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Scholastic

Study Jams! The Nitrogen Cycle

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
Expose your class to the steps of the nitrogen cycle with this short clip. Colorful computer imagery and animation explain how nitrogen travels from the atmosphere as a gas into plants and soil, where bacteria convert it into nitrates....
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Instructional Video7:56
Amoeba Sisters

Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
As the world turns ... so do the carbon and nitrogen cycles! Introduce them both to eager young biologists through an animated video, part of an extensive biology playlist. The narrator explains how each element moves through its...
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Instructional Video3:31
Fuse School

Nitrogen Cycle

For Students 9th - 12th
In an atmosphere that contains so much unusable nitrogen, how do organisms get the nitrogen they need to survive? The narrated video discusses how atmospheric nitrogen is converted into the materials we need to build proteins in our...
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Instructional Video10:06
Bozeman Science

Biogeochemical Cycling

For Students 9th - 12th
A woman had a job crushing cans at the recycling plant; it was soda pressing. Video focuses on the ways our environment recycles, including the water cycle, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, and the phosphorus cycle. It also describes the...
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Activity
It's About Time

The Nitrogen and Phosphorous Cycles

For Teachers 7th - 12th
How do we affect the ecosystem, and what can we do to preserve it? Pupils explore chemicals that promote and inhibit plant growth, then discuss the importance of nitrogen and phosphorus to the survival of organisms and describe how...
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Curated OER

Biogeochemical Cycles Study Guide

For Students 9th - 12th
The four cycles in Earth's biogeochemical system are covered in this instructional activity. Science stars fill in the blanks or define vocabulary terms pertaining to the hydrologic, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous cycles. This...
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Crash Course

Nitrogen and Phosphorus Cycles: Always Recycle! Part 2

For Teachers 7th - 12th
We wish you a happy, healthy, and phosphorus school year! A video explains the importance of getting the nutrients that are needed and focuses on the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles. It includes discussions on the importance of bacteria...
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Curated OER

Dynamics of Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 12th
A set of guided notes walks your biology or environmental studies learners through the dynamics of ecosystems. They write short answers to questions about the energy budget, food webs, trophic levels, and biogeochemical cycles. One way...
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Curated OER

AP: Chapter 54: Ecosystems

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
A lot of learning is packed into these 23 questions about ecosystems. Advanced biology classes apply their knowledge of communities, productivity, biogeochemical cycles, and human impact on the environment by writing short answers for...
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Instructional Video10:04
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Crash Course

The Hydrologic and Carbon Cycles: Always Recycle!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Introduce biogeochemical cycles and goes into detail about the hydrologic and carbon cycles. A scientific video engages learners and teaches them at the same time.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Regents High School Examination: Living Environment 2010

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This exam touches upon every topic within the typical first year biology course.. A broad variety of question styles give high schoolers every opportunity to show what they know. Why start from scratch when a comprehensive final exam is...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Biochemical Cycles

For Students 7th - 12th
When learning about several different processes at a time, it can be difficult to differentiate between them. In the resource found here, you can see what your kids know about some of Earth's systems including the carbon, hydrologic,...
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Instructional Video4:38
Deep Look

There's Something Very Fishy About These Trees ...

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Around 80 percent of the nitrogen in plants living in coastal forests comes from decaying fish. Viewers learn how salmon encourage the growth of forests with a scientific video that highlights interdependence, ecosystems, and the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Matter and Energy

For Students 4th - 8th
In this matter and energy worksheet, students will complete 10 questions about the transfer of energy through a food chain, the steps of the water cycle, and how the nitrogen cycle works.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Cycling of Matter and Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
These twenty various types of questions related to the cycling of matter and energy require students to match each definition in column 1 with the correct vocabulary term from column 2. Then, students explain what is being demonstrated...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Termite Activity Enhances Ecosystem Productivity and Stability

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Termites in your house? Bad. Termites in your garden ... good? Discover the good side of an insect that often gets a bad rap with an interesting animation. The narrator discusses how termites break down plant material, what the soil...
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Instructional Video9:22
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Crash Course

Pollution

For Teachers 7th - 12th
An environmental science video covers natural and synthetic compounds and the impact they have on the environment. It includes carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, cyanide, mercury, sulfur, nitrogen dioxide, and endocrine disruptions. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Carbon Cycle

For Students 5th - 12th
In this carbon cycle worksheet, students will read about the carbon cycle and study a diagram showing what creates carbon dioxide and what uses carbon dioxide. Students will then complete 4 short answer questions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

DNA Cut and Paste Activity

For Students 9th - 11th
Here is a cut and paste activity worksheet designed for older students. They fill in the blank with information about the composition of DNA, then create a DNA strand with its complimentary nucleotide chain.
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Handout
National Institute of Open Schooling

Air Pollution

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Seventy percent of the air pollution in China is due to car exhaust. Under the umbrella of environmental chemistry, learners extensively explore air pollution. From the makeup of our atmosphere to sources of major air pollutants, classes...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Photosynthesis

For Students 9th - 10th
In this photosynthesis worksheet, students complete 20 various types of questions related to photosynthesis. First, they match each description in the first column with the correct vocabulary term in the second. Then, students explain...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Biosphere

For Students 7th - 12th
There is so much to learn about the different cycles, processes, and parts of the biosphere. Using a pretest as a formative assessment to see what your budding ecologists already know is a great way to figure out which important areas...
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Activity
It's About Time

Environmental Impacts and Energy Consumption

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
As scientists prove environmental impacts of using coal as an energy resource, do you think Santa regrets giving out so much of it? Through a demonstration of acid rain, pupils learn what makes it, where it occurs, the impact of it, and...
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Lesson Plan
Wilderness Classroom

Pollution

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Educate scholars on pollution—air, water, and land—with a series of lessons that begin with a thorough explanation of each type. Learners then take part in three activities to reinforce the importance of reducing pollution. They...

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