Geoblox Science Products

 Geoblox book correlations to the 2010 Texas TEKS

Geoblox book correlations to the Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core Ideas*:

The 2010 TEKS Texas Science Model books are not included on these correlations.

*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.

Texas Ecoregions Topographic Landform Models

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Sample page with features

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

stairstep At left, top to bottom: Meandering Stream - South Texas Plains; Stair Step Topography- Edwards Plateau; Igneous Intrusion - Trans-Pecos
igneous intrusion

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Cost $10.00 plus shipping

 

   

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Environmental Degradation Block Models

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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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At left, top to bottom: Hydraulic Fracturing, Deforestation, and a Feedlot.
feedlot

See How to build a paper model and How to Build a Landform model for more information. 

Cost $25.75 plus shipping

 

 

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Astronomy Block Models

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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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At left, top to bottom: Splosh Crater on Mars, Pluto-Charon System, and Pulsar.
pulsar

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Cost $25.75 plus shipping

 

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Grand Canyon Block and Topo Models

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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

These models have been designed without vertical exaggeration.  The cross section model shown above is at the same scale as the Guadalupe Mountains cross section. Give your students an undistorted view! 

See How to build a paper model and How to Build a Landform model for more information. 

Cost $21.50 plus shipping

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2017 TEKS Grade 5 Texas Science Block Models

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These Block Models are correlated to the 2017 TEKS.

The models and activities in this book cover TEKS § 112.16. Science, Grade 5: b7(A,B,), b8 (B,D), b9 (A,C,D), b10 (A).  

At left, top to bottom: Barchan, Ordovician Marine Environment, and Eurypterid .

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

ordovician

Included are: 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, Delta Deposition and Distributary Shifting, Exfoliation Dome, Longshore Current, Sea Cliff Erosion, Headland Erosion, Water Cycle, Earth—Moon Comparison, Nitrogen Cycle, Marine Carbon Cycle, Desertification, Ordovician Marine Environment, Straight Cone Nautiloid, Horn Coral, Trilobite, Eurypterid (Pterygotus buffaloensis)

eurypterid

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2017 TEKS Grade 6 Texas Science Block Models

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These Block Models are correlated to the 2017 TEKS.

The models and activities in this book cover TEKS § 112.18. Science, Grade 6: TEKS b 7 (A), 8(E), b 10 (A, B,C,D), b 11(A,C).  

At left, top to bottom: Eruption on Io, Formation of the Himalayas, and Apollo Moon Landing.

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

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Included are: Hydraulic Fracturing, Inclined Plane, Screw, Wedge, Pie Slice of the Earth, Rock Cycle –Sedimentary, Rock Cycle –Igneous, Rock Cycle –Metamorphic, Formation of the Himalayas -30 MYA, Formation of the Himalayas -2 MYA, Formation of the Himalayas -Present, Convergent Plate Boundary, Scale Solar System Model, Meteor Showers, Saros Cycle, Orbits of Neptune and Pluto, Pluto-Charon System, Splosh Crater on Mars, Sulfur Eruption on Io, Trojan Asteroids, Apollo Moon Landing Activity, Apollo Command Module, Apollo Service Module, Apollo Landing Module-Descent Stage

apollo

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Cost $25.75 plus shipping

 

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2017 TEKS Grade 7 Texas Science Block Models

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These Block Models are correlated to the 2017 TEKS.

The models and activities in this book cover TEKS § 112.19. Science, Grade 7: TEKS b 8(A, B, C), b 10 (C), b 11(B,C), b 12(A).  

At left, top to bottom: Barrier Island, Normal Fault, and The Evolution of Jaws .

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

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Included are: Landslide - Before, Landslide - After, Disappearing Stream, Barrier Island, Llano Estacado, Normal Fault, Lowering Water Tables-Early Development, Lowering Water Tables-Industrial Development, Artificial Levees Disrupt Deposition, Mount St. Helens -1973, Mount St. Helens –18 May 1980, Mount St. Helens -1983, Mount St. Helens -1996, Ammonoid Evolution Activity - Straight Suture, Ammonoid Evolution Activity - Goniatitic Suture, Ammonoid Evolution Activity - Ceratitic Suture, Ammonoid Evolution Activity - Ammonitic Suture, Fish Evolution - Venn Diagram, Fish Evolution Hemicyclaspis, Fish Evolution Dunkleosteus, Fish Evolution Eusthenopteron, Evolution of Jaws - Jawless Fish, Evolution of Jaws - Transitional Form, Evolution of Jaws - Jawed Fish

jaws

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2017 TEKS Grade 8 Texas Science Block Models

These Block Models are correlated to the 2017 TEKS.

