Earth & Space

Phases of the Moon Visual Matching

This 2-page visual matching activity helps students learn the phases of the moon. It's designed for students who benefit from concrete, visual supports and can be used as a quick check for understanding or a part of a larger lesson on space.

Science

Grades K-2,3-5

Earth Science Vocabulary Support

This 8-page vocabulary support worksheet helps 8th graders learn key terms from the IQWST unit “How Is the Earth Changing?”. Students will define terms in their own words and create simple drawings to solidify their understanding of Earth's structure, plate tectonics, and related phenomena.

Science

Grades 6-8

Earth Science Early Finisher Tasks

This 3-page packet provides engaging early finisher activities for 9th-grade earth science and geology students. It reinforces concepts of plate tectonics, weathering, geology principles, and Earth's layers.

Science

Grades 9-12

8th Grade Earth Science Practice Questions

This packet provides practice test questions for 8th grade Earth Science. It is designed to help students review key concepts and prepare for assessments.

Science

Grades 6-8

Weather Patterns Interactive Notebook

This 2-page interactive notebook activity guides 7th graders in analyzing current and predicted weather patterns using a provided radar map. Students will draw and explain weather changes, reinforcing their understanding of meteorological concepts.

Science

Grades 6-8

Rock Cycle Vocabulary and Classification

This 5-page packet helps students understand and classify rocks based on their formation and the rock cycle. It builds vocabulary, inference, and explanatory writing skills, with built-in supports for multilingual learners.

Science, English Language Arts

Grades 6-8

Small Bodies Lab: Comets, Asteroids, and Meteoroids

This 6-station lab packet guides 6th graders through exploring comets, asteroids, and meteoroids. Students will build a comet model, observe solar wind effects, research asteroids, sort asteroid cards, and test rock samples for meteorite characteristics, with all instructions written at a 4th-grade reading level for independent work.

Science

Grades 6-8

The Water Cycle Study Guide

This 40-question fill-in-the-blank and matching study guide helps 8th graders review key concepts of the water cycle. It's designed to be used as a homework assignment or a brief in-class review before a test.

Science

Grades 6-8

Weathering Webquest for 10th Grade

This 1-page interactive assignment guides 10th graders through an online exploration of weathering processes. Students will develop research and critical thinking skills as they investigate different types of weathering and their real-world impacts.

Science

Grades 9-12

Cornell Notes for Earth's Spheres

This 2-page packet introduces 9th graders to the Cornell note-taking method, using the spheres of the Earth as the content focus. It builds note-taking and summarization skills.

English Language Arts, Science

Grades 9-12

Air Masses and Weather Fronts

This 3-page worksheet activity for 6th grade science students explores air masses, weather fronts, and updrafts. It includes a reading passage and questions to build understanding of atmospheric science concepts.

Science

Grades 6-8

Climate and Weather for High School

This packet provides a comprehensive overview of climate and weather concepts for 10th-grade geography students. It includes reading passages, vocabulary-building activities, and critical thinking questions to deepen understanding of atmospheric science and its impact on regions.

Social Studies, Science

Grades 9-12

Earth's Spheres Review Activity

This 2-page activity helps 6th graders review the Earth's spheres (Geosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere) and their interactions. It includes a reading passage and questions to build comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Science

Grades 6-8

Plate Tectonics Guided Notes

This 1st-grade packet provides guided notes for a lesson on plate tectonics. Students will fill in blanks to learn key vocabulary and concepts related to continental drift, plate boundaries, and geological features. It includes matching and quick check questions to reinforce learning.

Science

Grades K-2

Terrestrial Planets for 5th Grade

This 5-page packet helps 5th graders review the terrestrial planets, focusing on their orbits, sizes, compositions, and atmospheres. It includes guided notes and multiple-choice questions to support struggling readers in understanding key astronomical concepts.

Science

Grades 3-5

Nucleosynthesis Vocabulary and Main Ideas

This 1-page packet supports 9th-grade earth and space science students in understanding nucleosynthesis. It provides key vocabulary and prompts to identify main ideas, helping students grasp concepts like nuclear fusion, stellar lifecycles, and the electromagnetic spectrum.

