9th Grade Earth Sciences Resources (by date, oldest first)

Dive into the dynamic world of meteorology with the FREEBIE “The Fury of Nature: Understanding Hurricanes” reading passage, Q & A, and Note-Taking Sheets!  This educational resource offers a captivating reading passage that explores the science, impact, and fascinating facts about hurricanes.  Accompanied by a comprehensive set of questions and answers, it provides a thorough framework for assessing student understanding and encouraging critical thinking. The note-taking sheets are designed to help students organize information effectively and develop strong study habits.  Ideal for middle to high school students, this freebie is an invaluable addition to any science curriculum or classroom library.

This bundle includes a detailed 2-week lesson plan, a structured 2-week scope and sequence, and a PowerPoint presentation on hurricanes. Ideal for middle and high school educators, it covers hurricane formation, impact, safety measures, and scientific significance.

Looking for a ready to go made lesson for ocean density and salinity? This activity include:

• slides presentation to present to students.
• lab/demonstration directions for students and teachers
• handout for student lab worksheet

Great for homeschool or school setting! Videos are included!

Tennessee State Standards

• 6.PS3.4 - Conduct an investigation to demonstrate the way that heat (thermal energy) moves among objects through radiation, conduction, or convection.
• 6.ESS2.1 - Gather evidence to justify that oceanic convection currents are caused by the sun’s transfer of heat energy and differences in salt concentration leading to global water movement.
• 6.ESS2.3 - Construct an explanation for how atmospheric flow, geographic features, and ocean currents affect the climate of a region through heat transfer.

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-ESS2-6 - Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.

Unlock the mysteries of ocean currents with a unique and engaging classroom lesson that brings science to life! This lesson uses adorable rubber ducks to illustrate how ocean currents function and impact the planet. Great for visual and kinesthetic learners.

Looking for a inquiry based investigation ready to go lesson for teaching ocean currents? This activity includes...

• Google slides to go through with students.
• Student handout link
• Tips in the Speaker notes on the Slides
• Exit ticket to assess learning
• Rubber ducks!

Tennessee State Standards

• 6.ESS2.1 - Gather evidence to justify that oceanic convection currents are caused by the sun’s transfer of heat energy and differences in salt concentration leading to global water movement. 

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-ESS2-6 - Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.

Very fun and interactive activity for students learning about ocean currents and density.

This Power Point presentation covers objectives 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3 for Topic 5 as listed in Cambridge Environmental Management AS 2025-2027 syllabus. The slides are fully editable, so if you want to add, change, or delete something, it's easy! Make it your way!

Major topics: food security and food insecurity, causes of food insecurity and threats to food security, impacts of food insecurity, strategies for managing food security, classification of energy resources as renewable or non-renewable, causes of energy insecurity, impacts of energy insecurity, strategies for managing energy security, methods of waste disposal and treatment, impacts of waste disposal methods, strategies to reduce the impacts of waste disposal.

For AS Level Environmental Management
Aligned to the newest AICE syllabus for Topic 5: Managing resources

• 5.1 Food security
• 5.2 Energy resources
• 5.3 Waste management

If you're venturing into teaching AICE Environmental Management AS or AICE Marine Science AS for the first time, explore my blog for valuable insights and tips. Discover strategies not only to navigate but thrive in guiding students through these subjects.

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This Power Point presentation covers objectives 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 for Topic 2 as listed in Cambridge Environmental Management AS 2025 -2027 syllabus. The slides are fully editable, so if you want to add, change, or delete something, it's easy! Make it your way!

Major topics: collection of environmental data, sampling strategies are used to collect representative data, random sampling and systematic sampling strategies, techniques used to collect sample data: quadrats, pitfall traps, sweep nets, beating trays, kick sampling, light traps, capture-mark-recapture, questionnaire, water turbidity, how to estimate biodiversity using the Simpson’s index of diversity, how to calculate population size using the Lincoln index, e methods of data collection that include the use of technology like geospatial systems, satellite sensors, radio tracking, computer modelling, what is meant by the term ‘big data’, benefits and limitations of the analysis of big data.

