Lessons and Activities

The Rock Cycle

This flipchart helps students understand the rock cycle through the use of songs, videos, and interactive activites.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 4 | Age 10, Gr. 5 | Age 11, Gr. 6 | Age 12, Gr. 7 | Age 13, Gr. 8 | Age 14

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Nov. 30, 2009

Posted by:

jennlarson

Rock Stories

This is a good old USGS powerpoint for teachers (schoolyard geography) that I turned into an interactive flipchart.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 3 | Age 9, Gr. 4 | Age 10, Gr. 5 | Age 11, Gr. 6 | Age 12, Gr. 7 | Age 13

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Nov. 30, 2009

Posted by:

jennlarson

Audio Gallery: Weather

weather audio files

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. K | Age 6, Gr. 1 | Age 7, Gr. 2 | Age 8, Gr. 3 | Age 9, Gr. 4 | Age 10, Gr. 5 | Age 11, Gr. 6 | Age 12, Gr. 7 | Age 13, Gr. 8 | Age 14, Gr. 9 | Age 15, Gr. 10 | Age 16, Gr. 11 | Age 17, Gr. 12 | Age 18, Hr. Ed. | Age 19+

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Nov. 29, 2009

Posted by:

lbadon 

Edible Tectonics

This flipchart walks students through a hands on activity done with Milky Way bars to review plate boundaries.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 4 | Age 10, Gr. 5 | Age 11, Gr. 6 | Age 12, Gr. 7 | Age 13

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Nov. 23, 2009

Posted by:

jennlarson

Plate Boundaries

Students will learn about the types of plate boundaries through a song, chants, guided notes, and flach animations.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 5 | Age 11, Gr. 6 | Age 12, Gr. 7 | Age 13, Gr. 8 | Age 14

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Nov. 19, 2009

Posted by:

jennlarson

The Lithosphere and Tectonic Plates

Interactive flipchart to help students review the layers of the earth as well as better understand tectonic plates.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 5 | Age 11, Gr. 6 | Age 12, Gr. 7 | Age 13, Gr. 8 | Age 14

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Nov. 17, 2009

Posted by:

jennlarson

Layers of the Earth

This flipchart introduces them to the layers of the earth and helps them to create a flipbook to use in reviewing the information.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 4 | Age 10, Gr. 5 | Age 11, Gr. 6 | Age 12

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Nov. 17, 2009

Posted by:

jennlarson

Edheads Science Simulations

Well animated interactive science simulations that teach concepts like weather and simple machines.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 3 | Age 9, Gr. 4 | Age 10, Gr. 5 | Age 11, Gr. 6 | Age 12, Gr. 7 | Age 13, Gr. 8 | Age 14

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Nov. 14, 2009

Posted by:

Room6and10

Laws of Motion Station Lab

This flipchart helps students to review balanced/unbalanced forces and then guides then through a lab to assist in personal discovery of Newton's Three Laws of Motion.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 4 | Age 10, Gr. 5 | Age 11, Gr. 6 | Age 12, Gr. 7 | Age 13

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Nov. 12, 2009

Posted by:

jennlarson

Acceleration and Inertia Activity

In this flipchart, students create a foldable for acceleration/inertia and participate in an activity (Crash Test Dummies) to help them see the relationship between the two.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 4 | Age 10, Gr. 5 | Age 11, Gr. 6 | Age 12, Gr. 7 | Age 13, Gr. 8 | Age 14

• Subjects:

  Science

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Nov. 4, 2009

Posted by:

jennlarson