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Choices Affect the Environment-I Make a Difference

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine and research how personal and societal choices can affect the environment. Student find resources that provide scientific research about the possible impact of each of the choices. Students then create a four-panel...
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How Did Maine Factories Affect The Environment

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate the history of interactions with the environment in the 1800s. They conduct research looking for possible negative influences upon the environment. The information is used to conduct a class discussion about the...
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Yeast Cells and Their Environment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create their own experiment in which they have yeast cells growing in liquid environments. They examine the relationship between humans and microorganisms. They also practice using the scientific method.
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Camp and Travel on Durable Ground

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore environmental awareness by conducting a class discussion. For this camping lesson, students discuss different methods to minimize their human imprint on the land they are camping or hiking on. Students participate in a...
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Effects Of Natural Disasters On Environment

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students investigate the concept of how natural disasters effect the environment. They conduct research using a variety of resources. They are given a scenario that needs a defensive speech. Students take a position and defend it by...
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How Does Climate Affect Your Environment?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Pupils access the Global Sun Temperature Project website and research the relationship between the location and climate of a participating school to its building structure. They consider how climate affects the type of structures humans...
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The Noble Savage - The Social Contract Rights and Freedoms of Modern Humanity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners, in groups, research various philosophers and the historical context of their work. They discuss the necessity and interaction of laws, regulations and human freedoms and consider the importance of the Canadian government to its...
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Environment: Methane Sources

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover how human activity is increasing the release of methane gas into the atmosphere. Woring in groups, they visit the Eduzone Website and complete worksheets. Students identify the natural and human causes of methane gas.
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Care of the Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students discuss human responsibility towards nature, read story The Man Who Planted Hope and Grew Happiness, take Close to Home quiz to measure their level of commitment to and concern for environment, and discuss ways to be more...
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Environment and Recycling Issues

For Teachers 1st
First graders read and understand the text found while conducting internet research. They recognize how literature records information and reflects the human experience. Students also compare and contrast answers to questions. Then...
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Human Population Growth Simulation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students simulate the growth of human population. In this biology lesson, students explore different perspectives on this issue. They write a reflection at the end of the activity.
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The Human Organism

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate animal behavior by studying the lives of three female behavior scientists.  In this human organism lesson students do different activities that inquire and approach each females work. 
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Urban Planning: Plan a City

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students analyze the concept of urbanization by planning the placement of some of the major urban/suburban features that make up most cities. They arrange the cultural features to benefit the people who live there, and maintain respect...
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The Industrial Revolustion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create artistic posters to show the differences between key vocabulary words. They show the differences between a rural, agrarian, urban, and industrial lifestyles. They evaluate the benefits and problems, the human and...
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Genes, Environments, and Behavior 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore how scientists study the genetic and environmental factors that interact to produce variation in behavior across a population.
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Creating Artwork to Explain Environmental Change

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers review artwork that relates to the environment and communicates a value. They view and analyze art by Andy Warhol, Eric Carle and Albert Bierstadt and then create original pieces with an environmental theme.
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Working Animals

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine the need for the humane treatment of animals. In this animal welfare lesson, students realize the need for animal welfare, and decide on a service project that will promote it. The lesson culminates in the creation of a...
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Making Your Own Sampling Tools

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars examine cause-and-effect relationship between human attitudes and behavior in the environment. They also assist citizens in increasing their sensitivity and stewardship for the environment.
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Let's Clean Up Our Act and the Earth!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students complete activities that help clean up the Earth and protect the environment. In this Earth protection lesson, students go outside and listen to the environment. Students discuss their observations and their role in protecting...
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Design Your Own Suburb

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students view and discuss urban and suburban scenes; and list the features of their ideal town and discuss whether these features can be found in cities and suburbs. They draw mental maps of a city and a suburb and brainstorm and list...
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Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how people in earlier times used art as a way to record stories and communicate ideas. By studying paintings from the Cave of Lascaux and other caves in France, students discover that pictures are more than pretty colors.
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"Virtual" Model United Nations Day

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students identify and analyze that Global Interdependence and Internationalism have become major themes in human activity in the areas of population, environment, the world economy, and the United Nations. Students identify the...
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Consider The Source

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about the largest natural and human sources of air pollution to become aware of these components in their surrounding environment. In this environmental lesson, students read and describe natural sources of air pollution....
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Exploring Environmental Change

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine environments and how the impacts human activities can cause.  In this environmental change lesson students research how human activity is causing local  environmental changes. 

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