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World Geography: Climate Change Round Table

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are able to explain the suspected causes of relatively recent climate changes, specifically the observed global warming. They discuss how unusual or extreme global warming disrupts the balance of the earth's geo-spheres.
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Who's Coming to Dinner?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students identify the role predators/prey play in food chains, differentiate between food chains and webs, identify factors that affect the balance in food webs, and propose solutions to protect endangered species' environments and...
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Food and Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss the benefits for maintaining good nutrition and a well balanced diet. They categorize foods into the correct food group, decide if a meal is balanced, and create a full day menu which demonstrates what they have...
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Combustion Reactions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write a balanced chemical reaction. They articulate how burning fossil fuels increase the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Students incorporate all the environmental risks involved as well.
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Ecology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students gain an understanding of necessary components required within a healthy, sustainable environment and ways human actions can impact that balance while discovering how to recognize and analyze explanations and models used in...
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Advertisements

For Students 4th
For this advertisements worksheet, 4th graders analyze and evaluate several advertisements for caring for cats and then design a poster that advertises the importance of a balanced diet for puppies and dogs.
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The Industrial Revolustion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create artistic posters to show the differences between key vocabulary words. They show the differences between a rural, agrarian, urban, and industrial lifestyles. They evaluate the benefits and problems, the human and...
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Native Versus Exotic

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students investigate the presence of exotic and natural species in the ecosystem. They define the differences between exotic and native while looking at one specific ecosystem in Maryland. They write how the exotic species are considered...
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Mandalas : polygons

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create mandalas. For this mandala lesson, 4th graders look at these polygons in nature and man-made forms. They create their own by using tangrams.
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Landscape Book

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create a three-dimensional book about landscapes. They must show their understanding of shape, color and balance.
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Applying the Activity Series

For Students 9th - 12th
In this activity series worksheet, learners read about single replacement reactions and are given a table with the activity series of metals and nonmetals. Students use the activity series to predict if reactions will occur and they...
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Oh Panther

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students play a game that replicates the balance of prey and predators in an ecosystem. In this physical education lesson, students follow the instructions to play "Oh Panther!" Students collect data regarding the game and discuss the...
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Trash Goes To School

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore solid waste background information. They are presented with a well balanced picture. Students review ideas on how to use solid waste issues in many fields including math, science, English, social studies and home...
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Primary And Secondary Succession

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students cover the topics of primary and secondary succession with interest to its ties in the study of ecosystems. They study how the introduction of an insect can effect the ecological balance. Students make predictions and write them...
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Diet and Nutrition

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Pupils figure out the nutritional values of foods to explain the nature of a healthy diet by looking at fast food nutrition pamphlets and calculating the values of foods then comparing them to the food pyramid.
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The Living Constitution

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate why the Constitution is a living document and dissect the document to discover why it has survived while so many other charters have not. Students use James Madison's constitutional admonition concerning checks and...
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Lose Some Weight- Evaporate!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students determine that some liquids are able to evaporate more readily than others. They create a balance using cups and a ruler to determine which end of a strip dipped in alcohol or water evaporates the fastest, hence loses the most...
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Population Density In Fish

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate how a population of fish multiplies in an ecosystem and the kinds of things that must be done to maintain a healthy population balance with other organisms that live there. They conduct an experiment to test the...
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Atoms and Their Interactions

For Students 9th - 12th
In this atoms worksheet, students will review the characteristics of elements, atoms, and isotopes. Then students will compare the difference between ionic and covalent bonds. Finally, students will balance a chemical equation. This...
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Wartime and the Bill of Rights: The Korematsu Case

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the balance between civil liberties and protection. For this national security lesson, students explore the Korematsu case which references the Japanese internment camps of World War II. Students draw comparisons between...
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Why Are Thinning Trees Important?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate thinning trees and why they are important to the forest.  In this sustainable environment lesson, students role-play as if they are trees in the forest and simulate the overcrowding and inability to move spaces,...
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Organizing Writing/Composing a First Draft

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders access an organizer from an earlier lesson and transition sentences to begin a new essay.  In this organization and composing lesson, 7th graders work in small groups to create a draft of an article about natural...
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Carolina K-12

Who the People? Representative Democracy in North Carolina and Congress

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Our elected officials are supposed to represent us, but what does it mean when they aren't like us? Budding citizens explore the demographic makeup of the US Congress, the role of money in political elections, and the Citizens United...
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Environmental Action

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate an environmental problem in order to find and propose possible solutions. The problem is real to add to the engagement of the lesson. This is found through conducting research and then brainstorming is done in small...