I am a science teacher passionate about teaching Earth Science, Geology, Geography and Oceanography and sharing my science material/products to a wider audience.
My main focus is middle and high school, but since ability levels and needs vary widely, materials found in my shop may be useful to students from other grade levels.
I am also selling my educational resources on TpT website but under a different name, so in case you see the same resources there, it doesn't mean that they were copied.
I am a science teacher passionate about teaching Earth Science, Geology, Geography and Oceanography and sharing my science material/products to a wider audience.
My main focus is middle and high school, but since ability levels and needs vary widely, materials found in my shop may be useful to students from other grade levels.
I am also selling my educational resources on TpT website but under a different name, so in case you see the same resources there, it doesn't mean that they were copied.
Tarsia Vocabulary Puzzle - ROCK CYCLE
This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major Rock Cycle related vocabulary. You will cut up the triangles and students will have to arrange them in order to match definitions with the vocabulary terms.
ANSWER KEY is provided!
This is a great activity for test review or can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use them multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come!
The 18 Terms Covered In This Puzzle:
Melting; Rock; Cooling & Crystallizing; Erosion; Lava; Deposition; Magma; Metamorphic Rock; Igneous Rocks; Sediments; Lithification; Heat & Pressure; Cementation; Compaction; Rock Cycle; Sedimentary Rocks; Minerals; Weathering.
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Math Tarsia Puzzle: MULTIPLICATION FACTS 2 to 5
In this activity, students will practice 1-digit multiplication facts (2 to 5) as they piece together the pieces of each tarsia puzzle (5 puzzles included). Students will match their answers with a separate puzzle piece until all the math problems have been solved and the puzzle is completed.
These MULTIPLICATION FACT TARSIA PUZZLES are a FUN way for students to practice their multiplication facts that doesn’t involve a worksheet. The puzzle activity works well for individuals, as well as small groups. Alternatively, you can set up stations around the room, and have students or groups rotate to each station for a new math puzzle/game.
Tarsia Vocabulary Puzzle - OCEANOGRAPHY
This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major Oceanography related vocabulary. You will cut up the triangles and students will have to arrange them in order to match definitions with the vocabulary terms.
ANSWER KEY is provided!
This is a great activity for test review or can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use them multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come!
The 18 Terms Covered In This Puzzle:
Guyot; Tsunami; Abyssal plain; Mid-ocean ridge; Bathymetric map; Tides; Continental shelf; Continental rise; Continental slope; Continental margin; Thermocline; Upwelling; Gyres; Wave height; Wavelength; Seamount; Trenches; Salinity
Tarsia Vocabulary Puzzle - NATURAL RESOURCES
This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major Natural Resources related vocabulary. You will cut up the triangles and students will have to arrange them in order to match definitions with the vocabulary terms.
ANSWER KEY is provided!
This is a great activity for test review or can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use them multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come!
The 18 Terms Covered In This Puzzle:
Natural resources; Nuclear energy; Geothermal energy; Energy conservation; Biofuels; Renewable resources; Pollution; Solar energy; Oil/Petroleum; Coal; Fossil fuels; Hydroelectric energy; Recycle; Reuse; Reduce; Wind energy; Nonrenewable resources; Tidal energy.
Tarsia Vocabulary Puzzle - METEOROLOGY
This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major Meteorology related vocabulary. You will cut up the triangles and students will have to arrange them in order to match definitions with the vocabulary terms.
ANSWER KEY is provided!
This is a great activity for test review or can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use them multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come!
The 18 Terms Covered In This Puzzle:
Clouds; Occluded front; Hurricane; Air pressure; Stationary front; Climate; Weather; Dew point; Cold front; Tornado; Barometer; Warm front; Air mass; Relative humidity; Convection currents; Thermometer; Wind; Isobar.
Tarsia Vocabulary Puzzle - MAPPING
This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major** Mapping** related vocabulary. You will cut up the triangles and students will have to arrange them in order to match definitions with the vocabulary terms.
ANSWER KEY is provided!
This is a great activity for test review or can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use them multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come!
The 18 Terms Covered In This Puzzle:
Contour interval; Equator; Latitude; Map scale; Topographic map; Meridians; Tropic of Cancer; Elevation; Index contour; Parallel; Depression; Prime Meridian; Tropic of Cancer; Contour lines; Topographic profile; Map key; Longitude; International Date Line.
Tarsia Vocabulary Puzzle - METAMORPHIC ROCKS
This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major Metamorphic Rocks related vocabulary. You will cut up the triangles and students will have to arrange them in order to match definitions with the vocabulary terms.
ANSWER KEY is provided!
This is a great activity for test review or can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use them multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come!
