Earth Science Curriculum - Extended School Year / Summer School Work Packet
Cool School Comics
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Grade Levels
Not Grade Specific
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
NGSSMS-ESS2-3
NGSSMS-ESS3-1
NGSSMS-ESS2-2
NGSSMS-ESS2-1
NGSSMS-ESS2-5
Formats Included
- Zip
- Easel Activity
Pages
40+ and Google Slides
Cool School Comics
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Includes Google Apps™
This bundle contains one or more resources with Google apps (e.g. docs, slides, etc.).
Easel Activities Included
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Products in this Bundle (14)
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Bonus
Water Cycle: Condensation and Cold Fronts
Description
Revolutionize learning in your summer school curriculum with something they will WANT to read! This unique and impactful Earth Science Bundle is jam-packed with comic-style content, supplementals, and hands-on learning. This bundle will empower even your most reluctant learners to engage in reading and improve their science literacy during the extended school year.
Give your learners a break from screens. Cool School Comics delivers content in comic form, but unlike regular comic books, these comics cover a topic in one compact page making them easy to print and get in the hands of eager readers.
If your students seem bored with the current curriculum it's time to try something new. Take advantage of the graphic novel craze and use comics to teach science!
This bundle includes all of my Earth science comics! I am adding comics all of the time, but so far the bundle includes topics such as:
- Convection Currents
- Erosion
- Fossil Fuels
- Earth's Interior
- The Rock Cycle
- The Water Cycle
- Sudden Earth Changes
- Mass Extinction
- Fossils
- Cold Fronts
- Condensation
- Continental Drift
- Seasons
- Revolution and Rotation
What do you get?
- Comic-Style Content Comics-
- Each topic is covered in a one-page, infographic-style comic.
- These are easy to print and distribute.
- They make great anchor charts!
- Color and black-and-white versions
- Doodle Notes
- Typically at least two different versions of doodle notes- traditional doodle notes and guided notes
- Great for interactive notebooks
- Easy to print and fun to color
- Google Slides
- Many updated products have Google slides and more are being added regularly
- You will receive your own sharable copy of each available animated slideshow
- Use them as you present the content or share them directly with your virtual classroom
- Hands-on Activities
- Activities aligning with the content
- Instructions for the activities are delivered in both a written and visual format
- Always low-prep and wallet-friendly
- Follow-up Questions
- Every activity has an accompanying follow-up worksheet
- Helps students tie the fun back to the content
- Reinforces understanding
- Supplementals
- Many products include a range of additional learning activities
- Diagrams, foldables, mini-research projects, etc
- Great for homework or review
- Projects
- All projects include rubrics (many have differentiated rubrics)
- The "Create Your Own Comic" project is the most common
- Easel Activities
- Accompanying every updated product
- Vintage products in this download will be updated VERY soon
- Rubrics
Grab a FREE Comic While You're Here!
What makes Cool School Comics such an impactful learning tool?
- They are FUN!
- This is the most crucial benefit.
- Students are more willing to participate and more engaged.
- The content STICKS.
- Visual learning is EFFECTIVE.
- About 65% of the population consists of visual learners.
- Visual information is processed faster.
- Students who SEE information are more likely to retain it.
- EASY to implement!
- These lesson plans are complete and ready to go, requiring minimal prep time.
- You only need to make copies, upload supplementals to your virtual classrooms, and set up the hands-on activities.
- Lots of flexibility! You can print these as posters, add them to interactive notebooks, hand them out to students, or share them virtually. There is plenty of room for modifications.
- ACTIVE LEARNING
- Every lesson plan has a low-prep, wallet-friendly, hands-on component.
- Instructions are in a visual format
- Follow-up questions or a lab report are always included
- Comics make content ACCESSIBLE
- Naturally differentiated, comics accommodate a wide range of learning abilities and styles.
- Great for classrooms with a diverse population of learners
- They can simultaneously rope in both your gifted and struggling students (and everyone in between).
- Reluctant readers gravitate toward comics.
- Comics help English Language Learners and SPED students find success.
Be the hip teacher seizing the graphic novels craze. Your students will LOVE it!
*Doodle Notes is a trademarked term used with permission. Please visit www.DoodleNotes.org for more information
Total Pages
40+ and Google Slides
Answer Key
Included
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Other
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Standards
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NGSSMS-ESS2-3
Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions. Examples of data include similarities of rock and fossil types on different continents, the shapes of the continents (including continental shelves), and the locations of ocean structures (such as ridges, fracture zones, and trenches). Paleomagnetic anomalies in oceanic and continental crust are not assessed.
NGSSMS-ESS3-1
Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes. Emphasis is on how these resources are limited and typically non-renewable, and how their distributions are significantly changing as a result of removal by humans. Examples of uneven distributions of resources as a result of past processes include but are not limited to petroleum (locations of the burial of organic marine sediments and subsequent geologic traps), metal ores (locations of past volcanic and hydrothermal activity associated with subduction zones), and soil (locations of active weathering and/or deposition of rock).
NGSSMS-ESS2-2
Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales. Emphasis is on how processes change Earth’s surface at time and spatial scales that can be large (such as slow plate motions or the uplift of large mountain ranges) or small (such as rapid landslides or microscopic geochemical reactions), and how many geoscience processes (such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and meteor impacts) usually behave gradually but are punctuated by catastrophic events. Examples of geoscience processes include surface weathering and deposition by the movements of water, ice, and wind. Emphasis is on geoscience processes that shape local geographic features, where appropriate.
NGSSMS-ESS2-1
Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process. Emphasis is on the processes of melting, crystallization, weathering, deformation, and sedimentation, which act together to form minerals and rocks through the cycling of Earth’s materials. Assessment does not include the identification and naming of minerals.
NGSSMS-ESS2-5
Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses result in changes in weather conditions. Emphasis is on how air masses flow from regions of high pressure to low pressure, causing weather (defined by temperature, pressure, humidity, precipitation, and wind) at a fixed location to change over time, and how sudden changes in weather can result when different air masses collide. Emphasis is on how weather can be predicted within probabilistic ranges. Examples of data can be provided to students (such as weather maps, diagrams, and visualizations) or obtained through laboratory experiments (such as with condensation). Assessment does not include recalling the names of cloud types or weather symbols used on weather maps or the reported diagrams from weather stations.
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