NKCS MS Science Resources

read works uses reading passages to enrich topics.  questions go along with the passage

read works uses reading passages to enrich topics.  questions go along with the passage

read works uses reading passages to enrich topics.  questions go along with the passage

read works uses reading passages to enrich topics.  questions go along with the passage

read works uses reading passages to enrich topics.  questions go along with the passage

read works uses reading passages to enrich topics.  questions go along with the passage

Zircon crystal sheds new light on Earth's formation

Project based lesson plan. If technology is not available, you could print off the animal resource pages using the National Geographic Animals website and library resources.

Reading that can be used to expand students knowledge about the variety of adaptations organisms can possess. Check out the other articles on this page under the heading "other people are reading". Aligns with 4.3.C.a and 4.3.C.b

lots of links to virtual field trips, plate tectonics, minerals, igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, metamorphic rocks, earthquakes, volcanoes, deformation, geologic time, paleontology, groundwater, streams, glaciers, 

I think a key element to the credibility of this set of resources is that they were curated/produced by the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College and its partners with funding from the National Science Foundation.

Geology Lab Videos by Tom Braziunas at North Seattle Community College - students can view short video demonstrations of some of the physical geology lab activities

You can use our interactive to help you identify an actual rock, or, if you don't have a sample, you can use one of our virtual rocks.

nice tables showing how rocks are formed, identification key, rock cycle diagram

This lesson has students analyzing charts and graphs to interpret the information and determine who is responsible for polluting the river.

An in-depth online geology textbook written for kids. Learn about the world beneath you. Geology is the study of the Earth's surface and substructure. Geologists look at the processes that form terrian, and the processes that destroy terrian.

Who am I? rock game

This is an activity I use as a visual for the students to see the different types of pollution that affect rivers.  I modify it by talking about the MO river.

This is an interactive website that covers soil properties well.

virtual identification lab