The 18 Terms Covered In This Puzzle:
Metamorphic Rocks; Rock Cycle; Heta & Pressure; Foliated; Nonfoliated; Metamorphism; Contact Metamorphism; Regional Metamorphism; Gneiss; Slate; Marble; Quartzite; Schist; Phyllite; Recrystallize; Anthracite coal; Parent Rocks; Granite.
Tarsia Vocabulary Puzzle - GEOLOGIC PROCESSES
This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major Geologic Processes (incl. Plate Tectonics; Volcanoes and Earthquakes) related vocabulary. You will cut up the triangles and students will have to arrange them in order to match definitions with the vocabulary terms.
ANSWER KEY is provided!
This is a great activity for test review or can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use them multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come!
Students can be working by themselves or in pairs/groups depending on the grade level and/or how difficult the vocab terms are.
The 18 Terms Covered In This Puzzle:
Lithosphere; Mantle; Divergent Boundary; Convection; Asthenosphere; Continental Drift; Convergent Boundary; Epicenter; Crust; Pangaea; Focus; Outer Core; Transform Boundary; Seismic Waves; Subduction; Fault; Plate Tectonic; Seafloor Spreading.
Tarsia Vocabulary Puzzle - FRESHWATER
This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major Freshwater (incl. *Weathering; Erosion and Water Cycle) related vocabulary. You will cut up the triangles and students will have to arrange them in order to match definitions with the vocabulary terms.
ANSWER KEY is provided!
This is a great activity for test review or can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use them multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come!
Students can be working by themselves or in pairs/groups depending on the grade level and/or how difficult the vocab terms are.
The 18 Terms Covered In This Puzzle:
Acid Rain; Water Table; Topsoil; Cut bank; Delta; Water shed; Tributary; Abrasion; Transpiration; Nonpoint Source Pollution; Humus; Mechanical Weathering; Chemical Weathering; Permeability; Groundwater; Erosion; Deposition; Porosity.
Tarsia Vocabulary Puzzle: EARTHQUAKES & VOLCANOES
This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major Earthquakes & Volcanoes related vocabulary. You will cut up the triangles and students will have to arrange them in order to match definitions with the vocabulary terms.
ANSWER KEY is provided!
This is a great activity for test review or can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use them multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come!
Students can be working by themselves or in pairs/groups depending on the grade level and/or how difficult the vocab terms are.
The 18 Terms Covered In This Puzzle:
Primary waves; Body waves; Seismograph; Focus; Crater; Secondary waves; Hotspot; Ring of Fire; Epicenter; Composite Volcano; Convection; Richter scale; Shield volcano; L (surface) waves; Vent; Cinder cone volcano; Seismic waves; Earthquake.
Tarsia Puzzle - COSMOLOGY
This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major Cosmology related vocabulary. You will cut up the triangles and students will have to arrange them in order to match definitions with the vocabulary terms.
ANSWER KEY is provided!
This is a great activity for test review or can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use them multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come!
The 18 Terms Covered In This Puzzle:
Black hole; H-R diagram; Protostar; Nebula; Universe; Stars; Galaxy; Supernova; White dwarf; Main sequence; Black dwarf; Solar Nebula Theory; Big Bang Theory; Ligth year; Neutron star; Stellar evolution; Red giant; Red super giant.
Tarsia Puzzle - ATMOSPHERE
This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the vocabulary terms related to the Atmosphere. You will cut up the 16 triangles and students will have to arrange them in order to match definitions with the vocabulary terms and create one large triangle.
ANSWER KEY is provided!
This is a great activity for test review or can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use them multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come!
The 18 Terms Covered In This Puzzle:
Climate; Hadley Cell; Cyclone; Troposhere; Thermosphere; Angle of Incidence; Coriolis Effect; El Nino; Greenhouse Effect; Atmospheric Circulation Cells; Sea Breeze; Land Breeze; Convection; Global Warming; Condensation Nuclei; Albedo; Dimethyl Sulfide; Weather.
Tarsia Puzzle - ASTRONOMY
This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major Astronomy related vocabulary. You will cut up the triangles and students will have to arrange them in order to match definitions with the vocabulary terms.
ANSWER KEY is provided!
This is a great activity for test review or can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use them multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come!
Students can be working by themselves or in pairs/groups depending on the grade level and/or how difficult the vocab terms are.
The 18 Terms Covered In This Puzzle:
Terrestrial Planets; Revolve; Rotation; Outer Planets; Heliocentric; Meteor; Solstices; Equinoxes; Neap Tide; Sputnik; Spring Tide; Geocentric; Apollo 11; Asteroid Belt; Meteoroid; Meteorite; Jovian Planets; Comet.
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One Strange Rock: AWAKENING (S1E09)
Will Smith along with current and former astronauts question why, of all the life on earth, we are the only beings that evolved enough to leave this planet?.
