Physical Geology Block Models

Geoblox Science Products

• 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



• 2010 TEKS Grade 5 Texas Science Models


• 2010 TEKS Grade 6 Texas Science Models


• 2010 TEKS Grade 7 Texas Science Models


• 2010 TEKS Grade 8 Texas Science Models


• (1998-2009) Fifth Grade Science Models (Texas)


• (1998-2009) Sixth Grade Science Models (Texas)



• (1998-2009) Seventh Grade Science Models (Texas)


• (1998-2009) Eighth Grade Science Models (Texas)

 

 

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

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 plus shipping

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Texas has adopted new science standards. These new standards will be implemented in Texas schools beginning with the 2010-2011 school year. Buy the entire set of Texas Science Block Models based on the 2010 TEKS.

Includes:

• 2010 TEKS Grade 5 Texas Science Models

• 2010 TEKS Grade 6 Texas Science Models

• 2010 TEKS Grade 7 Texas Science Models

• 2010 TEKS Grade 8 Texas Science Models

 

Cost $90 plus shipping

 

 

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2010 TEKS Grade 5 Texas Science Block Models

These Block Models are corelated to the TEKS that will be used in Texas schools beginning with the 2010-2011 school year.

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

Included are: Sedimentary Rock Formation, 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, Ordovician Marine Environment (Straight Cone Nautiloid, Horn Coral ,Trilobite), Water Cycle, Earth—Moon Comparison, Nitrogen Cycle, Marne Carbon Cycle, Eurypterid (Pterygotus buffaloensis)

See How to build a paper model for more information. 

Cost $25 plus shipping

 

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2010 TEKS Grade 6 Texas Science Block Models

These Block Models are corelated to the TEKS that will be used in Texas schools beginning with the 2010-2011 school year.

The models and activities in this book cover TEKS § 112.18. Science, Grade 6: TEKS b 8(E), b 10 (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.

Included are: Inclined Plane, Pulley - Single, Pulley - Double, Screw, Wedge, Pie Slice of the Earth, Rock Cycle,  Formation of the Himalayas, 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

See How to build a paper model for more information. 

Cost $25 plus shipping

 

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2010 TEKS Grade 7 Texas Science Block Models

These Block Models are corelated to the TEKS that will be used in Texas schools beginning with the 2010-2011 school year.

The models and activities in this book cover TEKS § 112.19. Science, Grade 7: TEKS b 8(A), b 9(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.

Included are: Landslide, Disappearing Stream, Barrier Island, Llano Estacado, Normal Fault, Lowering Water Tables-Industrial Development, Artificial Levees Disrupt Deposition, Mount St. Helens, Ammonoid Suture Pattern Activity,  Ammonoid Evolution Activity, Fish Evolution (Hemicyclaspis,  Dunkleosteus ,  Eusthenopteron), Evolution of Jaws

See How to build a paper model for more information. 

Cost $25 plus shipping

 

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2010 TEKS Grade 8 Texas Science Block Models

These Block Models are corelated to the TEKS that will be used in Texas schools beginning with the 2010-2011 school year.

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

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.

Included are: The Reason for the Seasons, Far Side High Tide, Barred-Spiral Galaxy, Spiral Galaxy, Origins of the Universe, Rift System, Topographic Landforms, Land Breeze, Sea Breeze, Coastal Desert, Rain Shadow Desert, Ekman Spiral, Hurricane Development - Initial Conditions, Hurricane Development  - Convection Cells Form, Hurricane, Hurricane (Exaggerated Scale),  Ichthyostega Activity, Oil Production Destroys Wetlands, Subsidence Due to Oil Production, Groin, Landfill, Wetlands Before Spoil Banks, Wetlands After Spoil Banks

See How to build a paper model for more information. 

Cost $25 plus shipping

 

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Hurricane Katrina Disaster Block Models

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.

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

See How to build a paper model for more information. 

Cost $25 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 plus shipping

 

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A note about the Texas Block Model Books: Some of the models included in these books are found in the other Geoblox books.  To avoid duplication, check the list of included models next to the book descriptions below. This applies to the 1998-2009 TEKS versions and the new 2010 TEKS versons

Buy the entire set of Texas Science Block Models based on the

1998-2009 TEKS

Texas has adopted new science standards that will take effect beginning with the 2010 school year.  These model books are correlated to the older 1998-2009 Texas science standards, but they might include models that you need for your classes, so they will be available until the end of the 2009/2010 school year.

