10th grade critical thinking earth sciences handouts

Plate Tectonics Activity Bundle: Worksheets - Notes - ActivitiesThis is a complete unit! Print and go! Searching for exceptionally engaging notes, worksheets and activities on plate tectonics? From continental drift and pangea, seafloor spreading, convection currents, layers of the Earth, to plate boundaries. Notes, worksheets, activities, readings, homework, sorting cards, task cards, and a summative assessment: everything you need! Students will be doing, moving, and thinking--- and EVERYTHIN

Subjects:

The Social Justice Classroom

Grades:

6th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Handouts

NGSS:

MS-ESS2-3

My Ecological Footprint: Fun Online Activity and Worksheet about Climate Change

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Take your class to the computer lab for a fun and engaging activity! Students will use an interactive website to find out how their lifestyle determines their ecological footprint and impacts our planet. This activity is the first step in a fun lesson that spans two classes and gets your students learning about the environmental impact of the choices we make every day. This lesson fits perfectly into a unit or course about climate change, environmentalism, geography or world issues. There is lit

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Environment, Geography

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Handouts

Also included in: Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Bundle for High School

Plate Tectonics Activity: Types of Plate Boundaries

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Plate Tectonics Activity: Whether you're introducing or reviewing types of plate boundaries, this print and go activity is a winner! Get your students up out of their seats as they travel to 6 stations, where they will read about each plate boundary- how it's formed, the geographic feature created, and examples on Earth. Students record features and examples in their graphic organizer that serves as a fantastic study guide.There is a full 8 1/2 x 11 Poster on each type of plate boundary:Oceanic

Subjects:

Handouts, Graphic Organizers

Grades:

6th - 10th

Types:

NGSS:

MS-ESS2-2

Also included in: Plate Tectonics Activity Bundle: Worksheets - Notes - Activities

Biology Final Exam Review Webquest - Reviews ENTIRE Year! - Biology EOC Review

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Biology, Earth Sciences, Science

⭐ ⭐ AN ENTIRE YEAR OF SELF-PACED REVIEW IN ONE NEAT PACKET! ⭐ ⭐As the school year comes to an end, we are generally scrambling to fit in all the curriculum, let alone get a chance to review. This 18-Page editable Biology Review Webquest reviews all the standards of an average high school biology course in a fun, interactive, and no-prep way! Students will watch fun videos, play games, read engaging webpages, and interact with simulations and virtual labs to answer questions, practice skills, and

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Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

Handouts

Weather Map Activity - Weather, Fronts, Pressure, and Precipitation

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⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ This is an engaging and meaningful activity to reinforce weather and practice using and analyzing weather maps! Students create and analyze a current weather map using a live surface weather map using the provided link . Students draw in and label weather fronts, air pressure systems, and precipitation, and answer analysis question about the map to predict future weather.Great for classwork, homework, remediation, review, formative assessment, enrichment, or sub-plans. It’s hands on and

Subjects:

Activities, Handouts, Interactive Notebooks

Grades:

7th - 11th

Types:

NGSS:

HS-ESS2-4

, MS-ESS2-4

, MS-ESS2-5

Also included in: Weather Growing Bundle

Environmental Science Work Packet - Tragedy of the Commons

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Science Health and PE Materials

This 8 page workbook explores the theme of "The Tragedy of the Commons" within 6 different environmental topics. Each worksheet contains a brief reading, reflection questions and a critical thinking component. These worksheets can be used as stand alone resources to teach about The Tragedy of the Commons or as supplemental materials.PRODUCT PREVIEW ABOVE! Click Here For More Environmental Science ResourcesTopics Include:Page 1: The Tragedy of the Commons (General Introduction) Page 2: Overg

Subjects:

Biology, Critical Thinking, Environment

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Handouts

Moon Phases, Eclipses, and Tides Reading Comprehension Activity

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⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ This Lunar Phases, Eclipses, and Tides Reading Comprehension activity will teach your students about lunar phases, tidal locking, solar and lunar eclipses, and spring and neap tides in this engaging, informative, no-prep reading comprehension article loaded with diagrams.Students will read the 3-page article with numbered paragraphs, bolded vocabulary terms, and chunked guided reading questions. Then they will answer summarizing questions such as fill-in-the-blank questions, labeling and

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Engineering

Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

Handouts, Printables

NGSS:

HS-ESS1-4

, MS-ESS1-1

Also included in: Astronomy Reading Comprehensions Discount Growing Bundle

39 Digital Moveable Tangram Puzzle Activities STEM Team Building Math

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UnlockTheEdTechBox

Have fun with your students while they solve these Tangram Puzzle Activities! This set of puzzles can be used in Google Slides or it can be downloaded and printed on paper. You choose! Great for developing critical thinking skills and team building activities!Great for distance learning!Included is a Google Slide version of the Following:39 Digital interactive Moveable Tangram Puzzles and their answers as well as a printable version. Your students will be able to move the tangrams into posit

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Grades:

2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

Types:

Handouts, Centers

Plate Tectonics Activity: Reading Tectonic Maps Worksheets

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Reading Plate Tectonics Maps: This resource was created to help middle school students gain confidence and comfort in reading and dissecting plate tectonic maps. There are three separate maps with questions. Each handout has an answer key. With each map, students are asked to count the number of plates, find plates, decipher direction, speed, or identify land features created by tectonic movement. Use these for classwork, homework, or leave with a sub. This is a print-and-go resource. Please see

Subjects:

Handouts, Homework, Printables

Grades:

6th - 11th

Types:

Also included in: Plate Tectonics Activity Bundle: Worksheets - Notes - Activities

Cookie Mining Lab - Natural Resources CER Edible Lab Activity

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Earth Sciences, Environment, Science

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Fun Hands-On C-E-R! Student model how surface mining impacts the environment with edible ingredients (a cookie!) and write a short CER about the health and environmental impacts of surface mining. Included with the lab handout are pre-lab questions, a step-by step procedure, student directions and map template, analysis questions, and a scaffolded claim, evidence, and reasoning writing activity. Also included in your download is a detailed lesson plan, rubrics, answer key, and differenti

Subjects:

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Laboratory

NGSS:

MS-ESS3-3

, HS-ESS3-4

Also included in: Ecology Bundle - Growing Ecology Resource Bundle

Galaxies ALL-IN-ONE Lesson | PowerPoint, Notes, Art Activity & More!

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If you are teaching GALAXIES you are in luck! This bundle of resources includes a lesson plan, PowerPoint, student notes, practice questions and formative assessment pieces – most of which are completely editable. This lesson bundle also includes a scientific art activity! I’m sharing my love of Astronomy with you, in hopes that your students will love it too!Student learning goals for the Galaxies Lesson:• describe the composition of galaxies, including features of black holes• compare the re

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Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Innovative Teaching Ideas

Also included in: Astronomy Bundle | Space Lessons, Units, Notes for High School Astronomy Course

101 Wacky Wordies Puzzles | Brain Teasers | Word Problems | Critical Thinking

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Wacky Wordies is an excellent CRITICAL THINKING and VOCABULARY BOOSTING GAME for 2024 students LOVE the world over. WACKY WORD PUZZLES can be used in ENGLISH as an ICEBREAKER, a CRITICAL THINKING test or a FUN ACTIVITY for students and teachers of all ages.We have bundled together with the web's most complete collection of Wacky Word challenges, and HERE'S WHAT YOU GET.⭐ 202 Beautifully presented Wacky Wordies PowerPoint Slides with questions and answers.⭐ A paper-based test of 101 Wacky Wordie

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Linguistics

Grades:

5th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff

Types:

Activities, Handouts

Also included in: Reading Skills Bundle | 19 Resources | Comprehension, Vocabulary Fluency & More

Rock BUNDLE: Types of Rocks and the Rock Cycle

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Basic Principles, Earth Sciences, Science

Types of Rock: THE Rock Bundle: Want to teach types of rocks in the most ENGAGING way?! The key to teaching rocks WELL is to teach one type at a time. You'll introduce one rock type at a time: identify and learn about the individual rocks in the group, read about how they form, how they are described and identified, and do an identification lab. Start with igneous, then move on to sedimentary and metamorphic. Finally, students will have a BLAST with my starburst rock cycle lab. Review is include

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Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Handouts, Laboratory, Lesson

Big Bang Theory ALL-IN-ONE Lesson | Space PowerPoint, Notes, Flipbook & More

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If you are teaching about THE BIG BANG THEORY you are in luck! This bundle of resources includes a lesson plan, PowerPoint, student notes, practice questions and formative assessment pieces – most of which are completely editable. This lesson bundle also includes a flipbook explaining red-shift! I’m sharing my love of Astronomy with you, in hopes that your students will love it too!Student learning goals for the Big Bang Theory Lesson:• explain what happened during the Big Bang• describe how s

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Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Also included in: Astronomy Bundle | Space Lessons, Units, Notes for High School Astronomy Course

Weather vs. Climate - Climate Change Science Doodle Note

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Biology, Earth Sciences, Science

Climate change is an important topic for our students to understand. Help them out by teaching or reviewing with the aid of climate change doodle notes covering the difference between weather and climate, and some of the main factors that affect climate. This resource is also part of my Biology GROWING Bundle for which you will receive free updates on all of my future Biology resources.The ZIP file includes:☼ 2 versions of doodle notes (blank vs. FITB)☼ 24x36" Anchor Charts for each doodle note

Subjects:

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Handouts, Printables, Graphic Organizers

Also included in: Biology Bundle | Lessons, Doodle Notes, Review for Secondary Science

15 Mystery Puzzles - Brain Teasers - STEM Project - Team Building - GT

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UnlockTheEdTechBox

Have fun with your students while they solve these Mystery Puzzles! This set of puzzles is interactive in Google Slide or it can be downloaded and printed on paper. You choose! Great for developing critical thinking skills!Great for distance learning!Included is a PDF version and a Google Slide version of the Following:15 Digital interactive Mystery Puzzles and their answers. Your students will learn and have fun at the same time. This project can also be used as a center activity with an i

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Engineering

Grades:

5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

Types:

Activities, Handouts

Sun Earth Moon System BUNDLE - with Student Workbook!!

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Sun Earth Moon System Bundle with Student Workbook: This bundle has EVERYTHING you need to teach the Sun Earth Moon System. Topics included: Rotation vs Revolution, Earth is a sphere, Moon phases, sidereal vs solar day, why we see the same side of the Moon, Blood Moon, Super Moon, what causes the seasons, leap year, sidereal vs synodic month. This bundle now includes a STUDENT WORKBOOK and it is GLORIOUS! There are two PowerPoint presentations included in this bundle. The student workbook is fou

Subjects:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Handouts

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

The Solar System ALL-IN-ONE Lesson | PowerPoint, Notes, News Report & More

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If you are teaching about the Solar System you are in luck! This bundle of resources includes a lesson plan, PowerPoint, student notes, practice questions and formative assessment pieces – which are completely editable. This lesson bundle also includes a scientific art activity! I’m sharing my love of Astronomy with you, in hopes that your students will love it too!Student learning goals for the Solar System Lesson:• identify types of celestial objects found within the solar system• compare co

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Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Also included in: Astronomy Bundle | Space Lessons, Units, Notes for High School Astronomy Course

Climate Change CER, Reading Comprehension, and Graphing Lab

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Earth Sciences, Environment, Science

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Everything you need for a climate change unit! Students will read, graph, analyze, draw conclusions, and write about climate change, the greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, and human impact on the environment. This bundle includes a climate change reading comprehension and questions, graphing climate change data activity (with real NASA data!) and graph analysis questions, a climate change CER graphic organizer, a climate change CER essay assignment with rubric, teacher lesson plan, and

Subjects:

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Laboratory

NGSS:

HS-ESS3-1

, HS-ESS3-5

Also included in: Climate Change Growing Discount Bundle

Plate Tectonics Worksheet with Questions

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The Sci Guy

This tectonic plates worksheet is designed to help students discover all of the useful information contained on the map, from plate boundaries to latitude and longitude locations. If you like this resource, please consider my Plate Tectonics Quiz and Answer Key to assess your studens to see what they have learned. NEW: Plate Tectonics Task Cards

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, General Science, Physics

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Printables

Constellations ALL-IN-ONE Lesson | PowerPoint, Notes, Room Transformation & More

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If you are teaching about the Constellations you are in luck! This bundle of resources includes a lesson plan, PowerPoint, student notes, practice questions and formative assessment pieces – all are completely editable! This lesson bundle also includes an amazing activity in which you will turn your classroom into a Celestial Dome! Your students will ADORE this activity. I’m sharing my love of Astronomy with you, in hopes that your students will love it too!★★★★★ Check out this video tutorial

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Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Also included in: Astronomy Bundle | Space Lessons, Units, Notes for High School Astronomy Course

Greenhouse Effect Doodle Notes - Climate Change Lesson for Science

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