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6-8 Core Curriculum – Earth and Space Science:
Take your students on a wild ride to the center of the earth with this interactive and hands-on exploration of the layers of the earth, tectonic plates, earthquakes, volcanoes, and more! Highlights include 20 hands-on activities and experiments to engage your children and provide a multisensory exploration of earth’s geologic processes. Each chapter includes web links to multiple videos, hands-on activities, experiments, readings, worksheets, charts, interactive websites, games, full-color high resolution graphics, and more!
Take a peek inside:
The core, mantle and crust of the earth
Faults, folds and joints
Material composition of earth’s layers
Diamonds in the earth’s mantle
Jules Verne’s A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Connections between astronomy and geology
Geologic time
Alfred Wegener and Continental Drift Theory
Tectonic plate theory
Pangaea
Convergent, divergent and transform plate boundaries
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Tsunamis
Causes of natural disasters
Predicting natural disasters
Measuring natural disasters
Safety tips for natural disasters
Ancient cultural views of earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis
The Ring of Fire
Geophysicists, volcanologists, and seismologists
Pompeii
2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
and much more!
All 51 activities in this unit study are presented in an easy to follow format with an active and updated web link. Click on the link and the best resources on the World Wide Web appear for your children. The links bring the world to your children by providing streaming videos, interactive web sites, educational games, audio files, and more. At Intellego Unit Studies, we believe in the varied learning styles and multiple intelligences of every child. That’s why all of our unit studies include reading and writing activities, videos, art, music, comparisons, drawing and painting, discussions, hands-on activities, art projects, full-color high resolution graphics, printable activity pages, and more!
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At Intellego Unit Studies, our mission is to provide engaging curriculum that meets the need of the 21st century student. Using the best resources available on the Internet, Intellego Unit Studies unites technology, learning style theory, and multisensory activities to help children reach their true academic potential.
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At Intellego Unit Studies, we provide comprehensive and complete K-8 curriculum in social studies and science. In addition, we provide multidisciplinary unit studies for electives and enrichment in the areas of science, history, art, music, civics, cultures, and popular interest.
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At Intellego Unit Studies, we are inspired by the inquisitive nature of children and the nurturing adults who guide their learning.
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Before Intellego Unit Studies was created, we listened as children and parents complained that their curriculum was boring, inadequate, limiting, out-dated, or just plain ineffective.
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Quality curriculum that replaces dumbing down with high expectations for students.
Engaging curriculum that supports active learning.
Creative activities that support parental involvement in their children’s education.
Comprehensive curriculum that teaches from multiple viewpoints.
Multisensory curriculum that contains more than just reading and writing activities.
Secular curriculum that respects the religious and spiritual beliefs of all people.
Multicultural curriculum that recognizes the past, present and future of racial and cultural minorities.
Reliable web-linked curriculum that brings your family the best resources on the Internet.
Easy to use curriculum that does not require extensive prep time.
Research-based curriculum that supports the learning needs of your children.
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