Tectonic Plates Life Cycle Drag and Drop part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
Beverly Owens, Cleveland Early College High School; Molly Ludwick, Kings Mountain Middle School
This activity will allow students to manipulate Google slide textboxes to explore different features of tectonic plates and their interactions.

Lab 2: Earth's Frozen Oceans part of EarthLabs for Educators:Climate and the Cryosphere
The lab activity described here was developed by Erin Bardar of TERC for the EarthLabs project. Summary and Learning Objectives In Part A, students will learn about how sea ice forms and influences ocean currents ...

Using Your Marbles: Making Energy Work for You part of Earth and Space Science:Summer 2010:Activities
Alisa Hilfinger
potential energy, kinetic energy, work

Seasons part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lecture Demonstrations:Examples
David Steer, University of Akron Main Campus; , University of Akron Main Campus
While working in groups to facilitate peer tutoring, students manipulate a hands-on, physical model to better comprehend the Earth's position in space, the Earth's rotation axis and seasons. -

Lab 5: All About Air Pressure part of EarthLabs for Educators:Hurricanes
John McDaris, Carleton College
The lab activity described here was created by John McDaris of SERC for the EarthLabs project. Summary and Learning Objectives Students select a storm from the HURDAT database and create its track in the ...

Discovering New Worlds part of Teaching Activities
Dora Kastel, New Visions for Public Schools
This resource is a set of student and teacher materials for a new NGSS-driven Earth & Space Science (ESS) unit (4-6 weeks of instruction). The anchor phenomenon students are exploring through modeling and data ...

Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations: Weight of Gold part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Barb Tewksbury, Hamilton College
Question Let's suppose that you have a shoe box full of water (the box is waterproof, of course). The shoe box weighs about 9 kg (19.8 pounds). Suppose you emptied the box and filled it completely with rock ...

Resources for using PhET simulations in class – PhET Activities Database part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:PhET Interactive Science Simulations:Examples
Sam McKagan, American Association of Physics Teachers
The PhET Activities Database is a collection of resources for using PhET sims. It includes hundreds of lesson plans, homework assignments, labs, clicker questions, and more. Some activities have been created by the PhET team and some have been created by teachers.

Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations: The Distance Radio Waves Have Traveled part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Barb Tewksbury, Hamilton College
Question We have been broadcasting radio waves in all directions since the development of radio and television stations. How far could you be from the Earth and detect the faint signals of an early Star Trek ...

Analyzing the motion of a marble down a ramp part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Gavin Johnson, Esko High School, Esko, MN, based on a experiment performed by Galileo
This lab activity has students rolling a marble down a ramp to study position, velocity, and acceleration.