For AS Level Environmental Management

Aligned to the newest AICE syllabus for Topic 2: Environmental research and data collection

• 2.3 Collection of environmental data
• 2.4 Data collection techniques and data analysis
• 2.5 The use of technology in data collection and analysis

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This Power Point presentation covers objectives 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 for Topic 7 as listed in Cambridge Environmental Management AS 2025 - 2027 syllabus. The slides are fully editable, so if you want to add, change, or delete something, it's easy! Make it your way!

Major topics: types of acid deposition, formation of acid deposition, impacts of acid deposition on: aquatic environments, vegetation and crops, stone and brick buildings, photochemical smog/ground level ozone, impacts of photochemical smog, description of different strategies for managing air pollution as listed in the syllabus, causes and effects of ozone depletion, the impacts associated with the use of some alternatives to ozone depleting substances, international agreements, and more.

For AS Level Environmental Management
Aligned to the newest AICE syllabus for Topic 7: Managing the atmosphere

• 7.1 Acid deposition
• 7.2 Photochemical smog
• 7.3 Managing air pollution
• 7.4 Ozone depletion

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This Power Point presentation covers objectives 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 for Topic 4 as listed in Cambridge Environmental Management AS 2025 -2027 syllabus. The slides are fully editable, so if you want to add, change, or delete something, it's easy! Make it your way!

Major topics: world’s major terrestrial biomes in terms of their climate, soil type and vegetation, primary and secondary succession, gross primary productivity and net primary productivity, ecosystem productivity, efficiency of energy transfer between trophic levels, ecological pyramids, native species and invasive

species, benefits of conserving biodiversity, legislation and protocols as

methods of conserving biodiversity, habitat conservation and creation as methods of conserving biodiversity, captive breeding, impacts of human

activity on tropical rainforests, strategies for managing the impacts of human activity on tropical rainforests, impacts of human activity on Antarctica, managing the impacts of human activity on Antarctica and more.

For AS Level Environmental Management
Aligned to the newest AICE syllabus for Topic 4: Managing ecosystems and biodiversity

• 4.1 Ecosystems
• 4.2 Managing the conservation of biodiversity
• 4.3 Impacts of human activity on ecosystems

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This Power Point presentation covers objectives 6.1 for Topic 6 as listed in Cambridge Environmental Management AS 2025-2027 syllabus. The slides are fully editable, so if you want to add, change, or delete something, it's easy! Make it your way!

Major topics: distribution of the Earth’s water, water security and water insecurity, causes and impacts of water insecurity, strategies for managing water security and more.

For AS Level Environmental Management
Aligned to the newest AICE syllabus for Topic 6: Managing water supplies

• 6.1 Global water distribution

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This Power Point presentation covers objectives 2.1 and 2.2 for Topic 2 as listed in Cambridge Environmental Management AS 2025-2027 syllabus. The slides are fully editable, so if you want to add, change, or delete something, it's easy! Make it your way!

Major topics: the scientific method (major steps of a controlled experiment, identify the variables: dependent, independent, controlled; the need for multiple trials, what are anomalous results and how to identify them based on a set of data, formulate hypotheses based on observations or experimental data, interpret data to determine whether they support or refute the hypothesis being tested, explain how limitations in the measurement of data lead to uncertainty in the results) and environmental research in the context of climate change.

For AS Level Environmental Management

Aligned to the newest AICE syllabus for Topic 2: Environmental research and data collection.

• 2.1 The scientific method
• 2.2 Environmental research in the context of climate change

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This Power Point presentation covers objectives 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3 for Topic 8 as listed in Cambridge Environmental Management AS 2025 - 2027 syllabus. The slides are fully editable, so if you want to add, change, or delete something, it's easy! Make it your way!

