Geoblox Science Products

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• High School Disciplinary Core Ideas

*Neither Achieve nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.

• Environmental Degradation Block Models
• Astronomy Block Models
• Grand Canyon Block and Topo Models
• Hurricane Katrina Disaster Block Models
• Physical Geology Block Models
• Historical Geology & Evolution
• Topographic Landform Models
• More Topographic Landform Models
• Plate Tectonic Block Models
• Oceanography Block Models
• Botany Block Models

• Groundwater Block Models
• Guadalupe Mountains Block and Topo Models
• Volcano Block Models
• Petroleum Game - An Interdisciplinary Adventure
• Texas Ecoregions Topographic Landform Models
• 2021 TEKS Grade 5 Texas Science Models
• 2021 TEKS Grade 6 Texas Science Models
• 2021 TEKS Grade 7 Texas Science Models
• 2021 TEKS Grade 8 Texas Science Models
• 2021 TEKS Grades 5-8 Texas Science Flashdrive

Texas Ecoregions Topographic Landform Models

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Included are: Balcones Escarpment - Edwards Plateau/Blackland Prairie Boundary; Barrier Island - Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes; Caprock Escarpment - Rolling Plains/High Plains; Cuesta - Cross Timbers; Exfoliation Dome - Edwards Plateau (Llano Uplift); Igneous Intrusion - Trans-Pecos; Inselbergs - Rolling Plains; Levee - Pineywoods; Meandering Stream - South Texas Plains; Playa Lakes - High Plains; Stair Step Topography- Edwards Plateau

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Included are: Glaciers, Polar Ice Cap Melting, Permafrost Thawing, Livestock Production, Monoculture, Polyculture – Alternative, Overfishing, Bituminous Sands - In Situ Extraction, Bituminous Sands - Surface Mining,  Hydraulic Fracturing, Kalamazoo River Pipeline Spill,  Mountaintop Removal, Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill, Deforestation, Desertification, Salinization, Water Supply Contamination, Overconsumption – A Middle Class House in 1955, Overconsumption – A Middle Class House in 2014

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Cost $25.75 plus shipping

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Included are: Origins of the Universe,  Barred-Spiral Galaxy,  Spiral Galaxy,  Constellations are an Illusion, Pulsar, Scale Solar System Model, Pie Slice of the Sun, The Reason for the Seasons Calculating the Orbits of Mercury and Venus Activity, Comparing Mercury and Moon Craters, Corona on Venus, Meteor Showers, Sulfur Eruption on Io, Splosh Crater on Mars, Trojan Asteroids, Finding Asteroids Activity, Orbits of Neptune and Pluto, Pluto-Charon System, Scale Model of the Earth-Moon System Activity, Earth-Moon Comparison Activity, Apparent Diameter of the Moon Activity, Saros Cycle, Phases of the Moon Activity, Apollo Moon Landing Activity, Apollo Command Module, Apollo Service Module, Apollo Landing Module - Ascent Stage, Apollo Landing Module - Decent Stage, Far Side High Tide, Lunar Impact Crater Series

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Cost $25.75 plus shipping

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Grand Canyon Block and Topo Models

Included are: Grand Canyon Topographic Model, Entrenched Meander Formation Series, Grand Canyon Cross Section, Sedimentary Rock Formation, Transgressive - Regressive Sea,  Angular Unconformity, Disconformity, Nonconformity, Paraconformity, Normal Fault, Reverse Fault, Monocline, Principles of Stratigraphy Series -Eroded Surface, Principles of Stratigraphy Series -Deposition of Layers, Principles of Stratigraphy Series -Faulting and Igneous Activity, Geologic Correlations Activity

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Cost $21.50 plus shipping

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At left, top to bottom: Barchan, Longshore Current, and Pingo.

Give your students a copy of each pattern and let them make their own models. Spiral bound.

Included are: Water Cycle, Sedimentary Rock Formation - Evaporites, Sedimentary Rock Formation - Offshore Deposits, Formation of Coal, Formation of Petroleum, Barchan Dune Erosion and Deposition, Stream Erosion and Deposition, Cavern Formation—Early Stage, Cavern Formation—Late Stage, Delta Deposition and Distributary Shifting, Exfoliation Dome, Longshore Current, Sea Cliff Erosion, Headland Erosion, Tundra Polygons, Pingo, Tropical Rain Forest, Bog Succession, Mountaintop Removal - Before Mining, Mountaintop Removal - During Mining, Mountaintop Removal - After Mining

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At left, top to bottom: Monoculture, Desertification, and Tsunami.

