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Inside Earth
Recommended Grade Level(s): 1st – 6th
Area(s) of Science: Earth Science
Summary: This module is an introduction to the layers of earth – the
crust, mantle, and inner and outer core. Students color a cut-away model
of earth and then make their own 3D model using model magic.
Kit Details: This kit is a
little more time consuming to set up. Model magic (either pre-colored,
or colored ahead of time using markers) will
need to be separated and divided into student kits. Students enjoy making
the models but some mechanism
needs to be in place so that the models can either be stored overnight
to dry or taken home in a bag and then allowed to air dry at home. Trays
are included in the kit to keep the mess to a minimum. More>>
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Identifying Minerals
Recommended Grade Level(s): 4 th – 8th
Area(s) of Science: Earth Science
Summary: In this module, students will study minerals and learn how to identify and classify them. Minerals are rock objects
that contain only one material. The activity starts with a general discussion about how people describe objects and how
scientists describe objects. From here, students will look at a set of common classification tests that are used to define
minerals. The final activity is to use a portion of these classification tests to identify some common minerals.
Kit Details: The kit requires students to write down their observations
and then deduce the correct identity of each mineral using their data. Students
work in teams. This kit will be a little hard for beginning English language
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Recommended Grade Level(s): 2nd – 6th, possibly middle school with extensions.
Area(s) of Science: Earth Science
Summary: Dinosaurs first roamed Earth 200 million years ago
during the Jurassic period. Sometime during the late Cretaceous period
(approximately 70 million years ago) the dinosaurs died off. Today,
we only know of their existence
from the fossil remains. In this module, students use “fossil remains” to recreate the one of three dinosaurs:
Triceratops, T-Rex, or the Velicraptor. The “fossil remains” are plaster casts of bones from each of these dinosaurs.
Students use black lumber crayons to take rubbings of the bones and the cut them out and re-assemble them to figure out
what dinosaur they have ‘found’.
Kit Details: This module is a hit with all ages and is great at Family Science nights. The activity can be made more
challenging and extended to middle school students by giving them less information about the dinosaur they are working on.
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Fossils
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