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Water--Where Has It Gone?: Earth Day

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. For this environmental stewardship lesson, students consider the plight of water as they consider water use and distribution. Students listen to an excerpt from The Well and consider...
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Airing Our concerns: I Can See Clearly Now

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers research specific answers to questions about air pollution. For this air pollution lesson, students share information to fully understand the causes of air pollution. Middle schoolers role play individuals from different...
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The Quicker the Better? Food Processing

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders evaluate the nutrition of various foods. In this healthy eating instructional activity, 6th graders discuss the processing of many common foods and what this means. Students identify and research unfamiliar ingredients in...
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Farming: It's a Fact!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use worksheets, food items, and computer programs to learn about the path of food from the farm to their meals. In this agriculture lesson, students use a provided worksheet to learn facts about farming. They use a bag of...
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From Foraging to Farming

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders understand the basic needs of humans. In this basic needs lesson, 6th graders participate in an activity to search for their basic needs. Students recognize the problems when their is scarcity of a necessity to their lives....
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A Fishy Environment 'We need 'em Clean!' Web Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create a website. In this technology lesson, students use digital cameras and video to document their field trip to a local fish hatchery. Middle schoolers use the photos and videos to create an instructional website.
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Visualizing Vocabulary in an Ecosystem

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders observe the pond ecosystem. In this ecosystem lesson, 6th graders observe the organisms at the pond and create a poster that illustrates the pond.
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Bye-Bye Trout Song

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students develop an understanding about what will happen to trout after they are released into the trout stream. In this trout life lesson, students discuss how it feels to release the trout they have cared for. Students also sing a song...
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Oil Crisis: Get Into the Game

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students participate in activities to develop an understanding of the world oil crisis. In this oil crisis instructional activity, students read online articles about the oil shortage. They attempt to develop a solution to problem and to...
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Parallel DC Circuits

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this circuits learning exercise, students answer 24 questions about parallel DC circuits including finding the current drawn by resistors, the total resistance, and the voltage impressed across each resistor in the circuit. Students...
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Give Me Some Sugar, Honey!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research the history of honey and different products that come from honey.  In this bees and honey activity, students review how honey is made, discuss ways people use honey, research the history of honey and its uses, create a...
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Saved by a Shark

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the marine ecosystem and the importance of sharks. In this shark lesson, students look at photos of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary and discuss the animals that live there. They discuss which animals...
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Economics: What Are Some Other Uses for Rice?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate ways rice is sold by creating a chart of the different rice foods. In this economics lesson, 6th graders examine their local food store and list at least 10 rice by-products in a class chart. Students discover...
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Marine Food Web

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate the effects of the food chain on all animals by creating a food web.  In this seafood instructional activity, students discuss energy flow and research a specific marine organism of their choice.  Students create a...
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Ecology of the Savanna-Forest Boundaries in Central Brazil

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore photosynthesis. In this photosynthesis instructional activity, students label parts of photosynthesis and take notes. Students conduct experiments on leaves, make observations and record their findings.
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Food For Keeps

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore food. In this processed and fresh foods lesson, students discover how some foods are processed and how they differ from fresh food. The complete group activities and an individual reading assignment. This lesson includes...
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What is Coral?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss what they know about coral reefs and are introduced to the importance of preserving coral reefs. In this coral reef instructional activity, students make connections between coral ecology in the classroom and in the real...
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Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Students will discuss the benefits of eating healthy. In this healthy diet lesson, students will discuss the importance of eating fresh fruit and vegetables when pregnant or breastfeeding and how to identify healthy fruits and...
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Pond Water Web

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners identify the different organisms in the food web. In this biology lesson, students create food chains using the information on cards. They explain what happens if an organism is removed or added in the web.
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WiTricity Explained

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain how electricity is transferred from source to load without actual wires connecting the two. In this physics lesson, students explore how wireless electricity was discovered. They cite practical applications of this...
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Regolith Formation

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students study what regolith is and how it contrasts with weathering on Earth.  In this weathering instructional activity students divide into groups, hypothesize and confirm their guesses. 
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Graphics Creation and Statistical Interpretation: Relating Local Economics and the Global Environment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students apply statistics, and graphical interpretation to economics, the environment and populations. In this statistical lesson plan students construct graphical displays and classify data.
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Fresh Produce North of 60

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Teen-agers discuss how fresh produce is brought into areas that do not have agreeable growing conditions and read an article from Canadian Agriculture at a Glance. They write an essay about projects that may help provide food in these...
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Water and Land Ecosystems

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils investigate the differences between a land and aquatic ecosystem. They use the information in order to present it in an assessment. There are target questions that can be used to guide research, lead a classroom discussion, or...

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