Students will compare an informational text versus a narrative text about Earth Day. Included in this lesson are videos and pictures of the lesson in action, a printable Earth Day Venn Diagram, and a recycling activity.

Find lots of information about our planet Earth here. Covers basic facts, Earth's history, layers of the Earth, plate tectonics, composition of the atmosphere, Earth's magnetic field, and some facts about our moon.

Excellent Eight Planets site that provides a vast amount of information about planet Earth. Very comprehensive and complete site.

This mesmerizing video shows seven views of the earth taken by NASA's camera. Watch the moon cross over the earth, storms in the ocean, and smoke from a wildfire. Included are teaching tips for teachers and background information.

A detailed physical description of Earth. Content includes information on the Earth's layers and geology of the surface, along with links to additional information.

This site is astronomy for kids and teachers! Here students can learn about the planet Earth of the Solar System including fun facts, mass, day, year, and distance from the Sun.

This illustration from the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory shows the approximate sizes of the planets relative to each other. Note that the planets are not shown at appropriate distances from the Sun.

There's a game of Tetris happening on a global scale: The playing space is planet Earth, and all those pesky, stacking blocks represent carbon dioxide- a greenhouse gas that is piling up ever more rapidly as we burn the fossil fuels that...

Precipitation affects many aspects of our lives, from drinking water and food to devastating rain or snow storms. NASA gathered information from satellites to study factors that influence precipitation. View these narrated and unnarrated...

Learners use iron filings to explore the magnetic field around a magnet and record their observations then apply their experience with the magnet to understand the magnetic field around Earth.

Article reports on the recent discovery that many suns in the universe host "Earth-like" planets. Includes a vocabularly list.

This activity explores the relative size of the eight planets that circle around the Sun.

Explore the mythology, structure, observational history, gravitational force, and orbit of Earth's Moon.

Constellation of articles, images, diagrams, posters, videos, and more on the subject of the search for planets, particularly Earth-like planets, outside our solar system.

This Lonely Planet site offers a down-to-earth summary of the culture of Cyprus. Read about ancient relics, religion, and food.

Take a journey to the center of the Earth and learn about the structure, material properties, and conditions inside our planet.

Learn about the element carbon and its importance on the Earth's atmosphere and sustainability of life on the planet. Additionally, understand the role the carbon cycle plays in global climate change over time.

Learn fun facts and details about the geography and composition of Earth, the third closest planet to the sun and the only planet that contains life.

Olivier Guyon examines the possibility of finding other planets within astronomical numbers, some potentially rife with life. [6:21]

Burning fossil fuels is causing the planet to heat up, causing weather patterns to change, sea levels to rise and diseases to spread. Scientists are concerned with the rising temps of Earth.

From ABC News in Science, Marilyn Head's article centers on research behind the discovery of the planet in the Milky Way which most closely resembles the planet Earth.

Discover interesting facts about Earth's partner, the moon, which is more like a double planet than a planet and a moon.

The purpose of this instructional activity is to introduce students to the planet Mars. This instructional activity will begin by discussing the location and size of Mars relative to Earth, as well as introduce many interesting facts...

From ABC News in Science, Irene Klotz's article discusses the findings of researchers and scientists related to the discovery of an "Earth-like planet" which is capable of supporting life.