Earth Science Lesson Plans and Resources

Elementary

Acid Rain: What Causes It

Acid Rain: The Disappearing Statue

Air: You Can't See It, But It's There!

Air Quality and Transportation

Breathing Easy

Contaminated Drinking Water

Glacier Climbing

Have You Ever Met a Tree?

Let's Catch Some Dirt from the Air

Living in a Tree

Make Your Own Lightning

Ocean in a Bottle

Re-creating the Greenhouse Effect

Particulate Matter and "The Lorax"

Pizza Box Solar Oven

Plants and Oxygen: Breathing Easy

Sky Blue: Why is the Sky Blue?

Solar S'Mores

Trash Disposal Choices

Water Energy

Intermediate

Acid Rain: An Air Pollutant

Antarctica I - Why Do Scientists Go to Antarctica?

Antarctica II - Why is Antarctica so Important to our Planet?

The Awful 8: The Pollution Play

Balloon Safari - How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?

Community Problem Solving

Contaminated Drinking Water

Digging the Earth's Crust

Glacier Climbing

Glass Recycling

Gold Mine

Greenhouse Effect

How Are Caves Formed?

How Do We Get the Impurities Out of Drinking Water? : Making Freshwater from Seawater

Lightning

Make Your Own Lightning

Making An Anemometer

Making a Water Sampler

Ocean in a Bottle

The Old Windbag

Olympic Solar Energy

Ozone Pollution: Smog Alert

Particulate matter: How Dirty Is the Air We Breathe?

Phases of the Moon

Pizza Box Solar Oven

Rain Forest Plants

Rain or Shine: Lessons to Explore Meteorology and Weather

Re-creating the Greenhouse Effect

Science Safari: Energy Resources

Sky Blue - Why is the Sky Blue?

Solar Hot Dog Cooker

Solar S'mores

Temperature Inversion

Trash Disposal Choices

Water Energy

Wetlands - What Are They and Why Are They So Important?

What Is Wind

White Water Rafting

Wilderness Training

Wind Blow

Middle School

Acid Rain: An Air Pollutant

Air Pollution

Antarctica I - Why Do Scientists Go to Antarctica?

Antarctica II - Why is Antarctica So Important to Our Planet?

Avalanche Rescue - How Do Dogs Find People Buried in an Avalanche?

The Awful 8: The Pollution Play

Balloon Safari - How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?

The City from the Ooze

Community Problem Solving

Digging the Earth's Crust

Dinosaur I - Finding and Dating

Dinosaur II - Assembling a Dinosaur

Equator - What Is Life Like for Animals, Plants and People at the African Equator?

Gems - How Do Gemstones Get Their Color?

Glacier Climbing

Glass Recycling

Gold Mine

Greenhouse Effect

The Greenhouse Effect

How Are Caves Formed?

How Do We Get the Impurities Out of Drinking Water?

Lightning

Making An Anemometer

Making a Water Sampler

Oil Spills - How Do You Clean Up an Oil Spill?

The Old Windbag

Olympic Solar Energy

Ozone - How Do CFC's Destroy Ozone in the Earth's Atmosphere?

Ozone Pollution - Smog Alert

Particulate Matter - How Dirty Is the Air We Breathe?

Phases of the Moon

Science Safari: Energy Resources

Solar Hot Dog Cooker

Temperature Inversion

Wetlands - What Are They and Why Are They So Important?

What Is Wind

White Water Rafting

Wilderness Training

Wind Blow

High School

Avalanche Rescue - How Do Dogs Find People Buried in an Avalanche?

Balloon Safari - How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?

Community Problem Solving

Dinosaur I - Finding and Dating

Dinosaur II - Assembling a Dinosaur

Equator - What Is Life Like for Animals, Plants and People at the African Equator?

Gems - How Do Gemstones Get Their Color?

Glass Recycling

Graphing Stratospheric Ozone

The Greenhouse Effect

How Are Caves Formed?

Oil Spills - How Do You Clean Up an Oil Spill?

Ozone - How Do CFC's Destroy Ozone in the Earth's Atmosphere?

Solar Hot Dog Cooker