Complete 20 Earth Science Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions

This set of 20 earth science articles (6 of these with dual articles) on tectonic plates, erosion and deposition and tornadoes and hurricanes covers a great amount of excellent earth science topics. It also covers volcanoes, crystals and rain, fog & clouds plus even more. Now including animal terraforming, ocean garbage patches and dinosaur fossils. Further it has articles on Earth's core, hydrogeology and soil formation. These earth science articles help teach science literacy and more importantly earth science literacy.

Specifically the topics covered in this bundle are: Tectonic plates, the atmosphere (dual reading passages), Earth history, Waves & tides, Tornadoes & hurricanes, Rain, fog & clouds (dual reading passages), Erosion & deposition, Mining & ore, Crystals, Volcanoes, Animal terraforming, The coldest desert, Growing deserts (dual reading passages), Stalactites and stalagmites, Dinosaur fossils, Hydrogeology (dual reading passages), Earth's core, Soil formation (dual reading passages), Earth's magnetic field (dual reading passages) & ocean garbage patches.

These 20 earth science articles (with 6 dual reading passages - meaning 26 passages in total!) provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can help your students learn all about earth science and scientific vocabulary. For digital, you can provide a Google doc copy for ease of submission or a Microsoft word version as well. In these articles with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking.

THESE EARTH SCIENCE ARTICLES CAN BE USED SO MANY WAYS:

• 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 IN THESE EARTH SCIENCE ARTICLES:

Single Reading Passages

• 14 - 3 page Word doc teacher version with answers
• 14 - 2 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
• 14 - 3 page PDF teacher version with answers
• 14 - 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so)
• 14 - 3 page Google doc teacher version with answers
• 14 - 2 page Google doc student version with room to fill answers (text boxes)

Dual Reading Passages (2 passages on these topics for differentiation)

• 6 - 2 x 3 page Word doc image - textboxes teacher version with answers
• 6 - 2 x 2 page Word doc image - textboxes student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
• 6 - 2 x 3 page PDF teacher version with answers
• 6 - 2 x 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so)
• 6 - 2 x 3 page Google doc image - textboxes teacher version with answers
• 6 - 2 x 2 page Google doc image - textboxes student version with room to fill answers (text boxes)

The Dual Reading Passages topics are: The atmosphere, Rain, fog & clouds, Growing deserts, Hydrogeology, Soil formation and Earth's magnetic field.

Please note: That the Doc versions are images with editable text boxes overlayed on top and this is the most effective way to keep the article sleek and well-designed and also that students cannot change things significantly.

WANT MORE AMAZING ARTICLES LIKE THESE EARTH SCIENCE ARTICLES? MANY ARE AVAILABLE!

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).