Company. This documentary was made in 1946 and explores the molecules that make up crude oil. Learn how the crude oil molecules are separated to make up usable forms like gasoline,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What's Down There?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this activity, students will learn how oil is formed and where in the Earth we find it. Students will take a core sample to look for oil in a model of the Earth. They will analyze their sample and make an informed decision as to...
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Evolution Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over evolution, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
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US Department of Energy

Department of Energy: Natural Gas

For Students 9th - 10th
Natural gas is an abundant resource across the United States, and new discoveries and extraction methods have led to a dramatic rise in shale gas development -- making America the world's leading natural gas producer. We invest in...
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Energy4Me

Energy4me: Energy: Making Our Lives Easier

For Students 3rd - 8th
A complete slide show which teaches about the role petroleum natural gas play in our use of energy.
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Other

Florida Dept. Of Education: Conservation of Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
In this learning module, students learn to differentiate between renewable and nonrenewable resources, and identify resources that fit into each category. It explains the environmental effects of using nonrenewable resources, such as...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Landforms, Rocks & Minerals: Sedimentary

For Students 3rd - 6th
A slideshow, a karaoke song to sing along to, and a short multiple-choice quiz on sedimentary rocks and how they are formed.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Brachiopods O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip this interactive card to start learning about Brachiopods. Answer multiple-choice and fact-or-fiction questions and review some fast facts about this shelled animal that's been around for over 500 million years.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Fighting Dinos: New Discoveries

For Students 3rd - 8th
A virtual investigation surmising how two fighting dinosaurs died in the Gobi Desert.
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Curated OER

Agi: Evolution and the Fossil Record

For Students 9th - 10th
The American Geological Institute has done a great job defining and explaining evolution in this online booklet. Darwin, fossils, natural selection, and change over time are some of the concepts that are covered. Make sure to see the...
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Curated OER

Agi: Evolution and the Fossil Record

For Students 9th - 10th
The American Geological Institute has done a great job defining and explaining evolution in this online booklet. Darwin, fossils, natural selection, and change over time are some of the concepts that are covered. Make sure to see the...

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