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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students, after exploring and analyzing the causes of hunger and malnutrition, brainstorm educational approaches to the solving of this never ending world problem. In addition, an overview of the food supply system as well as the concept of food security is discussed in depth. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students investigate the concept of fire and how it was used by the Native Americans. The lesson has sufficient background information for the teacher to establish historical context. Students summarize the nine uses for fire to benefit the environment. Full Review »
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- 6th - 9th
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Students explore ecosystem enigmas. Pretending to be an ecologists, students solve ecosystem enigmas. They discuss human inventions and how they affect the ecosystem. Students participate in an activity to describe the relationship between predator and prey. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students investigate different factors that affect plant growth. They research the effects of water supply, radiant energy, air temperature, and soil temperature. Students also gather facts that influence plant nutrition that include the nutrients found in the soil. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students identify the life processes of various organisms that classify them as living. Using the internet, they examine the characteristics of worms and arthropods and write a story how a creature they developed performs the life processes. They present their animal in a convention. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students are engaged in discussing air quality through hands-on demonstrations using balloons, sealed jars, and toy cars. Students conduct a home radon test to measure their air quality. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students recognize the role of of humans in the protection and preservation of natural environments. They analyze the interrelatedness of living and nonliving elements in forest ecosystems by creating posters, using vocabulary and by concept mapping. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students identify parts of a tree, defining vocabulary associated with different types of trees. They calculate percentage of growth, diameter, and radius. Students explain how foresters manage and maintain a forest as a crop. Students identify trees as a renewable resource and list products associated with tree production. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students examine and complete data tables for several different soil samples with regard to pH factor, soil's pH after fertilizer is added, soil's ability to absorb acid rain, and effect of acid rain on availability of plant nutrients. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students complete an online quiz about their familiarity with water issues. As a class, they watch a demonstration by their teacher and work together in groups to make water change into its various states. To end the lesson, they test water's conductivity and test it for contaminates. Full Review »
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