Topic: Science; Moon Cycles

• CONTENT AREA: Science; Moon Cycles
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades 2-5
• STANDARDS: NGSS 1-ESS1-1. Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted. NGSS 5-ESS1-2. Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night,

Topic: Weather and Climate

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL: K
• STANDARDS: NGSS.K.ESS

Topic: BREAKOUT EDU MINI-GAME: The water cycle, global water pollution

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 3-6
• ESTIMATED TIME: 15-20 Minutes

Topic: Natural Resources

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Life Science
• GRADE LEVEL: K
• STANDARD: NGSS.K.ESS3.A

Topic: Elementary Map Skills

• CONTENT AREA: Social Studies, Elementary Map Skills
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades 2-5
• STANDARDS: SS4G1 Locate important physical and man-made features in the United States. SS3G2 Locate and describe the equator, prime meridian, and lines of latitude and longitude on a globe.

• Content Area: Earth Science, Pollution, Environment
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Elementary/Middle School
• Standards: 6.14 Analyze and interpret data (e.g., tables, graphs, maps of global and regional temperatures; atmospheric levels of gases such as carbon dioxide and methane; rates of human activities) to describe how various human activities (e.g., use of f

Topic: The structure of the solar system

• CONTENT AREA: Earth Science
• GRADE LEVELS: 6-8
• STANDARDS: NGSS.ESS1.B

• Content Area: Earth Science
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Elementary/Middle School

Topic: Amplitude and Wavelength

• CONTENT AREA: Science
• GRADE LEVEL: 4
• STANDARD: NGSS.4.PS4.A

Topic: SPACE

• Game Designer: Farideh Banks
• Content Area: Science, Space
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Middle School/High School

Topic: The Formation of Mountains and Volcanoes as a Result of Plate Tectonics

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL: 4
• STANDARD: NGSS.4.ESS2.B

Topic: Social Interactions and Group Behaviors in Ecosystems

• CONTENT AREA: Science
• GRADE LEVEL: 3
• STANDARD: NGSS.3.LS2.D

Topic: Animals, Ocean Survival

• CONTENT AREA: Animals, Ocean Survival
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades 2-6
• STANDARDS: MS-LS2 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Topic: The Solar System's Effect on Earth

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 1
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.1.ESS1.B

• Content Area: Earth Science, Geologic Time
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Elementary/Middle School
• Standards: 6.9 Use models to explain how the flow of Earth’s internal energy drives a cycling of matter between Earth’s surface and deep interior causing plate movements 6.4 Construct explanations from geologic evidence (e.g., change or extinction of par

Topic: Water on Earth

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 5
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.ESS2.C

Topic: Science; Ecosystems

• CONTENT AREA: Science; Ecology/Biosphere
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades 6-12
• STANDARDS: MS-LS2-1 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem. MS-LS2-4 Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physic

Topic: EARTH'S STRUCTURE

• Content Area: Earth Science
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 30-45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Middle School/High School

Topic: Weathering, Erosion

• Content Area: Earth Science, Erosion
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Middle School/High School
• Standards: MS-ESS2-2. Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales. HS-ESS2-1. Develop a model to illustrate how Earth’s internal and surface processes operate at

Topic: The Universe and Earth's Solar System

• CONTENT AREA: Science, The Universe and Earth's Solar System
• GRADE LEVEL: 6-8
• STANDARD: NGSS.MS.ESS1

Topic: Climate Change Due to Human Activities

• CONTENT AREA: Science
• GRADE LEVELS: 6-8
• STANDARD: NGSS.MS.ESS3.D

Topic: Elementary Geography

• CONTENT AREA: Elementary Social Studies/Science, Geography, Continents
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades 1-4
• STANDARDS: CCSS 2.MD.8-Measurement & Data » Work with time and money.

• Content Area: Science, Caves
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Elementary/Middle School

Topic: Universe

• Content Area: Earth Science
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 30-45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Middle School/High School

• Content Area: Earth Science
• Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Middle School/High School

Topic: Human Impact

• Game Designer: James Sanders and Hayley Milliman
• Content Area: Science (NGSS-MS-ESSS3)
• Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Middle School

Topic: Geologic Evidence for Earth's History

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 6-8
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.MS.ESS1.C

Topic: The Changing Earth

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL: 2
• STANDARD: NGSS.2.ESS1.C

Topic: Breakout EDU Digital Mini Game

• Earth Day
• Elementary

Topic: Energy Cycles and their Effect on Earth

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVELS: 6-8
• STANDARD: NGSS.MS.ESS2.A

