DAILY WARM-UPS
Teach your students about earthquakes while improving their reading comprehension skills. This printable warm-up…
WORKSHEETS
The best way to handle a disaster is to be prepared, as students learn in this printable.
This lesson plan includes maps, colorful graphics, and activities to help students understand how volcanoes and…
Pupils will role-play elements of a food web to illustrate the connections in ecosystems. Then they will respond to…
Improve your students' reading comprehension skills with a short nonfiction passage and multiple-choice questions about…
Students will read a nonfiction passage about Hurricane Katrina and answer reading comprehension questions. Use this…
Students learn about volcanoes as they improve their reading comprehension skills with the science reading passage and…
Students will read a passage about the December 2004 tsunami that affected Asia and East Africa. After reading, they…
Students read a nonfiction passage about hurricanes and answer comprehension questions. Use this reading warm-up about…
Children research a famous survivor of a harrowing experience, including serious illness and the Holocaust. Then, they…
BOOK GUIDES
Encourage critical thinking by asking pupils questions before, during, and after reading Subway Ride, a book that takes…
Landslides occur in almost every state in the United States and provide an exciting opportunity to investigate how water…
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Using this graphic organizer, students discuss natural resources such as air, forests, oil, soil, and water. This…
Students answer questions about earthquake preparations and safety. They also learn about earthquakes in the developing…
The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 had far-reaching effects. Read about it and then explore the related activities.
Using reference materials, students will research the habitats of extinct, endangered, and threatened animals listed in…
Integrate life science and Earth science with the questions in this printable. Students will research the eruption of…
Explore teaching activities to be used with Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott.
Students draw before and after pictures of the scene of an earthquake.
Students draw from a list of words, including such words as lithosphere and plate tectonics, to make a picture atlas of…
Distribute a reading selection and an assignment on earthquake science, predictions, and safety.
Introduce children to Japanese art and traditional storytelling as they read Tsunami!, written by Kimiko Kajikawa and…
Science meets adventure in Eruption! Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives, part of the Scientists in the Field…
Students will review the effects of plate tectonics as they match each natural disaster or landform on Earth to its…
