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SEL activities for Prentice Hall Earth Science
23 RoseThread Connect activities matched to the chapters of Prentice Hall Earth Science (Pearson (Prentice Hall)). Each one teaches the chapter's content and builds one Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) skill in about 20 minutes.
We look only at each book's table of contents (chapter titles and topics) to suggest activities that fit the flow of your course. We don't use or reproduce any textbook content, and your edition's chapter order may differ slightly. RoseThread Connect is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by these publishers.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Earth Science
- Scientist of This Place Self-awareness · Earth and Environmental ScienceStudents map the land, water, and people that shape their lives and name the kind of environmental scientist they want to become.
- Spheres That Interact Social awareness · Earth and Environmental ScienceAnalyzing data on feedbacks among Earth's spheres and seeing how one person's change ripples through a group.
- Field Teams Relationship skills · Earth and Environmental ScienceTeams plan a schoolyard soil and water investigation and agree on how to repair conflicts in the field.
Chapter 3: Rocks
- Rocks Tell Stories Relationship skills · Earth and Environmental ScienceExplaining how the valley and its mountains formed and sharing stories about places, real or imagined, respectfully.
- Cycling Matter Through Earth Responsible decision-making · Earth and Environmental ScienceModeling the carbon cycle across all of Earth's spheres and deciding which personal actions most affect it.
Chapter 4: Earth's Resources
- Where Our Water Comes From Self-awareness · Earth and Environmental ScienceTracing valley water from the Colorado River and the aquifer to the tap and reflecting on what we take for granted.
- Groundwater Overdraft Self-management · Earth and Environmental ScienceComputing aquifer withdrawals and recharge and planning a personal habit that stays in balance like a budget.
- Saving Every Drop Relationship skills · Earth and Environmental ScienceTeams design a water saving solution for school landscaping and build on each other's ideas.
- Resource Costs and Benefits Responsible decision-making · Earth and Environmental ScienceEvaluating the costs and benefits of mining and energy strategies and making decisions with both head and heart.
- Lithium Valley Relationship skills · Earth and Environmental ScienceGathering multiple perspectives on lithium extraction and communicating a position honestly to community stakeholders.
- Designing for Sustainability Responsible decision-making · Earth and Environmental ScienceDefining a local environmental problem with criteria and constraints and choosing one that matters personally.
Chapter 5: Weathering, Soil, and Mass Movements
- Soil Is Alive Self-awareness · Earth and Environmental ScienceInvestigating how water and organisms build soil and reflecting on what helps students put down roots in a new semester.
- Feeding the Nation from the Desert Social awareness · Earth and Environmental ScienceArguing how water and climate made the valley a winter vegetable center and honoring the farmworkers who make it happen.
Chapter 6: Running Water and Groundwater
- Where Our Water Comes From Self-awareness · Earth and Environmental ScienceTracing valley water from the Colorado River and the aquifer to the tap and reflecting on what we take for granted.
- The Shrinking Salton Sea Social awareness · Earth and Environmental ScienceSimulating the Salton Sea water balance and listening to how shrinking shorelines affect nearby families and wildlife.
- Groundwater Overdraft Self-management · Earth and Environmental ScienceComputing aquifer withdrawals and recharge and planning a personal habit that stays in balance like a budget.
- Flash Floods in the Desert Self-management · Earth and Environmental ScienceInvestigating why dry desert soil sheds water and practicing calm, step by step decisions in emergencies.
Chapter 7: Glaciers, Deserts, and Wind
- Dust and Breath Responsible decision-making · Earth and Environmental ScienceAnalyzing air quality data near the exposed lakebed and evaluating fair solutions for communities with high asthma rates.
- Flash Floods in the Desert Self-management · Earth and Environmental ScienceInvestigating why dry desert soil sheds water and practicing calm, step by step decisions in emergencies.
Chapter 8: Earthquakes and Earth's Interior
- Living on a Fault Self-awareness · Earth and Environmental ScienceExplaining how the San Andreas Fault shapes where people live and naming the feelings that natural hazards bring up.
Chapter 9: Plate Tectonics
- Living on a Fault Self-awareness · Earth and Environmental ScienceExplaining how the San Andreas Fault shapes where people live and naming the feelings that natural hazards bring up.
Chapter 12: Geologic Time
- Rocks Tell Stories Relationship skills · Earth and Environmental ScienceExplaining how the valley and its mountains formed and sharing stories about places, real or imagined, respectfully.
Chapter 13: Earth's History
- Rocks Tell Stories Relationship skills · Earth and Environmental ScienceExplaining how the valley and its mountains formed and sharing stories about places, real or imagined, respectfully.
Chapter 17: The Atmosphere: Structure and Temperature
- Dust and Breath Responsible decision-making · Earth and Environmental ScienceAnalyzing air quality data near the exposed lakebed and evaluating fair solutions for communities with high asthma rates.
- Urban Heat Islands Social awareness · Earth and Environmental ScienceMeasuring surface temperatures around campus and considering who lives and works in the hottest places.
- Working in the Heat Social awareness · Earth and Environmental ScienceCommunicating the warning signs of heat illness for farmworkers and athletes and practicing noticing when someone needs help.
Chapter 18: Moisture, Clouds, and Precipitation
- Rain Shadow Self-management · Earth and Environmental ScienceModeling how mountains wring water from the air before it reaches the valley and noticing what drains or protects our emotional reserves.
- Flash Floods in the Desert Self-management · Earth and Environmental ScienceInvestigating why dry desert soil sheds water and practicing calm, step by step decisions in emergencies.
Chapter 19: Air Pressure and Wind
- Dust and Breath Responsible decision-making · Earth and Environmental ScienceAnalyzing air quality data near the exposed lakebed and evaluating fair solutions for communities with high asthma rates.
Chapter 20: Weather Patterns and Severe Storms
- Flash Floods in the Desert Self-management · Earth and Environmental ScienceInvestigating why dry desert soil sheds water and practicing calm, step by step decisions in emergencies.
Chapter 21: Climate
- Rain Shadow Self-management · Earth and Environmental ScienceModeling how mountains wring water from the air before it reaches the valley and noticing what drains or protects our emotional reserves.
- Reading Climate Clues Self-awareness · Earth and Environmental ScienceAnalyzing ice core and tree ring evidence of past climates and noticing the feelings that arise when data points to change.
- Urban Heat Islands Social awareness · Earth and Environmental ScienceMeasuring surface temperatures around campus and considering who lives and works in the hottest places.
- Working in the Heat Social awareness · Earth and Environmental ScienceCommunicating the warning signs of heat illness for farmworkers and athletes and practicing noticing when someone needs help.
- Climate Models Responsible decision-making · Earth and Environmental ScienceComparing climate model projections and weighing uncertainty without sliding into denial or despair.
- From Worry to Action Self-management · Earth and Environmental ScienceExplaining how human activity and Earth systems interact and practicing a worry to action routine for climate stress.
RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.