Grade 6-12 Earth Science Activities

Earth Science offers many different ways to explore they Earth and beyond! Are you ready to learn about fossils, dinosaurs, interesting rocks, maps, and the Moon, thunderstorms? The activities may be used by teachers, parents, and students to learn more about the Earth. In general the activities are aligned with the Iowa Core Curicculum science guidlines specifically learning through inquriy (hands-on) experiences and building 21st technology skills.

Grades 6-8

• IRHV - Population size and consumption related to Iowa's Streams
• IRHV - Monitor and minimize human impact on Iowa's Streams
• IRHV - Sand Bar combing - Learning through Picking
• IRHV - Rivers and the Water Cycle
• The Earth's Structure and Processes
• Water Cycle
• Earth History
• The Earth's Atmosphere and Climate System
• Geospatial Reasoning

Grades 9-12

• IRHV - Iowa's Rivers through History, Science and Music
• IRHV - From Glacier to Rivers, Shaping Iowa's surface
•  IRHV - Cedar River Ecosystems 
• Energy and Earth Systems
• Geochemical Cycles
• Geospatial Reasoning