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Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Private-Religious)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine how to prevent cruelty to animals. In this stewardship instructional activity, students discover the Biblical laws of Tza’ar Ba’alei Chaim. High schoolers volunteer their time to assist community organizations that...
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Making a Terrarium

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students become familiar with the materials needed to build a terrarium. In this terrarium lesson, students create a terrarium in a bottle and observe how it grows and takes care of itself.
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Who Takes Care of the Maya Forest Corridor?

For Teachers 1st
First graders study the animals in the Maya Forest Reserve. In this conservation instructional activity, 1st graders create a graph to compare the environment of animals to their own. They design a 3D model of these two environments.
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Geography and Climate

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate geographical locations and their own personal experiences with the environment.  In this environmental identification lesson, students participate in a match game using certain environmental and geographical terms...
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Newspaper Articles

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders summarize a newspaper article. In this writing activity students choose a newspaper article about an environmental issue. The students summarize the article and devise a solution to the environmental issue.
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Graze Like a Cow

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore how a cow digests the grass they eat. In this science/math instructional activity, students compare the quality of forage. Additionally, young scholars determine the effects of rangeland health on the production.
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Can Worms See?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss the previously created worm compost and the importance of living creatures to the Environment.  For this worm lesson, 2nd graders observe worms and record their sensitivity to light. Students design a petri dish...
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Christmas Makes Me Think

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discover that Christmas is a time for giving and sharing. In this Christmas spirit lesson, 3rd graders read a book about a child who is excited about Christmas trees and presents, but comes to realize that Christmas is...
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100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the possible ways to recycle, reuse, and re-imagine products and objects in order to reduce pollution and waste on our planet. For this 100 things you can do to save the planet lesson, students take three actions to...
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Campus Habitat Improvement Plan

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Young scholars work to improve a plot of land. They assess the needs of the environment and formulate a plan. They plant trees and gardens, build bird boxes, construct waterholes. etc.
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Evolutionary Arms Race

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students recognize that a connection exists between an organism's physical and behavioral traits and its environment. They explore and define different types of interactions that can occur between organisms.
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Effects Of Environmental Change

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students think about what might happen to plants and animals if their environment changed. They play a predator/prey game to simulate what might happen to the praying mantis if the rain forest were cut down.
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Sea Animal Slide Show

For Teachers K
Students cllassify sea animals into groups based on certain attributes. They create a picture on ClarisWorks for Kids. They write/wordprocess their own name and copy words from immediate environment to label sea animals.
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Whose Flotsam is This?

For Teachers K - 12th
Students investigate interrelationships between the environment and litter. They observe the types of litter found on a shoreline and collect information about it to infer from where it came.
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Magnetic Field Activities

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the idea of magnetic field through investigations of magnetic fields as produced by various common magnetic materials and direct currents. They study the vector nature of fields, the ubiquity of field sources in the...
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SPACE: A Journey to Our Future

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students make a rocket, simulate a space environment and use different materials to see their effect on lens.
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The Key To Classifying Animals

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Explorers of the environment construct a dichotomous key for a variety of organisms and design a key to classify Galapagos animals based on descriptions and images. The lesson includes a link to an animal gallery and the worksheet for...
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How Does the Loss of Ozone Affect Our Climate

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the greenhouse effect and what it does to the environment. They discuss if and how human behavior contributes to global warming and test natural materials for carbon content.
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Observing Complete Metamorphosis

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create environment for mealworms to observe complete metamorphosis.
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Forest Activity: Leaf Collection and Creating a Herbarium

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students identify and categorize leaves. They collect leaves from trees, research the leaves using field guides and the Internet, press, label, and display the leaves, and discuss how the leaf reflects adaptation to its environment.
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The Water Cycle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create terrariums in containers in order to study the Water Cycle. They examine how the terrarium maintains life in the closed environment.
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Woodland Animals and Their Habitat

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore the natural environment through a video and nature sounds tape. They keep journal's of the unit's activities and vocabulary terms. They play a web of interdependence game and compose a list of forest animals and write...
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Zoo Vet

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students come up with a list of all the animals that might be found in a zoo. They think of all the things that a zoo needs to do and provide for each animal. They discuss what the role of any zoo should be. They design a healthy zoo...
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What's Bugging You?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine the effects of pests on other organisms, crops, and the environment. they construct an insect observation chamber and discover how some insects can be pests in some situations and beneficial in others. They write "pest...

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