Middle and High School Geology
Teaching Resources for Middle and High School – Geology
Activities
The Life Cycle of a Mineral Deposit— A Teacher’s Guide for Hands-On Mineral Education Activities
About: Activity-based teaching guides designed to educate students about geology, plate tectonics, and mineral resources and how mineral resources are found, extracted, processed, and used.
Grades: The teaching guides are suited for the entire K-12 grade level range, but some may be best suited for the 5-8 or 9-12 grade levels (table 3).
Plate Tectonics Globe Activity - Instructions and Questions
About: This activity creates a mini globe that shows the major plate boundaries of the world. It provides each student with his or her own physical model of the Earth’s plates and helps teach how hard it is to accurately portray a sphere (three-dimensional) on a flat map (two-dimensional).
Grades: 6-12
Topics: Plate tectonics
Length: 2 class periods
Plate Tectonics Globe Activity - Map and Globe Cut-Out
About: Plate tectonics
tennis ball globe maps as part of the This Dynamic Planet lesson.
Grades: 6-12