Topic: Breakout EDU Digital Mini Game

• EARTH SCIENCE
• Upper Elementary and Middle School

Topic: Earth’s Systems: Processes that Shape the Earth

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL: 2
• STANDARDS: NGSS.2.ESS

Topic: Plate Tectonics

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL: 2
• STANDARD: NGSS.2.ESS2.B

Topic: Forecasting Natural Hazards

• CONTENT AREA: Earth Science
• GRADE LEVELS: 6-8
• STANDARD: NGSS.MS.ESS3.B

Topic: Earth's Systems

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 4
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.4.ESS

Topic: Designing Solutions for Engineering Problems Due to Earth's Systems

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 4
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.4.ETS1.B

Topic: Science, Water Conservation

• CONTENT AREA: Earth Science, Water Conservation
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 4-6

Topic: Earth's History through Geology

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 6-8
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.MS.ESS2

Topic: Human Reliance on Natural Resources

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVELS: 6-8
• STANDARD: NGSS.MS.ESS3.A

Topic: Fossils and Geology

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL: 4
• STANDARD: NGSS.4.ESS1.C

Topic: Fossils

• CONTENT AREA: Science
• GRADE LEVELS: 3
• STANDARD: NGSS.3.LS4.A

Topic: GLACIERS

• Content Area: Earth Science, Glaciers
• Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Middle School/High School

Topic: Glacier National Park

• CONTENT AREA: Social Studies/Science, Geography; Glacier National Park
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades 3-12
• STANDARDS: National Geography Standards - Places and Regions 4. The physical and human characteristics of places. 5. That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity. 6. How culture and experience influence people's perception of places and r

Topic: Grand Canyon National Park

• CONTENT AREA: National Parks, Grand Canyon National Park
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades 3-12
• STANDARDS: National Geography Standards - Places and Regions 4. The physical and human characteristics of places. 5. That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity. 6. How culture and experience influence people's perception of places and r

Topic: Great Smoky Mtn National Park

• CONTENT AREA: National Parks, Great Smoky Mountain National Park
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades 3-12
• STANDARDS: Social Studies/US Regions- Use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information; Analyze the physical and human characteristics of places; Create regions to interpret Earth’s comp

Topic: Solar Energy and its Effect on Plant Matter

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Physical Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 5
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.5.PS3.D

Topic: The Energy Cycle (Sun - Plants - Food)

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Life Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 5
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.5.LS1.C

Topic: Composers and Decomposers in Ecosystems

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Life Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 5
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.5.LS2.A

Topic: Cycles in the Environment

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Life Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 5
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.5.LS2.B

Topic: Plants (Science)

• CONTENT AREA: Plants, Science
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades 5-8
• STANDARDS: NGSS LS1.B: Growth and Development of Organisms, 3-LS1-1

• Content Area: Seasonal Games, Team Building
• Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: High School, Adult

Topic: Space

• Content Area: Earth Science
• Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Middle School/High School

Topic: Human Effect on Earth's Systems

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 5
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.5.ESS3.C

Topic: Alternative Energy

• Content Area: Science, Earth Science
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Elementary/Middle School
• Standards: 6.15 ‐ Analyze evidence (e.g., databases on human populations, rates of consumption of food and other natural resources) to explain how changes in human population, per capita consumption of natural resources, and other human activities (e.g.,

Topic: Women in History: Sally Ride

• CONTENT AREA: Science, History, Sally Ride
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 5-6

Topic: Human Activities and their Effects on the Biosphere

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVELS: 6-8
• STANDARD: NGSS.MS.ESS3.C

Topic: Energy Cycle in Ecosystems (Producers, Consumers and Decomposers)

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Life Science
• GRADE LEVELS: 6-8
• STANDARD: NGSS.MS.LS2.B

Topic: Water and Earth’s Surface Processes

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 6-8
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.MS.ESS2.C

Topic: The Solar System

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 5
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.5.ESS

Topic: The Universe

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 1
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.1.ESS1.A

Topic: Astronomy

• Content Area: Science, Astronomy
• Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Middle School/High School

Topic: How Humans Address Natural Hazards

• CONTENT AREA: Science
• GRADE LEVEL: 3
• STANDARD: NGSS.3.ESS3.B

Topic: Weather and Climate

• CONTENT AREA: Science
• GRADE LEVEL: 3
• STANDARDS: NGSS.3.ESS

Topic: Major Earth Systems

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 5
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.5.ESS2.A

Topic: Human Impact

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL: K
• STANDARD: NGSS.K.ESS3.C

Topic: Earth and its solar system as part of a larger galaxy

• CONTENT AREA: Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL: Grades 6-8
• STANDARDS: NGSS.ESS1.A

