With this earth science curriculum students will learn about how the uneven distribution of natural resources as a result of past and current geoscience processes. Students will review what they have learned and then focus on Earth's mineral, energy, and groundwater resources. This resource has six lessons. Included are a standards poster, photos for stimulating discussion, task cards to aid in student research, links to data, and informational articles about minerals and weathering & erosion. There are also short readings about oil, coal, and natural gas, 15 essential vocabulary cards, and more!

Lesson 1: What are Natural Resources and How Do We Use Them?

Lesson 2: Natural Resource: Minerals

Lesson 3: Natural Resource: Groundwater

Lesson 4: The Tectonic Plates

Lesson 5: Weathering and Erosion

Lesson 6: Show What You Know

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• Do you want to teach your students about natural disasters?
• This is the perfect time to teach students to read, analyze, and interpret data.
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• This resource has 10 lessons. Included are: a standards poster, data charts/graphs for analyzing and interpreting, links to data, links to Youtube videos, informational articles about each of the disasters in the unit, and a rubric for group work. There are also 11 essential vocabulary cards.
• Students will use this information to forecast the likelihood of future hazards. Students will also learn about the development of technologies to mitigate these disasters.

Lesson 1: What are Natural Hazards?

Lesson 2: Tsunamis

Lesson 3: Wildfires

Lesson 4: Earthquakes

Lesson 5: Volcanic Eruptions

Lesson 6: Hurricanes

Lesson 7: Tornados

Lesson 8: Blizzards

Lesson 9: Floods

Lesson 10: Droughts

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• Do you need to teach your students about the human population and its impact on the consumption of natural resources?
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• This resource has six lessons. Included are a standards poster, photos and data charts/graphs for stimulating discussion, task cards to aid in student research, links to data, an informational article about deforestation, and a rubric for grading the student's claim. There are also short readings about solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, and biofuel energy sources. There are 4 essential vocabulary cards and more!

Lesson 1: Phenomenon - Easter Island

Lesson 2: A Growing Population

Lesson 3: Deforestation

Lesson 4: Impacts of Increased Human Population and Per Capita Consumption of

Natural Resources is Having on Earth’s Systems

Lesson 5: Renewable Energy (optional)

Lesson 6: Writing a Claim About How Increases in Human Population and Per Capita

Consumption of Natural Resources Impact Earth’s Systems

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• Do you want to teach your students how to reduce the human impact on the Earth?
• These NGSS lesson plans will help students learn about how people's use of plastics impacts the environment.
• This resource has seven lessons.

Lesson 1: What Impacts Do Humans Using Plastics Have on Our Environment?

Lesson 2: Positives and Negatives of Plastics

Lesson 3: Plastics in Our Daily Lives

Lesson 4: A Call to Action: How Can We Reduce the Amount of Plastics Using in Our

Classroom, School, or Community?

Lesson 5: STEAM Activity - Building an Animal or Plant out of Plastic Waste

Lesson 6: Review of the Four Spheres

Lesson 7: Other Human Impacts on the Earth

• Included are a standards poster, photos for stimulating discussion, task cards with QR codes, links to data, an informational article about plastics, animal reports, note-taking sheets, 13 essential vocabulary cards, and more!

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• Do you want to teach your students about global climate change and how it impacts the environment?
• This resource has nine lessons that will do just that! Students will be able to ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures.

Lesson 1: Introduction to Climate Change

Lesson 2: Observing Natural Phenomena: Glacier National Park is Melting Away

Lesson 3: The Carbon Cycle

Lesson 4: The Greenhouse Effect

Optional Lesson: The Impact of Agriculture and Industry on the Environment

Lesson 5: Other Impacts of Global Warming/Climate Change

Lesson 6: How is Climate Change Impacting Your State?

Lesson 7: Asking Questions About Data to Clarify Factors That Have Caused the Rise

in Global Temperatures

Lesson 8: What is Your Carbon Footprint?

Lesson 9: A Call to Action: What is Your Carbon Handprint?

• Included are a standards poster, posters for stimulating discussion, links to data and videos, informational articles about the carbon cycle and the greenhouse effect, task cards to encourage students to research specific topics relating to climate change, directions for demonstrations, 12 essential vocabulary cards, and more!
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