Science

Grades 9-12

Weather Cycles Station Rotation

This 4-station rotation packet helps 3rd graders explore weather cycles. It includes hands-on activities and reading passages to build comprehension and scientific vocabulary.

Science

Grades 3-5

Weather vs. Climate Comparison

This 5-page packet helps 5th graders understand the difference between weather and climate by focusing on temperature and precipitation patterns. It includes a reading passage and activities to build comprehension and analytical skills.

English Language Arts, Science

Grades 3-5

Global Atmospheric Patterns and Local Weather

This 5-page independent practice packet is designed for 8th-grade students to identify global patterns of atmospheric movement and their influence on local weather. It builds understanding of high and low-pressure systems, cold and warm fronts, and the connection between the hydrosphere and weather conditions. The packet includes essential questions to guide learning and prepare students for making weather predictions.

Science

Grades 6-8

Plate Tectonics for 8th Grade

This 10-page packet for 8th graders explores Pangea, plate boundaries, volcanoes, and earthquakes. It includes a reading passage, vocabulary activities, and worksheets to build understanding of Earth's dynamic processes.

Science

Grades 6-8

Water Cycle Diagram and Practice

A 1-page diagram for 3rd graders to color and label, reinforcing key vocabulary related to the water cycle. This resource is designed for a single class period.

Science

Grades 3-5

Aviation Weather Theory and Services

This two-part packet provides two 46-minute lesson plans for a 10th-grade aviation ground school class. The first assignment covers aviation weather theory, and the second assignment explores aviation weather services. It is designed to build foundational knowledge in these critical areas for aspiring pilots.

Science

Grades 9-12

Autumn Equinox Science Packet

This 5-page packet for 6th graders explores the science behind the autumn equinox, including Earth's tilt and orbit. It builds reading comprehension and scientific vocabulary.

Science

Grades 6-8

Water Cycle Game Vocabulary Sheet

This 4-page packet for 5th graders introduces key water cycle vocabulary through a game format. It includes game directions, illustrated definitions, a recording sheet, and an exit ticket with a rubric to assess understanding of the water cycle and its driving forces, the sun and gravity.

Science

Grades 3-5

Earth Science Patterns for 4th Grade

This 4th-grade reading passage helps students understand how to use data from maps and other sources to identify patterns in the locations of geological features like mountains, trenches, volcanoes, and earthquakes. It builds critical thinking and data interpretation skills.

Science

Grades 3-5

Earth's Tilt and Seasons

This 2-page packet guides 7th graders through the science concepts of Earth's axial tilt and orbit, explaining how these factors cause the seasons. It includes guided notes for direct instruction and independent practice to reinforce understanding.

Science

Grades 6-8

Earth Science Concepts for 7th Grade

This 10-page packet provides 7th graders with information and tasks covering earth structure, waves, energy transformation, and heredity. It's designed to be completed independently, ensuring students have the necessary background knowledge to succeed.

Science

Grades 6-8

Rock Cycle Stages Practice

This 2-page worksheet helps 8th graders understand and practice identifying the stages of the rock cycle. It includes clear definitions and opportunities for students to apply their knowledge.

Science

Grades 6-8

Earth's Layers Mystery Webquest

This 5-page webquest guides 6th graders through the layers of the Earth using a mystery format. Students will read informational text to solve clues and build their understanding of Earth's structure.

Science

Grades 6-8

3rd Grade Weather Forecaster Research Project

This 1-2 page guide supports 3rd graders in researching how weather forecasters use green screen technology. Students will learn about chroma key, camera work, and presentation tools to create their own informational slideshow.

English Language Arts, Science

Grades 3-5

FAA Part 107 Weather Exam Prep

This 1-hour lesson packet prepares 10th-grade students for the weather section of the FAA Part 107 Unmanned Pilot Exam. It builds knowledge of aviation weather concepts and terminology.

