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Here you can find suggested Earth science related activities. Most are categorized based on the Next Generation Science Standards, and the earlier National Science Education Standards. Activities are also marked with an appropriate grade level. These Earth science activities are fun and educational.
Find additional activities in our Earth Science Week Activity Calendar and Teacher Learning Activity Manuals.
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Teachers TryScience is a web site for teachers. This site provides free and engaging lessons, along with teaching strategies and resources, which are designed to spark students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). What’s more, the site features collaboration tools to enable teachers to discuss and share effective instructional practices.
This site offers hands-on experiences that will help teach students about basic, and more complex, scientific principles.
It covers subjects from many disciplines of science from biology and earth science to astronomy. The site also has a teacher section that will provide free resources to help plan and incorporate its interactive material to boost student learning.
HHMI's website is full of great 3-D interactive, virtual labs, and printable activities for you to use. Its material is both engaging and interesting for science-buffs of all ages.
These guys are famed for their award-winning virtual labs and high-quality informative videos so you know you are in good hands. Their site includes "Click & Learn" activities that include embedded video clips and animations, videos all of which have stop points and assessments to help check you've been paying attention.
Annenberg Learner Interactives' Earth Science-related topics are full of great and easy-to-understand graphics and other interactive content. It has a good collection of interactive lessons to cover the big things like the Earth's structure to plate tectonics.
The site also covers many other subjects with Earth Sciences from the Rock Cycle and Volcanoes that really makes this subject come alive. It also has other resources for other scientific subjects with interactive games and other lessons.