Curated OER
A Natural Connection to the Azores
Students use primary sources to examine whaling voyages, biology, and geography. In this geography lesson, students analyze ship logs and plot locations of animals and determine routes using latitude and longitude.
Curated OER
Biofuels and the Environment
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage on biofuels and answer reading comprehension questions.
Curated OER
Earth Systems Science
Students perform experiments designed to grow plants and bacteria in a controlled environment. For this ecosystems lesson students investigate varying conditions for growing plants and bacteria.
Curated OER
Water Pollution
Students explore the causes of water pollution. In this environmental lesson, students conduct experiments with natural filtration systems.
Curated OER
Toxicology 2: Finding the Toxic Dose
Students brainstorm with group partners to decide upon a chemical they would like to test, and outline a procedure for their investigation. They then present in groups their ideas to the rest of the class as well as the chemical they...
Curated OER
The Common Tragedy of Consumerism
Pupils evaluate the effectiveness of current climate change solutions. In this global warming lesson, students look at the current measures implemented and analyze whether they are beneficial to the environment or not. Advance reading...
Curated OER
Shark Attack
Students examine the white shark. They think critically about a set of shark facts and predict whether the statements are true or false. Students describe a year in the life of a white shark living in the Red Triangle. They create a...
Curated OER
Ocean Color
Students examine NASA's SeaWiFS Project Web site to explore how the SeaWiFS Project monitors environmental and climatic changes in the oceans and atmosphere. They answer questions and write a summary in support of continued funding for...
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Soil Association: Food for Life Curriculum Pack [Pdf]
A curriculum focusing on food production and consumerism.
John Wiley & Sons
Ray Kroc, Mc Donald's, and the Fast Food Industry
Read the story of Ray Kroc and his journey of making McDonald's a household name on this site. It chronicles his establishing the restaurant chain, the troubles encountered along the way, its rise to the most successful fast-food...
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Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Seasonal Upwelling
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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Food Chain
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews various food chains.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Food Chains
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to identify and manipulate food chains.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Animals: Food Chains, Characteristics, and Habitats Around the Worl
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a great introduction to ways animals get food, characteristics of animals, habitats around the world. It contains pictures that will help students understand life cycles and where to...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Food Chains
[Free Registration/Login Required] Through this flipchart students will be able to summarize and organize simple food chains.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Energy Flow Through Ecosystems
Understand how organisms acquire energy and how that energy is passed from one organism to another through food webs and their constituent food chains.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: What Animals Eat
[Free Registration/Login Required] To show the dependence of animals on the plant world, these flipchart pages contain examples of food chains and food webs, as well as other information about animals and habitats.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Habitats
[Free Registration/Login Required] A 2nd grade unit on animal environments and habitats. Include web links for information on different land and water habitats, as well as a lesson on food chains.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Biodomes
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...
Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy: Gardens Activity Guide: Soil
In this lesson students conduct a soil analysis to understand soil types and explore the relationship between the garden and healthy, fertile soil. Soil is a natural resource that is crucial to life on Earth and when managed properly, it...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecosystems: Energy Flow Through
Detailed explanation of the processes by which energy flows through an ecosystem. Scroll down and open Section 3.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Interdependence and Adaptation
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, children extend their knowledge of the way in which plants and animals in different habitats depend upon each other and are suited to their environment.