Tarsia Puzzle: NORTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES AND CAPITALS In this activity, students will practice matching the names of 24 North American countries with their capitals, as they piece together the pieces of each tarsia puzzle. Students will match their answers with a separate puzzle piece until all the countries have ‘found’ their capital and the puzzle is completed. These GEOGRAPHY 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. This resource includes: 1 tarsia puzzle with 24 countries 1 answer key Teacher directions List of Countries Included: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, United States (USA) and Puerto Rico (USA). Suggestions for using this resource: Print multiple copies of each tarsia puzzle and place the pieces in separate plastic bags for safekeeping. Print the puzzles on colored paper if you find the black and white version too “dull”. Print the puzzles on large sized paper, if you want the pieces to be extra large. Laminate the puzzle pieces BEFORE your students cut them out. It will allow you to use them for years to come. Code the backside of each puzzle piece, so it is easier to find which plastic bag they belong to in case they get mixed up with other pieces. You might also be interested in these other resources: Tarsia Puzzle Template (Triangles) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Squares) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Large Hexagon) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Small Hexagon) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Decagon) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Domino) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Square w. Triangles) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Elongated HexagonSmall) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Elongated HexagonLarge) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Parallelogram) Be sure to follow my TES store and don’t forget to leave feedback if you liked my product! Happy Teaching!

Tarsia Puzzle: AFRICAN COUNTRIES AND CAPITALS (2 Puzzles) In this activity, students will practicematching all 54 African countries with their capitals, as they piece together the pieces of each tarsia puzzle. Students will match their answers with a separate puzzle piece until all the countries have ‘found’ their capital and the puzzle is completed. These GEOGRAPHY 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. This resource includes: 2 different tarsia puzzles; one with 30 countries/capitals and the another one with 24 countries/capitals 2 answer keys Teacher directions List of Countries Included: Algeria,Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Ivory Coast, Dem. Rep. of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Suggestions for using this resource: Print multiple copies of each tarsia puzzle and place the pieces in separate plastic bags for safekeeping. Print the puzzles on colored paper if you find the black and white version too “dull”. Print the puzzles on large sized paper, if you want the pieces to be extra large. Laminate the puzzle pieces BEFORE your students cut them out. It will allow you to use them for years to come. Code the backside of each puzzle piece, so it is easier to find which plastic bag they belong to in case they get mixed up with other pieces. Be sure to follow my TES store and don’t forget to leave feedback if you liked my product! Happy Teaching

Tarsia Puzzle: AFRICAN COUNTRIES AND FLAGS (2 Puzzles) In this activity, students will practicematching all 54 African countries with their flags, as they piece together the pieces of each tarsia puzzle. Students will match their answers with a separate puzzle piece until all the countries have ‘found’ their flag and the puzzle is completed. These GEOGRAPHY 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. This resource includes: 2 different tarsia puzzles; one with 30 countries/flags and the another one with 24 countries/flags 2 answer keys Teacher directions List of Countries Included: Algeria,Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Ivory Coast, Dem. Rep. of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Suggestions for using this resource: Print multiple copies of each tarsia puzzle and place the pieces in separate plastic bags for safekeeping. Print the puzzles on colored paper if you find the black and white version too “dull”. Print the puzzles on large sized paper, if you want the pieces to be extra large. Laminate the puzzle pieces BEFORE your students cut them out. It will allow you to use them for years to come. Code the backside of each puzzle piece, so it is easier to find which plastic bag they belong to in case they get mixed up with other pieces. Be sure to follow my TES store and don’t forget to leave feedback if you liked my product! Happy Teaching!

