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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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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Biodiversity in Your Schoolyard

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this field lab, students will investigate the biodiversity around their school and record and document the information they find. The students will compare their information to those of their classmates, develop multiple hypotheses...
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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, students 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
Learners 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 learners 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...
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Handout
Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Taiga Plants

For Students 3rd - 8th
At this site from the Missouri Botanical Garden, you can learn about conifers, needles and the taiga in the fall. Click on the pictures to view a larger version.
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Activity
Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Freshwater Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the Missouri Botanical Garden, you can learn about the wide variety of plant and animal life in or around fresh water ecosystems. Click on the links to "wetlands," "Ponds and Lakes," or "Rivers and Streams" to view...
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Lesson Plan
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: La Accion Humana en Los Ecosistemas.

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Throughout this unit, you will see how man change and affects the environment in which they live. You will have a better understanding of our need of matter and energy and the consequences of their use and abuse. It contains 19...
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Lesson Plan
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: La Transferencia De Energia en Los Ecosistemas

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about the transfer of energy in the ecosystem.
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Lesson Plan
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: La Dinamica De Los Ecosistemas

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit shows how ecosystems change over time and how matter and energy, which are essential to its operation, are transformed and passed from one living thing to another forming, in some cases, authentic cycles. It contains 19...
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Handout
Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Grasslands

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Missouri Botanical Gardens provides general information about different kinds of grasslands and the plants and animals of that type of region.
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Activity
abcteach

Abcteach: Make Your Room a Rainforest [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Come and learn how to make your classroom into a rainforest. This site features pictures from an actual classroom and some suggestions for creating your own rainforest.
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prairie Ecology [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
"Prairie Ecology" is a one page, nonfiction passage about the tallgrass prairie ecosystem and how it works using three animals: the skipper butterfly, ground squirrel, and the bison It is followed by an open-ended question which requires...
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Unit Plan
Geographypods

Geographypods: Palm Oil, You, Me & Orangutans

For Students 9th - 10th
By completing the tasks, students will learn about the uses of the rainforest, what Palm Oil is, and where it is produced.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Newton's Apple: Teacher Guide: Rain Forest Animals

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Allow your students to learn about the Amazon rainforest by creating a model rainforest in your classroom. This site also gives you links to different resources about the rainforest.
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Handout
Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Pacific Coastal Mountain Icefields and Tundra

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the geography of this ecoregion, its biodiversity, its excellent conservation status, the parks and wilderness areas within its boundaries, potential threats, and organizations working to ensure its protection. (Updated August...
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Handout
Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Ecoregions: Aleutian Islands Tundra

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses features of the unique ecoregion, the Aleutian Islands tundra. Covers wildlife, threats to preservation, and conservation initiatives.(Updated August 26, 2012)
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Cyberchase, Rescue Ecotopia

For Students 3rd - 5th
A game for kids to understand the basics of an ecosystem and keeping it balanced. A brief description of the animals and how they fit within the system is provided before the game begins.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Outdoor Adventures

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This collection of activities encourages kids to get outdoors and connect with nature. After completing the activities, kids draw, write, and answer questions about what they discovered and share that information with Plum.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Jungle Jeopardy

For Students K - 1st
Try keeping a whole jungle ecosystem alive by making sure each animal has enough food to survive over a period of 12 days. This game allows players to see how the different species of plants and animals in a rainforest depend on one...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Can You Dig It?

For Students K - 1st
Set in the Australian desert, players become bilbies to search at night for food while looking out for hungry predators like dingos, foxes, and swooping eagles.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Jungle Rangers

For Students K - 1st
Players head out to Borneo to explore the rainforest in this photo safari. Earn points by following clues to take pictures of specific plants and animals.

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