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Field Guide to Schoolyard Insects and Their Relatives

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Your entire class works together to create an illustrated insect field guide. The intent is that they venture outside of the classroom, find a critter, and then research it using reference materials, insect books, and the Internet for...
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What Can Nature Teach Us about Sustainable Design?

For Students 6th - 8th
Talk about Velcro®, Gecko Tape, WhalePower turbine blades, and other innovations that mimic nature to inspire your STEM or engineering class. This set of worksheets gets them thinking about imitating nature in terms of sustainable...
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World Oil Reserves and Trade Routes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers analyze the global distribution of natural resources to determine the relationship of resource availability to international problems and issues. They explain how the uneven distribution of resources can result in global...
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Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate the food chain by viewing video clips. In this food web activity, 5th graders investigate populations and ecosystems by viewing a video in class as well as visiting web sites. Students utilize the Internet to...
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Food Web Mobile

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explain the main concepts of food webs and food chains. They describe the role of animals, plants, and other organisms in cycling energy and matter through a food web by creating mobiles. Lesson contains adaptations for all levels.
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Who Eats Whom in the Salt Marsh?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders complete a virtual online salt marsh tour. In groups, they observe and identify the various types of animals found in the marsh. After categorizing the animals, they create a food web based on the animals role in the...
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Food Chains

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars describe food cahins and the role of organisms. Using a set of organism cards, they color code the organisms on their cards by their role in the food chain. Once a complete chain is identified, they glue it on a sheet of...
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Focus on Food Chains

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders collect and analyze data about food chains. They conduct Internet research about the habitat of a selected organism, write a narrative, and create a computer slideshow using Kid Pix computer software that illustrates the...
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Ecosystem Comparison

For Teachers 4th
Fifth graders examine plants and animals in two ecosystems and compare them. In this ecosystem survival lesson plan, 5th graders compare and contrast a coral reef and kelp forest ecosystem. Students investigate the abiotic and biotic...
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The Role of Public and Private Sectors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the role of government in the economy market. In this economics lesson, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are trying to...
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Fun With Food Chains

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore our ecosystem by researching animal eating habits. In this food chain lesson, students identify the links between predator and prey and the energy that passes between organisms based on what their diet consists of....
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The Food Chain Game - A Lesson in Ecosystems

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students are divided into three groups, herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores which receive a certain number of lives. Once in their ecosystem (outside or the gym), the carnivores chase and eat either the herbivores or omnivores, the...
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Cookie Creations

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students, in teams, create and prepare an original cookie recipe. They market their cookie by designing creative packaging and advertising. They compete with other groups in a cookie contest.
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You Are Smarter Than The Ads

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine advertising techniques and create original designs for advertisements in this three day, 4th grade art/social studies activity. The activity includes assessment ideas, resource information, and learning objectives.
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Exploring the Web of Life

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students develop a classroom definition of and explore ideas related to ecosystems. They create a food web using pictures and yarn.
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Microorganism Multiplication

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders conduct experiments with yeast to study characteristics of microorganisms. They, working is small groups, change the variables in the experiments and note the results which they later discuss as a class.
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Stoichiometric Relationships

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this reactions learning exercise, students learn how to solve stoichiometric problems based on the mole ratios of a balanced equation. Then students complete 7 problems.
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Agriculture Counts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners practice counting. In this early numbers lesson, students learn about the beginnings of agriculture and how it ties into math. Learners practice counting objects related to agriculture.
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Farm to Lunch: Exploring Agricultural Careers

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine Utah's economic structure and learn about agricultural careers.  In this agricultural careers instructional activity, 4th graders follow agricultural products from their source to the lunch table. Students chart...
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Animal Adaptations

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students focus on the pelts of fur-bearing animals native to Iowa to discover their different adaptations.  For this animal adaptation lesson, students work in groups and examine various pelts to find information about the animals...
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Water and Land Ecosystems

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners 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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Phyto- v. Zoo- Plankton

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify two broad groups of plankton: phytoplankton and zoo plankton. They describe the general body adaptations which characterize each group. They discuss and write about what it would be like to be carried around by the...
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Water on Planetary Surfaces

For Students 8th - 10th
In this water on planetary surfaces worksheet, students read about the Galileo spacecraft and the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. They read about the energy needed to keep the water in a liquid state on Europa. Students solve 4...
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Samsung Electronics Aims to Double Sales

For Students 4th - 6th
In this ESL learning exercise, students read, listen and complete a variety of assignments associated with an article involving Samsung electronics.

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