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Organization 1: Look at What I Organized!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils recognize that organizing things can make it easier to find things later.
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Zoom, Zoom, Zoom

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders participate in a pre-writing activity that reinforces organization in writing. They write a piece of narrative writing using the traits of organization.
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Just the Facts, Ma'am

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners use tables of content, chapter titles, and key words as a strategy for organizing non-fiction information. They write a paragraph with a partner using information from a graphic organizer.
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Observing Compost Invertebrates

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine compost piles and what invertebrates help decompose the organic matter.  In this compost invertebrates lesson students collect invertebrates found in a compost pile and examine them. 
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Life is Weird

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners describe features of cold seep communities and list organisms that can be found in these communities.  In this exploratory lesson plan students complete an activity and describe the process of chemosynthesis. 
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Diversity of Life

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners study Arthropods and their characteristics.  In this organisms lesson students explore the success of Arthropods and answer questions. 
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The Human Body Systems - Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students identify the following organ systems in the human body and state their functions: muscular, skeletal, circulatory, respiratory, digestive.
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Environment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine how connected they are to the environment and how organisms are affected by other organisms. They also discover that the environment is affected by human interactions.
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Evolution: Natural Selection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners analyze and discuss the evolutionary history of dinosaurs.  In this investigative lesson students monitor different organisms in the environment and analyze the pressures that affect the chances of survival. 
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Who Works for Nonprofits?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore career opportunities in the nonprofit sector. In this character development and career lesson, students identify job opportunities in a nonprofit organization and research the necessary skills needed for these jobs. ...
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Digital Wildflower Collection

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine biodiversity and classify organisms.  In this wildflower instructional activity students go out and take pictures of plants then create a presentation to show the class. 
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Entering the Twilight Zone

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students describe major features of cold seep communities  and list organisms that are found in these communities.  In this water habitat instructional activity students examine trophic levels, describe the process of chemosynthesis and...
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Water Ecology Lab

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students determine the characteristics of a stream ecosystem and its organisms.  In this water ecology lesson plan students complete several labs that shows them presence of life, water appearance, and water flow.
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Organizing One’s Thoughts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students take a closer look at the organization of written pieces. For this writing skills lesson, students examine transitions, repetition, parallelism, and other organizational patterns in writing. 
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Ecosystem Food Web Mural

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners create a food web mural about an ecosystem of the freshwater marsh. For this food web lesson plan, young scholars write about the organisms and how each one depends on another.
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Who Took Jerell's iPod?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate various substances to determine the perpetrator of a crime. In this biology lesson, students test for the presence of organic compounds in various samples. They identify an unknown substance based on its physical and...
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Building a Dichotomous Key

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze how a dichotomous key helps us explain and identify unknown organisms. They design and construct a dichotomous key, developing a list of three observable characteristics per organism.
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Interactions Among Living Things

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students role play predators and prey, classify organisms as predator or prey, and describe factors that affect population growth and size.
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Pest Populations: A Game of Survival

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars identify and classify populations of pests in the home, school and community. They recognize the specific conditions needed for the survival of an organism considered a pest and list tactics for control measures.
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Whose Parts Do I Have? (Wings and Things)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils identify an animal and a body part and then matches a body part to a specific animal. This will assess their ability to sort organisms and objects into groups according to their parts and describe how the groups are formed and...
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Dichotomous Key

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use a dichotomous key to identify unknown fictitious organisms. They work individually during this exercise. The task is designed to take students approximately 15-25 minutes to complete.
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Breaking the Food Chain

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the food chain. They brainstorm questions about the human food chain and explain what would happen to living things in the food chain if organisms or resources were removed. They role-play situations in which the...
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Organci Molecules

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore organic molecules in an unusual way. This allows students to incorporate this difficult knowledge into ways of thinking and exploring that they value. Students are placed in groups of four, with the attempt to include...
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Life Processes

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate the basic needs of organisms that must be met in order to carry out life processes. They view a variety of organism that are meeting and competing for resources. Students create an Idea Web for the animals shown....

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