Major topics:  major sources of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, difficulties of monitoring and predicting climate change, impacts of climate change on the environment, impacts of climate change on human populations, strategies for managing climate change through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, e geo-engineering strategies to counteract climate change, and more.

For AS Level Environmental Management
Aligned to the newest AICE syllabus for Topic 8: Managing climate change

• 8.1 Climate change
• 8.2 The impacts of climate change
• 8.3 Managing climate change

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This Guided Notes activity covers all objectives for Topic 1 as listed in Cambridge Environmental Management AS 2024 syllabus. This activity can be completed by students as homework (using the power point presentation) or in class, during lecture/topic presentation. This activity aligns with the power point presentation/ lecture for the unit.

The slides are fully editable, so if you want to add, change, or delete something, it's easy! Make it your way!

Major topics: world's continents and oceans, classification of countries by income, classification of resources and the need for sustainability, ecosystems, structure, biotic and abiotic factors, food chains/webs, trophic levels, energy flow from a trophic level to the next, classification of organisms based on their feeding relationships, photosynthesis and cellular respiration, biotic interactions, water cycle and carbon cycle.

For AS Level Environmental Management

Aligned to the newest AICE syllabus for Topic 1: Introduction to environmental management

• 1.1 Continents and oceans
• 1.2 Country classification by income level
• 1.3 Sustainability
• 1.4 The water cycle
• 1.5 The structure and composition of the atmosphere
• 1.6 Ecosystems

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Bonus File: Yearlong Instructional Focus Calendar (Pacing Guide)

This no-prep bundle is a complete AICE Environmental Management AS curriculum with ALL of the notes, activities, practices, projects, quizzes, and tests you need to teach an entire year of AICE Environmental course.

Purchasing this bundle you will get free updates for LIFE for any content added to it.

Who is this curriculum best for?

This all-inclusive curriculum is perfect for:

• New teachers
• Experienced teachers new to teaching AICE Environmental Management AS course or who want to increase their AICE exam passing scores
• Teachers with more preps who want their AICE Environmental Management AS prep completely off of their plate and done for them
• Teachers with minimal to no budget who want to do engaging labs and activities that align with the AICE standards
• Long-term subs or maternity leave

What it included?

Everything you need to teach a full year of AICE Environmental Management AS course and prep your students for the AICE Exam.

1. Introduction to Environmental Management

2. Environmental Research and Data Collection

3. Managing Human Population

4. Managing Ecosystems and Biodiversity

5. Managing Resources

6. Managing Water Supplies

7. Managing the Atmosphere

8. Managing Climate Change

Study Guides for AICE Environmental Management Exam

Practice Math for AICE Exam

In summary, you will be receiving:

• Over 700 pages of curriculum
• 77 fully editable resources
• 10 animated and editable PowerPoint slides
• 10 Guided note outlines for every chapter/unit
• Bell ringers for Unit1 -4 - (Unit5-8 - coming soon)
• 23 activities aligned to Cambridge curriculum
• 12 Cambridge Style Assessments - with answer key included
• 8 Practice Cambridge style questions handouts for reinforcement - with answer key included
• 8 Study Guides - one for each unit
• Review and practice math questions with answer key

What types of files are included?

Most of the documents in this product are PPT's, meaning you can print them and edit the text to make your own adjustments. If you have questions about this, please don’t hesitate to email me with them PRIOR to purchasing!

Why should I use this product in my classroom?

If you're embarking on your first year as an AICE Environmental Management AS teacher, stepping into the classroom fresh, balancing the excitement of teaching with the demands of a brand new course, or simply juggling numerous responsibilities and classes, this resource is tailor-made for you. Crafting curriculum for a full unit, let alone an entire course, that is both structured and stimulating, filled with dynamic activities, and perfectly aligned with standards of a challenging AICE Exam, can feel like an overwhelming task. This bundle help ease that burden for you.

