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Handout
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Nuclear Energy: Background

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource page on nuclear energy. Learn what nuclear energy is, how it is produced, the history of the power, and advantages and disadvantages.
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Handout
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Wind: Background

For Students 9th - 10th
A reference page on wind. Learn about the properties of air that allow wind to form as well as how wind is used to make energy. The page also describes the advantages and disadvantages to wind energy.
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Article
American Geosciences Institute

Agi: Why Earth Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An article discussing why it is important to have an earth science curriculum in schools.
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Website
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A wealth of resources for celebrating Earth Science Week, complete with educational materials in both English and Spanish. Teachers will find classroom activities, information on contests and Earth Science Week events, and ideas for...
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Interactive
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Climate Visualizations

For Students 9th - 10th
These six interactive visualizations to help students understand different aspects of the climate.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Exploring for Petroleum Modeling an Oil Reserve

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Experience the process of searching and drilling for oil in this hands-on activity.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Exploring Porosity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Experiment to find out which size of gravel has the most porosity by measuring volume.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Flood!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore how flooding can be caused be soil's ability to contain water.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Fossil Formation

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learn how fossils are created.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Freddy the Fish

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore how pollution can affect natural organisms and habitats.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Geography of a Pencil

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Work to find out how natural resources from around the world can be used to make a single product.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Geologic Age

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore geologic time of the Earth and learn how radioactive decay helps to establish a timeline.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Geologic Maps & Earthquakes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to give students practice using a geologic map to assess the likelihood and location of a particular natural hazard- earthquakes- in California.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Geologic Time Scale Analogy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Introduce students to the vastness of geologic time and the concept of scale.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Geoscience and Petroleum Careers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this activity, learners think about how various real-world careers relate to personal interests and Earth's systems- the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Global Change: Where Land, Air and Water Meet

For Teachers 5th - 9th
To develop an understanding of parts per million as a concept, teams of young scholars create successive dilutions of a solution to reach a parts-per-million concentration.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Global Gis Lesson: Exploring North American Earthquakes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this series of lessons, students use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) together with the tools and data from the North America Global GIS CD to investigate earthquakes, volcanoes, and population from a local to global scale....
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Lightning

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This activity will demonstrate the attraction of positive and negative charges and what happens when those opposite charges meet each other.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Look Up!

For Teachers K - 1st
Get ready to set a course for sky exploration. The following activity is designed to help learners learn to listen, read, and communicate in both written and oral formats about the sky.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Making a Cave

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity simulates the way that dissolution, a chemical weathering process, leads to the formation of caves.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Map Making Basics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity will help students discover some features as they create a geologic map.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Mapping Vertical Movements

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using flubber and plastic wrap, students study the Earth's crust and mantle.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Mapping Your Soil

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use the Web Soil Survey developed by the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service to determine what soil is around your school and how it can be used.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Measuring Permeabilities of Soil, Sand, and Gravel

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This investigation will help young scholars learn that different geologic materials have different characteristics.