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The worksheets and activities on this page are here to help my fellow Science Teachers. Feel free to download and print the pages. You may also copy and paste into Word to customize the sheets. I will be adding to this sheet comnstantly throughout the year so check back often. You may e-mail me for answer keys just be prepared to prove you're really a teacher!

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Worksheets Labs, Activities & PowerPoints Videos

Parental Contact Form

Topics For Student Lessons

Gradesheet

Special FX Permission

Course Outline

Research Paper

Practicing Measurement Skills

Graphing and Density

Density Worksheet

Excel data for sunspot lab

Percent Deviation

Density & Computer Stations

 

Worksheets Labs, Activities & PowerPoints Videos

Vocabulary Words

Chem. Comp Chart

Drawing Isolines

Making Contours I, II, & III

Blank chart for drawing profiles

Rates HW

Rates II

Red River Contours

Working With Contours

Flat Earth DBQ

Longitude DBQ

A Hundred Proofs that the Earth is not a Globe

Making Isolines PPT

Lab 1-4 PPT

 

Youtube video on making a topo profile of a volcanic island

 

Worksheets Labs, Activities & PowerPoints Videos

Vocabulary Words

Worksheet on Sedimentary Rocks

Worksheet on the Rock Cycle

Igneous Worksheet I

Igneous Worksheet II

Quartz DBQ

Minerals DBQ

Metamorphic Rocks

Chemical Composition chart

Rocks Review

Jimmy Buffet's Volcano Sing-a-Long PPT

Lyrics to Jimmy Buffet's Volcano

Lab Packet for Minerals Stations

Bill Nye Rocks

Igneous Rock Scheme PPT

Metamorphic Rock Scheme PPT

Sedimentary Scheme PPT

Cookie Lab- a great review of rock types

 


Worksheets Labs, Activities & PowerPoints Videos

Vocabulary

Seismic Eruption

Time Math 1

Time Math 2

When 2 Cars Race (P & S Race PPT for answers)

Determining Epictr Distance

Finding Epicenters I

Finding Epicenters 2

Epicenters 3

Epicenters 4

Seismic Waves

Calculating Richter Scale

* Seismic Waves and Seismic Eruption are free demonstration programs available at: binghamton.edu

Convection Demonstration: Make Hot Chocolate in the classroom while showing principles of plate tectonics and convection- Very Fun!

P & S Race PPT answers to the worksheet as well as how to use the PS wave chart.

Lab 4-5 Epicenters PPT

 

 

Youtube video showing a demonstration of the Hawaii Hotspot.

 

 

 

Worksheets Labs, Activities & PowerPoints Videos

Vocabulary

Weathering HW

Erosion Review

Glaciers Handout

Rates & Time

Particle vs Velocity

Why is the Ocean Salty

Bill Nye Crust

Weathering PPT

 

 

 

 

Worksheets Labs, Activities & PowerPoints Videos

Vocabulary

Sequence Puzzles:

Sequence 1

Sequence 2

Sequence 3

Sequence 4

Sequence 5

Sequence 6

Sequence 7

Relative Dating Craters (see PPT to the right for answers)

Worksheet on Radio Dating

DBQ on Dinosaurs

DBQ on The Natural History of LI

DBQ on Magnetic Pole Reversals

Walk The Dinosaur Sing-a-Long PPT (provide your own music)

Relative Dating Craters PPT

Index Fossils and Correlation - using pennies and brachiopod fossils to learn about correlation with index fossils.

Shades of History - a very neat way to illustrate sequence of events, correlation and volcanic time markers.

Dinosaur Reconstruction

Radioactive Decay Lab

Radioactive Decay PPT

Craters Answers PPT

Youtube video showing the formation of pangaea.

Worksheets Labs, Activities & PowerPoints Videos

Vocabulary

States of Matter

Fronts

Gradients

Drawing Isotherms

Station Model Code

Pressure Conversions

Rel Hum/DPT

Rel Humidity 1

Rel Humidity 2

Station Models

Station Model HW

Temperature Conversions

Temp/Rel Hum/DPT

Weather Review

Contrails DBQ

Perfect Storm DBQ

Angle of Insolation Lab

Weather Lab Stations

All Star Sing-a-Long PPT (global warming)
(Supply your own music)

Beds Are Burning Sing-a-Long PPT(environmental)
(Supply your own music)

Using the RH DPT Charts PPT

Billy Joel's Storm Front Sing-a-Long PPT
(Supply your own music)

Lyrics and explainations to Billy Joel's Storm Front

Bill Nye Atmosphere

Bill Nye Deserts

Bill Nye Pressure

Bill Nye Water Cycle

Bill Nye Wind

Weather Labs

Layers of the Atmosphere PPT

Dew Point/ Rel. Humid Charts PPT

Lab 6-5 Weather Patterns PPT

Lab 6-6 Storms PPT

Water Cycle & LI Groundwater PPT

Wind Speed & Direction PPT

Youtube Video on making a cloud in a soda bottle.

Youtube video showing how to boil water using ice (demonstration of water boiling at lower pressures) and Boiling With Ice II

Youtube video showing how to crush a can with air pressure.

Youtube video showing supercooled water freezing when disturbed. And Supercooled II with more details.

Using Air Pressure to suck an egg into a bottle

Youtube video showing adiabatic heating and cooling

Youtube video of a Tornado Machine in the classroom.

Youtube video demonstrating how to put an egg in a bottle using air pressure.

Youtube video of a lab activity for measuring the cooling effect of evaporation as well as the affect of surface area on the rate of evaporation.

Worksheets Labs, Activities & PowerPoints Videos

Vocabulary

Astro Diagrams Handout

How Big is the Moon?
(Based on an activity by Chris Visco)

Seasons & Day & Night

Worksheet for shadow stick

Ellipses

Phases of the Moon

Jovian Moons DBQ

Bill Nye Moon

Angle of Insolation lab

Lyrics to Elton John's Rocket Man

Rocket Man Sing-a-Long PowerPoint
(Supply your own music)

Why is the Space Program Important?

Benjamin Franklin's The Whimsical Cook

Phases of the Moon PowerPoint
Handout for moon phases (goes with the PowerPoint)

Youtube video demonstrating how you can see infrared light.

Youtube video showing the Doppler Effect.

Youtube video demonstrating the Big Bang.

Youtube video featuring levatating worlds in the classroom to demonstrate phases of the moon and eclipses.

Youtube video showing how to make and use 3-dimensional projections to demonstrate Earth's orbital plane and tilted axis.

Worksheets Labs, Activities & PowerPoints Videos

99 Things to Remember for the Regents Exam

13 Must-Know Facts

Reference Tables Review

Lab Practical Review
Note: Information in this PowerPoint is based on pg 2 of the Teacher's Lab Practical Manual which is "non-secure" and allowed to be shared with students according to pg 1 of the manual.
 

General Geology information for teachers: geology.com

The Science of Santa: A great article to discuss the last school day before December break

Stopping By Woods: By Robert Frost
Another good last-day-before-December-break reading. Good for discussing "darkest evening of the year" winter solstice.

 


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