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24 July 2025

zip, 89.84 MB
zip, 89.84 MB

Using fill-in-the-gaps and drag-and-drop activities to explore the carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles keeps middle and high school students actively engaged, which research shows deepens understanding and retention. Instead of passively reading or listening, learners must recall and apply their knowledge by labeling essential steps and processes, prompting them to think critically about how these cycles interact. The hands-on nature of these tasks encourages discussion and collaboration, helping students solidify scientific terminology like nitrogen fixation or evaporation in real-world contexts. Moreover, the immediate feedback provided by these interactive exercises allows students to correct misunderstandings on the spot, making complex biogeochemical concepts more accessible and less intimidating. Ultimately, these dynamic methods spark curiosity, encourage problem-solving, and lay a strong foundation for future ecological or environmental science studies. With this in mind, let’s engage with this excellent learning resource that makes a flexible addition to any lesson plan!

This Earth cycles 2 activity set provides a truly engaging set of ways to engage students. This resource can help your students spark learning about Earth cycles. For digital, you can provide a fill in the gaps version and a drag and drop activity.

Ideal for reviewing or opening content for this topic, collaborative work, or independent work, it helps reinforce key topics while using a visual angle for educating on the Nitrogen cycle, the Carbon cycle and the Water cycle. This ready-to-use resource is perfect for last-minute lesson plans, sub plans, or as an easy extension activity to get students looking at these systems in a different kind of way but through graphics.

THIS EARTH CYCLES VISUALS ACTIVITIES RESOURCE CAN BE USED SO MANY WAYS:

  • Useful for substitute (sub) teaching
  • To extend students
  • To increase engagement & curiosity
  • A visual throughout lessons when and as needed
  • Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast
  • Get students to act as a group of science detectives to complete these and fix misconceptions

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THIS EARTH CYCLES VISUALS ACTIVITIES RESOURCE:

  • 3 visuals - 1 for each of the Earth Cycles - Nitrogen, Carbon. The mapping of these cycles is done for a more and less advanced version for both the Nitrogen and Carbon cycles leading to easy differentiation.
  • The 5 visual maps are available in both fill in the gaps / drag and drop formats both in Google Slides format and the fill in the gaps format is available in PDF print format.

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Earth Cycles Complete Unit | Carbon Nitrogen Water Cycles | 7th 8th 9th Grade

This Earth Cycles (Carbon, Nitrogen, Water Cycles) Complete Unit is perfect for middle school science, earth science or biology / life science in order to give students the basics and more regarding these incredibly important earth science cycles. Students can learn through reading, research, theory slides (lecturing), worksheets with problems, critical thinking development, collaborative learning, gamified learning and hands-on interactives. The range is excellent, the resources are sleek, slick and professional for middle / high school students to really bring an air of professional learning for students. Now including an implementation guide as well - including suggested prompts / real world connections for further connections on relevant resources, proposed essential questions and definitions and eight proposed routes through this unit - four comprehensive and four more rapid pathways with lesson by lesson breakdown which are Theory first separate cycles, Theory first mixed cycles, Investigation first separate cycles and Investigation first mixed cycles including learning objectives for each lesson as well. This unit bundle is currently one of my best products to date and is just bursting with great value. It has so much content that covers these topics and the fringes of them, that you can pick and choose how you approach the unit and what you want to front-load, prioritize and which skills you want to focus on building with your students. It is truly a great resource and offering from me to you. It has 149 pages, 144 slides & a supporting implementation guide of content covering so much engaging materials it is a great addition to any classroom. THIS EARTH CYCLES (CARBON, NITROGEN & WATER CYCLES) UNIT HAS SO MUCH VALUE! * Nitrogen Cycle Dice Based Game * Earth Cycles Presentation Slides * Earth Cycles Hexagonal Thinking * Earth Cycles 19 Worksheet Set * The Carbon Cycle - interactive exploration * Critical Thinking Framework - The Water Cycle * Critical Thinking Framework - The Carbon Cycle * The Carbon Cycle Research Project Template * The Nitrogen Cycle Research Project Template * The Water Cycle Research Project Template * Science Article - The Carbon Cycle * Science Article - The Nitrogen Cycle * Science Article - The Water Cycle * Science Article - How does water flow underground? * Science Article - Ocean & Atmosphere Carbon * Water Cycle - Pollution Case Study * Earth Cycles Fill in the gaps / Drag and drop Activity * Earth Cycles Strange but true facts / 2 truths and lie activity It has 18 products and teaches students through a variety of engaging teaching methods with different content, skills focus and support for learning. I have done hundreds of hours of prep, so you don't have to.

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