Landforms | Earth's Layers and Rocks
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Description
Earth Layers and Rocks Vocabulary Cards, Assessments, Activities and Games
Vocabulary Cards – use as a word wall, matching game, sorting activity, "Quiz, Quiz, Trade" game or flashcards. The cards include 30 vocabulary terms, each with a brief description or definition, a visual representation, or both.
Assessments: "Earth's Layers" vocabulary quiz and a "Rocks" vocabulary quiz. Answer keys included.
Earth's Layers terms include: crust, mantle, outer core, inner core, heat energy, fossils, fault, Wagener Theory, Continental Drift, plate tectonics, plate boundaries, divergent, convergent, convergent, subduction zone, transform
Rocks terms include: magma, lava, rock, rock cycle, molten, weathering, erosion, igneous rock, metamorphic rock, sedimentary rock, sediment, deposition, mineral, ore, geology
Activities
- 3 Types of Plate Boundaries: a study guide, and 2 graphic organizers (one with a word bank and one without)
- CAN-HAVE-ARE graphic organizers
-Earth's Layers Vocabulary Booklet
-Rocks Vocabulary Booklet
-Rocks Study Guide & graphic organizer
-Rocks Sorting activity
-Comic Strip: Weathering, Erosion and Deposition
-Rock Cycle Poster
-Rock Cycle diagram for students
PLUS...
-"I Have, Who Has" Review Game- directions, 26 game cards and an answer key are included. It's a fun activity for the whole class to review!
Lots of engaging and fun resources are included to support your students in their learning and understanding of Earth's layers and rocks!
Additional Science Units
Soil Passages and Graphic Organizers
Simple Machines and Force and Motion