Topic: Biodiversity and its effects on humans

• CONTENT AREA: Life Science
• GRADE LEVELS: 6-8
• STANDARDS: NGSS.LS4.D

Topic: Sun and Energy

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Life Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 5
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.5.LS

Topic: Gravitational Force

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science, Physical Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 5
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.5.PS2.B

Topic: The Sun as a Star

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 5
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.5.ESS1.A

Topic: The Sun's Effect on Earth

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 5
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.5.ESS1.B

Topic: NATURAL DISASTERS

• Content Area: Science, Natural Disasters
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Upper Elementary/Middle School

Topic: Movement of Air and Water and their Effect on Climate

• CONTENT AREA: Earth Science
• GRADE LEVELS: 6-8
• STANDARD: NGSS.MS.ESS2.C

Topic: Physical Characteristics of Living Things within a Region/Ecosystem

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 4
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.4.ESS2.E

Topic: Energy and Ecological Solutions

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL: 4
• STANDARD: NGSS.4.ETS1.A

Topic: Energy Derived from Natural Resources

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL: 4
• STANDARD: NGSS.4.ESS3.A

Topic: Pollution

• Content Area: Earth Science, Environment, Oil Spills
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Elementary /Middle School
• Standards: 6.16 ‐ Implement scientific principles to design processes for monitoring and minimizing human impact on the environment (e.g., water usage, including withdrawal of water from streams and aquifers or construction of dams and levees; land usage,

Topic: Wildfires

• Content Area: Earth Science, Wildfires
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Elementary/Middle School

Topic: Pinnacles National Park

• CONTENT AREA: Social Studies; Pinnacles National Park
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades 3-12
• STANDARDS: National Geography Standards - Places and Regions 4. The physical and human characteristics of places. 5. That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity. 6. How culture and experience influence people's perception of places and r

Topic: Breakout EDU Digital Mini Game

• Planets
• Elementary

Topic: Plants & Flowers

• CONTENT AREA: Elementary Science, Plants & Flowers
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades K-3
• STANDARDS: VA 1.4 The student will investigate and understand that plants have basic life needs and functional parts and can be classified according to certain characteristics. Key concepts include a) plants need nutrients, air, water, light, and a place

Topic: Energy in our Lives (English or French)

• Author: Amanda O’Neill with Melanie Bradley
• Content: Science - Energy in our Lives (Ontario Curriculum)
• Recommended Ages: Grade 1 (can be used in English or for French Immersion)

Topic: Effects of Wind and Water on Earth

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL: 2
• STANDARD: NGSS.2.ESS2.A

Topic: Identifying Problems and Possible Solutions (Considering Constraints and Criteria for Success)

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Engineering/Design
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 5
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.5.ETS1.A

Topic: Science: Seasons & Weather

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Seasons
• IDEAL GROUP SIZE: Small groups or whole class
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades 3-8
• STANDARDS: VA 3.8 The student will investigate and understand basic patterns and cycles occurring in nature. Key concepts include patterns of natural events such as seasonal changes. VA 4.7 The student will investigate and understand the relationships am

Topic: Science: Seasons & Weather

• CONTENT AREA: Elementary Science, Seasons
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades 3-8
• STANDARDS: VA 3.8 The student will investigate and understand basic patterns and cycles occurring in nature. Key concepts include patterns of natural events such as seasonal changes.

Topic: Severe Weather

• CONTENT AREA: Science
• GRADE LEVEL: K
• STANDARD: NGSS.K.ESS3.B

Topic: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 6-8
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.MS.ESS2.B

Topic: Microgravity

• Content Area: Science, Microgravity
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Middle School/High School
• Standards: NGSS Middle School: MS-LS1-3. Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells. NGSS High School: HS-LS1-2. Develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organizatio

Topic: Rocks, Minerals

• Content Area: Earth Science
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Middle School/High School
• Standards: MS-ESS2-1. Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.

Topic: The Solar System

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 1
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.1.ESS1

Topic: Electric, Magnetic, and Gravitational Forces

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Physical Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 6-8
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.MS.PS2.B

Topic: STEM, Mae Jemison

• CONTENT AREA: STEM, Mae Jemison
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 4-8

Topic: Natural Hazards that Result from Earth's Systems

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL: 4
• STANDARD: NGSS.4.ESS3.B

• Content Area: Earth Science, Weather, Tornadoes
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Elementary and Middle School
• Standards: 6.12 ‐ Integrate qualitative scientific and technical information (e.g., weather maps; diagrams; other visualizations, including radar and computer simulations) to support the claim that motions and complex interactions of air masses result in

