I do this convection currents demonstration when discussing how air moves. This can be used as well when discussing volcanoes, mantle convection, and water convection. You can find the worksheet for the air convection model at Teachers Pay Teachers.
In this lecture, the use and importance of ores are discussed. Gemstones and gems are discussed visually. Titanium and its use are discussed. An assignment is given at http://earthscience.xyz/MineralOre.
In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of what differential weathering is and why it happens. At the end of the 3-minute lecture, students will get an explanation of how to do a differential weathering assignment. You can find the assignment at http://earthscience.xyz/Weathering in the third section.
This is an edited version of a documentary. I made it more classroom friendly by editing out the blood, dead bodies, and swearing as well as trimming the time down to about 64 minutes. As always though watch it first before showing it to your students. This tsunami video is very heart-wrenching. Make sure you have tissues available.
In this Earth Science Lab, I have my students design an experiment that determines which sediment type is the most porous and which sediment type is the most permeable. This is a common design that my students come up with. There are others, but this one works well. For the lab, go to https://earthscience.xyz/content/porosity-and-permeability-lab
This is the edited version of the movie, Supervolcano. I took out any swearing and trimmed some of it down so that it would fit into two class periods. The science is very accurate in this video, but that being said some of the tech viewed in the videos is really meant so that students can visually see what is going on beneath the crust. This tech does not exist yet.
I took another copy of this and then edited some of the slower parts and parts that might be objectionable for High School students. This video is a Docudrama about the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano and the tsunami that follows. It is a pretty good depiction of what happened.
In this episode of the El Guapo Loco Science show, Mr. Weir and El Guapo visit Chile. They get to visit a cave where once lived a Mylodon, a giant sloth. Students will learn about cave formations like stalactites, stalagmites and cave bacon as well as animals that can be found in caves. El Guapo demonstrates the transfer of energy between a basketball and a tennis ball. If you are a teacher or parent be sure to check out my websites: 3rdGrade.xyz and EducationalResource.org.
This lab will only work if you have Java on your computers. It should work fine on Windows machines.
In this Earth Science/Geology assignment, students will gain a better understanding of igneous rock formation and the evidence left behind when a volcano goes extinct. Students will label a diagram that contains: a batholith, a crater, dikes, a laccolith, a lava flow, sills, a stock, a vent, and a volcanic neck.
Students will reinforce the concept of intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks by placing representations of relative crystal sizes on the diagram.