NGSS Aligned

Leave the PowerPoint behind and get students thinking about characteristics of minerals with this sorting activity and student notes page. Students should have prior knowledge about how/where minerals form and have access to mineral samples for...

White Sands National Park Storyline is the first in a series of NGSS aligned earth science storylines centered around the national parks. This mini-storyline works great as a transition from traditional teaching methods to an NGSS classroom. NGSS...

Students will be engaged and challenged with these NGSS aligned plate tectonics activities. Included in this bundle is the NGSS Sandwich Cookie Plate Tectonic and Plate Tectonic Exploration activities. Help students master HS-ESS2.1 with these...

Get your students to ask questions about plate movement AND engaged in finding the answers. Students work in groups in this collaborative investigative activity. Each student will become a "specialist" in a field (geology, oceanography, seismology, and...

Model different types of plate boundaries with delicious sandwich cookies! What makes this different than the other sandwich cookie modeling lessons? The detailed student guided sheet with images and geologic features check lists help students connect...

This activity aids students to develop their own driving questions for any anchoring phenomena. Included is a student activity sheet and teacher guide. Following introduction of a phenomenon, Think, Pair, Share is used to help students develop the most...