Earth & Space Science Bell Ringers Unit 2 - 45 Warm-Ups (6-8)

Start every class with a focused five-minute warm-up. This is Unit 2 of the Earth & Space Science Bell-Ringers full-year set: 45 daily prompts covering geology: earth's materials & processes.

WHAT'S INSIDE

- 45 daily bell-ringers (Weeks 10-18), organized as nine ready-to-print weekly pages

- One page per week: five prompts, Monday through Friday, with answer space

- A complete answer key for every prompt

- A standards page listing the NGSS and CCSS literacy codes covered

TOPICS

- Earth's layers, minerals, rocks and the rock cycle, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, weathering and erosion, soil and deposition, and geologic time and fossils.

WEEKLY ROUTINE

- Monday vocabulary, Tuesday short reading, Wednesday analysis, Thursday a quick check, Friday a higher-order question

- About five minutes a day; hand out Monday, collect Friday

FORMAT

- Print-first PDF, US Letter, low-ink, two-sided friendly - no logins or apps required

- Grades 6-8

PAIRS WITH VIDEO

- Cross-references the Prehistoric Planet / Planet Earth video worksheets for a ready-made bell-ringer + video pairing.

SAVE WITH THE FULL YEAR

- This unit is one of four. Buy the Earth & Space Science Bell-Ringers Full-Year set (180 prompts) to get all four units together and save.

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TERMS OF USE

- For single-classroom / single-teacher use. Do not redistribute or post publicly.

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