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K-6 Science Resources

Earth Science
Plate Tectonics and Earth’s Structure
1. Plate tectonics explains important features of the Earth’s surface and major geologic events.
  
Shaping the Earth’s Surface
2. Topography is reshaped by weathering of rock and soil and by the transportation and deposition of sediment.
Exotic Images and Sounds, Glacier Bay, Alaska Glacier pictures with audio comments from the photographer.
Italian Landslide Photos
  
Physical Science
Heat (Thermal Energy)
3. Heat moves in a predictable flow from warmer objects to cooler objects until all objects are at the same temperature.
The Atoms Family Activities from the Miami Museum of Science.  Some are interactive!
  
Energy in the Earth System
4. Many phenomena on the Earth’s surface are affected by the transfer of energy through radiation and convection currents.
Convection Current Experiment directions
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA
 
Resources
5. Sources of energy and materials differ in amounts, distribution, usefulness, and the time required for their formation.
Energy Quest
Energy Resources Program - USGS
 
Life Science
Ecology
6. Organisms in ecosystems exchange energy and nutrients among themselves and with the environment.
Environmental Education for Kids
EPA Student Center