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Earth Systems and Patterns

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4 month curriculum integration in which students study and locally discover water waste and usage and the impact on the environment

A demonstration of how Nova Scotia has moved throughout time

Class enactment of a dispute between fisherman and farmers over a local stream demonstrates the importance of natural water resources

Cloud chamber materials, instructions and tips

Create a Rock Recycle Wheel to review the rock cycle

Create the three types of clouds with a soda bottle, some water, and matches

'Data Streme Project' by the American Meterological Society described

Earth Day explanation unit for elementary students

Earth Science demonstrations of weathering

Ecosystem investigation including personal 2L bottle aquariums and terrariums for student experimentation

Environmental activity explained, students test for cleanliness by measuring bacteria

Environmental inpact study on the amount of paper waste in your town

Interpret data from a storm system and apply it to a riverside town to explore flood effects

Investigating climnates of an imaginary continent

Looking at Earth's fresh water by analyzing a local lake, creek, etc. to determine pollution, pH and more

Meteorology instruction ideas from an instructor

Ocean density lab and materials describing the currents and movements of the ocean

Ocean unit for the elementary student, includes template to create a journal about life under the sea

Rainforest destruction understood through a computation worksheet

Simple lab to test the pollution contributed by car exhaust

Soil lab looks at the water absorption of various types of soils

Students encounter a beach ecosystem through a fieldtrip and study guide

Study the impacts of an oil spill by recreating one in a lab sink and testing methods of containment and clean up

Sustainable world materials inlude introduction and assigned topics with questions and assessment ideas

'The Rainstick' introduces students to folk myths about the water cycle and simultaneously teaching the water cycle

The student recognizes that processes in the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere,and biosphere interact to shape the Earth with this plottong worksheet

Understand the rock cycle with this complete crayon-shavings activity

Unit on plate tectonics includes textual explanations and activity ideas, including student recreation of plate movement with their bodies

Water cycle activity descriped, students become water droplets and visit each stage of the cycle

Water Resource sand Properties

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