This lesson plan is part of the DiscoverySchool.com lesson plan library for grades 6-8. It focuses on the coasts of the United States. Students learn about primary and secondary coast characteristics and how they form, then do research in groups on a particular region of the U.S. to create a visual presentation to the class. Included are objectives, materials, procedures, discussion questions, evaluation ... Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan teaches young students about the different kinds of soil. This includes what soil is, layers of soil on the Earth, and the properties of these soils. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, materials, activities, and closure ideas for the lesson. The Classroom Connectors address content with an activity approach while incorporating themes ... Full description.

This lesson plan addresses the following concept: the earth is a complex sphere composed of a variety of interdependent systems. Students will learn about factors that cause ecosystems to be different by studying the basic components of aquatic ecosystems. Field activities where students examine a nearby ecosystem include finding living things in the soil, separating soil into its parts, measuring ... Full description.

The AskERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) lesson plan collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States and the world. These Earth science lesson plans give the grade level, teacher who submitted the lesson, subject, overview of lesson, concepts covered, purpose, teaching objectives, materials ... Full description.

In this lesson plan students will learn how to analyze the problems surrounding nuclear waste and to make decisions concerning it. They will learn what radioactive waste is; learn the impacts that a nuclear waste depository could have on a geographical region; explore how their local community manages low-level nuclear waste (if applicable); examine the decisions that go into choosing a region for ... Full description.

In this lesson, students will begin to understand the importance of using longitude and latitude to compare the same areas on different maps. Following a group introduction, they will work to create their own overlay for longitude and latitude lines for Pennsylvania. The students will work in cooperative groups to find specific locations on both maps, using longitude and latitude, and compare how ... Full description.

This lesson plan is part of the Center for Educational Resources (CERES), a series of web-based astronomy lessons created by a team of master teachers, university faculty, and NASA researchers. In this activity, students view images of galaxies and develop a classification scheme. They then compare and contrast their scheme with that developed by Edwin Hubble. This lesson contains expected outcomes ... Full description.

This lesson plan is part of the DiscoverySchool.com lesson plan library for grades 6-8. It discusses the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex, and whether or not it was a scavenger or a predator. After researching many physical aspects of this dinosaur, students explain their views on this topic to show what they have learned. It includes objectives, materials, procedures, discussion questions, evaluation ideas, ... Full description.

This lesson plan is part of the DiscoverySchool.com lesson plan library for grades 6-8. It focuses on how landslides occur and how scientists predict them. Students design and perform their own experiments using homemade stream tables. Using these tables they test landslide types and draw conclusions about water flow, timing, and other factors that determine how landslides occur. It includes objectives, ... Full description.

In this lesson, students will explore volcanoes by constructing models and reflect upon their learning through drawing sketches of their models. Once they have finished making their models, they will experiment with making their volcanoes erupt. They will observe how eruption changes the original form of their volcano models. In this way, students see first hand how this type of phenomena creates ... Full description.