6th Grade Questions:
Earth Science
What exactly is soil?
What makes soil good for growing crops?
Why is soil so important?
How much soil is available on the Earth?
What is an example of physical weathering?
What is an example of chemical weathering?
What is weathering, erosion, and deposition? How do they change earth?
Describe the layers of the earth.
What is so different about the inner and outer core?
What are tectonic plates and how do/did they change earth?
What type of rocks can we find on earth? What do they look like?
Why do earthquakes happen?
Why do volcanoes form?
How do weathering, erosion, and deposition change the Earth's surface?
What did you learn about erosion from the bottle erosion lab?
What are the three main types of rocks?
How does an igneous rock form?
What is the difference between an intrusive and extrusive igneous rock?
Have your child look at some different rocks and make predictions what type they may be.
How does a sedimentary rock form?
What is a metamorphic rock? How do they form?
Can you explain the rock cycle? What are some different processes?
How did you model the rock cycle using a Snickers candy bar?
A fun activity you could do with you child is start a rock collection. Use the following website to help determine what type of rocks that you are collecting: Rock Collection Website
Why did Wegener think that the continents moved in the past and continue to move?
What is Pangaea?
What are plate tectonics and how do they impact earth's surface?
What are the three different types of plate boundaries?
How can mountains form? How did the Himalayan Mountains form?
How can volcanoes form?
What is the Marianna's Trench and how did it form?
How did the Great Rift Valley Form?
How do earthquakes form?
Why are there some places that have bigger earthquakes that other places?
Why do we not have large earthquakes here in Michigan?
What is a seismic wave?
7th Grade Questions:
Earth Science:
What is the water cycle?
What are the different processes in the water cycle?
Why is freshwater such an important natural resource?
Where is most water on the Earth?
Where is most freshwater on the Earth?
Where do humans get most of their freshwater?
What can humans do to protect freshwater?
What is the hydrosphere?
What is the biosphere?
What is the geosphere?
What is the atmosphere?
How can an event in one "sphere" impact the other "spheres"?
How are elephants being treated in Africa? What are people doing to help?
Why are oil spills so harmful to the biosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere?
What is the atmosphere?
What is in the atmosphere? What gases make up the atmosphere?
What are the different layers of the atmosphere?
Describe the different layers of the atmosphere?
Where to jets fly?
Where to satellites orbit?
Where do the Northern Lights occur in the atmosphere?.
What gasses make up the atmosphere?
What is the nitrogen cycle?
What is our role in the nitrogen cycle?
What is the carbon cycle?
How do we negatively impact the carbon cycle?
What small changes can we make to reduce our carbon footprint?
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
What is the deal with Global Warming?
What impacts is Global Warming having on plants and animals?
What is your "just 1 thing" to make a difference?
What are different ways historian learn about ancient people and civilizations?
What is the difference between weather and climate?
What is the weather going to be like tomorrow?
What is going to happen to the temperatures in the spring?
Look up in the sky and ask your child to tell you what type of cloud is in the sky today.
Why are there days that are windy and days that are calm?
What are the different types of precipitation?
How do different types of precipitation form?
Why has our weather been so warm this winter?
Why have we had more rain than snow this winter?
What could have caused the strong winds the night before Christmas Eve?
Watch the weather with your child. Have them explain to you what exactly is going on.
What type of air mass is in Northern Michigan today?
Earth Science:
What is the water cycle?
What are the different processes in the water cycle?
Why is freshwater such an important natural resource?
Where is most water on the Earth?
Where is most freshwater on the Earth?
Where do humans get most of their freshwater?
What can humans do to protect freshwater?
What is the hydrosphere?
What is the biosphere?
What is the geosphere?
What is the atmosphere?
How can an event in one "sphere" impact the other "spheres"?
How are elephants being treated in Africa? What are people doing to help?
Why are oil spills so harmful to the biosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere?
What is the atmosphere?
What is in the atmosphere? What gases make up the atmosphere?
What are the different layers of the atmosphere?
Describe the different layers of the atmosphere?
Where to jets fly?
Where to satellites orbit?
Where do the Northern Lights occur in the atmosphere?.
What gasses make up the atmosphere?
What is the nitrogen cycle?
What is our role in the nitrogen cycle?
What is the carbon cycle?
How do we negatively impact the carbon cycle?
What small changes can we make to reduce our carbon footprint?
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
What is the deal with Global Warming?
What impacts is Global Warming having on plants and animals?
What is your "just 1 thing" to make a difference?
What are different ways historian learn about ancient people and civilizations?
What is the difference between weather and climate?
What is the weather going to be like tomorrow?
What is going to happen to the temperatures in the spring?
Look up in the sky and ask your child to tell you what type of cloud is in the sky today.
Why are there days that are windy and days that are calm?
What are the different types of precipitation?
How do different types of precipitation form?
Why has our weather been so warm this winter?
Why have we had more rain than snow this winter?
What could have caused the strong winds the night before Christmas Eve?
Watch the weather with your child. Have them explain to you what exactly is going on.
What type of air mass is in Northern Michigan today?
8th Grade Questions:
Earth & Space Science:
Why does the moon look different throughout the month from earth?
What type of moon are you seeing each night?
Why do we have seasons?
If it is summer in Northern Michigan was is it like in Brazil?
What is a solar eclipse? Why do they happen?
What is a lunar eclipse? Why do they happen?
What is a gravity well? How can you build one at home?
How does gravity affect objects in space?
What two factors impact gravitational pull?
What is in the Solar System?
Describe the distances between the inner planets and outer planets?
Compare the inner planets to the outer planets.
Why do some stars look brighter than others in the night sky?
Why do object in our sky look like they are moving across the sky?
What are the different types of stars?
What type of star in the sun?
What can we learn by looking at an H-R diagram?