Science

Grades 9-12

Sun-Moon-Earth System Guided Notes

This 5-page packet provides guided notes for 7th graders to introduce the sun-moon-earth system. It helps students build foundational knowledge of celestial bodies and their relationships, with built-in scaffolding for comprehension.

Science

Grades 6-8

Heat Transfer Through Earth

This 1-page reading passage explains how heat is transferred through Earth by conduction for 7th graders. It builds reading comprehension and scientific vocabulary.

Science

Grades 6-8

Solar System Comparison for Early Finishers

This 2-page packet provides an engaging activity for 6th graders who have finished their work on comparing planets in our solar system. It reinforces understanding of planetary characteristics and encourages independent learning.

Science

Grades 6-8

Soil Investigation Worksheets for 4th Grade

This 2-page worksheet packet guides 4th graders through planning and carrying out an investigation to provide evidence that soil is composed of layers of weathered rocks and decomposed material. It helps students build observation and scientific reasoning skills.

Science

Grades 3-5

Air Pressure, Fronts, and Weather Instruments

This 5th-grade packet includes a reading passage, activities, and worksheets to teach students about air pressure, fronts, and weather instruments. It is designed to build comprehension and scientific vocabulary, and includes prompts for discussion and critical thinking.

Science

Grades 3-5

Earth's Systems Warm-Up

A brief warm-up activity for 6th graders focusing on Earth's systems. This resource is designed to activate prior knowledge and prepare students for a lesson on S6E5.a.

Science

Grades 6-8

Weathering and Erosion Practice

This 5-page packet introduces 2nd-grade students to physical and chemical weathering. It includes a reading passage, vocabulary support, and opportunities for students to practice identifying different types of weathering.

Science

Grades K-2

Identifying Minerals Practice Worksheet

This 5-day worksheet packet for 6th graders focuses on identifying minerals based on their characteristics and properties. It builds foundational knowledge about mineral identification and their role in rock composition.

Science

Grades 6-8

Eclipses and Tides Bell Ringers

This 5-day packet provides daily bell ringers for 6th graders to review key concepts about eclipses and tides. It's designed to activate prior knowledge and build foundational understanding in Earth science.

Science

Grades 6-8

Seasons Changing Guided Investigation

This 5-page packet guides 5th graders through an investigation of the changing seasons, building their understanding of Earth's tilt and orbit. It includes vocabulary support and prompts for scientific observation.

Science

Grades 3-5

Spring and Neap Tides: Sun and Moon Alignment

A slide presentation for 7th graders that explains how the Sun and Moon's positions in the lunar cycle produce spring and neap tides, built around a 5E arc with an engaging opener, a notice-and-wonder activity on tidal change, and speaker notes for each slide. It builds understanding of gravitational forces, tidal patterns, and how to connect celestial alignment to observable ocean behavior.

Science

Grades 6-8

Weather vs. Climate: Understanding the Big Picture

A short practice set for 5th graders that explains the difference between weather and climate using clear definitions, everyday examples, and a comparison of short-term conditions with long-term patterns. It builds vocabulary, reading comprehension, and reasoning about data over time, and works well as a focused 30-45 minute science or reading block.

Science

Grades 3-5

Earthquake-Proof Buildings STEM Worksheets for Grade 6

A set of student worksheets for a 6th grade STEM project in which learners design and build earthquake-resistant structures from paper and glue. The packet introduces key terms like seismic waves, base isolation, and cross-bracing, and builds engineering design thinking, testing, and scientific reasoning about structural strength and flexibility.

Science

Grades 6-8

Earth's Rotation and Day-Night Cycle for 6th Grade

A performance-task worksheet for 6th graders that explores how Earth's rotation on its axis creates day and night, with guiding questions that build understanding of rotation, orbit, and related ideas such as seasons and tides. Students work through key terms like axis, rotation, prograde, and circle of illumination while practicing scientific explanation and evidence-based reasoning.

Science

Grades 6-8

Earth Processes Vocabulary and Stop-to-Think Questions

A two-part 4th grade earth science packet covering destructive and constructive processes, weathering, erosion, and deposition. Students build vocabulary through a picture-supported term sheet, then answer six Stop to Think questions with sentence starters that move from identifying agents of erosion to explaining cause, correlation, and why monitoring landscape change matters.

