earth science

This website is focused primarily on school gardens, but there's little here that couldn't be done as easily by homeschoolers.  The "Classroom projects" section includes a wide variety of gardening related projects-- from poetry and photography to meteorology to cooking and food preservation and more.  "Thematic explorations" has information to help you plan your learning garden, including ideas for families without much space to devote to the project.  If you want even more, check out the "pollinator curriculum", a free complete curriculum for upper elementary, which seems i

Virtual age-dating is an interactive tool that describes how geologists and archeologists are able to determine the age of samples.  Aimed at high school level and above, but an interested middle school level child could grasp the concepts introduced with help.  Students should be familiar with the concept of ions , percentages and how to read data off a graph to do the exercise.  FWIW, I think the scale of some of the graphs are poorly chosen, and make it difficult to be as precise as the exercise requires; a per

Physical Geography deals with Eartch Science and why the Earth is the way it is, it doesn't deal with political boundaries, or humanity much at all.  Geography4kids is friendly, thorough website with lots of pictures that teaches about physical geography.  Ideal for an enthusiastic upper elementary level student up through adults.