Earth Science slideshows, lesson plans, and other resourcesChemistry slideshows, lesson plans, and other resourcesIntermediate Level Science (ILS) resources

Courses and Conference Presentations

Teaching about Climate and Climate Change in Bergen County  pdf    pptx“CREATING CHALLENGES FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE: OCEAN ACIDIFICATION” (NSTA STEM SF 2019)     
“MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: IMPROVE YOUR TEACHING ABOUT WEATHER AND CLIMATE” (NSTA STEM SF 2019) “SO YOU ARE TEACHING EARTH SCIENCE NOW–WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW?” 
“EARTH SYSTEMS: KEEPING IT RELEVANT THROUGH STABILITY AND CHANGE”HOW WEATHERWISE ARE YOU and YOUR STUDENTS?”
“ARE YOU READY TO TEACH ABOUT CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE?”“TEACHING ABOUT WEATHER AND CLIMATE” 
TEACHING ABOUT ASTRONOMY”“TEACHING ABOUT MINERALS, ROCKS, AND RESOURCES”
“FROM THE ICE AGE TO SEA LEVEL RISE–CONNECTING THE HACKENSACK RIVER’S PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE”Look at the Sky and Tell the Weather: The Art of Eric Sloane
Understanding and Teaching Climate Change

Special Activities and Lesson Plans

“Look at the Sky” — The  Weather Art of Eric Sloane”“Teaching Earth Science with 70,000 Years of Art” 
Seeking Patterns in Ground-Level Ozone Pollution and Temperature through an Exploratory Data Analysis”“Ozone-Temperature Activity Data Sets” (.xlsx)
Example of the data tables and graphs that can be created in this activity“Tales of the Resolution” Reading Activities
“Brief Geologic History of Bergen County and the Flat Rock Brook Nature Center”“Dox Rox Time Travel: Geologic History of the Hackensack River Basin”
“The Dwarskill Mastodon Dig and the 6 Great Extinctions“Phenology and Climate Patterns”
“Hudson River Ice Closings and Openings 1789 – 1856”“Let There Be Water — In Israel and New Jersey”
Circle Line Virtual Field TripTeaching about  Weather, Climate and Climate Change in Bergen County