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- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students compare growth rates between Americans and Andean people over generations. They conduct a survey to study the increase in height between generations of Americans and explore if the height of Andean people has increased over generations. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students explore the dynamics of ecosystems. They observe ecosystems and partisipate in a variety of activities including building a classroom or bottle aquarium, design a terrarium or creating a collage of pictures depicting an ecosystem. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students visit USDA Plants Database Web site at http://plants.usda.gov/ to identify native species of the Southern Appalachian Region. They name and describe each species in general terms in their field notebooks for the purpose of plant identification. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students examine how plants respond to different environmental conditions such as light, water, touch, and gravity. After discussing the different tropisms that plants do in response to change, groups conduct an experiment to test geotropism. They collect data for several days and conduct research on the different tropisms. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students design seed packets. They use saved images they created in another lesson, digital photographs they have indexed, and a variety of resources to find the information needed. They use different word processing features (inserting) to compile all of the information into their seed packet creation. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 6th
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Students design and publish plant trading cards of different types of plants growing on the school campus. Using a digital camera they take photos of the plants on the school grounds, conduct Internet research on the plants, and create the plant trading cards using a computer template. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students utilize technology and their field trip experience to create a three-fold brochure highlighting Cachuma Lake. They fill out a graphic organizer, outline their experiences on the field trip and then divide up into groups to work on their group projects. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 4th
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Students sort through images of weeds and native plants. They sort and compare native and non-native plants using at least three different criteria. They define the term ecosystem and recognize at least four different plants from their surrounding ecosystems. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students research an ecological environment. They draw a map of an imaginary country and its animal and plant inhabitants using a paint program. Completed assignments were uploaded to the website. Full Review »
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