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\nJeopardy 8th Grade (Science)\n

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\nThere are so many topics touched upon in this Jeopardy-style science game, that it is difficult to classify! The categories include electricity, matter, ecology, earth and space, and scientific investigation. This would best be used at...\n
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\nBreaking News English: Woolly Mammoths Extinct Due to Lack of Grass\n

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\nIn this English activity, students read \"Woolly Mammoths Extinct Due to Lack of Grass,\" and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.\n
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\nTooth Detectives: Determining the Diets of Extinct Animals\n

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\nStudents study the teeth of living mammals and apply those skills to the interpretation of the diet of extinct animals.\n
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\nAnalysing Scientific Explanations for Megafauna Extinction\n

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\nStudents compare explanations for Australian's megafauna extinctions and identify reasons for popular acceptance of certain scientific explanations. They debate and analyze scientific explanations.\n
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\nChina Dolphin Extinction\n

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\nStudents read, analyze and critique a newspaper article about report claims that dolphins are now extinct in China's Yangtze river. They assess key vocabulary terms within the article and discuss how to design a perfect animal for the...\n
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\nThe History of Life\n

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\nIn this extinction worksheet, students review how species evolve and how species go extinct. Students compare and contrast gradualism and punctuated equilibrium. This worksheet has 6 fill in the blank and 4 short answer questions.\n
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\nBirds of a Feather: Parrots, Pigeons, Parakeets, and More\n

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\nStudents investigate the concepts related to the extinction of birds while conduct research using the internet and a variety of resources. The information is used in order to create a class presentation or set the context for class...\n
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\nWhere Have All the Endangered Gone?\n

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\nStudents explore animals that are endangered. They choose an endangered animal that they would like to keep from becoming extinct. Students create a persuasive presentation to persuade someone to understand why they feel keeping their...\n
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\nBending Fossils: Experiments In Paleontology (Harvard Adventures, Part 3)\n

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\nHow can we bend a fossil? Junior paleontologists explore the joint movements of extinct species in Brain Scoop's Fossils and Geology series. The narrator works with a paleontology curator to show the experiments performed on the...\n
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\nWhy Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest\n

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\nNormally when two species look similar, they are closely related. However, this doesn't seem to apply to the Triassic animals. Learn why these familiar looking animals are not actually related to today's animals. Viewers come to...\n
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\nWhat is an Endangered Species?\n

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\nHere are two well-designed, and easy-to-follow lesson plans on endangered species for your third graders. The focus is on the bison; the history of the slaughter of the animals in the 1800's, and the story of how they were saved from...\n
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\nFragile Reefs\n

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\nStudents research how coral reefs form, where they are located, and what plant and animal species find shelter in reefs, build and display diorama to represent coral and animals that live in coral reef, and participate in discussion...\n
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\nIntroduce Vocabulary: Dinosaur Bones (Barner)\n

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\nDig into some prehistoric vocabulary in Bob Barner's informative book Dinosaur Bones. This works best if you introduce the primitive words before reading the story. These are the focus terms in the text: ancient, climate, extinct,...\n
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\nEndangered Species Day Art\n

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\nAlbrecht Durer created a highly textured stamp or print of a rhinoceros. To better understand which animals are near extinction, upper graders create similar prints of endangered animals they've researched. The six-day lesson includes...\n
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\nImpact of a Changing Climate on the Pacific Walrus\n

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\nHow many of us can say they've seen a Pacific walrus? Not many and one of the reasons is the impact of climate change on their aquatic environment. Children get to think about the food web of the Bering Sea by creating an actual web with...\n
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\nOrigin and Evolution of Life, Part 1\n

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\nStart a class exploration explaining the origin of evolution and life on planet Earth with the first of a five part series. Episode one examines the KT Boundary and what it meant in terms of mass extinction. It explores evidence and keys...\n
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\nThe Terrifying Truth About Bananas\n

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\nHave you ever noticed banana-flavored things don't taste like banana? Video explains the varieties of bananas that exist. It details the demise of the banana most consumed in the United States before 1960 and how it is now practically...\n
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\n4 Plants That are Great for Humans\n

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\nMany substances people commonly use today come from plants, such as caffeine, nicotine, and morphine. A video highlights four plants that scientists use for medicine. It explains the way people discover, research, and use them,...\n
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\nThe Mystery of Earth’s History\n

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\nEvery living creature can leave a fossil record, yet most fossils belong to extinct organisms rather than ones currently living. Scholars learn about dating rock layers, fossils, and the environment of the past. Pupils understand that...\n
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\nA Brief History of Everything feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson\n

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\nExplore the creation of the world as we know it today! An engaging narrator uses a storytelling approach to describe the creation of the universe through black holes. He continues to explain the behavior of subatomic particles as they...\n
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\nThe Great North American Locust Plague\n

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\nThe largest locust swarm recorded in North America measured 110 miles wide and 1,800 miles long, making it roughly twice the size of Colorado. A video begins with what locusts are and where they came from then explains the damage they...\n
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\nCan the Frog Apocalypse be Stopped by a New \"Vaccine\"?\n

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\nThanks to chytrid fungus, the list of endangered and extinct amphibians has grown by around 200 species. The video details how the fungus attacks frogs, specifically the yellow-legged mountain frogs in California. It then offers hope...\n
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\nDoomsday Machines\n

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\nNuclear weapons changed war forever. Scientists now know that a few of these weapons have the ability to change the climate and cause a mass extinction. Watch a video that details the ways these machines work—and the implications that...\n
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\nHow does life evolve? The interactive provides a simulation based on the Game of Life invented by mathematician John Conway. Users can run the applet with the preset rules and settings or adjust them to view whether overpopulation or...\n
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