Give your students a copy of each pattern and let them make their own models. Spiral bound.

Included are: Inclined Plane, Lever - Class I, Lever - Class II, Lever - Class III, Screw, Tsunami (Deep Sea), Tsunami (Run Up), Tsunami (Drawback), The Reason for the Seasons, Saros Cycle, Phases of the Moon Activity, Far Side High Tide, Earth-Moon Comparison, Scale Model of the Earth-Moon System Activity, Pie Slice of the Earth, Rock Cycle –Sedimentary, Rock Cycle –Igneous, Rock Cycle –Metamorphic, Landfill, Water Supply Contamination, Desertification, Monoculture, Polyculture, Ammonoid Suture Pattern Activity, Straight Suture, Goniatitic Suture, Ceratitic Suture, Ammonitic Suture

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2021 TEKS Grade 7 Texas Science Block Models

At left, top to bottom: Formation of the Himalayas Series, Groin, and Saline Water Encroachment.

Give your students a copy of each pattern and let them make their own models. Spiral bound.

Included are: Scale Solar System Model, Orbits of Neptune and Pluto, Trojan Asteroids, Principles of Stratigraphy Series, Eroded Surface, Deposition of Layers, Faulting and Igneous Activity, Geologic Correlations Activity, Ordering Geologic Events Series, Formation of the Himalayas Series, Convergent Plate Boundary, Rift System, Salinization, Lowering Water Tables, Artificial Levees Disrupt Deposition, Saline Water Encroachment, Overfishing, Groin, Nitrogen Cycle

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Cost $25.75 plus shipping

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2021 TEKS Grade 8 Texas Science Block Models

At left, top to bottom: Rain Shadow Desert, Oil Production Destroys Wetlands, and The Evolution of Jaws Series.

Give your students a copy of each pattern and let them make their own models. Spiral bound.

Included are: Ocean Waves, Barred-Spiral Galaxy, Spiral Galaxy, Origins of the Universe, Coastal Desert, Rain Shadow Desert, Downwelling, Upwelling, Land Breeze Sea Breeze, Hurricane Development - Initial Conditions, Hurricane Development - Convection Cells Form, Hurricane, Hurricane (Exaggerated Scale), Volcanic Outgassing, Deforestation, Permafrost Thawing, Marine Carbon Cycle, Oil Production Destroys Wetlands, Wetlands Before Spoil Banks, Wetlands After Spoil Banks, Evolution of Jaws Series

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Cost $25.75 plus shipping

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2021 TEKS Grades 5 - 8 Texas Science Block Models on Flashdrive

Included are: 2021 TEKS Grade 5 Texas Science Block Models, 2021 TEKS Grade 6 Texas Science Block Models, 2021 TEKS Grade 7 Texas Science Block Models, 2021 TEKS Grade 8 Texas Science Block Models, and some bonus models!

Bonus models include models that were not included in the 2021 TEKS.

Important note: This does NOT include Grades 3&4 Texas Science Block Models

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Cost $74.95 plus shipping

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Hurricane Katrina Disaster Block Models contains 19 model patterns that help students understand the Earth Science of the 2005 New Orleans Flooding. Each model has a description printed on it. 

Give your students a copy of each pattern and let them make their own models. Spiral bound.

At left, top to bottom: Hurricane, Levee Failure, and Storm Surge.

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Cost $25.75 plus shipping

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Historical Geology & Evolution Block Models contains 32 model patterns dealing with the history of the earth and the evolution of early life. Each model has a description printed on it. 

Give your students a copy of each pattern and let them make their own models. Spiral bound.

At left, top to bottom: Volcanic Outgassing, Transgressive-Regressive Sea, Principles of Stratigraphy

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Cost $25.75 plus shipping

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Groundwater Block Models contains 27 model patterns dealing with groundwater. Each model has a description printed on it. 

Give your students a copy of each pattern and let them make their own models. Spiral bound.

