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Watercycle

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine the natural circulation of water from oceans, lakes, and rivers to evaporation into the air, and then to condensation to produce rain falling back to the soil as components of the water cycle.
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Ecology: Factors Influencing Animal Populations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Pupils assess the factors affecting animal populations. Working in groups they define specific vocabulary terms and complete several activities from "Project Wild."
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Science: Arsenic and Old Lace

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read about specific instances of arsenic in history and share these stories with each other. They identify, after reading the articles and sharing, what role arsenic played, how arsenic enters the system and what its effects...
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How a Seed Grows and Who Grows It

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore biology by viewing PowerPoint presentations in class. In this plant life lesson plan, 1st graders identify the life cycle of a plant and how to properly plant a seed outside. Students view a movie about plant life...
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Animals: Insects

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars use the Internet to examine insects and their relatives. They participate in online games and discover insect recipes.
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Solar System: Let's Take a Trip

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders consider outer space. In this introductory solar system lesson, 3rd graders complete a KWL chart and listen to the story The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System, by Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen. They will contribute...
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Building a Scale Model

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a model of the solar system. In this solar system lesson, 3rd graders create a scale model of the solar system. Working in pairs students solve mathematical problems to correctly measure the distance each planet is...
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What's Happening With the Moon?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the process of scientific inquiry. Using this information, they identify the patterns and cycles of the moon as it revolves around the Earth. In groups, they model the phases of the moon from the Earth and Sun's...
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Needs and Wants

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students demonstrate responsible consumer choices. In this social studies lesson plan, students read The Lorax and discuss wants and needs. Students discuss how to save natural resources by making informed consumer choices.
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Moon Glow

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify the Earth-Moon relationship and the phases of the Moon. They participate in an activity that illustrates why the Moon has so many different looks within a lunar cycle. They discuss solar and lunar eclipses.
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What Does This Graph Tell You?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students choose natural phenomena to research. They design and conduct experiments or simulations. Students predict, gather, and analyze data. They graph the results using a spreadsheet software.
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The Miracle Fish: Learning to Design an Experiment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars develop procedures to explore the behavior of fish.  In this scientific experiment lesson students from a hypothesis, write a question, identify different variables and controls in their experiment. 
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Diamond Terrapin Fun Facts

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this animal instructional activity, learners complete 6 pages of activities and exercises pertaining to the diamondback terrapin. Students read about the life cycle, study habitat maps and color and cut out a three dimensional turtle.
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Sustainable Agriculture

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students perform an experiment to find out if plants grow best when grown in soil with no fertilizer, with chemical fertilizers, or with compost that they have made themselves. Students discover how agriculture practices can benefit the...
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Thermal Pollution

For Students 7th - 12th
In this pollution worksheet, students read about thermal pollution and how hot water affects wildlife. Then students complete 1 short answer question.
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Exploring the Beach

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars explore the beach. In this marine habitat lesson, students inspect sand grains, design beach profiles, classify marine life, and examine natural beach habitats. Young scholars use spreadsheets to record data from their...
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Halloween Literature Unit: Pumpkin Patch Unit Project

For Teachers K - 1st
Students simulate an agriculture project. In this sequencing instructional activity, students observe their classroom pumpkin patch, make journal entries, and predict how the pumpkins will grow. They discuss as a class how to keep their...
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A Seed Dispersal Investigation

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners investigate the function and purpose of seed dispersal. In this garden lesson, students examine the importance of wind in the plant cycle. Learners construct a flying seed model from an attached design and discuss if it can be...
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Maintaining Strong Fisheries

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students play a game about the life cycle of a blue crab in order to witness the causes of changes in the crab population and discuss what a resource manager could do to keep a stable crab population. Students then create a game titled...
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Sun Seeking Plants

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate the story "The Tiny Seed" by Eric Carle. This story is used to introduce the children to the concept that seeds change and grow into plants when conditions in the environment including temperature, light, water and...
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Rocks and Soil: What is the Land Made of?

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Young scholars identify rock classifications and rock cycles.  In this rocks and soils lesson students complete experiments on rocks and how they are symbols in the Bible. 
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Big Poppy Questions

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 5 short answer and essay questions based on the poem "Big Poppy."
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Weather Tools

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore Earth science by participating in a weather identification activity. In this scientific instrument lesson, students identify several weather related tools such as the weather vane, thermometer and rain gauge. Learners...
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Ecology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students gain an understanding of necessary components required within a healthy, sustainable environment and ways human actions can impact that balance while discovering how to recognize and analyze explanations and models used in...

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