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Buddy, Are You Ready?-Preparing for School Emergencies

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Pupils explore natural disasters by reading stories about volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes. They explore safe behaviors in order to understand what to expect in a catastrophe. Students practice safe evacuation procedures...
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The Theory of Evolution

For Students 7th - 12th
In this theory of evolution worksheet, students will review the role Charles Darwin played in the theory of evolution, natural selection, and adaptations. Students will explore some of the different types of evidence for the theory of...
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Travels of a T-Shirt

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders recognize the natural resources used in an energy web.  In this consumerism lesson students identify solutions to over consumption and the impact of consumerism. 
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The Prairie Is...

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate different environments by creating a poem. For this prairie environment lesson, students research information about Kansas' natural resources and complete a worksheet about prairies.  Students practice using poetic...
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Now You Have It, Now You Don't

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the value of service. In this consumer practices lesson plan, 5th graders investigate natural resource protection needs. Students participate in the preservation of natural resources through service learning.
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MagLev Train System Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are able to analyze practices that affect the use, availabiltiy, and management of natural resources. They are able to show that the forces of friction retards motion. Students investigate electricity and magnetism as...
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Recycling

For Teachers K - 6th
Students investigate how to reduce, recycle, and reuse items in order to conserve natural resources. They complete a trash graphing activity after discussing different types of trash. Finally, the examine ways to buy recycled products to...
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Tree Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students compare and contrast characteristics of conifer and hardwood trees. After collecting samples of branches around the school, they classify the branch as hardwood or conifer. Groups of students identify given twigs. They go...
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Hurricane Katrina: August 30, 2005

For Students 4th - 5th
In this writing prompt worksheet, students learn about the day Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States, August 30, 2005. Students then find what types of natural disasters affect where they live. Students write about...
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We Can Recycle

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars analyze the symbol for recycling. In this recycling lesson, students define and identify various symbols and draw the symbol for recycling. Young scholars investigate ways to keep natural resources in the recycling loop.
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Worksheet
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Smell Gas? Act Fast Word Search

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this natural gas word search worksheet, learners locate and identify 13 natural gas safety-related words in the word bank within the word search puzzle.
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Organizer
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Evolution Concept Map

For Students 6th - 9th
In this biology worksheet, students complete a concept mp on the theory of evolution by natural selection. They fill in 8 blanks with the correct terms from the list.
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Be a Watershed - Create a Living River

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners investigate water ways by conducting an experiment with classmates.  In this natural resources instructional activity, students define a watershed and identify where large ones are located within the United States.  Learners...
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Disaster Strikes

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students examine the devastation caused by the tsunami of 2005. In this current events lesson, students consider the effects of natural disasters as they research tsunamis and the worldwide response to the December 26, 2005 tsunami....
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Create a Hawaiian Tako Lure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a tako lure. In this Hawaiian culture instructional activity, students research how Hawaiians use natural resources to survive. Students are introduced to new vocabulary and create an octopus lure.
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Tree-mendous!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify the ways people use trees. In this Science lesson, 5th graders play a word game with tree classification. Students determine the need for protecting natural resources.
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Wind and Water Wheels

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify wind and water as natural resources that create energy. For this natural resources and energy use lesson, students work in groups to construct a pinwheel, then explore the effects of wind and water on the pinwheel....
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Evacuating a Volcano: A Simulation

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore hazards associated with cataclysmic natural events, and human responses to them by creating emergency plans.
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A Tree Is More than a Street Name

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discuss the role of trees as one of the most important natural resources. In groups, they examine how the forests nearby helped to shape their urban city. Using the internet, they research the use of the forest in early...
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The More Things Change...

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students participate in a mock town hall meeting after researching issues relating to fishing rights. After reading The Lorax, they discuss the importance of conserving natural resources. In partners, they write a story of their own...
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How Resourceful Are You?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners investigate the concept of resources. They differentiate between natural, human, and capital resources. Prior to the instructional activity the students need to build background knowledge of goods, services, needs, and wants....
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Kentucky Coal, Reclamation and Subsidence

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read and discuss the information that they read on the "Kentucky Coal, Reclamation and Subsidence." They then answer questions in reference to the reading. Some questions that students answer are: What is reclamation?, Name...
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Wait, They Can do it by Themselves?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students recognize the concepts of evolution and natural selection as well as cladistics and phylogenetics. They observe the process of regeneration in a sea anemone to simulate asexual reproduction.
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The Process of Speciation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students illustrate the results of natural selection by identifying conditions that could lead to the development of new species (speciation) based on a given description of environmental conditions and description of variation within a...

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