The models and activities in this book cover TEKS § 112.20. Science, Grade 8: TEKS b 7(A, B, C), b 8(A, B, C, D), b 9(B,C), b 10 (A, C), b 11(B, C).

At left, top to bottom: Rain Shadow Desert, Oil Production Destroys Wetlands, and The Origins of the Universe.

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

oil

Included are: The Reason for the Seasons, Phases of the Moon Activity, Far Side High Tide, Barred-Spiral Galaxy, Spiral Galaxy, Origins of the Universe, Rift System, Exfoliation Dome 1:6,300 scale, Exfoliation Dome 1:12,600 scale, Land Breeze, Coastal Desert, Rain Shadow Desert, Hurricane Development - Initial Conditions, Hurricane Development - Convection Cells Form, Hurricane (Exaggerated Scale), Ichthyostega Environment Activity, Ichthyostega, Oil Production Destroys Wetlands, Subsidence Due to Oil Production, Groin, Landfill, Wetlands Before Spoil Banks, Wetlands After Spoil Banks

universe

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Cost $25.75 plus shipping

 

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2017 TEKS Grades 5 - 8 Texas Science Block Models on Flashdrive

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Included are: 2017 TEKS Grade 5 Texas Science Block Models, 2017 TEKS Grade 6 Texas Science Block Models, 2017 TEKS Grade 7 Texas Science Block Models, 2017 TEKS Grade 8 Texas Science Block Models, and some bonus models!

Bonus models include the three types of levers, a waterwheel, and a series of models showing how an impact crater forms on the moon.

Important note: This does NOT include 2010 TEKS Grades 3&4 Texas Science Block Models

impactImpact crater forming on the moon

See How to build a paper model for more information. 

Cost $74.95 plus shipping

 

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Hurricane Katrina Disaster Block Models

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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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Included are: Meandering Stream,  Natural Levees and Floodplain Deposition, Barrier Islands, Delta Deposition and Distributary Shifting, Subsidence Due to Natural Tectonic Activity, Artificial Levees Disrupt Deposition, Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, Wetlands Before Spoil Banks, Wetlands After Spoil Banks, Oil Production Destroys Wetlands, Subsidence Due to Oil Production, Hurricane Development - Initial Conditions, Hurricane Development - Convection Cells, Hurricane (10x Vertical Exaggeration), Hurricane Katrina, Storm Surge, High Tide, Levee Failure Before and After
surge

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Cost $25.75 plus shipping

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Historical Geology & Evolution

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

Included are: Formation of the Earth and Moon Series, Volcanic Outgassing, Principles of Stratigraphy Series, Transgressive -Regressive Sea, Correlations Activity, Relative and Absolute Dating, Formation of Coal, Ordering Geologic Events Series, Ammonoid Evolution Activity, Evolution of Jaws  Series, Fish and Amphibian Evolution Series (including: Hemicyclaspis,  Dunkleosteus,  Eusthenopteron, and Ichthyostega),  Ordovician Marine Environment (including: Straight Cone Nautiloid, Horn Coral, and Trilobite), Eurypterid (Pterygotus buffaloensis)

See How to build a paper model for more information. 

Cost $25.75 plus shipping

 

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Groundwater Block Models

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.

(Included are: Porosity and Permeability, Primary and Secondary Porosity, Infiltration, Groundwater Zones, Water Table, Saline-Water Encroachment, Landfill, Lowering Water Tables, Disappearing Stream, Depression Spring, Fault Spring, Contact Spring, Joint Spring, Tundra Polygons, Pingo, Artesian Aquifer, Cavern Formation, Geyser, Effluent Stream, Influent Stream, Perched Aquifer.)

(Geyser eruption series at left)

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(Salt-Water Encroachment at left)

Download a free model of a Disappearing Stream   from this book

Guadalupe Mountains Block and Topo Models

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.

(Included are: 5 stages of reef development, Western Escarpment, Present day mountains topographic model)

 

(Early Capitan Reef at left)

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Use the following buttons to purchase this as a printed and spiral bound book. The cost is $21.50 plus shipping

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Volcano Block Models

3/4 View Maar

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.

