This resource supports the English language development of English language learners. This student web lesson explores various forces that can cause the breaking and weathering of bedrock and larger rocks. Students go along with Joe Boulder, a reporter for the Bedrock Beat newspaper as he writes an article about where smaller rocks come from. The audio for this site works only with Internet Explorer.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In “Earth Day Celebrations” - a brief Listen and Read nonfiction story - students learn how children in New York City, Costa Rica, South Korea, and Russia celebrate Earth Day, a holiday that honors our natural environment. The reading activity includes text, images, and audio, so students can read along while listening to a narrator. At the end of the story, a Sound It Out section lets students listen to these vocabulary words a second time: "parade," "trees," "drums," and "recycling."

The purpose of this resource is to develop a classification system for a set of objects and learn about hierarchical classification systems. Any set of objects, such as insects or rocks, may be used as well.

This article provides an overview of learning cycles and how they can enhance student learning in science.

This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, explore how to use fossils and artifacts (scientific clues) to learn about the polar regions' past. Targeted literacy skills include making inferences, and using context clues to define new vocabulary.

This article highlights lessons and activities for elementary students about the people and cultures of the Arctic region.

This article highlights lessons and activities for elementary students about heat, insulation, and how animals and people stay warm in cold environments.

This article includes lessons that elementary teachers can use to build the foundations of climate literacy while meeting elementary science standards. Lessons are paired with literacy activities as well.

Students will research lighthouses of North Carolina using print and digital resources and create a digital presentation on the NC lighthouse of their choice. After studying basic electric circuits, students will use cardboard and Makedo tools to design and build a model of this lighthouse and wire it to light using a kit of electronic supplies. Students will showcase their final products with friends and family using digital photography, Google Presentations and a screencast video on Flipgrid or another platform of the teacher’s choosing. Students will submit a Seesaw documenting their experience with the Design and Engineering Process while building their lighthouse.

This classroom activity, which centers on documenting the location of a meteorite in Antarctica, introduces students to the technology of Global Positioning Systems. The printable handout includes a series of inquiry-based questions to get students thinking about the challenges of marking exact positions in an area where the landscape is continually changing, illustrated activity directions and a worksheet that guides students through the way satellites are used in GPS and includes areas for recording their findings.

The six lessons that compose this guide may be used sequentially or as independent units. An introduction to the key principles of each lesson is followed by a close examination of each work, including formal analysis, historical context, and biographical information about the designer or artist. Discussion questions lead students through formal analysis of the artwork and seek to create connections between information and visual evidence. The activity or project that concludes each lesson encourages students to synthesize what they have learned about each work and carries the lesson into the broader curriculum or relates it to skills students are practicing in the classroom.

This is a booklet containing 37 space science mathematical problems, several of which use authentic science data. The problems involve math skills such as unit conversions, geometry, trigonometry, algebra, graph analysis, vectors, scientific notation, and many others. Learners will use mathematics to explore science topics related to Earth's magnetic field, space weather, the Sun, and other related concepts. This booklet can be found on the Space Math@NASA website.

The purpose of the resource is to produce a land cover type map from hard copies of Landsat satellite images.

Students analyze patterns of cholera in an area of London similar to how Dr. John Snow, father of epidemiology, did in 1854.

Students are introduced to the idea that some materials can be recycled. They will investigate the types of materials that can be reused, as well as potential uses for each type of recyclable material.

This article describes a number of creative projects that incorporate art and literacy skills into a science unit on biomes and ecosystems.

Students will use stream tables to create a landslide and explain why erosion changes the land on mountaintops.

This video explains how to use graphs, including how to set up a graph, the use of variables, and how to interpret the data. Disclaimer: Host website is responsible for accessibility compliance. Educator is responsible for accommodations.

This article provides background information related to natural resources of the poles, and renewable and non-renewable energy.

Learners will design a combined machine to eliminate one chore they may dislike. Once learners work through the engineering design process, they will share their prototype locally.