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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Climate Change in Earth History

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Traces changes in Earth's climate through Earth history, especially in the past 2,000 years.
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Activity
NASA

Nasa: Goddard Institute for Space Studies: Time on Mars

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a Java-based program called Mars24. You can download this to your computer to keep track of time on Mars.
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Handout
BBC

Bb Ci Space: Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
The BBC provides a general overview of the planet Earth. Content includes statistical information, a focus on the four seasons, moon information, and more.
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Handout
Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Dating the Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
How do scientists know how old the Earth is? What is radioactive dating? Are there other dating methods? Get the answers to these questions and others at this site presented by the Australian Museum Online.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Our Restless Planet

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This unit will use demonstrations and student examples to help students gain an understanding of rotation, revolution, and orbit. Through hands-on activities students will explore the concepts of day and night. Technology will be...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Sun and the Earth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The students will understand the relationship between the Earth and the sun and how this relationship affects observable phenomena on Earth, such as the seasons. The activity will help students learn about these concepts and will...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Earth: We're in It Together!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), conservation and describing ways to protect the Earth will be explored. Students will also create a mural of ways to protect our planet. This lesson is one from...
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Web Links

For Students 9th - 10th
Web links to explore information about the solar system and Earth.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Quiz: What Was Young Earth Like?

For Students 9th - 10th
A five question quiz covering the topic of early Earth. The quiz is multiple choice.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science for Middle School

For Students 6th - 8th
This digital textbook covers core earth science concepts and includes interactive features, real-world examples, videos, and study guides.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: A Flat Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
An article reviewing over how measurements are made for objects in the solar system.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems: The Water Planet

For Students K - 1st
Observe different forms of water and how it covers about 75 percent of Earth's surface in this media gallery captured by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Use the satellite and ground images in this resource to enhance student...
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Interactive
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Biointeractive: Understanding Global Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will build models that explain how small changes in the Earth system's components and processes can produce measurable global effects.
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Article
University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas Mc Donald Observatory: Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn interesting information about the Earth, the largest of the "terrestrial" planets.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Recycling Matter Study Guide

For Students 4th - 9th
Review some of the cycles that recycle matter through Earth's biospheres.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Big Are the Planets in Our Solar System?

For Students 3rd - 5th
This activity explores the relative size of the eight planets that circle around the Sun.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Warm in the Sun

For Students 3rd - 5th
Do you think natural materials also heat up in the sun, or only man-made materials? Do this activity to find out.
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Handout
NASA

Nasa Space Place: All About the Moon

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn all about the moon, what makes it glow, and its phases. Includes some exciting images.
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Lesson Plan
Indiana University

Indiana University: Nature of Science Lessons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This list of nature of science lessons from the Indiana University includes three links to lessons under the heading "Realm and Limits."
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Article
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Earth's Twin Found at Heart of Milky Way

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, Marilyn Head's article centers on research behind the discovery of the planet in the Milky Way which most closely resembles the planet Earth.
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Website
Extreme Science

Extreme Science: Space Science: Our Solar System

For Students 6th - 8th
Read about our solar system and its formation over 4.6 billion years ago. Find out about the planets, asteroids, meteors, satellites, and comets. More in-depth planet background can be accessed through links.
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Unit Plan
NASA

Nasa: Io: Overview: Volcanic Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about most volcanically active world in the Solar System, Jupiter's moon named Io.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Defying Gravity

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked how acceleration, mass, momentum and velocity are involved in mountain boarding. [0:32]
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eBook
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: The 1991/1992 Drought

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research offers information on drought and global climate conditions, with an explanation of the trade winds.