Teach Earth & Space Science - STEM Resources for Educators

By Amy Cowen on October 7, 2024 6:00 AM

Teaching Science Units with Science Buddies - Earth Science activities like modeling bodies of water and landforms

Discover Earth & Space Science Lessons for Your K-12 Classroom

What are you teaching this week? Next week? Next month?

When do you teach Earth & Space Science? What topics do you cover to meet your curriculum needs? The water cycle? The solar system? Weather and climate? Landforms and ocean sciences?

We know educators spend a lot of time searching for quality lessons to fit their curriculum needs each year. You want quality materials that align with your class objectives, materials that are easy to use, thoughtfully designed and prepared, and help bring concepts to life with hands-on experiments and activities that really work.

Science Buddies offers quality resources for K-12 STEM education for free!

To make it easy to find free STEM lessons and activities that fit your classroom needs, we've created a series of posts that highlight lessons, activities, and experiments that are hand-picked for educators who will be teaching specific subjects.

Teaching Earth & Space Science

Our STEM resource collections for teaching K-12 Earth & Space Science are listed below:

Water cycle models in plastic bag and plastic container and model river bed in aluminum pan to represent collection of STEM lessons and activities to teach about the water cycle

Pocket solar system, play dough models of planets, and pool ball and marbles on a large piece of fabric to explore gravity to represent collection of STEM lessons and activities to teach about the solar system

Water cycle model in a plastic bag, homemade thermometer, and anemometer made from small cups to represent collection of STEM lessons and activities to teach about weather

Sun and Solar Science Projects and Lessons

Explore ocean sciences with science projects, lessons, and experiments, including looking at wave formation in a bottle

Paper helicopter, models of planets, and candy core samples to represent collection of space science and Mars-focused STEM lessons and activities

Teaching Science Curriculum — Earth & Space Science

The following curated collections to support teaching K-12 Earth & Space Science are available:

STEM Education Materials You Can Trust

With more than 200 NGSS-aligned Lesson Plans and more than 450 STEM Activities that are perfect for classroom use, we have engaging, high-interest, scientist-authored learning materials in a wide range of topic areas and for all grade levels.

Our extensive library of resources for STEM education makes us a trusted, go-to resource for educators around the world.

To view all available curated collections that map to topics you may teach in your classroom, see Curated STEM Resources for Teaching Science Curriculum.