Curated OER
Imagining Homes and Environments
Students discuss relationship between environments, natural resources and housing, establish connection with students in classroom or school there, and paint pictures of what they think homes look like based on basic data about environment.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: The Fossil Mind Map Unfolds
Students develop an organized mind map of facts they have learned about fossils from reading and visual content.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Wonderful Wetlands
Learners will observe wetlands to see its important value to plants and animals.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Mapping It Out
Learn about Utah's environments, temperature, elevation, and rainfall.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Mini Ecosystems
Third graders will make small-scale environments and will describe interactions between living and nonliving things in their environments.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:5 Investigation 3 Web of Life
Understand environments and how organisms adapt to their environment.
Utah Education Network
Uen: What It Is, What It Isn't
Recognize characteristics of living and nonliving items within an environment.
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Ets1 1 :Toxic Popcorn Design Challenge
Students learn about the engineering design process as they work in teams to design a process and a product to solve the Toxic Popcorn Challenge and save the city.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Wetlands
Did you know that wetlands are frequently used as resting stops for migrating birds? This is just one of the many interesting facts found within this educational resource. This site features information on the characteristics, types,...
Other
Andean Botanical Information System
Great research from the Andean Botanical Information System into the diverse environments and plants of the Andean region of South America, and particularly Chile and Peru. Available in Spanish or English, photographs and written...
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Lesson: Biodome
The students will be working together in teams to create biodomes. They will be adding plants, animals, and decomposers to their biodomes.
PBS
Pbs Teachers:biodome
Investigate biological systems that support plant life by constructing a self-sufficient, enclosed environment for growing plants.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Ecosystems
How would you define an ecosystem? Check out this educational resource to learn more about the living and nonliving parts of different ecosystems.