Includes:

Fifth Grade Science Models

Sixth Grade Science Models

Seventh Grade Science Models

Eighth Grade Science Model

Cost $90 plus shipping

 

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1998-2009 TEKS Fifth Grade Science Models (Texas)

These Block Models are keyed to the Texas TEKS (5.6A,B, 5.9A,B,C, 5.11 A,B, 5.12 A,B,C)

Even if you didn't get to live in Texas ya'll are still welcome to use them!

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

(Included are: Water Cycle, Nitrogen Cycle, Marine Carbon Cycle, Coal Formation, Mineral Formation,  Petroleum Formation, Cavern Formation,  Stream Erosion and Deposition, Barchan Sand Dune Erosion and Deposition, Trilobite, Horn Coral, Nautiloid, Eurypterid, Evolution of Fish, Ordering Geologic Events, Earth-Moon Comparison, Reason for the Seasons, Reason for the Far Side High Tide)

See How to build a paper model for more information. 

Cost $25 plus shipping

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1998-2009 TEKS Sixth Grade Science Block Models (Texas)

These Block Models are keyed to the Texas TEKS (6.6 C, 6.11 A, 6.13 A, B,6.14 A, B, C.)

Even if you didn't get to live in Texas ya'll are still welcome to use them!

At left, top to bottom: Apollo Spacecraft, Longshore Current, Rock Cycle

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

Included are: Formation of the Himalayas, Longshore Current, Evolution of Jaws, Scale Model of the Solar System, Corona on Venus, Meteor Showers, Orbits of Neptune and Pluto, Pluto-Charon System, Splosh Crater on Mars, Sulfur Eruption on Io, Trojan Asteroids, Apollo Command Module, Apollo Service Module, Apollo Landing Module, Rock Cycle, Infiltration, Groundwater Zones, Landfill, Coastal Desert, Rain Shadow Desert.

See How to build a paper model for more information. 

Cost $25 plus shipping

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1998-2009 TEKS Seventh Grade Science Block Models (Texas)

These Block Models are keyed to the Texas  TEKS (7.5 A, B, 7.6 A, 7.8 A, 7.10 B, 7.13 B 7.14 B, C)

Even if you didn't get to live in Texas ya'll are still welcome to use them!

At left, top to bottom: Right Lateral Strike-Slip Fault, Llano Estacado, Double Pulley

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

Included are: Geyser, Mount St. Helens Ecological Succession, Inclined Plane, Class I Lever, Class II Lever, Class III Lever, Single Pulley, Double Pulley, Screw, Wedge, Wheel and Axle, Left Lateral Strike-Slip Fault, Right Lateral Strike-Slip Fault, Normal Fault, Reverse Fault, Horst and Graben, Thrust Fault, Ichthyostega, Saros Cycle, Barrier Island, Llano Estacado

See How to build a paper model for more information. 

Cost $25 plus shipping

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1998-2009 TEKS Eighth Grade Science Block Models (Texas)

These Block Models are keyed to the Texas  TEKS (8.7 B, 8.10 A, 8.11 A, 8.12 A, 8.13 A, C, 8.14 A, C)

Even if you didn't get to live in Texas ya'll are still welcome to use them!

At left, top to bottom: Lunar Impact Crater, Hurricane, Spiral Galaxy

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

Included are: Ocean Waves, Seismic Waves, Ekman Spiral, Hurricane, Land Breeze, Sea Breeze, Ammonoid Evolution, Lunar Crater Formation, Barred Spiral Galaxy, Spiral Galaxy, Origins of the Universe,  Isostatic  Rebound, Sea Cliff Erosion, Wave Refraction, Water Table Drop

See How to build a paper model for more information. 

Cost $25 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)

See How to build a paper model for more information. 

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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)

See How to build a paper model for more information. 

Cost $21 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 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

Cost $25 plus shipping

 

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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.

Cost $25 plus shipping

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Oceanography Block Models

Contains 20 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.

(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.)


Unlike the stylized and distorted diagrams in many textbooks, the wave models in this book have been drawn to scale.

See How to build a paper model  for more information. 

Cost $25 plus shipping

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Plate Tectonics Block Models

Contains 17 block model patterns. Connect the first nine together to form a 45" long series of plate boundaries. Each model has an explanation printed on the back. Black and white. Spiral bound.

(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, Hydrothermal vent, Formation of the Himalayas(3 stages), Glomar Challenger.)

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

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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 plus shipping

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Physical Geology Block Models

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

(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)

See How to build a paper model  for more information.

Cost $25 plus shipping

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