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Curated OER

Commonalities and Differences from Africa to Cleveland as Evidence Through the Gullah Community Connection

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students explore Afro-American history. They identify the commonality between African, Carolinian and Cleveland Black culture. Students explore the water cycle, oceanography, hydrology and bio-geochemical processes. They discuss the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Maternal Nutrition during Pregnancy and Lactation

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explain the relationship among nutrition, infection and diseases. In this health science lesson, students suggest ways to break the nutrition-infection cycle. They brainstorm solutions to prevent infectious diseases in the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Forestry, What's in It for You And Me?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners examine the usefulness of every part of trees in a variety of activities in this unit.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Future of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students research the governments role is preserving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. They discuss the proponents and the opponents side of the issue.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Nutritionist for Hire

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders role play that they are nutritionists devising a healthy dietary plan that focuses on the client's needs.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Wheel & Axle Tractor

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students design and build a tractor using LEGO materials. They write and draw their designs.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Does the Chicken have Anthrax (Explain I)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain how each of the components of innate immunity function in the protection of the body. Following an investigation, they articulate how innate immunity functions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Goobers. Goobers? Goobers!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students begin the activity by noting the many ways in which to use peanuts. In groups, they use the internet to research the work of George Washington Carver. They discover the allergies and nutritional information of the peanut and...
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Lesson Plan
Climate Literacy

Clean: How Much Energy Is on My Plate?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using concept sketches, students study energy requirements of food production explain why different sources of food require different inputs of energy. They also investigate how variables like farming methods, processing methods and...
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Website
Other

Grace Communications Foundation: Energy Program

For Students 9th - 10th
Promoting responsible energy choices and environmentally conscious government policies, NNEC provides information on energy and agriculture, the nexus of energy and water, complexities of power plants, natural gas fracking, energy...
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Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Energy Flow Through Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand how organisms acquire energy and how that energy is passed from one organism to another through food webs and their constituent food chains.
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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecosystems: Energy Flow Through

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed explanation of the processes by which energy flows through an ecosystem. Scroll down and open Section 3.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Digest Your Food!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In a multi-week experiment, student teams gather biogas data from the mini-anaerobic digesters that they build to break down different types of food waste with microbes. They compare methane gas production from decomposing hot dogs,...
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Unit Plan
Other

Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Seasonal Upwelling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A suite of lessons focusing on the process of upwelling. Inquiry-based exploration of seasonal upwelling includes marine food webs, food production in the ocean, wind-driven ocean currents, and seasonal changes in biotic and abiotic...
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Unit Plan
Geographypods

Geographypods: Patterns and Change: Patterns in Resource Consumption

For Students 11th - 12th
This collection of three learning modules looks at issues related to resource consumption. It examines theories about how population size affects consumption, the changing patterns of energy consumption, and ways to minimize consumption....
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Healthy Eating Activity 4: Energy

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart supports lessons from the 'Food - a fact of life' website. Pupils will be able to understand why their bodies need energy, how much energy is in certain food types and who needs more...
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Handout
Arizona State University

Arizona State University: Why Study Photosynthesis?

For Students 9th - 10th
Article discusses importance of Photosynthesis in terms of food, energy, and environment. Relates process to human needs.
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Website
Other

Recycle Now

For Students Pre-K - 1st
All the information you need to know about recycling including different types, recycled products, degradable products, and much more. Although there are some great tips and reasons to recycle on this website for anyone in the world,...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Gallery: Civilization

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the images of this gallery and consider how increased productivity from the land, food surpluses, and swelling populations changed the types of communities that humans lived in.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Citric Acid Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
The citric acid cycle (also known as the Krebs Cycle) is actually a part of the much larger process called cellular respiration, the process where your body harvests energy from the food you eat. Yes, the citric acid cycle has the same...
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Website
Other

Business Climate: Texas: Top Industries

For Students 9th - 10th
This guide to Texas' top nine industries links the reader to articles and other information on each topic.
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Whiteboard
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Teeth and Eating

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses food groups, balanced diets, healthy teeth choices, types of teeth humans have, tooth decay and energy.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Biodomes

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the biosphere's environments and ecosystems, learning along the way about the plants, animals, resources and natural cycles of our planet. Over the course of lessons 2-6, students use their growing understanding of...