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Michigan Sea Grant

Food Web II

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A food web consists of complex food chains and the more complex the web, the better likelihood of survival. Learners compare and contrast food webs and food chains and discuss concepts like the predator-prey and consumer-producer...
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Curated OER

Marshland Ecosystems

For Teachers K - 12th
Students identify animals in ecosystem depicted on 16th Century ceramic basin and classify them as herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores based on physical characteristics and prior knowledge, determine which life forms in ecosystem are...
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Curated OER

Conservation in Costa Rica

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students brainstorm what they do that requires land use and use a worksheet to calculate their footprint (the total area of land and water required to produce all the resources they consume). They then compare their footprints to each...
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Curated OER

Export-Import Game

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students recognize how international trade affects them as consumers and become familiar with basic agricultural crops grown in Kentucky. They identify items used in their daily lives and .heir place of origin and examine export/import...
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Curated OER

Space Age Technology Comes to Earth

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore eight career and technical areas and make connections with business, family and consumers, and technology. They examine and describe how agriculture and natural resources impact our quality of life. They explore and...
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Curated OER

Monstrous Mutations

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners investigate mutations and simulate their mutation while trying to collect food. In this mutations lesson plan, students pick an identified mutation out of a paper bag. They simulate their mutation while trying to collect food...
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Curated OER

Economic Recovery? a Comparison of Indicators for Utah And the United States Since March 2001

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss key business and consumer indicators that are used to measure the health of the economy. They compare the economic recovery (from the 2001 recession) of Utah and the United States. They discuss the benefits and...
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Curated OER

LEAF (Learning Exercises and Activities in the Forest

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe populations and determine the functions (e.g., decomposers, producers, consumers) they serve in an ecosystem. They investigate the energy flow ecosystems. Students investigate factors (.g., Resources, light, water) that...
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Curated OER

Insect Pitfall Traps

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars ask testable questions, use the inquiry cycle to investigate, gather data and interpret the results, study the diversity of insects and other smallorganisms which live around the school; they can make an inventory...
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Curated OER

Alternative Practices of Agriculture

For Students 6th - 8th
For this agriculture worksheet, students read the pages related to the discovery and practice of alternative ways of producing new crops. Then the graphic organizer is filled out for each idea.
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Curated OER

Lights Light Up My Life

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct an investigation. In this energy conservation lesson, students observe and make predictions about fluorescent and incandescent light bulbs. Working in groups, students conduct an investigation to compare the two light...
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Curated OER

Chemistry Lab-Molar Volume of Gas

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Learners determine the molar volume of hydrogen gas. For this molar volume lesson plan, students find the molar volume of hydrogen produced in a reaction between magnesium and hydrochloric acid. They use a eudiometer to measure the...
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Curated OER

Supply and Demand

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars define economic terms, list three conditions that must be present in order for demand to exist, define law of supply and demand, differentiate between buyer's and seller's markets, examine concept of elasticity, view...
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Curated OER

Standard 4-Ecosystems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this ecosystem worksheet, students answer questions about energy pyramids, food chains, consumers, producers, decomposers, biotic and abiotic factors in an environment, natural selection and the importance of biodiversity in an...
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Curated OER

FACS:Puppet Factory (Mktg)

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore marketing strategies while producing a hand-sewn puppet. They obtain information about child care and safety as well as basic hand sewing techniques.
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Curated OER

Generic vs. Brand Name

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students compare and contrast generic and brand name products and the costs of producing each. They explore the "Bargain Basement" section of the ING website, participate in a soda taste test, and tally the results of the taste test on a...
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Curated OER

Mmmm, Mmmm ... and Good

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars consider their own diets and examine an op-ed article about organically produced foods. They research alternatives to various foods for the creation of a supermarket and reflect on their own diets after keeping a food...
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Curated OER

TE Activity: Trash Talkin'

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students collect and categorize solid waste produced in the classroom. They weigh the waste that has been collected over one week's time, and separate it into recyclable and non-recyclable waste. They talk about the role of engineers in...
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Curated OER

Advertising

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the advantages/disadvantages of advertising and all it entails for the consumer. Public relations is examined in depth. In addition, media, slogans, promotion and elements of print and color are examined in detail.
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Curated OER

Strands Walk An Ecological Observation

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students examine an ecosystem and analyze the role of two abiotic factors in the ecosystem.  For this ecosystem lesson students complete an activity on their ecosystem.
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Curated OER

Economic Health Indicators: Inflation and Unemployment Worksheet

For Students 11th - 12th
Ensure your economists understand demand and supply curves with this 13-question inflation and unemployment activity. Although it references a text, information learners need is included on a separate notes handout (included). Consider...
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Alliance Theater

The Jungle Book Post-Show STEAM Lesson

For Teachers 4th - 8th
An ecosystem is really just the flow of energy through many different living organisms. A study of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book leads to an environmental science activity in which learners study how various factors can affect...
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It’s a Plankton Eat Plankton World

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
For as small as they are, plankton sure play an enormous role in maintaining marine ecosystems. Dive into an investigation of these tiny organisms with a hands-on life science activity in which children cut out pictures of sea animals...
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Curated OER

Comparison of Economic Systems

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Here is a worksheet in which learners identify and compare economic systems (market, command, mixed, etc.) with 18 fill-in-the-blank questions and a graphic organizer. 

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