Description
Your students will love learning about the Earth’s Systems with these engaging activities. Easy to follow and fun to use and teach. These science stations are specially designed to align with all the standards in the NGSS unit MS-ESS2 Earth’s Systems.
A google classroom distance learning version is also included so you’re all set whether you have face to face classes or have to teach remotely. You can relax and teach knowing that you’ve got this covered.
The topics are explored and developed in the science stations.
MS-ESS2-1 The Rock Cycle
- Igneous Rocks
- Sedimentary Rocks
- Metamorphic Rocks
- Weathering
- Erosion
- Deposition
- Intrusive and Extrusive
- Crystallization
- Compaction
- Cementation
MS-ESS2-2 Plate Tectonics
- Alfred Wegener’s Theory of Continental Drift and Pangea
- Evidence: fossil, rock layers, sea floor spreading, GPS
- Convection Currents
- Converging plates
- Diverging plates
- Subduction
- Sea ridge
- Fault-block mountains
- Fold mountains
- Volcanic mountains
- Seismic waves; P waves, S waves
- Richter scale
- Weathering – mechanical/chemical
- Erosion
- Deposition
MS-ESS2-3 The Case for Continental Drift ✍
This will be a lesson to remember. Each science station is arranged as a court exhibit. At each station the students will examine the evidence and note how this helps their client’s case in their defense notes.
- Exhibit A: Fossil Evidence
- Exhibit B: Geologic Evidence
- Exhibit C: Jigsaw Evidence
- Exhibit D: Glacial Evidence
- Exhibit E1 Sea Floor Evidence Magnetic Stripes
- Exhibit E2 Sea Floor Age of Rocks Evidence Graph
Conclusion (perfect as an assessment/homework)
MS-ESS2-4 The Water Cycle ☔
- Evaporation
- Evapotranspiration
- Condensation
- Precipitation
- Runoff
- Aquifer
- The role of gravity and the sun
MS-ESS2-5 Weather☁️
- Atmospheric Air Pressure
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Dew Point
- Air Masses
- Weather Maps
- Weather Fronts
- Cold Fronts
- Warm Fronts
- Occluded Fronts
- Stationary Fronts
- Collecting data
- Forecasting
MSESS2-6 Uneven Heating of the Earth’s Surface ♨️
- Layers of the Atmosphere
- Global Conveyor Belt
- Coriolis Effect
- Causes of Uneven heating
- Ocean Currents / How the Oceans Influence the Weather
- Albedo Effect
- Heating Earth/Ocean
- How Land Affects the Weather
- Rain-shadow
- Orographic Effect
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