Tag: earth science

  • Plate Tectonics Unit

    Plate Tectonics Unit

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    One very popular homeschool science unit this year was our plate tectonics lesson for earth science (let’s see if you can guess why it was such a hit). I’ll give you a hint, afterward, there was much bath taking because of stickiness. {This post contains affiliate links marked with a *.  For more information read…

  • Clouds unit

    Clouds unit

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    We took a brief break from our study of Jupiter and the gas giants to study clouds for science.  This was somewhat necessary because we needed to learn more about clouds and how they worked to further our studies of astronomy.  So to earth science we turned for a clouds unit. (This post has affiliate…

  • Layers of the Atmosphere unit

    Layers of the Atmosphere unit

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    We’ve been having a bad luck run with our science lessons recently.  It feels like most of our projects just go horribly wrong, and I’ve felt rather unenthused about posting them because of that.  But, I have an earth science project that went great, and I need to move forward.  So I present our layers…

  • Rock Cycle unit

    Rock Cycle unit

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    This was part of the lithosphere unit in our science lessons this year, as we worked our way through earth science. We tried several different sugar cube rock cycle lessons before we finally found a rock cycle lesson that worked. (there are affiliate links in here) Sugar Cube rock cycle lesson supplies sugar cubes, Apologia…

  • Earthquake activity, STEM for kids

    Earthquake activity, STEM for kids

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    Augh, now I’m looking at the word earthquake and I’m sure it’s spelled wrong even though my computer says otherwise.  Back to the activity.  A few months ago we studied earthquakes as part of our earth science studies using Bright Idea’s Press’ CKE earth and space (affiliate link, side point LOVE it). As you can imagine there was…