I’ve spent over 10 years teaching AICE Environmental Management course and creating this curriculum took hundreds of hours. With this curriculum I had an average over 90% pass rate on the AICE Environmental Management AS Exam, teaching thousands of students at Florida Public High School.

I believe this success is due to multiple factors, but I attribute a lot of it to the comprehensive and creative nature of the curriculum that I have designed. You can read more about my curriculum strategy on my blog HERE.

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Are you an environmental management educator looking to enhance your class materials and engage your students effectively? Look no further! My Comprehensive Environmental Management Lecture PowerPoint Bundle is your ultimate resource. Dive into the world of sustainability, ecology, and conservation with confidence.

With my Comprehensive Environmental Management Lecture PowerPoint Bundle, you'll have everything you need to create an engaging and informative learning environment. Whether you're a seasoned educator or just starting, our bundle will help you deliver impactful lessons with ease.

Why Choose My Lecture PowerPoint Bundle:

1. Comprehensive Content: My bundle covers a wide range of environmental management topics, ensuring your students get a holistic understanding of the subject.
2. Visually Engaging: PowerPoint slides are visually appealing and easy to comprehend, enhancing the learning experience.
3. Customizable: Tailor the content to suit your teaching style and class objectives. Add your insights and examples effortlessly.
4. Save Time: Skip the hours of creating PowerPoint presentations from scratch. My bundle is ready-to-use, saving you valuable prep time.
5. Boost Student Engagement: Engage your students with dynamic visuals, graphs, and informative content that sparks discussions and critical thinking.

Benefits for Your Students:

• Access to high-quality, organized content.
• Improved comprehension and retention.
• Increased class participation and discussion.
• Better preparation for exams and assignments.

This is a bundle of 9 PowerPoint Presentations created using the 2022 to 2024 syllabus. These bundle covers all sections for Units 1-8 to get students ready for 2024 Cambridge Exam.

The notes are fully editable so if you want to add, change, or delete something... it is easy to do so! The notes cover the important concepts within the NEW AICE Environmental Management AS Syllabus, but are condensed enough that they are not too long for students to copy.

What is included in this Bundle?

Unit#1 Introduction to Environmental Management

World's continents and oceans, high income countries, low income countries, photosynthesis and respiration, trophic levels and pyramids, food webs, biomass, habitats, niches, abiotic and biotic factors, and carbon sinks.

Unit#2 Research and Data Collection

Sampling methods including random and systematic sampling, historical evidence supporting climate change, reliability and bias, independent, dependent, and confounding variables, null and alternative hypotheses, description of sweep nets, pitfall traps, light traps, beating trays, kick sampling, Lincoln Index, Simpson Index, and big data.

Unit#3 Human Populations

Dependency ratio calculation, pronatalism and antinatalist policies, population density, total fertility rates, population pyramids explanation and comparison of LIC and HIC (Ghana and UK), demographic transition, demographic dividend, impacts of an aging population.

Unit#4 Ecosystem Conservation

Biomes, grassland, desert, tundra, rainforest, primary and secondary succession, benefits of biodiversity, invasive species, legislative protocols, habitat creation, overexploitation, impact of human activities on rainforests and Antarctica, strategies to manage threats to biodiversity and ecosystems.

Unit#5 Energy Security

Causes of energy insecurity including conflict, climate change, population growth, and dependency on fossil fuels. Impacts including economic, recession, high prices for electricity, higher prices for goods and services. Strategies to manage insecurities including rationing, alternative energy sources, more efficient use of energy, and international aid.

Unit#5 Food Security

Causes of food insecurity including climate change, population growth, increasing homogeneity of foods, and crop pest/diseases. Impacts including malnourishment, famine, conflict, poverty, and forced migration. Management strategies including agricultural intensification, improved distribution, protecting pollinating insects, rationing, and selective breeding.

