One unsung subject is Earth Science. Let me round-up some resources. NSF has these classroom worksheets; here is a sampler. These are stand-alone lessons, such as the Thunderstorm activity with an aluminum pie plate or Soil Sleuth, a soil filtration lab. Here are the top 17 Earth Science Experiments, including Orange Peel Plate Tectonics. Try NASA Science at Home activities. These are video lessons. Take a look at Shadow Chasing. Tap on the right for support materials. This NASA page has several GLOBE activities: Seasons, Air Quality, Soils, and Earth System. This same site has links to the Challenger Library, Astronomy Picture of the Day, and the Scientific Visualization Studio. NASA has a plethora of resources, which like GLOBE can be hard to locate. NASA Science at Home Activities seems to be a means of consolidating different educational outreach initiatives. Here is the NOVA collection of video. Be sure to try a few edible, Earth Science labs: Edible Earth, Layers of the Earth Pudding Cups, Edible Rocks, Edible Aquifer, and Edible Plate Tectonics. Do a combination of labs and videos. If you are looking for a textbook, Apologia’s Young Explorers Series has this Elementary Earth Science Curriculum. Here is a textbook and notebook sample. Here is a sample from the Junior Notebook. The Young Explorer’s Series uses one textbook but has two levels of notebooks. Please, try these resources at home! If you add a few edible labs, you’ll develop very enthusiastic scientists.
No comments:
Post a Comment