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Chocolate Chip Cookie Mining
To understand the impact coal mining has on the environment, pupils will extract chocolate chips from a cookie. Imagine the cookie is the environment and the chips are the coal. Instruct them to mine as many chips as they can, then have...
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PALEO COOKIE DIG
Students examine a variety of soil samples and then conduct a simulated "dig" in a grid of no-bake cookie bars.
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When Dinosaurs Ruled The World
Learners discover how a paleontologist digs up fossils and what tools they use. In this paleontology lesson plan, students discuss the importance of the job of a paleontologist, watch a video on the process of extracting fossils, and...