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Be Considerate of Others
Learners explore the environment by participating in an outdoors activity. In this nature appreciation lesson, students discuss how to minimize their human imprint when experiencing nature. Learners conduct a nature walk and plan out an...
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It's Not Easy Being Green
Students complete a unit that focuses on their school's waste production. They conduct a litter survey, collect the waste produced in their classroom for a week and generate a waste-audit, and identify how their school can minimize...
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Packaging Your Product!
Fifth graders discuss the functions, benefits and drawbacks of packaging. For this product package lesson students design alternative packaging and write an essay to deal with the issues of packaging.
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Recycling!
The students recall events from Dr. Seuss' story The Lorax and make connections to environmental issues affecting their lives. They are expected to reflect on the facts of the story and respond verbally stating the inferences they made...
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Food Safety
Young scholars recognize that safe food preparation is important to good health. In this food safety lesson plan, students participate in an activity young scholars separate, clean, chill, and cook food safely. Students use Glo...
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Forest as a Filter
Students experiment using soil and water. In this forest as a filter lesson, students identify the role of forest cover, vegetation, and foliage impacts erosion and evaporation. Students conduct a simple experiment, form a hypothesis,...
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Soil Formation
In this soil formation learning exercise, high schoolers will review examples of chemical weathering and biological weathering. Students will also review the different soil layers and how they are created. This learning exercise has 6...
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Cemetery Mapping Lesson
Eighth graders explore historical records. In this cemetery mapping lesson, 8th graders analyze local community data as they examine gravestones and read epitaphs.