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Rainforest Plant or Animal?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the major functions of plants and animals. For this rainforest lesson plan students create a Venn diagram to compare and contrast animals in the rainforest.
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Food chains and webs

For Students 1st - 3rd
Here is an extremely simplistic look at food chains and webs. It depicts three different food chains, each containing a plant, plant eater, and meat-eater. Learners fill in the missing part of each chain by using the images provided at...
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Bud the Spud Moves West

For Teachers 9th - 12th
As part of a unit on Canadian agriculture, this focuses on how potato farms have increased in the west. Pupils participate in a discussion about the impact of consumer demand on production, and then they read an article about potato...
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Metamorphosis Magic

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students play rock-paper-scissors and create a play to demonstrate the butterfly life cycle. In this butterfly life cycle lesson plan, students also plant a butterfly garden with plants that attract butterflies.
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Get In Touch With Trees

For Teachers K - 1st
Students feel tree parts inside of 3 mystery boxes. Then they go outside and find the 3 trees the parts came from. They draw their favorite tree including details of the part they felt.
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Water Cycle Bracelets

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students engage in a lesson that investigates the hydrological cycle. They create bracelets with different colored beads that represent parts of the cycle. Students can follow the cycle in the order of the beads. The lesson includes...
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Water Filtration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers demonstrate the four of five procedures that municipal water plants use to purify water for drinking. A water filtration system is designed by a student and their partner. A data chart is made to record all observations...
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Exploring Biomes Lesson 3: Endangered Biomes

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Future environmental scientists compare data from two different conservation strategies. Alone this lesson is sufficient, but as part of the Exploring Biomes unit produced by the Arizona Fish and Game Department, it becomes top-notch. 
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Turtle Legends

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students listen to the legend, Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back. They create a new moon for the calendar based on this natural part of everyday life in the seasons. They illustrate it under the story using water color paints.
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Root Caps and the Effect on Gravity Sensing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct an experiment to determine how the absence of a root cap affects a plant's ability to sense gravity. They make comparisons between capped and decapped roots.
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Should Soil Be Sterile?

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students determine if the sterilization of topsoil is beneficial to seed germination and plant growth. They grow plants alongside control groups, make and record observations of plant growth and measure plant biomass.
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What on Earth is in the Earth?

For Teachers K
Students explore the physical properties of sand, soil, and rocks and sort, classify, compare, and contrast the materials found in the soil. The differences between the living and non-living parts of the soil is discussed.
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Hatchet

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students write about a time when they were in a situation where nature frightened them. They write about how Brian solved the problem of how to start a fire in the story. Students complete a short research paper on one of the plants or...
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Runoff: Intro to Watersheds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners are taught that a watershed is, what types of basic land cover are impermeable and permeable to water. They trace the flow of water around their school and around their home. Students determine what watershed their school is a...
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Beliefs in Traditional African Religions

For Students 6th - 10th
While there are a few aspects of this worksheet missing, it can absolutely be useful and suit your African religions study. A worksheet is split into 3 parts: "before you read," "while you read," and "after you read." There is a chart...
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Current Events Quiz #3

For Students 9th - 12th
Useful as a blast from the past, this current events activity is outdated (Fall 2001). Many global events are part of these fifty questions, but quite a few of them are very specific to pop culture and sports. This could be helpful in a...
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How to Grow a Sunflower Plant

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore botany by conducting a sunflower growth experiment. In this plant life activity, students identify the anatomy of a sunflower plant and the essential nutrients it requires to grow. Students utilize compost, soil, garden...
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Forest Communities

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify tree specimens.  In this tree specimens instructional activity, students collect different parts of a tree from the areas around the school or their home.  They then work in groups to create booklet that identifies tree...
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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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Energy from Coal

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
If plastic is derived from fossil fuels and fossil fuels come from dead dinosaurs, does that mean that plastic dinosaurs are made from real dinosaurs? This lesson goes into depth about coal and other fossil fuels. First the instructor...
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Pollination

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss pollination and how bees pollinate flowers. In this pollination lesson plan, 3rd graders draw the pollination process on a piece of paper.
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Researching the Nutrient Cycle

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this researching the nutrient cycle worksheet, students read about the cycle of nutrients, look at the diagram, then answer two questions by doing research on this topic.
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Vegetable Party

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students classify vegetables and eat them as a salad. In this multi-disciplinary science and health lesson, students bring various vegetables to school and classify them in several different ways. Then with parent helpers, the students...
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Plant Systems

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars examine plant systems. For this life science lesson, students explore leaf and root systems on paper in a terrarium that they design and construct.

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