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Water and Ice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in various air experiments to understand that air is all around us. In this states of matter activity, students focus on the role of air in the water cycle. Students understand that air is densest near the ground....
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Sum It Up

For Teachers 1st - 5th
After a review of the steps involved in writing a summary, class members read The Physics of Baseball by Sarah Ives and use a story web to identify the important details to include in their summary. Class members then choose an article...
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Greenhouse Effect ...Building Our Own

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Pupils explore the greenhouse effect. They set up a simplified model of the earth and the greenhouse effect. Students compare temperatures inside a jar to temperatures outside the jar. Pupils collect information and create a line graph....
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Volcanoes-Viscosity Demonstration

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students engage in a lesson which demonstrates that volcanism is the process whereby materials formed inside the Earth come out onto the surface. They participate in a simple, yet effective, activity which demonstrates how volcanoes...
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Properties of Liquids

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners describe properties of liquids and use descriptive language as a springboard to develop precise vocabulary for properties of liquids. They also use vocabulary as practiced with liquid-vocabulary card games. Finally, students...
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Universal Gas Law

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
In this gas law worksheet, young scholars use the Universal Gas Law and van der Waals equation to calculate volume and molar mass of gases. This worksheet has 6 problems to solve.
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Effective Argumentation: Premises and Conclusions

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Augment argumentative skills with this handout and brief exercise. This resource outlines premises, conclusions, and joining words, and explains how these make up the foundation of logical arguments. After reading through this...
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Three Clouds Activity

For Teachers K - 8th
Students explore how clouds are produced through three different age-appropriate hands-on experiments.
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Convection

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners experiment with the cyclic process of convection and apply the principal to everyday events.
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Gas Exchange

For Students 9th - 12th
In this biology worksheet, students examine the process of respiration and specifically look at the biochemistry of gas exchange at the alveoli.
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How Pollution Disrupts Our Natural Environment

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students conduct experiments to illustrate global warming. In this air pollution instructional activity, students first examine how a layer of greenhouse gasses might impact the earth's atmospheric temperature, then evaluate how the...
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Greenhouse Effect- Online Interactive

For Students 5th - 6th
In this greenhouse effect activity, students learn about Earth's climate change by reading a 7 paragraph text. Students then answer 10 questions. This is an online interactive activity.
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Biomes: The Threat of the Sea

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners create posters to raise awareness about Global Warming as an immediate threat.  In this environmental lesson, students respond to the video Biomes: The Threat of the Sea by researching global warming and making posters to...
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Biomes: the Threat of the Sea

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study global warming including its causes and effects.  In this creative lesson students make posters on global warming.   
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Climate Change & Coral Activities

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students study how the ocean stabilizes our planet's climates and how global warming is becoming a threat to this fine balance.  In this climate change instructional activity, students identify that fossil fuel emissions are...
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A Star Sheds a Comet Tail!

For Students 9th - 12th
In this comet tails and stars activity, students read about the star Mira and the vast clouds of gases it emits. They use a photograph from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite to solve 5 problems about the scale of the image, the...
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Earth's Warming Climate: Are We Responsible

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars examine the atmospheric data for CO2. In this web-based atmospheric lesson, student follow instructions to examine and plot on-line scientific data about the CO2 levels in our atmosphere and analyze the changes found in...
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Traveling Nitrogen

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students act out the cycling of nitrogen through the environment. In this nutrient cycle lesson, students role play as nitrogen atoms traveling through the nitrogen cycle. They travel to stations and roll dice to determine the...
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Global Warming Information at the Mount

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this online interactive science worksheet, students answer 4 science questions with multiple choice answers regarding global warming. Students fill in the answer online to one question about temperature.
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Communicating Data

For Students 6th - 7th
In this data worksheet, students match information with the best type of graph to display it. Students also make a chart and graph to display information in a given paragraph.
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Worksheet
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Fifth Grade Social Studies Practice-Multiple Choice

For Students 5th
In this grade 5 social studies worksheet, 5th graders complete a set of 11 questions about a variety of 5th grade concepts. An answer key is included.
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Is the Earth Warming? a Test of the Effect of Increased Carbon Dioxide on the Thermal Properties of Air

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate the environmental and economic effects of increased carbon dioxide (CO2) content in the atmosphere.
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Smog Be Gone

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students begin the lesson by identifying greenhouse gases. In groups, they observe and record the effect of the gases on the atmosphere and the temperature of the Earth. They participate in activities that describe the role of...
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Greenhouse Gas Line-Up

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Discuss different sources of energy and how much greenhouse gas each might emit. The six sources are then ranked according to emissions from greatest to least. Finally, the true cumulative emissions are revealed to show the class how...