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Interactive
Arcademics

Arcademics: Dirt Bike

For Students 5th
Solving proportions by finding the missing part and advance your dirt bike to the finish line.
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Interactive
Cool Math

Coolmath: Coolmath4kids: Dirt Bike Fractions

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Hop on your dirt bike, compare fractions, and win the tug of war!
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Handout
Other

North Carolina Department of Energy and Natural Resources: Dirt Can Be Dirty

For Students 3rd - 8th
Did you know that the #1 pollutant in North Carolina is dirt? When soil is washed into streams and river, it smothers small animals and fish by clogging their gills. Look for bare patches of ground around your home and around your school...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Digging in for Dirt Day!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This instructional activity is managed through stations that students will rotate around every 20- 30 minutes. Each second grade teacher conducts one station. Parent volunteers can also be used to manage stations. Students will use an...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Growing Lima Beans: Do We Really Need Dirt?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate different growth mediums for a lima bean seed: a wet paper towel and a paper cup with soil.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Teachers: The Real Dirt on Farmer John: Family Farms in America

For Students 9th - 10th
Trace the evolution in American agriculture with this interactive timeline. Learn how the history of one small Illinois farm reflects the larger changes, decade by decade.
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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: Let's Ride!

For Students K - 1st
See what is involved with dirt-bike riding. Includes audio narration in 19 additional languages with text in English.
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Unit Plan
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science of Gardening

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore this site to get the "dirt" on dirt. Explore a savage garden or choose from the various aspects of gardening: feed, control or bloom.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Digging Up Dirt: How Paleontologists Bring Dinosaurs Back to Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Teachers can download this teaching package that introduces students to the science of paleontology. Fossil formulation and details about the work of paleontologists are discussed. Find out how paleontologists discover, stabilize, and...
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Interactive
Arcademics

Arcademics: Dirt Bike Proportions

For Students 5th - 8th
This online multi-player race game allows students to practice solving proportions by finding the missing piece. The players they play against are within the computer, not necessarily their own classroom.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Dirt Bike

For Students Pre-K - 1st
dirt bike
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Graphic
Curated OER

Dirt Bike

For Students Pre-K - 1st
dirt bike
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Website
Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Lorna Dee Cervantes

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biography & photo of the poet & co-editor of Red Dirt, a cross-cultural poetry journal, Lorna Dee Cervantes. It also provides a link to her poem "Freeway 280."
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Dissecting Soil

For Teachers 1st - 5th
In this soil study, learners investigate a soil sample to discover what is inside the soil. Working in partners, they explore to see if there are any plants, animals, dirt, or other (water and air) in the soil.
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Interactive
Cool Math

Coolmath: Coolmath4kids: Dirt Bike Proportions

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Find the number which makes the fractions equal in this multiplayer race!
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Article
Other

Pipeline: Soil Characteristics Demystifying Dirt [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Soil is the foundation of conventional on site wastewater treatment.The drainfields used with on site systems work because the soil around the trenches acts as a filter and removes organic matter, some of the nutrients present in...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Straining Out the Dirt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students build a water filter with activated carbon, cotton and other materials to remove chocolate powder from water.
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Interactive
Math Playground

Dirt Bike Proportions: Race by Finding Equivalent Ratios.

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Proportions where students determine the missing number to make the proportion true.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Equal Proportions: Dirt Bike Proportions

For Students 4th - 6th
Start your engines! This racing game will speed up your math skills by challenging players to find equivalent fractions. The faster you solve the problems the faster the bike goes.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Where Is the Dirt? A Lesson in Hydroponics

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson will be developed around hydroponic gardening, the growing of plants without soil. Using the Internet, students will research hydroponics and share their knowledge with the class. A classroom hydroponic garden will be...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Let's Get Dirty

For Teachers 4th - 8th
In a very hands-on activity, students observe and feel the differences between two cleaning methods, with and without hand soap, using coffee grounds to represent "dirt."Most of the dirt and bacteria on our hands is encased in a thin...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Fast Can a Carrot Rot?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students conduct experiments to determine what environmental factors favor decomposition by soil microbes. They use chunks of carrots for the materials to be decomposed, and their experiments are carried out in plastic bags filled with...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Dirty Decomposers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students design and conduct experiments to determine what environmental factors favor decomposition by soil microbes. They use chunks of carrots for the materials to be decomposed, and their experiments are carried out in plastic bags...

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