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Caves
Explore caves with your class! Your scholars will participate in scientific observation, research, inference and deduction, reading, vocabulary, and writing activities about caves with this lesson plan. This resource contains five...
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Deep Inside a Cavern
Students describe how different types of caves and their physical features were formed. They distinguish between stalactites and stalagmites (stalactites grow down from the roof of a cave and stalagmites grow up from the floor)....
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Caves - How Would it Feel to Live in a Cave?
Some phenomenal photographs appear in this short presentation on underground caves. Each slide has a photograph, accompanied by a thought-provoking question, such as: "What sounds do you hear?" and, "What would it feel like to live...
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How Caves Are Formed
Young scholars explore caves. In this cave formation lesson, students take a virtual tour of a cave and then participate in a scientific investigation that requires them to grow crystals and chart data regarding their growth.
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Back to Basics
Students examine the unique and diverse historical artifacts that people have designed to fulfill their everyday needs in extraordinary ways. They identify ways humans have used design throughout history to enhance the ways they meet...
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Science Jeopardy - The Earth Sciences
The earth sciences are the focus for this Jeopardy-style review game. Categories include geology, space, scientific investigation, meteorology, and oceanography. Diagrams and pictures are involved with most of the questions, making this...
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WS 9.9 Presentation Questions
In this presentation worksheet, students answer questions about five different topics presented in class. These include acid rain, acid etching, pH testing, cave formation and kidney stones.
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Cave Stories - Tales of Adventure
Learners list three things about caves that interest them and list reasons why writers choose caves as settings for stories.
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Reading Follow-up Activity
Students color a worksheet while discussing characteristics and composition of caves.
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Exploring Caves
Learners explain why many caves have become National Parks. They determine that caves provide shelter from enemies, and from bad weather in the summer or the winter, and provide certain mineral resources. They discover that ancient art...
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Exploring Caves
Students explore the various characteristics of caves. Through class discussion and hands on activities, students identify what forces converge in the creation of a cave. They complete review activities at the conclusion of the lesson....
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What Is A Cave?
Students explore their existing concepts of caves and match them with a working definition to use during the unit. They name the two types of rock formations in which most American caves occur, and define "show cave" and "wild cave."
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Stalactites And Stalagmites
High schoolers conduct a scientific investigation about the formation of stalactites and stalagmites. They conduct an experiment to reproduce them in the lab environment. Students make observations over a period of time in order to see...
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Landforms
Students research landforms created by tectonic movement. In this landforms lessons, students discuss caves, canyons, mountains, valleys, and undersea vents and the ecosystems unique to these environments.
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Wookey Hole Caves- Caves as Homes - Responding to a Reading Selection
For this reading response worksheet, students read about caves being used as homes. They read the history from ancient times to the use of caves today. They answer 6 fill in the blank questions based the reading.
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Cave Paintings
Students examine various types of prehistoric art. In groups, they research the purpose of the drawings and use the internet to research the various ancient human groups. To end the lesson plan, they draw animals compared to the...
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Cave Formation Age Estimation
Young scholars investigate growth rates of flowstone formations. They view a virtual field trip and discuss how flowstones form. They observe the cave fieldtrip and predict the growth rate for a cave formation. They graph growth rates...
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What Are Caves All About?
Students explore materials within their science group and figure out what they can be used for. They also contribute in a group discussion about stalactites and stalagmites and create their own stalactite using the materials given to...
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The Earth's Crust
Students use clay to form models of the different landforms and then complete a data table using a map, atlas, or the Internet to locate famous landforms in the United States. Students complete various activities, writing down their...
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Dark and Beautiful Caves
Learners research how caves form. They describe the major stone formations in caves by taking notes. They construct a clay model of a cave and mark each formation making it easy to identify in the legend.
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Bermuda: Search for Deep Water Caves 2009: Out of Darkness
Students analyze the three models on the origin of troglobitic fauna. In this life science activity, students also consider how the Zonation model explains the fauna's origin. They also use the Internet to research solutional and...
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Pictograph Cave
Fourth graders investigate the concept of using pictographs as rock art. They examine the discoveries of art made within caves in order to comprehend the culture that painted them. Students write creative stories about the images and...
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Sonoran Desert
Students discuss the complicated environmental issues that face different people today. They establish legal positions surrounding several different scenarios.