Tarsia Puzzle Template - PARALLELOGRAM Enjoy this blank and editable Tarsia Puzzle TEMPLATE. You can enter your own text, or change the template as needed (Q1 = question 1, A1 = answer 1, Q2 = question 2, A2 = answer 2, etc.). You can simply enter text, print, and cut. You can either use the smaller version or the bigger version. It can be used in any subject area to review concepts, vocabulary, or facts. Tarsia Puzzles are a great activity for test reviews and can be glued into interactive notebooks. If you choose to use the puzzle pieces multiple times (e.g. for different classrooms), be sure to laminate the cards so you can use them for years to come! If you like this Tarsia Puzzle, you might be interested in some of my other editable vocab templates: Tarsia Puzzle Template (Triangles) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Squares) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Large Hexagon) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Small Hexagon) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Decagon) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Domino) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Square w. Triangles) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Elongated Hexagon_Small) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Elongated Hexagon_Large) Tarsia Puzzle Template (Parallelogram) Be sure to follow my TES store and don’t forget to leave feedback if you liked my product! If you found this product useful, please leave feedback. Happy Teaching.

Tarsia Vocabulary Puzzle - SEDIMENTARY ROCKS This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major Sedimentary 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: Organic Sedimentary Rocks; Clastic Sedimentary Rocks; Chemical Sedimentary Rocks; Coquina; Erosion; Sandstone; Deposition; Limestone; Breccia; Lithification; Sediments; Conglomerate; Cementation; Weathering; Composition; Rock Cycle; Shale; Sedimentary Rocks.

Tarsia Vocabulary Puzzle - ROCKS This fun vocabulary puzzle helps students review some of the major Rock 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: Compaction; Cementation; Sedimentary Rocks; Deposition; Clastic Sedimentary; Extrusive; Foliated; Magma; Rock Cycle; Igneous; Weathering; Metamorphic; Intrusive; Texture; Sediments; Mafic; Heat & Pressure; Felsic.

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. Don’t forget to leave feedback.

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 - 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.

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. Visit my TES store for more video worksheets and/or movie guides. Please don’t forget to leave feedback.

Earth - The Power of the Planet: RARE EARTH (S1E05) This video worksheet contains 41 short, fill-in-the-blank and open-ended questions based on BBC’s Documentary series “Earth - The Power of the Planet”. In this fifth and final episode, Dr. Iain Stewart looks at the big picture of Earth’s place in space. It’s taken four and a half billions years and several great catastrophes to turn it from a barren rock to the unique planet we know today… 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: -Earth - The Power of the Planet: VOLCANO (Episode 1) -Earth - The Power of the Planet: ATMOSPHERE (Episode 2) -Earth - The Power of the Planet: ICE (Episode 3) -Earth - The Power of the Planet: OCEANS (Episode 4) -Earth - The Power of the Planet: RARE EARTH (Episode 5) This episode is also included in the The Power of the Planet Movie Guide BUNDLE Visit my TES store for more video worksheets and/or movie guides. Don’t forget to leave feedback if you like my product! Happy Teaching! ⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊ Copyright © 2023 Students of Science. All rights Reserved. The purchase of this resource gives the buyer permission to download and copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution is also limited to single classroom use. Copying for other teachers, school-wide use, or for school systems is only allowed with the purchase of additional licenses.

How to Grow A Planet: THE CHALLENGER (S1E03) HOW TO GROW A PLANET is a 3 part documentary series created by BBC, in which Dr. Iain Stewart tells a stunning new story about our planet. In the third and last episode, Dr. Iain Stewart discovers the remarkable impact of just one plant: grass. On the savannah of South Africa he sees how grass unleashed a firestorm to fight its greatest enemy, the forests. He shows how cutting your finger on a blade of grass shows us how it transformed life in the oceans. In Senegal, he meets the cleverest chimps in the world. This video worksheet has 36 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 “How to Grow a Planet”. Watching a documentary 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. If you like this movie guide, you may be interested in some of the other movie guides from the same BBC Earth series: -How to Grow a Planet - Life from Light (Episode 1) -How to Grow a Planet - The Power of Flowers (Episode 2) -How to Grow a Planet - The Challenger (Episode 3) Visit my TES store for more video worksheets and/or movie guides. Don’t forget to leave feedback if you like my product! Happy Teaching! ⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊⚊ Copyright © 2024 Students of Science. All rights Reserved. The purchase of this resource gives the buyer permission to download and copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution is also limited to single classroom use. Copying for other teachers, school-wide use, or for school systems is only allowed with the purchase of additional licenses.

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 Please don’t forget to leave feedback. Happy Teaching!