Here's an exciting new hands-on way to provide comprehensive content introducing your students to key earth science topics, including energy, plate tectonics, weathering, earthquakes, volcanoes, and ecosystems. At the same time, you'll be integrating important science concepts into your lessons such as heat, density, and buoyancy.
Student Textbook
Landscape "one-concept" page spreads and full-color graphics enhance learning and retention.
Hardcover: 504 pages
- Unit 1: Studying Earth Science
- Chapter 1: Science is Everywhere
- Chapter 2: The Science Toolbox
- Chapter 3: Physical Science Connections
- Unit 2: Water and Weather
- Chapter 4: Water and the Weather Cycle
- Chapter 5: Earth's Atmosphere
- Chapter 6: Weather and Climate
- Chapter 7: Oceans
- Unit 3: Introducing Earth
- Chapter 8: Mapping Earth
- Chapter 9: Earth and Time
- Chapter 10: Inside Earth
- Unit 4: The Changing Earth
- Chapter 11: Plate Tectonics
- Chapter 12: Earthquakes and Volcanoes
- Chapter 13: Formation of Rocks
- Chapter 14: Weathering and Erosion
- Unit 5: Earth's Resources
- Chapter 15: Soil and Freshwater Resources
- Chapter 16: Natural Resources and Conservation
- Unit 6: Astronomy
- Chapter 17: The Solar System
- Chapter 18: Earth, the Moon, and the Sun
- Chapter 19: Galaxies and the Universe
Investigation Manual
Students learn best through direct experience and discovery.
Softcover: 176 pages
- 36 hands-on investigations (two per chapter) and 8 lab skills activities
- Completely integrated with readings in student text and teacher's guide
- Students design and conduct experiments; construct and test conclusions; observe results; and gather, record, and analyze data
- Key questions begin each investigation to focus the student on major concepts
Equipment Kit
Hands-On Equipment—High-quality, specially designed solid wood equipment brings a completely new level of excitement into your classroom.
Kit Includes:
- Weather Tools Set
- Digital Meter
- Bathymetric Map
- Rocks and Minerals Set
- Displacement Tank
- Stream Table
- Stage
- Wave Demonstrator
- Bucket with Spigot
- Bridge
- GeoBox
- Cloud Chart
- Beaufort Wind Scale Chart
- Rain Gauge
- Spectrometer
- Telescope
- Globe
- Water Quality Tester Set
- Tree Rings and Time
- Density Cubes
- Set of 5 Magnifying Glasses
- Geology Color Plate Set
- Physics Stand and Base
Program Components
Middle School Earth Science |
Part No. |
ISBN |
Description |
|
1577349 |
978-1-62571-852-5 |
Student Book Set—Printed Version
(Includes 1 Student Text and 1 Investigations Manual) |
|
1577360 |
978-1-62571-862-4 |
Online Version |
|
1576050 |
978-1-62571-839-6 |
Student Text Book |
|
1576074 |
978-1-62571-830-3 |
Investigations Manual |
|
1576051 |
978-1-62571-840-2 |
Teacher Guide with Online Access—Printed Version |
|
1577359 |
978-1-62571-861-7 |
Teacher Guide with Online Access—Online Version |
|
792-5340 |
978-1-58892-530-5 |
Equipment Kit |
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