Classroom Activities, categorized by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

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Titlesort ascending NGSS ESS Core Ideas NGSS ESS Topics NGSS Performance Expectations
Your Own Greenhouse Earth's Systems (ESS2) Earth's Systems 5-ESS2-1
Your Own El Nino Earth's Systems (ESS2) Weather and Climate MS-ESS2-6, HS-ESS2-4
Why Settle at Mesa Verde Earth and Human Activity (ESS3) Human Impacts
Where Growth Meets Growth Earth and Human Activity (ESS3) Human Impacts MS-ESS3-3
What’s In A Name? Earth's Systems
What-a-Cycle Earth's Systems (ESS2) Earth's Systems, Weather and Climate
What's Down There?
What Will Survive? Earth and Human Activity (ESS3)
What Lies Beneath the Upper Crust?
What Covers Our Land? Earth's Systems (ESS2) Earth's Systems
Wetland in a Water Bottle Earth's Systems (ESS2) Earth's Systems 4-ESS2-1, 5-ESS2-1, 5-LS2-1, MS-ESS2-1, MS-ESS2-2
Water: A Never-ending Story Earth's Systems (ESS2) Earth's Systems MS-ESS2-4
Water Quality, Dissolved Oxygen, and Phosphorous Earth's Place in the Universe (ESS1) MS-ESS1-3, HS-ESS1-2, HS-ESS1-3, HS-ESS1-6
Water Filtration Earth and Human Activity (ESS3) Earth's Systems, Human Impacts K-ESS3-3, 5-ESS3-1, MS-ESS3-3, HS-ESS3-4
Watch Out for Landslides Earth's Systems (ESS2), Earth and Human Activity (ESS3) History of Earth, Human Impacts MS-ESS2-2, MS-ESS3-2
Wash This Way! Earth and Human Activity (ESS3) Earth's Systems, Human Impacts 5-ESS3-1, MS-ESS3-4
Visualizing Your Watershed Earth's Place in the Universe (ESS1), Earth's Systems (ESS2) MS-ESS1-1, MS-ESS1-2, MS-ESS1-3, HS-ESS1-1, HS-ESS1-5
Visualizing terrain with maps Human Impacts
Using Energy Resources Wisely
Understanding Paleoclimate History of Earth
Tropical Atlantic Aerosols Earth's Systems (ESS2), Earth and Human Activity (ESS3) Weather and Climate
Tree Rings and Ancient Climatic Conditions History of Earth
Traveling Nitrogen Earth and Human Activity (ESS3) Human Impacts MS-ESS3-4, HS-ESS3-6
Tracking Dinosaurs MS-LS4-2
Third From the Sun Earth's Systems (ESS2) Earth's Systems, History of Earth 4-ESS2-2, MS-ESS2-2

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