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Alice Ferguson Foundation: Bridging the Watershed: Plant Identification
Use this interactive guide to identify plants based on their leaves. For each step, you are given two choices, and you continue down the branches until you discover a plant's name.
James Madison University
James Madison University: Dept. Of Geology and Environmental Science: Minerals
Descriptions and pictures of over thirty minerals are available at this website. Documents describing the properties of minerals and how to use the properties for identification templates to make models, and dichotomous keys make up the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Reptiles Study Guide
A reference page with key facts about reptiles. Includes key terms, structure and function, reproduction, biological classification, evolution, and ecology.
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Harvard University: Project Zero: Visible Thinking
Learn about the key elements and practices of visible thinking, a mode of inquiry that develops students' thinking skills by encouraging them to be active processors. Includes a lot of advice about the kinds of small changes that...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Strength in Numbers" by Bird Brain Science
A learning module that begins with "Strength in Numbers," accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and student...
University of California
University of California Museum of Paleontology: The Arthropod Story
A tutorial that explains the evolutionary history of arthropods. Within the history, students can learn about taxonomy, paleontology, fossils, and evolution. Each section includes key questions for students to focus on as they move...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Identifying Plant Family Characteristics
Learners make observations of similarities and differences between three types of garden plants to determine why they are grouped together in one plant family.
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Aes: Bug Identification
This interactive resource can be used to identify the order of an insect.
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Land Classification of the Southern Appalachian Region, 1911
A map of the southern Appalachian region keyed to show cleared lands and merchantable timber land. The large cleared areas lie chiefly in local basins such as the Asheville basin and the valley basins of the Little Tennessee. The smaller...
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Amateur Entomologists' Society: Bug Identification
This resource allows users to complete bug identification.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Chemical Reactions
This web-based activity gives students an opportunity to write chemical reactions, balance chemical equations, and explain what is happening during a given chemical reaction. Also addressed is the effects of concentration and temperature...
Woodland Park Zoo
Woodland Park Zoo: Asian Elephant
Resource feature the Asian Elephant. Provides key facts about its classification and range, life cycle, reproduction and more.
Read Works
Read Works: Classify and Categorize 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on classifying and categorizing through which students learn how to sort items into two and three categories and explain how each group is classified. Finally, students categorize...
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