PUBLIC MARKS with tag "Earth Science"

What are Teaching Boxes? Teaching boxes are classroom-ready instructional units created by collaboration between teachers, scientists, and designers. Each box helps to bridge the gap between educational resources and how to implement them in the classroom. The Teaching Boxes contain materials that model scientific inquiry, allowing teachers to build classroom experiences around data collection and analysis from multiple lines of evidence, and engaging students in the process of science. - focusing on gathering and analyzing scientific evidence. All educators may use DLESE Teaching Boxes free of charge.

interactives for earth science

"Interactives" provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas.

Delve into the earth's interior, learn about its tectonic plates and their movements, and discover how mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes are formed.

Build your own volcano and let the eruptions begin using Virtual Volcano. Learn about tectonic plates, ring of fire, and the earth's layers.

Use your critical thinking and problem solving skills to minimize the imapct of various natural disasters such as hurricane, earthquake, tusnami, flood, and wildfire. Geared for middle and high school students with 3 levels of play. Takes 10-20 minutes per game.

Designed for ages 9-11, these interactive investigations are perfect for differentiation. Investigations include Forces and Motion, Earth and Beyond, Electricity, Light, and Sound.

Using the technology Google Earth, students evaluate real data collected from the Deep Sea Drilling Project to discover evidence of seafloor spreading, and gain a historical perspective of science research. Audience: Grades 5-8, 9-12 National Science Education Content Standards: Standard D: Earth and Space Science Standard E: Science and Technology Standard G: History and Nature of Science Keywords: seafloor spreading, plate tectonics, sediment, basement rock, Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Companion site to Discovery Channel's new 11 part series which premieres March 25th.

Discovery Channel's companion Animal guide to the Planet Earth Series. Read about animals that inhabit the earth's diverse habitats.