Earth Science Activities

Provides ideas for experiments in earth science, including experiments involving tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and mining.

With more than 150 exciting hands-on activities to teach students thinking and reasoning skills and basic science concepts and facts, this book is the perfect complement to any elementary school science program. Activities in the 'Earth Science' volume covers air, water, weather, earth, ecology, gravity and flight, and celestial bodies. The updated editions include an expanded 'teacher information' section for all of the activities, enhanced user friendliness, inquiry-based models and cooperative learning projects for the classroom. Projects use materials easily found around the classroom or home, provide science fair ideas at the end of each section, link activities to national science standards, and include other new material. annual National Science Teachers Association meeting, has taught elementary science methods courses at Brigham Young University since 1975.

Make ongoing, classroom-based assessment second nature to your students and you. Everyday Assessment in the Science Classroom is a thought-provoking collection of 10 essays on the theories behind the latest assessment techniques. The authors offer in-depth "how to" suggestions on conducting assessments as a matter of routine, especially in light of high-stakes standards-based exams, using assessment to improve instruction, and involving students in the assessment process. The second in NSTA's Science Educator's Essay Collection, Everyday Assessment is designed to build confidence and enhance every teacher's ability to embed assessment into daily classwork. The book's insights will help make assessment a dynamic classroom process of fine-tuning how and what you teach... drawing students into discussions about learning, establishing criteria, doing self-assessment, and setting goals for what they will learn.

If you work with students who struggle to understand their Earth science texts, this book provides everything you need to boost their skills in both science and reading. Once Upon an Earth Science Book starts with advice on teaching reading comprehension strategies to middle school students. Then, the 12 content chapters give you * hands-on science activities with engaging titles such as " Mountain Mayhem," " Oceans on the Move," and " Trash Soup" ; * readings that cover important Earth science concepts and support the Next Generation Science Standards; * writing activities that prompt students to connect what they did with what they read; and * assessment exercises to give you feedback on what your students are learning. You' ll love how practical and easy this book is to use. Jodi Wheeler-Toppen is an experienced teacher who couldn' t find a resource that integrated reading, writing, and science-- so she wrote it herself. She' s also the author of NSTA Press' s Once Upon a Life Science Book (see p. 7). " As you and your students work through these lessons together," she predicts, " you will be able to watch their confidence as readers-- and your confidence as a reading educator-- grow."

Challenge your students to learn more about the scientific world around them. This packet contains activities designed to be completed in 15 minutes or less and can be used as lead-in exercises for classroom discussion, homework, or extra credit assignments. The activities help strengthen students’ understanding of key scientific concepts and examine thought-provoking issues. New worlds are explored as students answer questions, complete Extra Challenges, and solve problems. This is is a valuable tool that should be used in any science classroom!

Educational, easy-to-do earth science activities that will show young readers more about the planet Earth. Using simple, easy to find materials, these activities will show readers how they can simulate wind erosion, water erosion, an earthquake, and more!

If your child is struggling with science, then this book is for you; the short book covers the topic and also contains 5 science experiments to work with, and ten quiz questions. This subject comes from the book “First Grade Science (For Home School or Extra Practice)”; it more thoroughly covers more fourth grade topics to help your child get a better understanding of first grade math. If you purchased that book, or plan to purchase that book, do not purchase this, as the problems are the same.