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- 4th
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Students explore how humans adapt to variations in physical environment, compare how people in different communities adapt to or modify the physical environment and identify and compare the human characteristics of selected regions. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students, in groups, research technological systems that have aimed to use water in the most productive ways, evaluate those systems, and create 'How It Works' posters of those systems that incorporate their research. Full Review »
Students compare pollution amounts in the same quantity of water. They explain how even small amounts of pollution in a given water supply can be harmful and outline alternative waste removal techniques. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore environmental and geological conditions on other planets in our solar system, comparing their findings to information about Earth. They propose technologies that might assist in supporting human life on those planets. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students explain that archaeologists must develop clearly defined variables in order to classify artifacts. It reinforces the concept of chronology, and it shows how the style of a basic tool-the projectile point-changed over time. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students participate in a unit on ecosystems using the Microsoft programs Excel and PowerPoint. They study the skills necessary to show data on Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 12th
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Students use geographic information to make an outline map of Africa, then demonstrate their understanding of the physical landscape of Africa by using a variety of materials to create a physical map of Africa Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students participate in an activity in which they build a mountain range in the bottom of a clear container. Groups fill the container with water and later add colored water to watch its path of travel and whether or not the mountain range blocks the water flow. They compare the travel of hot and cold water to hot and cold air and discuss how rise of mountains can block rainstorms, affect surrounding land, and cause changes in plant and animal life. Full Review »
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- 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 »
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- 8th
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Students use the Internet and newspaper as data sources for determining the range, mean, median, and mode. On data gathering sheets, they record the high and low temperatures of 10 cities and calculate the assigned information. Full Review »
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