Power Up: Focus on Earth Science
Power Up: Focus on Earth Science is a study guide, part of NAQT’s series of Power Up study guides, that educates players about topics in earth science that often come up in quiz bowl.
The study guide contains the following:
- A diagnostic Pretest for assessing which players could benefit from the guide. This quiz is also available on the NAQT website for free so that coaches can judge whether the study guide will be useful to their players.
- Laminated Topic Lists with core information that players need to learn.
- Practice Questions taken from NAQT’s past tournament sets on which students’ progress can be evaluated.
- Topic Cards for use in optional drills and supplemental question-writing projects.
- A Posttest for measuring a player’s performance after using the study guide; students’ scores can be compared to their diagnostic scores.
- A Coach’s Guide for getting the most out of the Power Up materials.
Resources
The Power Up study guide refers to several websites; we have produced links here so that you don’t have to type the URLs:
- The CK Foundation’s free online middle school textbooks and high school textbooks
- The Wikibooks High School Earth Science textbook
- The textbook Understanding Earth by Grotzinger and Jordan (older editions found on the used book market are fine)
- The textbook Earth Science by Tarbuck, Lutgens, and Tasa (older editions found on the used book market are fine)
This page contains referral links to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate, we earn a small amount of money from qualifying purchases.