NKCS MS Science Resources

podcast from Hammocks Middle School on minerals

20 page pdf filled with information relating to Missouri rocks & minerals.

This pdf has wonderful reading passages and labs about classifying, formation of, and identifying igneous rocks.

online active art about crystal systems

This is a great online resource for mineral identification

A great collection of videos - great for kicking off earth science units.  Use the K-5 collection for science.  The 6-8 section would be great shared with math teacher colleagues!

A great collection of videos - great for kicking off earth science units.  Use the K-5 collection for science.  The 6-8 section would be great shared with math teacher colleagues!

online rock identification activity

Three separate field trips take you (1) along the scenic North Cascade Highway (State Route 20), (2) up the Baker Lake road, and (3) along the Mount Baker Highway (State Route 542). Most of the sites you'll see are right off the highway, but we've included a few side trips that take you off the beaten path. Click on one of the three fieldtrip maps shown to see a detailed map.

This is a short video that uses frogs to show how to prevent non point source pollution in our daily lives.

This is a short video that talks about the different types of soil texture and how to tell them apart.

This is a song that was put together by a 6th grade teacher to help his students learn about how objects appear different colors and how surfaces affect visible light.

This is a short 3 minute video clip from Magic School Bus that really highlights loudness and pitch of sound

This shows how water can be changed by sound using a speaker (shows wave with increased volume= more energy).  Very dramatic 

These games allow students to interact with instruments and to see how loudness and pitch change. "Changing Sound" and "Pitch" links

This is a video that shows the experiment with elephant toothpaste in a more dramatic event then we get in class. (So, I show it after the lab.)

This video dramatically demonstrates the electrolysis of water and discusses how this process is used in real life.

I show this video before we do the lab to split water molecules so the students can better see how it works.

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.

Article discussing the benefits of forest fires. 

Created by California Fire Department. Aligns with 4.1.D.b.