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Learning about economic Earth science topics is important because they explore how Earth’s natural resources, such as minerals, fossil fuels, and water, contribute to economies and sustain human activities. Understanding these topics helps us manage resources responsibly, develop sustainable practices, and address challenges like resource depletion and environmental impact. This knowledge is vital for balancing economic growth with ecological preservation and ensuring a sustainable future. This bundle covers the topics of precious metal consumption, deforestation and fossil fuels origins and use. Also mining & ore, crystals and ocean garbage patches too. With this in mind, let’s dig into these excellent earth science articles!

This set of 7 science articles provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can supplement lessons. It is a set of articles with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking. I am very proud of this series of science articles and they are rich with information and wonder at the majesty of science. Each science article includes a fun fact(s) to add to the knowledge gained from this article. Formatted in an easy to read and digest manner, each paragraph is numbered to help with referencing and each question answer has a paragraph reference number to point to the specific information (where applicable).

WHY / WHEN TO USE:

• Useful for substitute (sub) teaching
• To extend students
• To increase scientific literacy in your class
• A weekly reading task
• Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast
• To inspire students on a particular topic
• Give a selection of these articles for students to choose from

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

• 7 - 3 page Word doc teacher version with answers
• 7 - 2 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
• 7 - 3 page PDF teacher version with answers
• 7 - 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so)
• 7 - 3 page Google doc teacher version with answers
• 7 - 2 page Google doc student version with room to fill answers (text boxes)

More will be coming to cover other subjects and other topics, so please do keep an eye out for more science articles from The Teaching Astrophysicist!