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- 3rd - 5th
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Students demonstrate that, although we sometimes can neither smell nor taste them, many ingredients in our foods and household products come from the sea. They also investigate food eat to determine algae derivatives they contain. Full Review »
Take A Virtual Trip to Antarctica Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students explore ocean life and habitats using educational software, books, videos and class discussions. They complete a quiz and may make an ocean crafat. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students propose the construction or abolilition of a dam in their hometown by thinking objectively and critically about issues affecting the futures of rivers. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students explore the weather phenomena El Niño and La Niña. They explore when and where these weather changes occur, and about the effects they have on everything in their wake. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students investigate the role of fleas, a well-known parasite, in the European Black Death of the 14th century. They research this topic on the Web and create posters or multimedia presentations showing how fleas spread the disease. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students recognize that natural structures and systems often display recurrent complexity over many scales of measurement. They infer the importance of structural complexity to species diversity and abundance in benthic habitats. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore the process of chemosynthesis and contrast this process with photosynthesis. They consider the relevance of chemosynthesis to biological communities in the vicinity of cold seeps. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students describe eight stages in the formation of islands in the Hawaiian archipelago. They examine the movement of tectonic plates in the Hawaiian archipelago region, and describe how plate movement produced the Hawaiian archipelago. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students formulate a hypothesis testing whether adult and larval corals display physiological differences that might make the larvae more or less sensitve to changing temperatures. They outline a procedure to test this hypothesis. Full Review »

