Georgia Perimeter College
Earth & Space Science
for Middle School Teachers

Dr. Pamela Gore
Georgia Perimeter College

Helpful web resourcess
Georgia Performance Standards - Sixth Grade Earth Science Curriculum
Earth & Space Science Lesson Plans (from Grade 5 under old QCC's)
Earth Science Lesson Plans (from Grade 8 under old QCC's)
SciLinks from NSTA. For more information see this page.
DLESE - Digital library for earth system education
Earth Science World
National Science Education Standards
Benchmarks for Science Literacy - Project 2061
Middle Grades Science Textbooks and Benchmarks evaluation
Investigating Earth Systems.
See list of modules on the left side in the yellow bar. Click on each module (such as Rocks and Landforms, etc.) and you get a page with a number of "Investigations" in a gray bar on the left. Click on each investigation, for a list of relevant web sites.
CUES - Constructing Understanding of Earth Systems.
Click on Geosphere, on the left side, and then click on the "Chapters" on the right side and get web links (in blue boxes in middle of page). This section has animations of processes, etc.
NYC performance stds index
List of geology animations
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Teacher resources at US Dept of Education
Exploring Earth - visualizations


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Page created by Pamela J.W. Gore
Georgia Perimeter College,
Clarkston, GA

Page created May 4, 2005
Updated April 11, 2006