Science

Grades 3-5

Solar and Lunar Eclipses Video Guide for Grade 6

A roughly 17-minute narrated science video with Dr. Box that explains solar and lunar eclipses, the Moon's phases, and why the Moon matters to life on Earth. It builds understanding of Earth-Moon-Sun relationships and vocabulary like umbra, penumbra, and lunar cycle, and pairs with guided notes that have students fill in blanks and sketch the alignments.

Science

Grades 6-8

The Sun and Its Galactic Journey for High School Astronomy

A slide-deck presentation (roughly 15-20 slides with speaker notes and supporting NASA imagery) that walks 11th-12th grade astronomy students through what the Sun is, its layers and influences on Earth, the heliocentric versus geocentric models, and its motion within the Milky Way. It builds quantitative reasoning about scale, orbital speed, and the timekeeping links to days, years, and leap years, and it is designed for whole-class lecture with large, distance-readable fonts.

Science

Grades 9-12

Natural Disaster Vocabulary Practice for Sixth Grade

A vocabulary practice set for 6th graders that introduces key terms like thrust, parallel, and lateral through natural disaster contexts such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and landslides. Each word is paired with a definition and an image, and students build context clue skills as they apply the terms.

Science, English Language Arts

Grades 6-8

Fossil Record and Rock Strata Study Guide

A station-based study guide for 8th graders covering the fossil record, rock strata, and relative dating, with key terms like the Law of Superposition and fault. It builds reading comprehension of science text and vocabulary retention, and is designed to be used as a review packet ahead of an exam.

Science

Grades 6-8

Moon Phases Vocabulary Review for ELL Students

A short vocabulary review sheet that introduces the names, shapes, and definitions of the moon's phases, from new moon through full moon and back again. It is written for 6th graders, with a helpful tip on waxing and waning and a table that pairs each phase with a visual cue, making it a good fit for English language learners studying Earth science.

Science

Grades 6-8

Geology Vocabulary and Concepts Practice for 6th Grade

A practice review packet for 6th graders that reinforces core geology vocabulary and concepts, including matching key terms like the Law of Superposition, metamorphic rock, ice wedging, and the Mohs Hardness Scale. Students work through matching and related questions independently, building recall and understanding of Earth science terminology after the previous day's review.

Science

Grades 6-8

Water Cycle Task Cards for 5th Grade

A set of 30 task cards for 5th graders that reviews the water cycle, covering evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection with clear definitions and real-world examples. Students identify each stage from images and short prompts, recording answers on a companion sheet, which builds vocabulary and science concept recognition.

Science

Grades 3-5

Earth's Layers and Plate Boundaries Review

A 10-question review assignment with picture-supported items covering Earth's layers, divergent and convergent plate boundaries, volcanoes, earthquakes, and the Ring of Fire. Students fill in word-bank sentences and identify features from photos and maps, making it a solid review for high school students in an LLD program.

Science

Grades 9-12

Geologic Time and the Fossil Record Study Guide

A fill-in-the-blank study guide for 8th graders that covers how relative age, absolute age, and fossils reveal Earth's geologic past. It builds vocabulary (fossil record, rock strata, index fossils) and reasoning about superposition and crosscutting relationships, with key-term tables and guided questions that move from definitions to application.

Science

Grades 6-8

Soil Formation Factors for High School Earth Science

A slideshow for 9th-grade Earth Science that walks students through the five factors of soil formation (time, parent material, climate, biotic factors, and topography), with one slide per factor showing its role in building soil. It reinforces weathering and erosion as a review and aligns with standard ESS.EES.2.4, making it well suited to a single class period.

Science

Grades 9-12

Petroleum Formation and Energy Resources Study Guide

A text-based study guide of roughly several pages that explains how petroleum formed over hundreds of millions of years, how it is used across U.S. sectors, and where domestic and imported supplies come from. It introduces key terms like EROEI, peak oil, and sedimentary rock, and is aligned to AP Environmental Science content for advanced high school students.

