Earth & Space Science, ESS1.C: Earth's History, ESS2: Earth's Systems, ESS2.A: Earth Materials and Systems, ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions, ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes, ESS2.D: Weather and Climate, ESS3.D: Global Climate Change, Physical Science, PS1: Matter and Its Interactions
In BAESI’s new “Modeling Seafloor Spreading” lesson, students create models which show the formation of new oceanic crust through seafloor spreading and its destruction in subduction zones. They incorporate the concept of magnetic polarity reversal...
Earth & Space Science, ESS1.C: Earth's History, ESS2: Earth's Systems, ESS2.D: Weather and Climate, ESS3: Earth and Human Activity, ESS3.A: Natural Resources, ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems, ESS3.D: Global Climate Change, LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics, PS1: Matter and Its Interactions, PS3: Energy
In BAESI’s new “Carbon Travels–Then and Now” lesson plan and simulation, students play the role of carbon atoms to learn about the carbon cycle and how it is changing. Adapted from the Carbon Travels activity at STEM Earth Central, students create two...
Earth & Space Science, ESS1.C: Earth's History, Life Science, LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
In this activity, students explore incidents of homology in nature and analyze similarities and differences in body structures of animals. Are We Related? Lesson plan (.PDF) Are We Related? Student worksheet (.PDF) Birds and T-rex: Evidence (.PDF)...
Earth & Space Science, ESS1.C: Earth's History, Life Science, LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
This short .PDF textbook covers the fossil record, natural selection, and evidence of evolution. Evolution and the Fossil Record (.PDF)
Earth & Space Science, ESS1.C: Earth's History
The sabertoothed cat Smilodon californicus is the state fossil of California. Sabertoothed Cat (.PDF)
Earth & Space Science, ESS1.C: Earth's History, ESS2: Earth's Systems, ESS2.D: Weather and Climate, ESS3.D: Global Climate Change, Life Science, LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics, LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
Explore this excellent resource on the causes and consequences of past mass extinctions on Earth from the BBC. The Big Five Mass...
Earth & Space Science, ESS1.C: Earth's History, ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions, ESS3.D: Global Climate Change, Life Science, LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
In this activity, students read several articles on specific ages of the Earth and the mass extinction events which concluded them. The articles discuss the time period, types of life present, and the causes and consequences of the mass extinction event. Students then...