ONE STRANGE ROCK is a 10-part series created by National Geographic in which it “explores the fragility and wonder of planet Earth, one of the most peculiar, unique places in the entire universe”. It’s the extraordinary story of why life as we know it exists on Earth, brought into perspective by the only people to have left it behind – astronauts. ONE STRANGE ROCK brings cameras where they’ve never been before, having filmed in 45 countries, on six continents and from outer space on the ISS.
This video worksheet has 38 questions. It includes a combination of fill-in-the blank, true/false, and/or short answer questions. Students will fill in the worksheet while watching ONE STRANGE ROCK. Watching is no longer a passive activity.
The video worksheet is printable, and NO prep is required*. The video worksheet is perfect for sub plans. An answer key is included.
ONE STRANGE ROCK include the following 10 episodes:
-One Strange Rock (Episode 1) - “Gasp”
-One Strange Rock (Episode 2) - “Storm”
-One Strange Rock (Episode 3) - “Shield”
-One Strange Rock (Episode 4) - “Genesis”
-One Strange Rock (Episode 5) - “Survival”
-One Strange Rock (Episode 6) - “Escape”
-One Strange Rock (Episode 7) - “Terraform”
-One Strange Rock (Episode 8) - “Alien”
-One Strange Rock (Episode 9) - “Awakening”
-One Strange Rock (Episode 10) - “Home”
This episode is included in the One Strange Rock Movie Guide BUNDLE.
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How Earth Made Us: HUMAN PLANET (S1E5)
This movie guide contains 44 short, fill-in-the-blank and open-ended questions based on BBC’s Documentary series “How Earth Made Us”. The documentary series explores how geology, geography and climate have influenced and continue to shape human history.
In this episode (Episode 5/5 - Human Planet) Dr. Iain Stewart explores the impact of humans on the planet and our future.
The worksheet is designed to keep students engaged and hold them accountable while watching the documentary. The questions are relative easy to answer while watching the movie and are not so complicated that they require a great deal of writing.
The video worksheet is printable and no prep is required. Answer key is provided.
If you like this movie guide, you may be interested in some of the other movie guides from the same BBC Earth series:
-How Earth Made Us: Deep Earth (Episode 1)
-How Earth Made Us: Water (Episode 2)
-How Earth Made Us: Wind (Episode 3)
-How Earth Made Us: Fire (Episode 4)
-How Earth Made Us: Human Planet (Episode 5)
This episode is also included in the How Earth Made Us Movie Guide BUNDLE
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This video worksheet allows students to follow along the Bill Nye video about “WIND” (Season 2, Episode 02).
Each video worksheet includes a combination of fill-in-the blank, true/false, and/or short answer questions. Students fill in the video worksheet while watching Bill Nye the Science Guy. Watching a video is no longer a passive activity!! Students are engaged during the video as they must listen and write at the same time.
This video worksheet has 14 questions. The video questions are relatively easy to answer while watching the video and are not so complicated that they require a great deal of writing. An answer key is included with this TES product.
The video worksheet is printable, and NO prep is required. I have also included a QR code link to the video. This means that students can do the worksheet on their own even if they are absent. The video worksheet is perfect for sub plans.
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This video worksheet* allows students to follow along the Bill Nye video about “RIVERS & STREAMS” (Season 4, Episode 1).
Each video worksheet includes a combination of fill-in-the blank, true/false, and/or short answer questions. Students fill in the video worksheet while watching Bill Nye the Science Guy. Watching a video is no longer a passive activity!! Students are engaged during the video as they must listen and write at the same time.
This video worksheet has 19 questions. The video questions are relatively easy to answer while watching the video and are not so complicated that they require a great deal of writing. An answer key is included with this TES product.
The video worksheet is printable, and NO prep is required. I have also included a QR code link to the video. This means that students can do the worksheet on their own even if they are absent. The video worksheet is perfect for sub plans.
Visit my TES store for more Bill Nye video worksheets and/or other movie guides.
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This video worksheet* allows students to follow along Bill Nye’s video about “FARMING” (Season 5, Episode 05).
Each video worksheet includes a combination of fill-in-the blank, true/false, and/or short answer questions. Students fill in the video worksheet while watching Bill Nye the Science Guy. Watching a video is no longer a passive activity!! Students are engaged during the video as they must listen and write at the same time.
This video worksheet has 18 questions. The video questions are relatively easy to answer while watching the video and are not so complicated that they require a great deal of writing. An answer key is included with this TES product.
The video worksheet is printable, and NO prep is required. I have also included a QR code link to the video. This means that students can do the worksheet on their own even if they are absent. The video worksheet is perfect for sub plans.
Visit my TES shop for more Bill Nye video worksheets and/or other movie guides.
Please don’t forget to leave feedback.
*Video is needed for completion of this TES product
