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PPT
Curated OER

The Happy Game: Physical Features

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students love to test their knowledge, use this game to see what your students know about landforms and other basic geographic terminology.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Learning About Watersheds

For Students 7th - 8th
In this learning about watersheds worksheet, learners answer 15 questions using links to web resources about water use in their community.  This page includes numerous links to helpful websites.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Watershed Tourist

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars recognize and categorize different bodies of water. In this watershed and water environments lesson plan, students "Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean." Young scholars define the different bodies of water and sort from...
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PPT
Curated OER

Geography Terms

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
In this PowerPoint, students review geography terms. Slides feature illustrations and facts about mountains, hills, islands, deserts, lakes, rivers, oceans, plains, valleys, and forests.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

I Am A Rock, I Am An Island: Describing Landforms and Bodies of Water

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify common landforms and bodies of water from descriptions of distinguishing features. In this landforms and bodies of water lesson plan, students describe the features they see in the pictures given to them.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Microsoft Publisher Country Brochure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore geographic information. In this geography and technology lesson, students choose a county and answer related questions on a Webquest. Young scholars create a word web and design a country brochure.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Locate and Name the bodies of water and the continents

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders locate the equator, bodies of water, and different continents on a globe. In this globe lesson plan, 2nd graders recall geographical information on a globe.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

World Rivers

For Students 6th - 10th
In this world rivers worksheet, students match 20 major world cities on the left side of the sheet to the rivers that they lie on found on the right side of the sheet.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Bodies of Water

For Students 5th - 8th
In this writing descriptive sentences worksheet, students describe 13 different bodies of water using the words small, large, fresh, salt, deep, shallow, protected, still, and flowing. Students should include 2 adjectives per sentence.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Search #18

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this word search activity, students search for and circle as many words about bodies of water as they can find in the word search. They then write the words in the 6 spaces at the bottom of the page.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What is a River?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study the various types of bodies of water: rivers, oceans, lakes and ponds. They observe models of each and then use clues to discuss how they are alike and different. They imagine they have found a new planet and draw a map...
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PPT
Curated OER

Sunken Millions: 3rd Grade

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this PowerPoint, students participate in a game with a quiz show format in which they answer questions about water. Topics include the water cycle, bodies of water, characteristics of water, and how water relates to weather...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rivers... for Kids

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Pupils investigate U.S. geography by exploring it's bodies of water. In this river formation lesson, students identify the reasons rivers are needed in our country by reading assigned text. Pupils examine a diagram which explains how...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Sylvia Earle's Ted Prize Wish to Protect Our Oceans

For Students 9th - 10th
What's been happening to the world's oceans over the past 50 years? Ocean researcher, Sylvia Earle, shares breathtaking images of the ocean and surprising details about the many problems plaguing its health. [18:12]
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Website
Gulf of Maine Research Institute

Gulf of Maine Research Institute: Undersea Landscapes: Bay of Fundy

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to learn more about bays by discovering the Bay of Fundy. Read about this interesting place and view pictures of this beautiful bay.
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Handout
US Geological Survey

Usgs: Water Science for Schools Activities Center

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website offers three activity centers: Questionnaires, Opinion Surveys, and Challenge Questions. Take a look at these interesting water research activities from the US Geological Survey. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.
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Lesson Plan
Keene College

Geo Granite: Don't Water. . . Shed a Tear

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A captivating hands-on activity where students create a watershed and its tributaries, then learn about the watershed's importance in geographic regions.
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Article
Read Works

Read Works: Oceans, Rivers, and Lakes by Linda Ruggieri

For Students 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage focuses on bodies of water including oceans, rivers, and lakes including explaining how the oceans get salty. A comprehension question set and a vocabulary worksheet for the word "vent" are...
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Handout
BBC

Bbc Nature: Wildlife: Shallow Seas

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate the fascinating world of the shallow seas and discover what lives and grows there through pictures, news, and external links.
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Website
Geographyiq

Geography Iq

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed geographical information on any country is available at this site. Within the World Map section, you can get facts and figures about each country's geography, demographics, government, political system, flags, historical and...
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Unit Plan
The Franklin Institute

Treasures@sea: Exploring the Ocean Through Literature

For Students 2nd - 6th
This extensive resource consists of learning activities that integrate language arts with oceanography. Each activity is based on one of seven books about the ocean and are written to be adaptable. Includes writing activities, games and...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Making a Landform Model

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In the NGSS, one of the performance expectations is for the children to develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area. In the science practices, the children also must develop and use models....
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Egypt: Alexandrian Lighthouse: Bodies of Water

For Students K - 1st
Old Asim wants to become a lighthouse keeper. Help him learn about bodies of water.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Deep Ocean Mysteries and Wonders

For Students 9th - 10th
Marine biologist, David Gallo, shows why oceans are important while taking the viewer on a voyage into the ocean and exploring the incredible beauty of marine life. [8:24]