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- 6th - 8th
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Students use pencil and paper to explore the the coriolis effect and how the Earath's rotation causes global wind patterns. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students study photosynthesis and then transfer their understanding of this topic to a consideration of how trees can help reduce the negative impacts of the greenhouse effect. They explain the role of humans in increasing the greenhouse effect. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students investigate the greenhouse effect and why it happens. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore natural community habitats and identify ecotones. they observe and describe the diversity of these overlapping ecosystems. They compare the ecotone with the two separate ecosystems. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students examine the effects on the Aboriginal peoples of Canada when the gold rush began. They discover the relationship between the natives and the miners. They develop their own opinion on the situation and support them with information they gathered through research. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students participate in an activity to demonstrate how deforestation, fragmentation, and habitat edges may affect native animal populations. Students accomplish this by playing a game from a provided worksheet and completing a graphing activity as a class. Full Review »
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- 6th - 7th
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Students examine samples of the work of artist, Leon Polk Smith. They explore and examine the hard edge painting method as it is used by Smith. Using particular colors, they demonstrate the use of correct techniques and skills in creating their own hard edge painting. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students conduct experiments on fertilized chicken embyos to determine the possible developmental effects that various recreational drugs (caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, and aspirin) might have on them. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explain why some species of plants and animals occur in more than one area. They watch as the teacher puts an overlapping circles on the chalkboard, students are asked to predict what kinds of things they would expect to find in the overlapping circles. Students are asked where the greatest diversity exists. They label the whole area of the overlap the ecotone. Full Review »
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- 4th - 11th
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Students examine and create a tool that enables them to explore the scientific principle the Moire Effect. Using markers, paper, and scissors, they create an optical illusion that involves superimposing a grid of lines over another pattern of lines to create the optical puzzle. Full Review »
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