In this Study Jam video, students will learn about the water cycle.  The vocabulary used in the video is precipitation, evaporation, condensation, humid, transpiration, clouds, dense, and water vapor. 

Discover the Fascinating Tales of Skip the Squirrel: Three Engaging Perspectives

This worksheet contains two passages on how plants grow and tips for growing your own plants.  It contains the writing prompt, "How do plants grow? Use information from the two essays to explain the basic needs of plants and provide tips for growing your own plants at home." Finally, this document contains a 5 paragraph essay based on the two passages.

This worksheet contains the writing prompt, "Do you think schools should have a dress code policy that requires students to wear uniforms? Why or why not?"  It contains two passages. The first passage gives the benefits of wearing school uniforms.  The second passage gives the disadvantages of school uniforms.  This worksheet can also be used as a reading resource for compare and contrast. It also contains a sample 5 paragraph essay taking the opinion that schools should have a uniform policy.

In this activity, students get to know Alfred Wegener and why and how he came up with the idea of continental drift and the super-continent Pangaea. Students will complete some internet searches to discover what type of fossils Wegener used to help him come up with his hypothesis. Students will find the time period the fossils lived, which continents they were found on, and describe both the current climate and the climate in which they prehistorically lived. Students will also cut out the Pangaea puzzle and fit the fossils, and rocks together.

In this Earth Science activity, students will gain a deeper understanding of the following Vocabulary: seismologist, seismograph, seismogram, epicenter, P-Wave, S-Wave, Wave Amplitude, Magnitude, and Richter/Moment Scale.

Students will create a digital spreadsheet that will help them calculate data they gathered by looking at actual seismograms. Technology is incorporated throughout the lesson.

In this Earth Science lab, students will create their own homemade barometers using a canning jar, a balloon, and a straw. The barometers can show low and high-pressure systems. After they build their barometers, students will complete a daily log, by measuring the height differences of their barometers. They will determine rising and falling barometers. Students will also observe the weather that is currently outside.

In this activity students will discover information about the four mass movement types: creeps, slides, falls, flows, slumps. They will discover the most costly and deadliest landslides in the USA. You can either print out copies for students or have them use Google Docs. Other words discussed are erosion, deposition, and lahar. Students will research what natural and human events can trigger landslides. They will also research methods that humans are currently using to try and prevent mass movement.

This lab will only work if you have Java on your computers. It should work fine on Windows machines.

NOTE: Make sure your computers can run Java-based software. Inside the preview, you can test the program out by clicking on the first link. This program will not work with Chromebooks as they can't run Java.