Earth Science A – Middle School

This course covers the first semester of Earth science. Students will explore Earth’s minerals and rocks, plate tectonics, geologic activity, and Earth’s history. Students will perform hands-on and virtual laboratory assignments. They will model weathering and erosion, analyze natural disasters and make predictions, utilize Google Earth to explore Earth’s surface, and create their own model representing rock layers and index fossils. 

Idaho Lab Science Requirement: This course fulfills the lab science requirement by the State of Idaho in that there are weekly opportunities to manipulate equipment, materials, specimens or develop skills in observation and analysis and discover, demonstrate, illustrate or test scientific principles or concepts. View full syllabus.