Unit#5 Waste Management

Methods used to store and process waste including land fills, disposal at sea, and incineration. Strategies to reduce the impacts of solid waste disposal including composting, recycling, burning to generate electricity, and use of biodegradable plastics.

Unit#6 Managing Water Supplies

Causes of water insecurity including unsustainable irrigation techniques, climate change, droughts, pollution events, and contamination. Impacts including loss of crops, lower crop yield, livestock death, and waterborne diseases. Management strategies including rationing, international aid, reduction in use, and sustainable extraction.

Unit#7 Managing the Atmosphere

Formation of sulfuric and nitric acids and strategies to reduce acid deposition. Impacts of acid deposition. Sources of chlorofluorocarbons and process of ozone depletion. Impacts of increased UV light as a result of ozone depletion. Formation and impacts of photochemical smog. Strategies to manage the atmosphere.

Unit#8 Climate Change

Causes of global warming and climate change. Sources of greenhouse gases, Impacts of climate change including shift in animal mating and migration patterns. Migration of people, sea level rise, increase in frequency of extreme weather events. Strategies to manage including geo-engineering techniques, carbon capture, afforestation, mitigation, and adaptation.

If you're venturing into teaching AICE Environmental Management AS or AICE Marine Science AS for the first time, explore my blog for valuable insights and tips. Discover strategies not only to navigate but thrive in guiding students through these subjects.

Uncover a wealth of resources that will empower you to excel in teaching these disciplines and students’ to AICE the Test!

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Are you new to teaching Environmental Management AS or you're looking to improve your passing scores? Here is everything you need to teach Topic#2 Environmental research and data collection. This is an important topic for the Environmental Management AS Exam. Second paper exam will test students on the topics covered by this Unit.

What is included in this BUNDLE:

• Power point/Notes - 2
• Student Guided notes - 2
• Bell Ringers - with answer key
• Activities -8
• Practice questions/ Review Cambridge format - 1 - with Answer Key
• Quiz - 1 - with Answer Key
• Test - 1 - with Answer Key

This BUNLE covers all objectives for Topic 1 as listed in Cambridge Environmental Management AS 2024 syllabus. All resources are fully editable, so if you want to add, change, or delete something, it's easy! Make it your way!

Included in this BUNDLE:

-1 PowerPoint/Notes - 31 slides

-1 Student Guided notes - 9 pages

-Bell Ringers - with answer key

-2 Activities - 7 pages

-1 Project - 4 pages

-3 Easel practice/quiz

-1 Quiz-Cambridge style Q’s -2 pages (answer key included)

-1 Review-Cambridge style Q’s -10 pages (answer key included)

-1 Test-Cambridge style Q’s - 6 pages (answer key included)

Major topics: world's continents and oceans, classification of countries by income, classification of resources and the need for sustainability, ecosystems, structure, biotic and abiotic factors, food chains/webs, trophic levels, energy flow from a trophic level to the next, classification of organisms based on their feeding relationships, photosynthesis and cellular respiration, biotic interactions, water cycle and carbon cycle.

For AS Level Environmental Management

Aligned to the newest AICE syllabus for Topic 1: Introduction to environmental management

• 1.1 Continents and oceans
• 1.2 Country classification by income level
• 1.3 Sustainability
• 1.4 The water cycle
• 1.5 The structure and composition of the atmosphere
• 1.6 Ecosystems

Are you new to teaching AICE Environmental Management AS or you're looking to improve your passing scores? Here is everything you need to teach Topic#4 Managing ecosystems and biodiversity.

Included in this BUNDLE

1x NOTES/Lecture – 34 slides

1x Student Guided Notes – 6 pages

7xBell Ringers Prompts - with Answer Key

2x Review/ Practice Cambridge Style Q’s – 16 pages + Answer Key

1x Task Cards – activity – 44 cards (7 slides/pages)

1x Quiz – 4 pages + Answer Key

1x Test – 4 pages + Answer Key

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Note: one of the codes has been updated for 2024 - make sure to download the updated version if you've purchased this prior to 4/21/24!

