In this activity, students get to know Alfred Wegener and why and how he came up with the idea of continental drift and the super-continent Pangaea. Students will complete some internet searches to discover what type of fossils Wegener used to help him come up with his hypothesis. Students will find the time period the fossils lived, which continents they were found on, and describe both the current climate and the climate in which they prehistorically lived. Students will also cut out the Pangaea puzzle and fit the fossils, and rocks together.
This video demonstrates how to create a geyser that you can show to your students. I have used this demonstration for multiple levels of science. The science of how geysers erupt is pretty well demonstrated. You can get more information of how I use it with my students at EarthScience.xyz
I built my own laser light sound visualizer. Using a tone generator and multiple tones you can create some awesome light patterns. We showed this to all of our physical science classes. The excitement of our classes was pretty cool. Many students stopped to take pictures of the oscillator and talked about building their own. The cost of the contraption was hardly anything, just the laser light.
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.
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.
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 El Guapo and Mr. Weir visit Argentina and the Iguazu Falls. They then teach about waterfalls and clouds. Students will be taught how to make a cloud in a bottle. Spanish words they will learn are: Buenos Dias, El Rio, Gaucho, Qué Guay. Science words that students will learn are: Waterfall, resistant rock, water vapor, and condensation.
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.