Ash Flow Eruption

(Included are: Ash Flow eruption, Cinder Cone, Composite Cone, Fissure Eruption, Maar, Asymmetrical Maar, Shield Volcano, Kimberlite Pipe, Lahar, Lava Tube, Nuée Ardent, Volcanic Spine, Mount Mazama Erupting, Mount Mazama Collapsing, Crater Lake, Mount St. Helens After Erupting, Parícutin—1944, Corona on Venus, Sulfur Eruption on Io, Olympus Mons.)

3/4 View Cinder Cone

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Petroleum Game - An Interdisciplinary Adventure

Petroleum is so much a part of our modern way of life it would difficult to imagine what our world would be like with out it.  This simulation game is about the search for petroleum.  Our dependence on petroleum raises a number of important social, political, economic, and environmental questions.  There are no easy answers to these questions.  It is very important, therefore, that students learn as much as they can about the subject so that they can make fully informed decisions.  This game will help.
Game book includes: instructions, background information, suggestions for class discussions, well logs, structural maps, seismic sections and an answer key.

Comb bound.  

Cost $21.50 plus shipping

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More Topographic Landform Models

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

(Included are: Fjord, Ria Coastline, Truncated Headland, Bajada, Inselberg, Natural Bridge, Cut and Fill (Before), Cut and Fill (After), Anticlinal Mountain, Continental Divide, Escarpment., Water Gap, Wind Gap, Braided Stream, Delta, Radial Drainage, Springs, Stream Piracy, Terraced Rivers, Trellis Drainage)

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.

See How to Build a Landform model

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Botany Block Models

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.

See How to build a paper model for more information.

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Oceanography Block Models

Oceanography Block Models contains 28 block model patterns!

Give your students a copy of the patterns, and let them make their own models. Each model has an explanation printed on the back. Black and white. Spiral bound.
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(Included are: Barrier Island, Rip Currents, Barrier Islands (dunes-lagoon), Wave Refraction, Sea Cliff Erosion, High Tide (Far Side), Long shore Current, Breaking Wave (Plunging), Ocean Zones, Breaking Wave (Spilling), Parts of an Ocean Wave, Breaking Wave (Surging), Downwelling, Breaking Waves, Ekman Spiral, Hurricane, Hurricane (Exaggerated Scale), Land Breeze, Sea Breeze, Marine Carbon Cycle, Upwelling. Ebb Tide Delta, Flood Tide Delta, Tidal Bore, Tidal Resonance, Rogue Waves, Tsunami (Deep Sea, Tsunami (Run up), and Tsunami (Drawback))
Unlike the stylized and distorted diagrams in many textbooks, the wave models in this book have been drawn to scale.

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Plate Tectonics Block Models

plate sequence
magnetic banding

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.

subduction zone
(Included are: Convergent continent-continent, Transform, Divergent ocean-ocean, Convergent continent-ocean, Continent hotspot, Divergent continent-continent, Passive, Convergent ocean-ocean, Ocean hotspot, Paleomagnetic banding, Convection current, Pie slice of the Earth, Isostatic  Rebound (3 stages) Hydrothermal vent, Formation of the Himalayas(3 stages), Plate tectonics globes (4 time periods), and the Glomar Challenger.)

 

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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Topographic Landform Models

Build these beautiful geologic landforms in just a couple of hours!

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.

See How to Build a Landform model for more information.

 
Cost $30.90 plus shipping

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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.

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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

salt dome
(Included are:Basic Crystal shapes (Isometric, Hexagonal, Monoclinic, Triclinic, Orthorhombic & Tetragonal),  Rock Cycle –Sedimentary, Rock Cycle –Igneous, Rock Cycle –Metamorphic, Igneous Rock Formation - Bowens Reaction Series, Igneous Landforms, Sedimentary Rock Formation – Evaporites, Sedimentary Rock Formation - Offshore Deposits, Metamorphic Rock Formation – Contact, Metamorphic Rock Formation – Dynamic, Cuesta, Normal Fault, Reverse Fault, Horst and Graben, Thrust Fault, Right Lateral Strike-Slip Fault, Left Lateral Strike-Slip Fault, Monocline, Plunging Anticlines and Synclines, Salt Dome, Seismic Waves, Angular Unconformity, Disconformity, Nonconformity, Exfoliation Dome, Landslide, Soil Creep, Soil Formation, Soil Profiles, Soil Slump)

anticline

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