Make learning about Earth Day interesting with this no-prep digital escape game.  The game includes access to a website where your students will hunt for the keys to unlock a set of locks.  Students will need to read the clues very carefully and watch videos, visit websites, and read texts to find the information they need to win the game.  Very easy to use - just send your students to the website and let them work!  Students can play individually or in teams. 

Digital escape games are a fun way to start a unit, or to review at the end of a unit.  They can also be used to learn about a cultural or historical event.  This game will have your students reading carefully and paying attention to the smallest details in order to complete the challenge and unlock the locks.  

This item includes:

• Access to a website where your students can play the game
• Complete teacher's guide to playing the game
• Answer key so you can help students if they get stuck!

Your students will enjoy learning without even realizing that they are learning!  The challenging game format will get them excited about finding the code to unlock each lock - and the format of the clues for each lock will have them paying close attention - there's no way to solve the puzzles  without being 100% focused! 

Topics in this game include:

• Deforestation
• Plastic Pollution
• Arctic ice melt
• Green classrooms
• Endangered species

Prep is very easy - you just need to share the website URL with your students.  You may want to test the site before you use it, just to make sure nothing is blocked by your district.  As some of the clues can be challenging to unlock, you may choose to help your students with the trickier ones.  With the teacher guide, you will have the answer key - so you can help guide students towards the correct answer by giving them hints, or if you have limited time, you can adjust the game by reducing the number of locks they need to unlock - just give them the answer(s) to help the activity fit your time constraints.

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Music is inspiring and is a great way to help students find interest in the topic being studied and grasp the information. I use it often! This lesson implements June Carter Cash's and Johnny Cash's song, Ring of Fire, as part of the introduction. In addition, the lesson discusses not only the plates but also the boundaries and how they move creating new landforms. Students will, in addition, track and plot earthquakes and volcanoes.

OBJECTIVE:

o The learner will identify the Ring of Fire’s geographical location and will identify it as a region.

o The learner will describe the events that occur along the Ring of Fire—earthquakes and volcanic activity.

o The learner will plot recent earthquakes and volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean on a map to discover the relationship between these events and the plate boundaries.

o The learner will determine the types of boundaries that lie within the Ring of Fire

MATERIAL NEEDED:
o Copies of Ring of Fire lyrics, Johnny Cash version, written by June Carter Cash (Included)

o Technology to play the song as learners follow along with the lyrics. (Find the song on Youtube or Spotify)

o Demonstrations: Graham crackers, peanut butter, a plate, and something with which to spread the peanut butter (or substitute icing or anything creamy) (5) bowl of water (If you want you can have students take part in the demonstration, provide enough for learners to work in groups.)

o Tectonic Plate Puzzle (Included)

o Map to display the Ring of Fire (Included)

o Ring of Fire Tracking Map to identify seismic activity along the Ring of Fire. (Included)

o Technology for the learner to use to track seismic activity during the last 12 months —suggested site USGS.org

o Exit cards (Included)

You will receive with this lesson:

o Detailed teacher instructions

o Copies of the Ring of Fire Lyrics

o Tectonic Plate Puzzle

o Map of the Ring of Fire for display

o Ring of Fire Trancing Map for Student Activity

o Exit Cards

Disclaimer:

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Need a lesson on plate tectonics/continental drift that gets your students moving and engaged?

This lesson will make learning interesting and fun. Includes: Plates puzzle, suggested songs, suggested videos, PowerPoint linked to online videos, detailed teacher's guide/notes, wrap-up bingo game, and more.

Requires you have Powerpoint, Internet access, and a way to project images on a screen or board for students to view.

Note includes a zip file with three compressed files:

Powerpoint presentation, detailed lesson plan with reproducible and PowerPoint presentation reproducible notes.

Disclaimer:

One purchase is for the use of one teacher. If additional teachers would like to use this product, please purchase additional licenses.