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- 7th
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Students gain a better understanding of endangered species. This lesson requires a field trip to the North Carolina Zoological park. At the park, students use a worksheet imbedded in this plan to identify and categorize the animals. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students explore the lives and work of Galileo, Percy Julian, Linnaeua,and Ernest Just in this four lessons unit. The observations are made through the analysis of "fanny packs" belonging to these scientists. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students observe butterfly images and then draw and paint their own design. They use this activity to explain symmetry. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 7th
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Students identify the environmental elements of river and lake mussels. They compare the elements to the time before settlement and during industrialization. They also participate in a field trip to a mussel exhibit. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students review the information they gathered on different websites to write a poem about spiders. They use other websites to gain more information if needed. They share their poem with the class. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students investigate the different types of Plankton and analyze the importance of plankton in the marine food chain. They research filter feeding and evaluate the basic principles of an experiment. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students observe and differentiate between organisms that consist of a single cell and those that are made of a collection of similar cells that benefit from cooperating. They draw and then compare what they see to a chart that identifies the pond water organisms. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students participate in a service project in their own community to gain an understanding of stewardship. They learn about basic plant needs. Students brainstorm what a plant needs to survive. They write to government officials informing them of their project. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students practice their vocabulary words selected from a context piece relating to the Vista Module. They are given the following vocabulary: classify, botany, zoology, ecosystem, food chain, photosyntheis, microscope, habitat, and biology. Students discuss that biology is the science of life. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students incorporate the knowledge they learned about spiders on the ISM Web site, Spider Collection, and other Web sites they viewed on spiders to write a rhyming poem (possibly choosing a poem type illustrated here) about an aspect of spider anatomy, habitat, or behavior. Full Review »

