Ready-To-Use Earth Science Activities for the

For the elementary classroom teacher, here are 180 illustrated reproducible activities that challenge students to become actively involved in their own learning and the world in which they live as they explore our environment, ecological principles, and conservation.

Conveniently organized into five sections:
-- For The Teacher -- special art and creative projects, reproducible forms, planning calendars and student awards.
-- Environment -- Where Are We?
-- Ecology -- How Do We Fit In?
-- Conservation -- What Can We Do?
-- Answer Key -- Complete answers to activity sheets

Sure to engage students, the variety of activity formats includes word searches, crossword puzzles, hand-writing pages, and more.

About This Resource

vi

How to Use This Resource

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SECTION ONE: FOR THE TEACHER

1

(22)

Resources (reproducible sheet)

Planning Calendar (reproducible sheet)

Activities

4

(6)

Rain in a Glass

4

(1)

Pollution Catchers

4

(1)

The Natural Selection Game

5

(1)

Backward Garden

5

(1)

Energy-Saving Eggs

6

(1)

The Garbage Game

7

(1)

Six Thousand Cans!

7

(1)

Book Swap

8

(1)

A Word About Guests and Field Trips

9

(1)

Art Projects

10

(4)

Endangered Species Trading Cards

10

(1)

New Paper from Old

10

(1)

Sun Paintings

11

(1)

Food Web Mobiles

12

(1)

Brown Bag Posters

12

(2)

Creative Writing

14

(7)

From the Diary of...

14

(1)

My Green Commitment

14

(1)

Animal Diamante

15

(1)

Earth Smart News

16

(5)

Awards and Culmination

21

(2)

SECTION TWO: WHERE ARE WE? ENVIRONMENT

23

(62)

Land

A Land Word Search

24

(1)

Land Handwriting

25

(1)

What's So Special About Earth?

26

(1)

Is Dirt Important?

27

(1)

Where in the World?

28

(2)

The Changing Earth

30

(2)

Rocky Road

32

(2)

More Than Just Dirt

34

(2)

Earth's Resources

36

(2)

Look What I Found!

38

(2)

Your Corner of the World

40

(1)

One Continent?

41

(1)

Coordinate the Coordinates

42

(1)

Land Quick Check

43

(1)

Water

A Water Word Search

44

(1)

Water Handwriting

45

(1)

Where Is All the Water?

46

(1)

Food from the Sea

47

(1)

The Water Cycle

48

(2)

How We Use Water

50

(2)

Turn on the Water

52

(2)

Down the Drain

54

(2)

How Do You Use Water?

56

(2)

Easy Come, Easy Go?

58

(2)

Solar Purifier

60

(1)

Water Use Math

61

(1)

A Watery Puzzle

62

(1)

Water Quick Check

63

(1)

Air

An Air Word Search

64

(1)

Air Handwriting

65

(1)

I Need Some Air

66

(1)

In the Air

67

(1)

Up in the Air

68

(2)

Weather and the Atmosphere

70

(2)

Atmospheric Pressure

72

(2)

Our Changing Climate

74

(2)

Air Pressure Challenge

76

(2)

Great Minds

78

(2)

Hot or Cold?

80

(1)

Air Resistance

81

(1)

An ``Airy'' Puzzle

82

(1)

Air Quick Check

83

(1)

Environment Notes

84

(1)

SECTION THREE: HOW DO WE FIT IN? ECOLOGY

85

(62)

Plants

A Plant Word Search

86

(1)

Plant Handwriting

87

(1)

The Green Providers

88

(1)

Plant Survival

89

(1)

Portrait of a Plant

90

(2)

Plant Scavenger Hunt

92

(2)

Plant Succession

94

(2)

Special Parts, Special Jobs

96

(2)

Biome Riddles

98

(2)

Tropical Treasure

100

(2)

Scrambled Trees

102

(1)

Transpiration

103

(1)

How Tall?

104

(1)

Plant Quick Check

105

(1)

Animals

An Animal Word Search

106

(1)

Animal Handwriting

107

(1)

Animals, Animals, Animals

108

(1)

Classifying Animals

109

(1)

Battle for Survival

110

(2)

The Balance of Nature

112

(2)

The Clean-Up Crew

114

(2)

Threatened, Endangered, Extinct

116

(2)

Endangered Interview

118

(2)

Animal Products

120

(2)

Exotic Invaders

122

(1)

An Animal Puzzle

123

(1)

Animal Life Spans

124

(1)

Animal Quick Check

125

(1)

People

A Word Search About People

126

(1)

People Handwriting

127

(1)

A Little History

128

(1)

A Little Culture

129

(1)

We Are Unique

130

(2)

World Population Growth

132

(2)

Where Are All the People?

134

(2)

What Are We Doing?

136

(2)

Need or Want?

138

(2)

People and Resources

140

(2)

Surprise Slogan

142

(1)

Classroom Squeeze

143

(1)

Life Expectancy

144

(1)

People Quick Check

145

(1)

Ecology Notes

146

(1)

SECTION FOUR: WHAT CAN WE DO? CONSERVATION

147

(62)

Energy

An Energy Word Search

148

(1)

Energy Handwriting

149

(1)

Energy for the Earth

150

(1)

More and More Energy

151

(1)

Fossil Fuels

152

(2)

Alternative Energy Sources

154

(2)

Making Electricity

156

(2)

Powerful Research

158

(2)

Cars, Cars, Cars

160

(2)

Powerful Decisions

162

(2)

Meter Reader

164

(1)

What R-U?

165

(1)

Powerful Problems

166

(1)

Energy Quick Check

167

(1)

Pollution

A Pollution Word Search

168

(1)

Pollution Handwriting

169

(1)

What Is Pollution?

170

(1)

What a Mess!

171

(1)

What's in the Air?

172

(2)

What's in the Water?

174

(2)

The Toxic Pyramid

176

(2)

Household Hazards

178

(2)

Hazardous Research

180

(2)

Supplies Surprise

182

(2)

Noise, Noise, Noise!

184

(1)

Beach Pickup

185

(1)

Pollution Problems

186

(1)

Pollution Quick Check

187

(1)

Conservation

Wanted: Earth Smart People

188

(1)

Conservation Handwriting

189

(1)

Why Do We Pollute?

190

(1)

Rachel Carson

191

(1)

Down in the Dumps

192

(2)

The Three R's

194

(2)

Why Recycle?

196

(2)

A Draining Experience

198

(2)

An Environmental Issue

200

(2)

The ABC's Go Green

202

(2)

What's Compost?

204

(1)

A Conservation Puzzle

205

(1)

A Little Logic

206

(1)

Conservation Quick Check

207

(1)

Conservation Notes

208

(1)

SECTION FIVE: ANSWER KEY

209

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