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Curated OER

Fossil Fuels (Part I), The Geology of Oil

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Junior geologists work through three mini-lessons that familiarize them with the formation and location of fossil fuels. Part one involves reading about petroleum and where it comes from via a thorough set of handouts. A lab activity...
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Purdue University

Discovering the Watershed

For Teachers K - 5th
Human impact on watersheds can make or break an ecosystem. Learners use a game to learn about the impact human choices have on water quality and the organisms that depend on it. The activity includes a game board and game cards that tell...
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NOAA

Ocean Geologic Features

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Sediment samples from the ocean bottoms tell scientists about climate change, pollution, and changes in erosion for the area. Groups of learners focus on sediments and their movement through water. During a hands-on activity, they...
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Lesson Plan
Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi

Sedimentation

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Starting with a presentation, pupils learn about how sedimentary rocks form. They then create their own sedimentation bottle to observe the process.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Regents High School Examination: Physical Setting Earth Science 2009

For Students 9th - 12th
Junior geologists address 50 multiple choice questions and 35 short answer questions about the earth system. Plenty of visuals are included for interpretation: diagrams, graphs, maps, photographs, laboratory setups, weather symbols, and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Regents High School Examination: Physical Setting Earth Science 2010

For Students 9th - 12th
Every topic under the sun is covered in this New York State Regents High School Examination. With the focus of earth science, participants answer 85 quesitons about the solar system, geologic time, rocks and minerals, landforms, and...
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Curated OER

Regents High School Examination: Physical Setting Earth Science 2006

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Test your class on earth science with this extensive resource. This test, created by The University of the State of New York Regents, is made up of 50 multiple choice questions and 32 short answer questions that cover the branches of...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

WATER You Doing to Help?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Auntie Litter is here to educate young scholars about water pollution and environmental stewardship! Although the 15-minute video clip is cheesy, it's an engaging look at the water cycle and conservation. Learners start by illustrating...
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Curated OER

Erosion Patterns

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore erosion when there are multiple types of sediments. They view a soil separation demonstration jar before and after agitation to determine how and why the layers settled. In addition, they conduct experiments with...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Glaciers Worksheet #2

For Students 6th - 9th
A map of the Hudson River Valley is exhibited here. Arrows representing glacial striations are spread across the map for learners to analyze. They answer five multiple choice questions in response. The worksheet is a compact review of...
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Curated OER

You Are What You Drink!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore water treatment systems. In this water conservation ecology lesson plan, students identify and explain several processes used for water treatment and define related vocabulary after listening to content information given...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Sedimentation in the Grand Canyon

For Students 9th - 10th
In this sedimentation worksheet, students use the current rate of sediment deposit by the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon to answer questions about the changes taking place in the canyon. They graph the amount of deposit over 75 years...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Glaciers Worksheet #1

For Students 6th - 9th
The landscape impacted by glacier activity is drawn at the top of this worksheet. Ten multiple choice questions follow, some relating to the diagram, and some about the quality of soil left by glaciation. It is not often that you come...
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Curated OER

Speed of a Forest Stream

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars study stream speed.  In this stream speed lesson students complete an activity and formulate an opinion and study its effects.
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Curated OER

Best Management Practices for Water Quality

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine best management practices for water quality.  In this water quality instructional activity, 4th graders explore unused land to identify areas of runoff, erosion, and effects of water flow.  Students discuss logging...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fossils: Part of the Picture

For Students 7th - 12th
In this fossils learning exercise, students read how scientists use fossils to gather evidence about ancient animals and plants. Then students complete 2 short answer questions.
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Curated OER

Layers Upon Layers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students model how layers of sediments are deposited. They use logic to derive rules or laws that can be used to examine layers of sediment in a cup and apply it to the real world.
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Curated OER

Silting Situations

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study the concept of sedimentation, the process of silting as it effects a man-make lake such as the Kansas-Lower Republican Basin.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Sorting Out Sedimentation

For Students 3rd - 8th
Sedimentary rock forms in layers that are deposited one after the other over long periods of time. Oftentimes, sedimentary rock contains fossils and other debris that are deposited within the layers. Use this experiment to investigate...
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Arizona State University

Arizona State University: A Look Into the Water Treatment Process

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson explores water treatment process using techniques of coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Erosion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this investigation, students will use sand to build a mountain and then use a straw and watering can to simulate wind erosion and water erosion. Students will make observations and then propose ways to slow the erosion and/or speed...
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Unit Plan
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: El Modelado Del Paisaje I

For Students 9th - 10th
This unit will discuss how the external geological agents cause the arrangement of the landscape that can be found throughout the earth. It contains 18 interactive activities.
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Other

University of North Texas: Stream Erosion

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to the basic concepts of stream erosion, with illustrated examples from a creek called Denton Creek. Contains review questions at the bottom of the page.
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Minerals Ed

Minerals Ed:kamloops"cache Creek"pavilion Lake Field Trip [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about geological formations through this field trip from Kamloops through Cache Creek to Pavilion Lake. Formations discussed include ancient volcanism, plutonism, sedimentation, deformation and glaciation.