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- 5th - 8th
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Students identify and illustrate the four main stages of forest succession: grass and forbs, shrubs and saplings, pole timber, and mature timber. Full Review »
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- 7th - 10th
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Students research the governments role is preserving the Artic National Wildlife Refuge. They discuss the proponents and the opponents side of the issue. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students use wireless laptop computers to collect, store, communicate, and organize data from the 1999 Jasper Fire area. They collect data in the field and compare it to student-collected data from prior years to develop conclusions about the recovery rate of soil from areas with varied burn intensity. Full Review »
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- 4th - 9th
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Students discuss the demands on the rainforest and devise a management plan that satisfies competing uses. They then construct a diorama to show the location of the various sites. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students explore positive and negative effects of wildfire and analyze positions on fire management. They conduct library research to uncover as much about wildfires and prescribed burns as they can. Students participate in a role-play activity. Full Review »
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- 8th - 12th
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Students discuss and define flooding. They identify areas in northeast Florida that may flood. Students examine droughts and explain the conditions that cause them. They examine the need for growth management in the state of Florida. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students examine role of whitetail deer in forests, discuss and debate current deer population management policies, use population game to demonstrate population changes, and analyze long-term effects of whitetail deer population management. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students recount their knowledge of natural resources and articulate their understanding of the multi- faceted debate that surrounds drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. They then examine the complexity of drilling in the Wildlife Refuge through reading and discussing "Drill, Say Alaskans, Who Know Their Pockets Are Lined With Oil." Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the Bush Administration's plan to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from varying points of view. They work in small groups in order to perform their research, but they compose individual journal writes about this topic. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students learn how all living things in an ecosystem are connected in some way. By building their own "web" your class look at energy flow through the food web system and how environmental changes disrupt the system. Full Review »
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