“,Our Earth”, is a comprehensive blackline master booklet that features stimulating activities and experiments to teach 9 to 12 year old students about earth science concepts. The booklet is divided into five sections:

1. The Structure of the Earth
2. Landforms
3. Rivers and Inland Water
4. Coastal Landscapes
5. The Ocean

Each section has Teachers’, Notes which provide valuable background information for each of the different activity pages. These notes will save teacher preparation and research time as they provide the answers to any questions or research that is required on the activity page. There are some suggested Internet sites to visit on some of the pages but all the activities can be completed without access to computer technology.

Students will have the opportunity to practice many different skills when completing the activities in “,Our Earth”, including:

• using dictionary skills,
• making comparisons of models, maps, etc.,
• labelling diagrams,
• doing map reading,
• atlas skills,
• matching text explanations to diagrams,
• making predictions,
• making jigsaws,
• making models,
• interpreting text using diagrams,
• following procedures when doing an experiment,
• recording results of an experiment,
• designing an experiment for a given purpose,
• interpreting the results of an experiment,
• interpreting diagrams in text format,
• doing research,
• recording the results of an experiment using diagrams,
• and relating experiments to actual events.