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- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students investigate constellations. They explore how we can see them from Earth. Students create a quadrant or sextant to determine latitude and a device that helps them determine the positions of the sun, Earth, and zodiac constellations. Full Review »
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- 1st - 4th
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Students engage in a lesson to find out more information about insects. They collect and observe different insects found on school property. They research the insects once they have been classified. Also a video is used to create a context for how insects exist in an environment. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to a process for using web site resources to verify the accuracy of biology information. They follow a guided lesson on evaluating web sites and determining content accuracy. They select a piece of unusual biology information that they have read or heard about from non-expert sources and find reliable web sites with information that supports or refutes the concepts. Full Review »
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- 10th - 11th
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Students examine different global issues and share their learned information with others. Students choose a topic to research, write a research essay, conduct a survey about knowledge and attitude toward chosen topic, and create an oral and visual presentation of their researched information. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students explore how all living things have needs that are obtained from their surroundings. They identify the surroundings where an animal or plant lives is its habitat. Students identify that a habitat is a community of living and nonliving things who are all connected to each other through eating and being eaten. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students examine how insects are categorized and classified by traits. They observe and compare model insects, identify the common features, illustrate and label a tri-fold brochure, and identify insects within six orders. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students identify different kinds of narratives used in a number of art works, discuss artist's use of compositional elements to further the story and/or convey a message within a work of art, and explain relationship between composition and content in a number of works of art. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 6th
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Students connect with real life issues that can be identified in your local catchment. It encourages students to use higher order thinking skills to be able to scientifically analyze and interpret what they discover to determine what impacts may be affecting the water quality. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students grasp knowledge of organism structure and related functions determined by using several living and non-living members of Kingdom Animalia. They briefly survey classification of living organisms. Students describe the similarities and differences that characterize diverse living things. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th
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Twenty-two invertebrate animals are numbered and placed around the room. The teacher demonstrates how to handle the specimens. Students work independently to view each organism and complete a worksheet that asks about seven categories: Exoskeleton, Symmetry, Jointed walking legs, Body segments, Antennae, Special characteristics, and Phylum name. The worksheet is not included with this lesson. Full Review »
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