Objective: Explore the fascinating worlds of geology, oceans, meteorology, and astronomy. Explore a topic each week. Choose one topic from each week and cycle back the following month to explore further. Use each as a jumping off point for deepening our understanding of earth and space.
Week 1 Geology: Explore rocks with touch, eyes, and ears. Collect rocks and make up activities with them. (Ex: Put them in a box and call out a description; smooth, jagged, light, etc, and pull out all rocks that fit that description.) Research one or more of the following:
- Earth’s layers (Printable) (Article)
- Natural land forms (Interactive) (Website)
- Volcanoes (Video) (Interactive)
- Earthquakes (Video)
Week 2 Ocean: Study the earth’s diverse marine environments. Look at the globe and choose an ocean to focus on. Discuss and explore one or more of the following concepts:
- Ocean circulation and water movement (Video)
- Marine biology
- Ocean energy (Article)
- Waves (Video)
- The link between rocks, biology, and chemistry (Article)
- Ocean ecology (Activities)
3. Week 3 Meteorology: Understand earth’s weather.
- World Weather Information Service (Interactive)
- Weather Report for Kids (Interactive)
- Seasonal weather patterns (Video)
- Study severe weather (Video):
Week 4 Astronomy: Check out the sky today and tonight, compare the differences. Direct the focus on one or more the following topics :
- The sun, stars, and gas (Video)
- The moon cycle (La Luna) (Video) and lunar geology (Video)
- Planets (Video) and galaxies (Video)
- Meteors, gas, and dust (Video)
- Comets (Interactive)
