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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Introduction to Environmental Challenges in China

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Through an overview of some of the environmental challenges facing the growing and evolving country of China today, young scholars learn about the effects of indoor and outdoor air pollution that China is struggling to curb with the help...
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Primary Resources

Primary Resources: Pe

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Primary Resources provide pdf and html documents for lessons that include: warm-up activities, dance & gymnastics, invasion games, striking & fielding games, net/wall games, fitness & athletics, outdoor & adventurous...
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California State University

A Bird's Eye View

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
With this lesson plan students will create a chalk drawing of an outdoor scene from a bird's-eye view. Lesson includes links to perspective drawing techniques and examples.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Getting to the Point

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this lesson, students learn how to determine location by triangulation. We describe the process of triangulation and practice finding your location on a worksheet, in the classroom, and outdoors.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Architecture Helped Music Evolve

For Students 9th - 10th
As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He asks: Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian operas to arena rock, he explores how context has pushed musical innovation. [16:00]
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Indoor Air Pollution

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recall that air pollution is due to chemical substances and particles released into the air mainly by human actions. When most people think of air pollution, they...
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Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy: Introduction to Sustainable Forestry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students use an interactive with Google Earth to identify forests that have been logged selectively with those that have not. For an outdoor activity students create acomprehensive list of all the tree species in their...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: I've Gotta Get Some Air

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students identify types and sources of indoor air pollutants in their school and home environments. They evaluate actions that can be taken to reduce and prevent poor indoor air quality. In an associated literacy activity, students...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Bird Characteristics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson, students will learn bird characteristics through observation and classifying activities. Indoors they will be introduced to bird study through learning about John James Audubon, followed by a basic drawing lesson to aid...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Weathering Landforms

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan will demonstrate the mechanical weathering process known as frost wedging and the biological weathering process caused by plants. The materials required include plaster of Paris, balloons, seeds, paper plates and a...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Adventures in Abc and 1,2,3

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this outdoor/indoor lesson, the students will study Antler, Bear, Canoe by Betsy Bowen and make their own ABC book based on their observation skills used in the school forest.
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National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Nagt.org: A Kinesthetic Demonstration for Locating Earthquake Epicenters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A kinesthetic activity for students to understand the technique for locating the epicenter of an earthquake. It is performed indoors and outdoors in three lessons.
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Recreation in Texas [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, they investigate the features of different state parks, learn why state parks are...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Is It Really That Big?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Just how tall is that object? In this lesson, students will participate in an outdoor group activity using shadows to extend their knowledge of proportions to solve problems dealing with similarity. The cooperative learning groups will...
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Interactive
Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Environmental Education for Kids!

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site is an electronic magazine that features information concerning the great outdoors. This site includes information on animals, nature, earth, careers, activities, teacher lessons, and media.

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