Earth Science

Rocks & Minerals Unit in class materials & Labs:

Mineral Identification Lab (pdf or google doc)

Weathering Lab Instructions and Questions (pdf or google doc)

Learning About Sinkholes Article (pdf or google doc)

Sinkhole Lab Instructions & Questions (pdf or google doc)

Charcoal Crystal Garden Lab (pdf or google doc)

Rocks & Minerals Homework - Stamped and in notebook

Guided Reading: Weathering (pdf or google doc)

Sand Article Questions (pdf or google doc) based on the Article "Sand: Holding a Mountain in Your Hand" (pdf or google doc)

Weathering Worksheet (pdf looks better than the google doc)

Guided Reading: Minerals (pdf or google doc)

Rocks & Minerals puzzle (pdf or google doc)

Rocks & Minerals Review (pdf or google doc)

Other Rock Materials:

Rock Cycle Activity (with di) (pdf or google doc)

Edible Rocks Activity (pdf or google doc)

Geode Lab (pdf or google doc)

Guided Reading: Rocks (pdf or google doc)

Rock Cycle Worksheet (pdf or google doc)

Intrusive vs Extrusive worksheet (pdf or google doc)

Layers of the Earth & Plate Tectonics Unit in class materials & Labs:

Layers of the Earth & Plate Tectonics Candy Activity (I suggest the pdf over the google doc)

Egg Plates Activity (google doc)

Tomato Soup Lab (pdf or google doc)

Modeling Sea Floor Spreading Lab (pdf or google doc)

Sea Floor Spreading Article (pdf or google doc)

Pangea Puzzle (pdf)

Playdough Plate Tectonics Activity (pdf or google doc)

Layers of the Earth & Plate Tectonics Homework Packet - collected February 12th, 2013

Guided Reading: Layers of the Earth (pdf or google doc)

Guided Reading: Continental Drift & Sea Floor Spreading (pdf or google doc)

pg. 586 #7, 10-13, 15, 16

Guided Reading: Plate Boundaries (pdf or google doc)

Convection Currents worksheet (pdf or google doc)

Sea Floor Spreading worksheet (pdf or google doc)

Coloring Plates Activity (pdf)

Natural Disasters Unit in class materials & Labs:

Folding Fault Models (pdf)

Earthquake Model (pdf) and the accompanying questions (pdf)

Earthquake & Volcano Plotting (pdf or google doc)

Gelatin Volcano Lab (pdf or google doc)

Volcano Sizes Activity (pdf or google doc)

Viscosity Lab (pdf or google doc)

Natural Disasters Research Project (pdf or google doc)

Types of Volcanoes Lab (pdf or google doc)

Mapping Earthquakes & Volcanoes (pdf or google doc)

Natural Disasters Homework Packet - due March 18th, 2013

Guided Reading: Plate Tectonics (pdf or google doc)

What Should You Do? Worksheet (pdf or google doc)

Colored Earthquake Hazard Map (pdf or google doc)

Earthquake Zones worksheet (pdf or google doc)

Tsunami Time Worksheet (pdf or google doc)

Tsunami Wave Formation worksheet (pdf or google doc)

Guided Reading: Volcanoes (pdf or google doc)

Volcano cross section (pdf or google doc)

Types of Volcanoes worksheet (pdf or google doc)

pg. 562 #25-29

Lava Flow worksheet (pdf or google doc)

Links:

College of Geology in Chile (en Espanol)