CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Earth's Layers Study Guide
This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for an earth science unit on the earth's layers. Review questions are included at the bottom of the study guide.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, and Atmosphere
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the rock surface of the Earth, its water, and the gas layers that surround it.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Oil Trap Model
Students make and study a 3-D model of a cross section of the earth where oil has formed.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Under Pressure: Sand Under Lateral Compression
Here's a project that involves a different kind of sandbox than the ones you usually think of. This one has a moving wall inside, acting like a piston, to compress the sand. You can make layers using two different colors of sand, and...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Science Labelling Game
In a series of five interactive science games, students first study labeled diagrams to learn the names of the Earth's layers, of a flower's parts, of a fish's anatomy, of the human respiratory system, and of layers of the atmosphere....
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 4.4 Fossils
Understand fossils and the fossil record as it relates to Earth's history.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Earth's Inner Layers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identifies and describes the two internal layers of Earth.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Earth's Outer Layers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the various layers of the Earth.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Outer Layers of the Sun
Identify the outer layers of the sun. [Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]
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Moorland School: Earth Science Zone: The Earth's Atmosphere
Learn about the properties of the thin layer of gas that surrounds the Earth. Understand the mixture of gases that make up the atmosphere as well as the different layers. Also explained are issues that affect the atmosphere like the...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Soil
Kids learn about the Earth science subject of soil including how it is formed, properties, horizons, layers, topsoil, bedrock, and facts about soil.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Layers of the Atmosphere in Order
Describes each of the five layers of the atmosphere from the troposphere, which is closest to the Earth, up to the outermost one, the exosphere.
Utah State Office of Education
Utah Science: Rocks, Minerals, and Soils Introduction
Dig into the layers of activities exploring and investigating minerals and how they are related to both rocks and soil.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Interior of the Sun
Identify the layers of the Sun's interior. [Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Interior of the Sun
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify the layers of the sun's internal structure.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Reducing Ozone Destruction
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How banning CFCs helped protect the ozone layer.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Composition of the Atmosphere Study Guide
This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for an earth science unit on the composition of the atmosphere. Review questions are included at the bottom of the study guide.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Correlation Using Relative Ages
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How rock layers in different locations can be connected to make pictures of a region's geology.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Correlation Using Relative Ages
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How rock layers in different locations can be connected to make pictures of a region's geology.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Soil Horizons and Profiles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the different layers of soil.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Soil Horizons and Profiles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the different layers of soil.
Center for Educational Technologies
Earth Science Explorer: The Rock Cycle
This one-page explanation of the rock cycle contains a very helpful diagram and useful explanatory notes. Site explains how rocks are made and broken down.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Exploring Color Maps
An activity where young scholars study the Ozone Hole poster used that brings together colorful images of over 30 years of satellite observations of the ozone hole. Students interpret the color on the globes to see how the ozone hole has...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Earth's Atmosphere
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the composition of and the layers in Earth's atmosphere.