(Geyser eruption series at left)

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(Salt-Water Encroachment at left)

Guadalupe Mountains Block and Topographic Models contains 7 cross sections showing the development of the Permian Reef in West Texas.   These models have been designed without vertical exaggeration.  The cross section model shown above is at the same scale as the Grand Canyon cross section. Give your students an undistorted view! 

Each model has a description printed on it.  Give your students a copy of each pattern and let them make their own models. Spiral bound.

(Early Capitan Reef at left)

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Volcano Block Models contains 20 model patterns dealing with volcanoes and volcanic landforms. Each model has a description printed on it. 

Give your students a copy of each pattern and let them make their own models. Spiral bound.

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Cost $25.75 plus shipping

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Comb bound.  

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This book contains topographic maps of 20 landforms. Each map has a description, sketch, instructions, and two higher-order thinking questions. 

Clockwise at top: Escarpment, Anticlinal Mountain, Terraced Rivers, Inselberg

Middle: Cut and Fill (Before and After)

Bottom: Ria Coastline

Use carbon paper to transfer each contour line onto cardboard. These pieces are then cut out, stacked in order, and glued together. Cardboard and building supplies are not included. Spiral bound.

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Cost $25.75 plus shipping

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Botany Block Models contains 25 model patterns dealing with plants and the environments. Each model has an explanation printed on the back. 

Give your students a copy of each pattern and let them make their own models. Spiral bound.

Clockwise from top:   Tropical Rain Forest, Bog Succession, Monocot Stem Cross Section, Dicot Stem Cross Section

Included are: Plant Cell, Leaf Layers, Flower, Tracheids, Leaf Cross Section, Vessel Elements, Stomata Open, Dicot Root, Dicot Stem, Stomata Closed, Monocot Root, Fall Leaf, Stem, Lateral Roots, Root Tip, Monocot Stem, Bryophyte (Moss), Pterophyte (Fern), Dendrochronolgy, Angiosperm (Cactus), Gymnosperm (Conifer) Acid Rain, Tree Rings, Bog Succession, Tropical Rain Forest, Vegetative Propagation (Creosote)

 Flower (left)

Are your students confused by the circular life-cycle diagrams in textbooks?  These Geoblox models show the life-cycles of the five major plant types in a linear form. Haploid and diploid stages are even colored coded.

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Cost $25.75 plus shipping

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Oceanography Block Models contains 28 block model patterns!

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Plate Tectonics Block Models contains 24 block model patterns! Connect the first nine together to form a 40" long series of plate boundaries. Each model has an explanation printed on the back. Black and white. Spiral bound.

At top: After students make their models, each section can be connected to form one large imaginary plate tectonic sequence.

Middle: Paleomagnetic Banding

Bottom: Ocean- Continent Convergent Plate Boundary

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Cost $25.75 plus shipping

The students who built these models now understand topographic maps. When we finish making these models, I use them to discuss landforms. The kids love seeing their model used as a classroom display.

At left, clockwise from top: Spit, Submarine Canyon, Flood Basalt, Sea Stacks.

(Included are: Atoll, Emergent Highland Coast, Estuary, Sea Stacks, Spit, Submarine Canyon, Tombolo, Drumlins, Eskers, Iceberg, Alluvial Fan, Badlands, Butte, Playa Lake, Cinder Cone, Entrenched Meander, Exfoliation Dome, Flood Basalt, Volcanic Plug, Earth Dam, Impact Crater, Karst, Stair Step Topography, Alpine Glacier, Cirque Lake, Horn, Dendritic Drainage, Entrenched Meanders, Levees , Meanders Scars, Water Fall.)

At left: Iceberg

Bottom: Alluvial Fan

Contains topographic maps of 30 landforms. Each map has a description, sketch, instructions, and two higher-order thinking questions. Use carbon paper to transfer each contour line onto cardboard. These pieces are then cut out, stacked in order, and glued together. Cardboard and building supplies are not included. Spiral bound.

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Physical Geology Block Models

If you have previously purchased the book Physical Geology Block Models, please download corrected versions of two of the models: Cuesta: Cuesta Fix, and Plunging Anticlnes and Synclines: Anticline Fix.

Contains 36 block model patterns. Give your students a copy of each pattern, and let them make their own models. Black and white. Spiral bound.

Top: Cuesta

Middle: Salt Dome

Below: Anticlines and Synclines

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