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Lava Layering: Making and Mapping a Volcano
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In this activity, learners discover how geologists use stratigraphy, the study of layered rock, to understand the sequence of geological events.
Start a Rock Collection
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Learners follow a three-step process to start their own rock collection.
Glaciers
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In this online activity, learners adjust mountain snowfall and temperature to see how glaciers grow and shrink. They will use scientific tools to measure thickness, velocity and glacial budget.
Radioactive Decay of Candium
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In this simulation, learners use M&M™ candy to explore radioactive isotope decay.
Do Your Own Dig
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In this outdoor archaeology activity, learners use mathematical skills and scientific inquiry to generate and process information from their own excavation site.
Arctic Sea Ice
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In this activity, learners explore how the area of Arctic sea ice has changed over recent years. First, learners graph the area of Arctic sea ice over time from 1979 to 2007.
How We Know What The Dinosaurs Looked Like: How Fossils Were Formed
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In this activity (p.7-8 of PDF), learners examine fossil formation.
The Earth's Timeline
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In this group activity, learners will mark important developments of life on Earth on a timeline (each foot in length representing 200 million years).
Future Moon: The Footsteps of Explorers
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In this activity, learners drop impactors onto layers of graham crackers!
Infant Moon: Moon Mix!
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In this activity, learners investigate the Moon's infancy and model how an ocean of molten rock (magma) helped shape the Moon that we see today.
Gravestone Weathering
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In this activity (located on pages 9-14 of PDF), learners visit a cemetery to examine the distinguishing characteristics of rock weathering.
Kid Moon: Splat!
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In this activity, learners model ancient lunar impacts using water balloons.
Prehistoric Climate Change
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In this online interactive, learners use fossils to infer temperatures 55 million years ago, at the sites where the fossils were found.
Hot Sauce Hot Spots
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In this activity, learners model hot spot island formation, orientation and progression with condiments.
Sand Grain Observations
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In this activity (on page 1 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Earthquakes), learners will use a magnifier to carefully examine samples of sand from different locations.
Mini Glacier Meltdown
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This activity (located on page 3 of the PDF under GPS: Glaciers Activity) is a full inquiry investigation about the different causes of glacial melt.
Moving Model Glacier
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In this goopy activity (page 2 of PDF under GPS: Glaciers Activity), learners will model glacial movement with “gak,” a white glue and liquid starch mixture.
Tomb Mapping
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In this activity, learners examine the culture and history of the tomb site.
Looking Back Through Time
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In this activity, learners create their own archaeological profiles.
Fossil Age Estimation Model
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In this activity (page 1 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Dinosaurs), learners will model how paleontologists estimate the age of fossil discoveries by extracting “fossil” playing cards from newspa