Earth Science Lessons  

Early Elementary

• Acid Rain: What Causes It
• Acid Rain: The Disappearing Statue
• Air: You Can't See It, But It's There!
• Air Quality and Transportation
• Breathing Easy
• Contaminated Drinking Water
• Glacier Climbing
• Kids on Mars
• Let's Catch Some Dirt from the Air
• Make Your Own Lightning
• Materials That Absorb Solar Energy
• The Milk Jug Landfill
• Ocean in a Bottle
• Particulate Matter and "The Lorax"
• Pizza Box Solar Oven
• Plants and Oxygen: Breathing Easy
• Re-creating the Greenhouse Effect
• Sky Blue: Why is the Sky Blue?
• A Solar Heat Experiment
• Solar S'Mores
• Trash Disposal Choices
• Understanding Groundwater
• Water Energy
• Water: Visible and Invisible
• What Is Thunder Made Of?
• Which Way Is Down?
• Why Is a Diamond So Hard?

Later Elementary

• Acid Rain: An Air Pollutant
• Acid Rain: What Causes It?
• Air Pollution
• Antarctica I - Why Do Scientists Go to Antarctica?
• Antarctica II - Why is Antarctica so Important to our Planet?
• The Awful 8: The Pollution Play
• Balloon Safari - How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?
• Community Problem Solving
• Contaminated Drinking Water
• Cratering in Your Classroom
• Digging the Earth's Crust
• Glacier Climbing
• Glass Recycling
• Gold Mine
• Greenhouse Effect
• How Are Caves Formed?
• How Can Rain Be Acid?
• How Do We Get the Impurities Out of Drinking Water?: Making Freshwater from Seawater
• Lightning
• Make Your Own Lightning
• Making An Anemometer
• Making a Water Sampler
• Materials that Absorb Solar Energy
• The Milk Jug Landfill
• The "Minimum" Solar Box Cooker
• Ocean in a Bottle
• The Old Windbag
• Olympic Solar Energy
• Ozone Pollution: Smog Alert
• Particulate matter: How Dirty Is the Air We Breathe?
• Phases of the Moon
• Pizza Box Solar Oven
• Rain Forest Plants
• Rain or Shine: Lessons to Explore Meteorology and Weather
• Re-creating the Greenhouse Effect
• Science Safari: Energy Resources
• A Simple Solar Water Pasteurizer
• Sky Blue - Why is the Sky Blue?
• A Solar Heat Experiment
• Solar Hot Dog Cooker
• Solar S'mores
• The Sun Star Solar Cooker
• Sunken Slave Ship
• Temperature Inversion
• Trash Disposal Choices
• Understanding Groundwater
• Using Solar Energy: The Solar Apple Baker
• Water Energy
• Wetlands - What Are They and Why Are They So Important?
• What Does Saving Trees Have to Do with the Ozone Layer?
• What Is Thunder?
• What Is Wind
• What Makes the World Turn Around?
• White Water Rafting
• Why Is a Diamond So Hard?
• Wilderness Training
• Wind Blow

Middle School

• Acid Rain: An Air Pollutant
• Air Pollution
• Antarctica I - Why Do Scientists Go to Antarctica?
• Antarctica II - Why is Antarctica So Important to Our Planet?
• Avalanche Rescue - How Do Dogs Find People Buried in an Avalanche?
• The Awful 8: The Pollution Play
• Balloon Safari - How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?
• Big Trouble in Earthquake Country
• The City from the Ooze
• Community Problem Solving
• Cratering in Your Classroom
• Digging the Earth's Crust
• Dinosaur I - Finding and Dating
• Dinosaur II - Assembling a Dinosaur
• Equator - What Is Life Like for Animals, Plants and People at the African Equator?
• Gems - How Do Gemstones Get Their Color?
• Glacier Climbing
• Glass Recycling
• Gold Mine
• Greenhouse Effect from Newton's Apple
• The Greenhouse Effect
• How Are Caves Formed?
• How Can Rain Be Acid?
• How Do We Get the Impurities Out of Drinking Water?: Making Freshwater from Seawater
• Lightning
• Making An Anemometer
• Making a Water Sampler
• The "Minimum" Solar Box Cooker
• Oil Spills - How Do You Clean Up an Oil Spill?
• The Old Windbag
• Olympic Solar Energy
• Ozone - How Do CFC's Destroy Ozone in the Earth's Atmosphere?
• Ozone Pollution - Smog Alert
• Particulate Matter - How Dirty Is the Air We Breathe?
• Phases of the Moon
• Rain Forest Plants
• Science Safari: Energy Resources
• A Simple Solar Water Pasteurizer
• Solar Hot Dog Cooker
• The Sun Star Solar Cooker
• Sunken Slave Ship
• Temperature Inversion
• Using Solar Energy: The Solar Apple Baker
• Wetlands - What Are They and Why Are They So Important?
• What Are the Best Ways to Dispose of Hazardous Materials?
• What Does Saving Trees Have to Do with the Ozone Layer?
• What Is All This Ozone Stuff?
• What Is Thunder?
• What Is Wind?
• White Water Rafting
• Why Is a Diamond So Hard?
• Wilderness Training
• Wind Blow

High School

• Avalanche Rescue - How Do Dogs Find People Buried in an Avalanche?
• Balloon Safari - How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?
• Community Problem Solving
• Cratering in Your Classroom
• Dinosaur I - Finding and Dating
• Dinosaur II - Assembling a Dinosaur
• Equator - What Is Life Like for Animals, Plants and People at the African Equator?
• Gems - How Do Gemstones Get Their Color?
• Glass Recycling
• Graphing Stratospheric Ozone
• The Greenhouse Effect
• How Are Caves Formed?
• Oil Spills - How Do You Clean Up an Oil Spill?
• Ozone - How Do CFC's Destroy Ozone in the Earth's Atmosphere?
• A Simple Solar Water Pasteurizer
• Solar Hot Dog Cooker
• The Sun Star Solar Cooker
• What Are the Best Ways to Dispose of Hazardous Materials?
• What Does Saving Trees Have to Do with the Ozone Layer?