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Earth Science: Topics

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Earth Science Hands-On Resources Originally developed by Rozeanne Steckler at SDSC through funding from the National Science Foundation.
	Inside Earth In this lab, students will explore the answers to the following questions: What does Earth look like? What are the blue areas? What are the other colored areas? (land, continents, countries, and states or regions) What is underneath the land? What is underneath the water?

	Minerals and Rocks In this lesson, students will study minerals and learn how to identify and classify them. Minerals are rock objects that contain only one material.

	Studying Fossils In this lesson, we will study fossils. Where did they come from? How are they made? What can we learn from them? How do we identify and classify them? These are just some of the questions we will answer in this lesson.

	Dinosaur Traces This laboratory introduces students to the type of evidence found at a typical dinosaur dig. Students will mimic a paleontologist by taking crayon rubbings of simulated bone impressions.

	Create a Star Clock! In this lab students will have the opportunity to use the stars to tell time just as people had for thousand of years. They will find that the stars appear to rise in the east and set in the west, and that those stars near the North Pole appear to go in circles around it. However, the stars do not really rise and set. Earth spins about its axis once a day giving the appearance that the stars are moving.