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Exploring Hydropower

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
In 2006, about 20 percent of the world's electricity was generated from hydroelectric power. In the presentation, scholars review the water cycle and gravitational energy to begin to understand how humans harness the power of water. They...
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Build a Straw Bridge

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Build teamwork skills while building a bridge. Scholars work together in groups to create a bridge out of 20 straws and tape. There is a minimum span length of 25 centimeters, but otherwise, let creativity run wild.
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Environmental Education

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss the different forms of energy and their sources. They work with a partner to answer a variety of questions revolving around energy. They develop a scientific attitude about renewable energy.
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Ah! Those Horse and Buggy Days!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss contemporary methods of travel and the time it takes to travel to places. They use the Internet to explore 18th century travel. Students work in small group to research the amount of time it would have taken...
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Companies Racing to Build Electric Car

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners examine how they use batteries, then read a news article about how cars are being designed to use batteries. In this current events activity, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and vocabulary activity, then...
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Leaves

For Students 6th - 10th
In this biology instructional activity, students write identify the different parts of a leaf shown in 5 different diagrams. They also complete 12 short answer questions after reading the information about leaves.
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Farming 1: Farm Machines

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine how machines help people grow food. They study specialized types of farm machines and the tasks they perform. They complete handouts matching images of the machines with text.
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Plant Cells and Tissues

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this plants instructional activity, students review 17 vocabulary words associated with the different types of plant cells and tissues. This instructional activity has 17 matching questions.
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Calculating Impervious Cover in the City of Austin

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use GIS to calculate park impervious cover in Austin, TX. They consider that there are different types of impervious cover from hard, packed dirt to cement paving. Students consider the limitations of data in several areas...
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Music, Culture and War

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students see that music serves as a major conduit for the transport of knowledge. As they watch video, students tabulate the variety of music artists listed by different soldiers.
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TE Activity: How Fast Can a Carrot Rot?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners experiment to define which environmental factors favor decomposition by soil microbes. They decompose carrots in dirt, weigh the carrots periodically to determine how long it takes. They look at how engineers use this type of...
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Erosion and Deposition

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study the processes of erosion, transportation, and deposition in soil. They walk outside the school to see examples and then accurately create a physical model which shows each type of soil movement and allows them to...
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Cell physiology and chemistry

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students design an experiment to discriminate between chemical diffusion, osmosis, facilitated diffusion and active transport through a membrane. Be specific about predictions and interpretations!
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Making a Spreadsheet

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore spreadsheet software.  In this personal finance and computer technology lesson, students develop a vacation spreadsheet on the computer.  Students represent hotel, food, transportation, and entertainment costs on a graph...
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Applied Science- Built environment Lab (Trains)

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners examine transportation. In this train design lesson, students study how trains work and how to efficiently design a track by working with an electric train set. As a class they compare various types of trains and work...
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Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley

For Students 7th
In this graphic organizer worksheet, students complete the grid in reference to the ancient cities of the Indus Valley.  Students complete the 8 sections writing about transportation, employment, and various types of homes.
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GPS Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers go on a GPS scavenger hunt. They use GPS receivers to find designated waypoints and report back on what they found. They compute distances between waypoints based on the latitude and longitude, and compare with the...
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Radical Raptors

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students are introduced to raptors and their role in the environment. They identify three characteristics of raptors and list several types of raptors found in nature. They discuss their positive and negative experiences with raptors and...
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Magnetic Discovery Bottle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how to conduct simple investigations and use simple equipment to gather data.  In this magnet lesson students decide what types of objects are attracted to magnets. 
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Urban and Rural Communities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss similarities and differences of urban and rural communities.  For this urban and rural communities lesson, students compare urban and rural communities using a Venn Diagram.  Students examine maps of each type of...
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Soil and Agriculture:Lesson 3 - Soil Erosion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students reseach the different types of soil erosion and ways to control it in this series of activities.
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The Water Around Us

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss importance of reading maps and knowing about the geography of the United States, and locate bodies of water on different types of maps and examine how they are used in the state or local community.
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Eastern Woodland Indians

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research the Eastern Woodland Indians in this lesson. They list the tribes and write a description of the physical environment. They list examples of the types of food, clothing, transportation, home/shelter,...
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Climate

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore climate and weather conditions. Using the Internet, and other activities, students examine climate maps and the factors that affect climate. They examine how climate affects clothes, shelter, food, transportation,...

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