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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 4:5 Investigation 1 Wetlands, Forests & Deserts

For Teachers 4th
Learn about surface terrain and how plants and animals are affected by the temperatures and precipitation.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Biomes

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive resource adapted from NASA describes the different temperature, precipitation, and vegetation patterns in seven biomes: coniferous forest, temperate deciduous forest, desert, grassland, rainforest, shrubland, and tundra.
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Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Where Do Animals Live?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson plan students listen and participate by filling in missing words as the teacher reads a silly poem about places where animals might live. Students are required to draw pictures representing both their favorite nonsense...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Introduction to Habitat Alteration

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Introduction to the concepts of habitat and habitat change.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: River Rewilding: Grand River Restoration and Revitalization Project

For Students 9th - 10th
A unit for learners to look at the economic opportunities associated with a river. Students will explore the Grand River Revitalization & Restoration Project. In this unit, they will also learn about two species impacted by the...
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Website
Utah Education Network

Uen: Themepark: Home/habitat: Habitat

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a large collection of internet resources organized around habitats. Links to places to go, people to see, things to do, teacher resources, and bibliographies.
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Website
Utah Education Network

Uen: Themepark: Systems: Ecosystem

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a large collection of internet resources organized around ecosystems. Links to places to go, people to see, things to do, teacher resources, and bibliographies.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs: River Rewilding: Evaluating Impacts on Ecosystems and Communities

For Students 9th - 10th
A units that follow a community as they work through Grand River Revitalization Efforts. Investigate how these efforts impacts the social, economic, historic, and biology of the Grand River.
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Lesson Plan
BSCS Science Learning

Bscs: Restoring Ea Middle School Science Unit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Restoring Ea is a place-based middle school science unit exploring management strategies that could be used for the Loko ea fishpond to sustainably feed people and ensure the ecosystem is healthy and pono (balanced). While specifically...
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Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: School Publishers: Exploring Ecosystems

For Students 3rd - 8th
Compare and contrast three very different ecosystems - the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, the Florida Everglades, and the Arctic Coastal Plain in Alaska. Learn what makes each of them unique, and about the adaptations plants and animals had...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Biology: Dynamics of Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what you know about the dynamics of ecosystems by taking this post test.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Biology:dynamics of Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
See what you know about the dynamics of ecosystems by taking this interactive pretest.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Mexico: What Is a Habitat?

For Students 3rd - 5th
Sofia came back from a trip around the world. She noticed how each animal she saw belonged to a certain habitat. Help her learn about animal habitats and the species that live there.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Pacific Ocean: What Can We Find on a Beach?

For Students 1st - 3rd
Josephine lives on the Marshall Islands. Follow her to the beach and find out what kinds of plants and animals live there.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Caribbean Sea: Pirates: What Are Some Common Habitats?

For Students 3rd - 5th
Pete is shipwrecked and exploring environments around him. Want to join him as he learns about plant and animal habitats?
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Acid Rain

For Students K - 1st
Step into Dirtmeister's Science Lab as he sets out to answer the challenge question: "How does acid rain affect an ecosystem?" Learn about ecosystems, make your predictions and then do the experiment.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Glencoe Middle School Science: Biodiversity and Ecosystems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will conduct a field investigation to learn about the environment. They will observe biotic and abiotic factors of an ecosystem. Students can use the CBL 2 and a temperature probe to collect data and a graphing calculator to...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Constructing a Biodome

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How to construct a biodome (closed ecosystem) for classroom use.
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Unit Plan
Next.cc

Next: Biomes

For Students 3rd - 8th
Multiple activities help students gain a better understanding of land and water biomes.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Interdependence of Life: How an Ecosystem Responds to Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this biology field investigation, learners will investigate the site of an environmental disturbance, identify plant and animal life within that specific area, and compare it to an adjoining forested area. Students will map both areas...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Discovering Nature in Our Neighborhood: Investigating Natural Communities

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students examine the natural surroundings around the school and identify micro-communities of plants, insects, and other animals through walks and nature journaling.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Geo Glitz: Intensive Geological Survey of the Land at a Specific Location

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this geology field lab, students investigate the surrounding land by walking different transects of the ecosystem, looking for and identifying as many different living and nonliving ecosystem features as possible
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Observing Living and Non Living Components of an Ecosystem With a Partner

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students will observe a square foot of an ecosystem surrounding our elementary school. They will keep a journal to record the physical elements of their area. It will include both written details and drawings. They will...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Observing Living and Nonliving Components of an Ecosystem With a Partner

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this biology field lab, students will observe a square foot area of an ecosystem surrounding our elementary school. The students will keep a journal to record the physical elements of the ecosystem which they will visit monthtly. The...