SELECTED ACTIVITIES AND POWERPOINTS

Earth Science Reference Table Review Activities

• By Julie Ann Hugick, Eastchester M.S. (pdf) (Word)

Basic Investigation Skills

• "Observation and Measurement" (high school level)  (pdf)  (Word)

• "Density" (S. Ornstein) (pdf) 

• "Science Is Like a Puzzle" (D. Sherwood)

• "Cousin's Animal" (J. Carafella)

Models of Our Planet

• "Understanding Latitude and Longitude"  (pdf)   (Word)

Minerals, Rocks, and Resources

• "Minerals" (ppt)

• "Mineral Identification" activity (Word)

• "Rocks" (ppt) (html)

• "Rocks" activity (Word)

Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Plate Tectonics

• "Earthquakes on the Web" activity

• EARTH'S INTERIOR LAYERS (ppt)     or   (pdf)

• TYPES OF PLATE BOUNDARIES (ppt)   or   (pdf)

• "Blast from the Past" poster and classroom activities

• "Convection Cells and Rifting" (J. Ebert et al.)

• "Crustal Plates" (S. Ornstein)

Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, and Landscapes

• "Activities about Sediments"

• "Angle of Repose" by A J Hepworth (Mineola MS)

• "Rate of Chemical Weathering" activity

• "Hudson River" slide show

• "Hudson River Studies" (ppt) (html)

• "Glaciers" by Cheryl Dodes (Port Washington HS)

• Landscape Images by Heather Renyck (Milford, NH)

• "Landscapes on the Web"

Weather and Climate

• "Characteristics of the Atmosphere" (pdf)

• "Cloud Types" (ppt)  (pdf)

• "Clouds and Precipitation" (pdf)

• "Understanding Isobars" by Julie Ann Hugick (Eastchester MS) (ppt)

• "Energy in the Atmosphere" Core Concepts

• "Solar Radiation"

• "Heating Different Earth Materials" activity

• "Heating the Atmosphere" (pdf)

• "Daily Weather Observations" (Excel)

• “Observing Weather: Making the Invisible Visible” (ppt) (pdf)

• "Heating Different Earth Materials" activity

• "Satellite Oceanography" (ppt)

• "Satellite Oceanography Investigations" (Word)

• "Water in the Atmosphere" (pdf)

• "What Controls Temperatures? (pdf)

Astronomy

• "Earth In Space" Core Concepts

• "Sun and Moon Rise and Set Times and Phases" (Excel)

• "Modeling the Sun's Path Across the Sky"

• "Light and Astronomical Observations" (pdf)

• "Neptune" (ppt) (pdf) -- Created by Becky Lange, WPMS 2005

•  "Phases of the Moon" lesson plan by Linda Ruiz McCall:

•  "October 2004 Lunar Eclipse" by Virginia Seberg and George Potanovic

• "The Sun" (pdf)

•  "Sun Paths" by Sheila Ornstein

•  "Star Life Cycles" by Joan Heymont

Earth History

• "Penny Lab" (Radioactivity)

Oceanography

• "Where Will My Ship Go?" (ppt)

• "Where Will My Ship Go? Investigations" (Word)

• "El Nino-La Nina and North Atlantic Oscillation" sample questions

Chemistry

• Describing Chemical Change (pdf)

• Thermochemistry--Heat and Chemical Change (pdf)

Other Useful Resources

• Scientific Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes