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Environment Common Core RST.6-8.10 resources
Symbiosis Color by Number with Reading and Analysis Questions
Give students practice analyzing symbiotic relationships to determine if they are examples of commensalism, mutualism, or parasitism, using this non-fiction reading passage with questions and color-by-number answer sheet. Engage BOTH sides of the brain with the content! You’ll receive:• An information page that defines symbiosis, lists the three main types of symbiotic relationships and gives an example of each.• A worksheet containing examples of each type of symbiotic relationship. The wor
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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CCSS:
NGSS:
MS-LS2-2
Also included in:Â Ecology Unit Bundle
Distribution of Natural Resources NGSS MS-ESS3-1
With this earth science curriculum students will learn about how the uneven distribution of natural resources as a result of past and current geoscience processes. Students will review what they have learned and then focus on Earth's mineral, energy, and groundwater resources. This resource has six lessons. Included are a standards poster, photos for stimulating discussion, task cards to aid in student research, links to data, and informational articles about minerals and weathering & erosio
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-1
Also included in:Â Middle School Science Earth and Human Activity BUNDLE
Human Impact on the Environment Activity Earth Day Pacific Garbage Patch
Teach students how humans impact the environment using this ocean pollution lesson on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Students will learn about the Pacific Ocean, what a garbage patch is, why plastics are dangerous, and design a solution to the ocean pollution problem. This topical environmental concern includes a teacher presentation, student digital activity, and printable worksheets. Like this activity? Check out my environmental issues bundle and save 20% off by clicking here. Students will
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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CCSS:
NGSS:
5-ESS3-1
, MS-ESS3-3
Climate Zones and Change Activity
Teach students about climate, climate regions, and climate change using print and digital lessons to support NGSS ESS3-5. This activity includes readings and questions to help understand factors that affect an area's climate, such as temperature and precipitation, different climate zones on Earth, and natural and human factors that contribute to climate change. Like this climate change lesson? Check out these lessons to support your Earth Science curriculum.Students will learn about: Factors tha
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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CCSS:
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition Webquest (Geology and Earth Science)
The Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition Webquest comes with a worksheet and an answer key. Each link in the webquest points to information that your students need to complete the worksheet. Besides printing the worksheets, no other prep is needed to conduct this geology lesson on weathering, erosion, and deposition. How to use this resource:1.) Share the PDF webquest file with clickable links to student computers. 2.) Print the accompanying worksheets. 3.) That’s it! Students are ready to get st
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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CCSS:
Predicting Weather Lesson with Power Point, Worksheet, and Weather Map Reading
This power point goes over how professionals use technology to predict weather. It also teaches students how to read weather maps.
Terms Included
- Forecast
- Meteorologist
- Weather Balloons
- Weather Satellite
- Weather Stations
- Computers
- Weather Maps
- Weather Service Map
- Newspaper Weather Maps
There is a notes page and activity page included. Both the presentation and the work page can be found in the zip file. There is an answer key included. The preview file is a pdf of the power
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Grades:
4th - 9th, Higher Education
Earth's Spheres Reading Comprehension Passage PRINT and DIGITAL
This easy to read one page science passage is all about Earth's spheres, including: geosphere (plus the lithosphere) hydrosphereatmospherebiosphere The passage explores each sphere, what it's made of, why it's important, and how it interacts with the other spheres. It touches on important natural processes such as the rock cycle and the water cycle. This resource includes a one page passage, 10 multiple choice reading comprehension questions, an answer key, and 2 self-scoring digital versions -
Grades:
4th - 7th
Types:
NGSS:
5-ESS2-1
Also included in:Â Keri's Custom Science Shorts Reading Comprehension Bundle
Soil Conservation No Prep Lesson with Power Point, Worksheet, and Vocab Activity
This lesson goes over the different ways that we can conserve our soil and keep it fertile. This lesson also covers the Dust Bowl that occurred in the 1930s. The worksheet follows along with the power point presentation to keep students engaged it also works for review. The vocabulary matching activity provides all the definitions and vocabulary words used in the lesson. This lesson is designed for late elementary through intermediate grades.
Key Terms Include:
- natural resources
- fertility
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Interactions In Ecosystems Explore Card Sort (NGSS MS-LS2-2)
Guide student discovery of interactions in ecosystems - and the patterns in interactions that exist across ecosystems - in this card sort exploration task. In this activity, students read about specific interactions in ecosystems, develop their own categories to sort those interactions, and provide reasoning for their thinking – all before being introduced to official definitions to describe these concepts (predation, competition, parasitism, mutualism, commensalism). This is a perfect explorati
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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CCSS:
NGSS:
MS-LS2-2
Earthquakes and Tsunamis Webquest (Geology and Earth Science)
The Earthquakes and Tsunamis Webquest comes with a worksheet and an answer key. Each link in the webquest points to information that your students need to complete the worksheet. Besides printing the worksheets, no other prep is needed to conduct this natural disasters lesson on earthquakes and tsunamis.How to use this resource:1.) Share the PDF webquest file with clickable links to student computers. 2.) Print the accompanying worksheets. 3.) That’s it! Students are ready to get started.Student
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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CCSS:
Air Pollution Lesson with Power Point, Worksheet, and Review Page
This power point presentation goes over different types of air pollution such as emissions and the effects of air pollution. I have used this presentation at the late elementary school level to eighth grade. It could also be used as a refresher course in early high school science classes.
The terms that are defined in this presentation are:
- air pollution
- emissions
- photochemical smog
- temperature inversion
- acid rain
- indoor air pollution
- carbon monoxide
- radon
- the ozone layer
- t
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Grades:
4th - 10th, Higher Education
Invasive Species Activity Reading and Questions NGSS MS-LS2-4 Distance Learning
Newly updated with a DIGITAL INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK in Google Slides, this invasive species lesson plan with worksheets is great for in person or distance or home learning! This cross-curricular lesson can be used as a LOW PREP SUB PLAN in an ecosystems unit, to promote literacy in science class, for introducing invasive species, or for gathering evidence for the NGSS Performance Expectation MS-LS2-4. Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological comp
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Grades:
5th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-4
Also included in:Â NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
Hazardous Waste Lesson with Power Point, Worksheet, and Signs Activity
This power point goes over what different kinds of hazardous waste there are. It also includes the harmful effects it has on humans, and how it it currently being disposed of. Finally, it includes what we can do to reduce the amount of hazardous material we create.
Terms Discussed in the Presentation:
-toxic
-explosive
-flammable
-corrosive
-radioactive
-short term exposure
-long term exposure
-landfills
-incineration
-decomposition
-rock storing
This file has been left as a pptx so they buyer
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Grades:
4th - 9th, Higher Education
Ecosystems/Ecology Poster Project
This product guides students through the creation of a poster of an ecosystem that illustrates all of the key concepts learned in a unit on ecology. Students begin by drawing abiotic and biotic factors (plants and animals) of an assigned/chosen ecosystem and then add various symbols and labels as they go to illustrate concepts such as food webs, trophic levels, transfer of energy, limiting factors, keystone species, and more. This project assesses student understanding of how ecosystems functio
The Three Rs Reduce Reuse Recycle Reading Comprehension Passage PRINT & DIGITAL
This easy to read, one page passage about the three Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) explains:how overuse of natural resources hurts planet Earthwhy it's important to reduce, reuse, and recycle to help protect the environmenthow to reduce use of natural resourceshow to reuse things (like water bottles, shopping bags, etc.) what recycling is and how it worksThe passage includes 10 multiple choice reading comprehension questions, an answer key, and 2 self-scoring digital versions - EASEL and Google For
Grades:
4th - 7th
Types:
NGSS:
5-ESS3-1
, MS-LS2-4
, MS-LS2-1
, MS-ESS3-5
, MS-ESS3-4
 ...
Also included in:Â Science Reading Comprehension Passages Growing MEGA Bundle PRINT and DIGITAL
Population Growth and Consumption of Natural Resources NGSS MS-ESS3-4
Do you need to teach your students about the human population and its impact on the consumption of natural resources? Do you want to save yourself a lot of valuable time and energy? This resource has six lessons. Included are a standards poster, photos and data charts/graphs for stimulating discussion, task cards to aid in student research, links to data, an informational article about deforestation, and a rubric for grading the student's claim. There are also short readings about solar, wind,
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-4
Also included in:Â Middle School Science Earth and Human Activity BUNDLE
Environmental Issues Lesson with Power Point, Notes Page, and Activity Sheet
This is a Microsoft power point presentation that covers a lot of current environmental issues including: offshore drilling, polar ice caps melting, and new energy resources. It also has activities that gets students thinking about what their viewpoint is using development, preservation, and conservation.
The terms included in this presentation:
renewable resources
non-renewable resources
population growth
pollution
environmental science
development
preservation
conservation
Both the presentat
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Grades:
4th - 9th, Higher Education
Earth's Four Spheres: Atmosphere, Biosphere, Hydrosphere, and Geosphere
With these NGSS lessons, students will learn about all four of the Earth's spheres and how the spheres interact with each other.This is part of our MS-ESS2--1 and 5-ESS2-2 & 5-ESS3-1 unit and our MS-ESS3 Bundle: Earth and Human Activity.✅Please make sure you have access to YouTube before you purchase this Unit.What others are saying about our science units,"This product is thorough and ready to use. Thanks for putting this together. I'm telling the other teachers that I know about this and a
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Grades:
5th - 7th
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NGSS:
5-ESS2-1
Geoscience Processes that Change the Earth's Surface NGSS MS-ESS2-2
With these NGSS lesson plans, students will review weathering, erosion, and deposition. They will also learn about how other geoscience processes change the Earth's surface over varying time and spatial scales. This resource has eight lessons. Included are a standards poster, photos and posters for stimulating discussion, four reading passages, three investigations, links to videos, and essential vocabulary cards.Review Lesson: Weathering, Erosion, and DepositionLesson 1: Geoscience Processe
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ESS2-2
Also included in:Â MS-ESS2 Middle School Science Earth's System's Bundle
Natural Hazards NGSS: MS-ESS3-2
Do you want to teach your students about natural disasters? This is the perfect time to teach students to read, analyze, and interpret data.Save yourself a tremendous amount of time by purchasing this unit. This resource has 10 lessons. Included are: a standards poster, data charts/graphs for analyzing and interpreting, links to data, links to Youtube videos, informational articles about each of the disasters in the unit, and a rubric for group work. There are also 11 essential vocabulary card
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ESS3-2
Also included in:Â Middle School Science Earth and Human Activity BUNDLE
Humidity and Dew Point Weather Reading Comprehension Passage PRINT and DIGITAL
This easy to read, one page passage about humidity and dew point explains: humidity is water vapor in the airvery humid days feel hotter because our sweat can't evaporate as wellthe amount of humidity the air can hold is affected by temperaturemeteorologists use a percent called relative humidity to describe how humid the air is when the temperature drops to the dew point, water vapor changes back to liquid in the form of dew. The passage includes 10 multiple choice reading comprehension questio
Grades:
4th - 7th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ESS2-4
, MS-ESS2-5
Also included in:Â Ashton's Custom Science Shorts Reading Comprehension Bundle
Climate Regions Lesson with Power Point, Worksheet, and Debate Activity
This resource goes over how the Earth is divided into different climate zones. This lesson goes over the main six zones as well as some of the sub-climates within them. The presentation and work sheet are catered to late elementary through middle school students. Maps are included for each of the climate zones discussed.
Key Terms Included:
tropical rainy
tropical wet
tropical dry-and-wet
dry
arid
semi-arid
temperate marine
marine west coast
Mediterranean
humid subtropical
temperate continenta
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Grades:
4th - 10th, Higher Education
Solid Waste Management Lesson with Power Point, Worksheet, and Review Page
This power point presentation goes over what happens to materials when you throw them away. It also helps students understand how current practices effect the environment. It also goes over modern techniques that are being used to promote recycling.
The terms included in this lesson are:
landfills
incineration
recycling
paper recycling
metal recycling
glass recycling
plastic recycling
reduce
reuse
composting
The preview file is a worksheet for students to complete alongside the presentation.
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Grades:
4th - 9th, Higher Education
Rock Cycle and Rock Types Webquest (Geology and Earth Science)
The Rock Cycle and Rock Types Webquest comes with a worksheet and an answer key. Each link in the webquest points to information that your students need to complete the worksheet. Besides printing the worksheets, no other prep is needed to conduct this geology lesson on the rock cycle and sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock types. How to use this resource:1.) Share the PDF webquest file with clickable links to student computers. 2.) Print the accompanying worksheets. 3.) That’s it! Studen
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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CCSS:
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