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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students research endangered animal species that have 'beaten the odds' as they continue to survive longer than scientists had expected. They write individual pages for a class book about endangered species. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students are introduced to Zeresenay "Zeray" Alemseged, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, who is a paleoanthropologist. They do a variety of engaging activities to help them explain bipedalism---humans walking on two feet. Full Review »
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- 10th - Higher Ed
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Students gain a better understanding of how scientists can use foraminifera to interpret past environments. Specifically, students have the opportunity to explain one of the basic tenets of geology - the present is the key to the past. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 8th
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Students visit museums and gather information about dinosaur habitats, survival needs, and how they met these needs. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students peruse illustrations of living things and extinct life forms, which they compare and categorize as living or extinct. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students use the geologic time scale and standard techniques to determine age, and investigate how fossils are used to compile earth's geologic history. They distinguish between relative and absolute time. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 8th
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Students, working in groups, make scale drawings of dinosaurs. The four groups then assemble their assigned parts into one composite drawing. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students, in teams, attempt to solve a simulated crime scene. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 9th
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Students, in groups, examine the fossils, work on various rearrangements, and attempt to show any patterns, trends, and rates of change over time. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students examine the world's rivers in this six lessons unit which mingles science with social studies. The dynamic forces that create erosion in nature are also seen as habitats and ecosystems that are affected by environmental and man made changes. Full Review »
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