Science

Grades 9-12

Soil Texture and the Texture Triangle Practice Set

A practice set for AP Environmental Science students that reinforces Units 4.2 and 4.3 with a heavy focus on soil texture, sand/silt/clay particle classes, and how texture shapes permeability, leaching, and nutrient retention. It is aimed at 11th grade and above and works well as a 45-minute independent or partner block.

Science

Grades 9-12

Annotating a Science Article on Earth's Interior

A 10th-grade annotation and summary guide built around the news article "It's a planet within a planet," which explores scientists' evidence about Earth's deep interior. Students use a symbol key to mark data, open questions, and established facts, then record margin notes and write a summary to practice close reading, paraphrasing complex science, and separating evidence from hypothesis. It works well as a single-class-period activity or as a scaffold for independent reading of informational science texts.

Science, English Language Arts

Grades 9-12

Gallery Walk: Soil, Water, and the Mississippi River

A station-based gallery walk for 9th graders that traces how runoff, erosion, and leaching carry soil and farm chemicals from the land into the Mississippi River and affect the communities downstream. Students build reading, analysis, and written-response skills through guided prompts that ask them to evaluate evidence for the connections they see across land, water, and people.

Science, Social Studies

Grades 9-12

Earth and Sky Vocabulary with Picture Cues for Grade 4

A short vocabulary list for 4th graders studying stars and the sky, pairing each key word with a simple definition and a picture idea to imagine or draw. It builds science word knowledge and visualization skills, and works well as a quick reference throughout a unit on space.

Science, English Language Arts

Grades 3-5

Station Rotation: Rock, Nitrogen, and Water Cycles

A three-center station rotation for 10th graders that introduces the rock, nitrogen, and water cycles through reading, diagram analysis, and group sorting activities. Students build vocabulary with key terms like evaporation, transpiration, and infiltration while recording their thinking on a shared worksheet, making it well suited to a single class period or a two-day rotation in small groups.

Science

Grades 9-12

Clearcutting and Its Environmental Impact

A short reading packet for AP Environmental Science students that introduces clearcutting as a timber harvesting method and examines its effects on soil, water, and climate. It builds scientific vocabulary such as albedo, siltation, soil erosion, and nutrient leaching, and supports close reading of economic versus ecological trade-offs. It works well as a single class period or as a pre-reading for a case-study discussion.

Science

Grades 9-12

Earth's Axial Tilt and the Seasons Review

A short 5-minute review packet for 8th graders on how Earth's 23.5-degree axial tilt changes the angle of sunlight and drives the seasons. It builds understanding of key terms like axis, direct and indirect sunlight, solstice, and equinox, and works well as a quick warm-up or exit review.

Science

Grades 6-8

Inner and Outer Planets Practice Set for Grade 8

A 20-question practice set on the inner and outer planets, their relative sizes, and the scale of the solar system, written for 8th graders in special education. It builds recall of planet composition and moons, comparison of planet sizes, and understanding of solar system scale, using multiple-choice items with key facts and visuals to support comprehension.

Science

Grades 6-8

Mountain Vocabulary Picture Dictionary for 3rd Graders

A visual picture dictionary for 3rd grade multilingual learners with limited English proficiency, pairing mountain terms like base, peak, volcano, and erosion with simple definitions and images. Students read each word, say it aloud, and draw their own picture to build vocabulary and comprehension of earth science terms.

Science

Grades 3-5

Rock Cycle Guided Notes for 6th Grade

A two-column fill-in-the-blank Cornell-style notes packet that guides 6th graders through the rock cycle, with an essential question opening each section. Students build science vocabulary, observation skills, and an understanding of how igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks form and change.

Science

Grades 6-8

Candy Corn Weathering and Erosion Lab for 4th Grade

A hands-on inquiry lab in which 4th graders use candy corn, salt, vinegar, and baking soda to model how weathering and erosion break down rock over time. Students build key science vocabulary, write a testable hypothesis, and practice recording observations and drawing conclusions, with guided inquiry questions throughout.

Science

Grades 3-5