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Students examine the roles that scientists and government agencies play in protecting citizens from commercially produced chemicals. They watch a video, conduct Internet research, and prepare a media presentation.
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Thomas Edison, electricity and America
Students will examine Edison's application of electricity and the concept of the American Consumer Culture and what thay means. Students will evaluate how these ideas and concepts led to change.
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Mystery "F & V's"
Fourth graders explore agriculture by reading assigned text about produce. In this fruits and vegetables lesson, 4th graders identify the healthy benefits of consuming fresh produce and what minerals and vitamins they contain. Students...
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Nutritional Influence on Illness and Disease
Students examine nutritionally related diseases and illnesses, evaluating studies and developing topics for a science fair project. They investigate bacteria, researching how it can be harmful or helpful, and create illustrated displays.
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Thermodynamics Worksheet
In this science worksheet, students are using the laws of thermodynamics and a basic knowledge to fill in the sentences with the correct words.
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Activity #19 Oxygen For Yeast
Students observe and record what occurs when yeast is added to hydrogen peroxide. They indicate why a chemical reaction (decompostion) must have occurred during the experiement. Pupils explain why yeast was used. Students comprehend the...
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Materials, Let's Do the Life Cycle
Students examine environmental and social impacts of products that consumers buy. For this environmental stewardship lesson, students play a game that requires them to consider real costs of products. Students consider the environmental...
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Food Webs and Chains
Fifth graders examine how simple food chains and food webs function. They examine an illustrated food chain/food web and identify the producers and consumers. Students then sequence pictures of animals into a food web, and create their...
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Over a Barrel
Students examine oil reliance in Britain and around the world. In this oil crisis lesson, students discuss how oil is produced and consider the supply left in the world. Students also examine the influences of oil prices and discover the...
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Earth Day Crossword Puzzle-- Difficult
In this science worksheet, students participate in an Earth Day activity by completing a crossword puzzle. Students read each clue. The answer which fits in the puzzle is provided in a scrambled word form. Students unscramble the words...
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The Bee Tree
Learners practice reading comprehension by reading a book in class. In this story map lesson plan, students read The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco, and create a story map based on the problem and solution of the book. Learners discover...
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How Does One Cope With Life-Changing Events?
Second graders identify coping skills during times of stress. In this mental health lesson, 2nd graders read the story, Stressed Out Sally and brainstorm events that produce stress. Students rewrite a different version of the story...
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From Polymers to Bioplastics: Looking Toward Finding Renewable Resources
Students investigate the properties of polymers. In this chemistry lesson, students explain the importance of energy sources. They produce a bioplastic from the lab and evaluate its structural integrity.
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Food Chains in a Forest
Learners explore food chains in the forest. In this food chain lesson, students listen to the story The Tree in the Ancient Forest by Carol Reed-Jones. They create a food chain to match the story and then create a food chain of their own.
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Sea Connections: Marine Ecosystems
Students identify producers and consumers from marine ecosystems and describe the balance among them in the environments. After constructing a food chain from a marine ecosystem, they examine human activities that can upset the balance...
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Food Chain: what's for dinner?
Fourth graders identify where foods came from and sequence a food chain. In this food chain instructional activity, 4th graders define vocabulary related to food chains and order a food chain. Students follow the energy of a food chain....
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Food Chains and Food Webs - Balance within Natural Systems
Feast on an informative resource. Scholars learn about food chains and food webs and how these interactions give information about the natural community. A PowerPoint presentation provides information about this concept.
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Constructing Sonoran Desert Food Chains and Food Webs
Investigate desert biomes by creating food chains and food webs. Groups first research feeding habits of organisms in the Sonoran Desert. This information helps pupils draw food chains and webs to determine relationship between organisms.
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Food Chains
Learners take a look at the relationship between organisms in food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids. After an opening demonstration by the teacher, pupils are split up into groups. Each one is assigned an environment such as:...
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Chapter 12 Review, Section 3: Solutions
A neat presentation and challenging content make this solutions activity an ideal homework assignment for your budding chemists. Short answer and problem solving questions get them to review molarity, products, and reactants.
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Importance of Deep-Sea Ecosystems – Chemists with No Backbones
Marine invertebrates offer us many new options for developing pharmaceutical drugs, such as w-conotoxin MVIIA, which is extracted from the cone snail and is a potent painkiller. The lesson plan encourages scholars to research various...
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Identification of Gram Negative Bacilli
In this biology worksheet, students review the procedures used to complete the lab activity and then examine the purpose and add the information while answering the questions.
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Limiting Reagents and Percent Yield Problems
Twelve questions about the various calculations of mass and yield are given here. There is significant practice of molarity calculations and consideration of the reactant and product balance.
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Photosynthesis: Life from Light and Air
All aspects of the photosynthesis process, and the way that plants have adapted with specializations are detailed here. The diagrams and info-graphics will be useful to your AP biology class. It could also be used as a review covering...