Topic: Effects of Sunlight

• CONTENT AREA: Science
• GRADE LEVEL: K
• STANDARD: NGSS.K.ETS1.B

Topic: Earth’s Materials and Systems

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVELS: 6-8
• STANDARDS: NGSS.MS.ESS2

Topic: Math, Fractions

• Content Area: Math, Fractions, Valentine's
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages:Upper Elementary, Middle Grades

Topic: Human Impacts on the Earth

• CONTENT AREA: Earth Science
• GRADE LEVELS: 6-8
• STANDARDS: NGSS.MS.ESS3

Topic: Pangea - Plate Tetonics

• Content Area: Earth Science, Pangea
• Ideal Group Size: Small Groups/ Suggested Time: 40 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Elementary/Middle School/High School

Topic: Earth Day, Recycling

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 4-6

Topic: Earth Day, Conservation

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 1-3

Topic: Earth Science, Conservation

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 1-3

Topic: Global Warming

• Content Areas: Earth Science, Global Warming
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Elementary and Middle School
• Standards: 6.14 ‐ Analyze and interpret data to describe how various human activities and natural processes may cause changes in local and global temperatures over time. 6.15 ‐ Analyze evidence to explain how changes in human population, per capita consu

Topic: Women's History, NASA

• CONTENT AREA: Science, History
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 9-12, Adult

Topic: Ecological Solutions

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL: K
• STANDARD: NGSS.K.ETS1.B

Topic: The Rock Cycle

• CONTENT AREA: Elementary Science, Rock Cycle
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades 3-7
• STANDARDS: NGSS Standards MS-ESS2-1. Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth's materials and the flow of energy that drives this process. 4-ESS1, 5-ESS2 - Earth’s systems

Topic: PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHANGES

• Content Area: Science, Physical and Chemical Changes
• Ideal Group Size: Small Groups / Suggested Time: 40 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Elementary/Middle School

Topic: The Interaction of Earth's Systems Over Time

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 6-8
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.MS.ESS2.A

Topic: MINI-GAME: Solar System

• CONTENT AREA: Science, the Solar System
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 5-7
• ESTIMATED TIME: 15-20 Minutes

Topic: Fossils as Evidence of Natural Selection

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Life Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 6-8
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.MS.LS4.A

• Content Area: Earth Science
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: High School

Topic: Effects and Functions of Water on Earth

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL: 2
• STANDARD: NGSS.2.ESS2.C

Topic: Composition of Earth

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL(S): 5
• STANDARD(S): NGSS.5.ESS

Topic: The Water Cycle

• CONTENT AREA: Elementary Science, Water Cycle
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades 1-4
• STANDARDS: MS-ESS2 Earth's Systems

Topic: The Movement of Water

• CONTENT AREA: Science, Earth Science
• GRADE LEVELS: 6-8
• STANDARD: NGSS.MS.ESS2.C

• Content Area: Earth Science
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: High School

Topic: Making Observations & Gathering Data about Weather and Climate

• CONTENT AREA: Science
• GRADE LEVEL: K
• STANDARD: NGSS.K.ETS1.A

Topic: Predicting Weather Based on Oceanic and Atmospheric Patterns

• CONTENT AREA: Earth Science
• GRADE LEVEL: 6-8
• STANDARD: NGSS.MS.ESS2.D

Topic: Weather and Weather Patterns

• CONTENT AREA: Science
• GRADE LEVEL: K
• STANDARD: NGSS.K.ESS2.D

Topic: Weather and Climate

• CONTENT AREA: Earth Science
• GRADE LEVELS: 6-8
• STANDARDS: NGSS.MS.ESS2; NGSS.MS.ESS2.C; NGSS.MS.ESS2.D; NGSS.MS.ESS3.D

Topic: Variations in the physical environment, including climate, landforms, natural resources, and natural hazards

• CONTENT AREA: Social Studies
• GRADE LEVELS: 2-3
• STANDARDS: SS.2.5, SS.3.5

Topic: Earth's Composition

• Content Area: Earth Science
• Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Middle School/High School

Topic: EROSION

• Content Area: Earth Science, Erosion
• Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
• Recommended Ages: Elementary/Middle School

Topic: Yosemite National Park

• CONTENT AREA: Yosemite National Park
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades 4-12
• STANDARDS: National Geography Standards - Places and Regions 4. The physical and human characteristics of places. 5. That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity. 6. How culture and experience influence people's perception of places and r

Topic: Zion National Park

• CONTENT AREA: National Parks, Zion National Park
• RECOMMENDED AGES: Grades 3-12
• STANDARDS: Social Studies/US Regions Use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information; Analyze the physical and human characteristics of places.