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Atmospheric Processes - Conduction

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners explain the process of conduction using a molecular explanation, and explain how different materials conduct at different rates.
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Epidemic, Plague, and Infection

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students recognize disease vectors (pathways) and risk factors for infectious diseases.
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Poetry In the World Around Us

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students engage in a lesson which is designed as a literacy connection to science lessons on the effects of water on plants. This lesson uses an excellent Reading Rainbow episode on the effect of drought, and then rainfall, have on the...
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Arctic Passage

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students plan a survival pack for severe Antarctic weather. They identify items necessary for survival in cold climates and which factors play a parat in keeping warm in the cold.
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Land Use Decision

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify social and ecological considerations where human uses of land and trees conflict with each other and ecosystem needs, and describe importance of land-use management and planning through role play.
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Bag Balloons

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students demonstrate that heat can change air. They determine that hot air rises. Students construct a working model of a hot air balloon. They understand that there are two ways that a balloon can rise: it can (1) be filled with a...
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Novel Extension

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders play the role of meeting Tuck Everlasting. They prepare to answer that person's questions. They determine that each member of the family wants to know about a different thing.
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Lemon Batteries Revised

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate how chemical energy in food and batteries is potential or stored energy. They discuss how batteries function, and create a class list of different forms of energy. Students then create a lemon battery that...
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My Hometown

For Teachers K - 4th
Students identify the basic requirements needed for survival and identify the resouces needed for survival that are found within their own community. They use craft materials to create a model of it and then. create a color key to...
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"Girls Only" Science Workshop

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students design sleds. In this engineering lesson, students collaborate to engineer and build a real working sleds from the materials provided.  This lesson was originally designed to be taught to a group of female students.
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Soak it up

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars complete a hands on activity using hard boiled eggs, food coloring, tape, cups, water, and a knife to show how permeability affects animals. For this permeability lesson plan, students complete this activity and learn how...
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The 400-acre wood

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this forest planning lesson plan, students visit the 400-acre wood website and work in groups to learn about the specific aspects of forest development. Students create, label and color a forest planning map and present their map to...
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Land and People: finding a Balance

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss "The Enemy Within: The Struggle to Clean up Cape Cod's Military Superfund Site" by Seth Rolbein by figuring out how there should be safe groundwater. In this science lesson plan, students pretend to be an interested...
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A Campfire Conversation

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars examine point of view as it relates to public issues.  In this point of view lesson, students become familiar with the point of view of John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt about the wilderness. Young scholars debate if the...
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Dispose of Waste Properly

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students examine how to dispose of waste properly and discover how pollution affects plants and animals that live in streams. In this effects of waste lesson, students explore biodegradable detergents and the concept of dilution as the...
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Water Quality And pH

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students determine the pH level of water and its effect on aquatic plants and brine shrimp eggs. This is a three part lesson that leads the student through the development of an understanding of water pH. They form a hypothesis and are...
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Predators and Prey

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils explain how the food chain works. They contrast predators with prey and describe their function in nature. Students discuss how the food chain aids in keeping nature balanced. In small groups, they play a game that simulates the...
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Hero Or Zero?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate science and technology by reading a children's book.  In this reading comprehension lesson plan, students read the story Archibald Frisby and discuss the ways we use science and technology in everyday life.  Students...
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Where Are All the Fish?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify the problems that marine life is facing today. In this marine science lesson, students explain how Marine Protected Areas can help the ocean and the fish. They brainstorm ways to help in the conservation effort.
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"Ladybugs and Grasshoppers"

For Teachers K - 1st
Students paricipate in number of activities related to ladybugs and grasshoppers.
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Solar System Name Tags

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in four activities that will get them to know each other and the celestial bodies of the solar system. Students take the name of a celestial body. Students stand up one at a time, say their celestial body name and...
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Predator/Prey

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explain how the food chain works. They contrast predators with prey and describe their function in nature. Students discuss how the food chain aids in keeping nature balanced. They play a game that simulates the food chain.
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Vanishing Coast: Erosion

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore the concept of erosion. In this erosion lesson, students discuss the effects of 2 classroom demonstrations that replicate coastal erosion.
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Be Considerate of Others

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners explore the environment by participating in an outdoors activity. In this nature appreciation lesson, students discuss how to minimize their human imprint when experiencing nature. Learners conduct a nature walk and plan out an...

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