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Spelling List 24: Sight Words, Prefix "coll-," and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this spelling list activity, students practice spelling words that are sight words, prefix coll-, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 21 words total.
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Trout In The Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners have trout in their classroom and complete journaling, checklists, temperature checking, and ammonia level recording. In this trout lesson plan, take weekly observation records of their trout.
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Risk Assessment and Geometry

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders study the concept of risk analysis as it relates to geometry. In this spatial relationship instructional activity, 10th graders are provided a set of coordinates to analyze a piece of land described. Students write a...
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Bell Live! The Great Lakes: A Superior Adventure

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students participate in a virtual field trip to Lake Superior. In groups, they perform experiments in which test the level of toxins and bacteria in the water. They also watch video segments life in the lake and discuss their observations.
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River Study

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study physical features of a local stream. They study how to identify water features on topographic maps.
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Groundwater Modeling

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers evaluate the effects of point and non-pointy sources of water pollution using a model. They assess human impact on water quality. Students build a model which represents an aspect of the hydrosphere and compare their model...
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The Effect of Tides & Elevation on Wetland Plant Communities

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students comprehend how tides can impact shoreline plant communities through the study of a freshwater tidal marsh. They use actual tidal data to show that tidal ranges differ among geographic locations, even those relatively close...
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Sediment Study

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study sediment and the factors that effect its distribution.  In this sediment study instructional activity students complete a lab activity on sediment distribution. 
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What Trout Need

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars investigate the important components for a healthy trout habitat. In this fish habitat instructional activity, students discuss how the aquarium will simulate a trout's environment in nature. Young scholars complete a...
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Conservation Success Index

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students read information about trout habitat preservation and visit the various links to learn a fish species and its current habitat range. In this habitat conservation instructional activity, students read passages about use the Trout...
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Rivers... for Kids

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Pupils investigate U.S. geography by exploring it's bodies of water. For this river formation lesson, students identify the reasons rivers are needed in our country by reading assigned text. Pupils examine a diagram which explains how...
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The Politics of Water

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students investigate the Governor's Kansas Water Initiative. Students study rivers, cities and reservoirs and how their location effects the importance of their water quality issues.
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What's in the Water?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine water data for up to a month and perform tests on the samples.
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Can You Catch the Water?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work together to construct a model of a water catchment basin. They survey water patterns and complete experiments to see where rain travels and collects. They discover how engineers design structures that help with drainage.
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Community Celebration

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders invite members of their community to a celebration in which they present information about what they have gathered during the Aqua Pure project. Using art, they unveil their projects to the community and extend their thanks...
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Geography Action! Rivers 2001- River Puzzle

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students cut out puzzle pieces and create a healthy river by putting the pieces together in a logical order on construction paper. Students begin by placing the "source" piece at the start of the river and the "mouth" piece at the end,...
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Phragmites australis: Invasive Plant Species

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars research and investigate invasive species, with specific focus on the exotic plant Phargmites australis and its impact on Piermont Marsh near the community of Piermont, New York.
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Salinity and Brackish Water Systems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars are able to tell the difference between brackish and salt water. They also are able to distinguish water qualities specific to each type of water. Students answer various questions about all types of water.
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Water Walk

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students conduct a visual survey to discover information about local land use and water quality; document their findings by mapping and profiling the water body; and use this initial investigation to raise questions about local land use.
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The Five Finger Exercise

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students understnad the importance of keeping our rivers and streams pollution free by remembering the major rivers of northeast Kansas. The see how the rivers contain particles of every substance that drains into them.
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Native Species Restoration and its Impact on Local Populations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers watch video clips of ecosystems and answer questions relating to them.
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Teaching about Conductivity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore conductivity and productivity in aquatic systems.
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Aquatic Communities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students watch a video about aquatic communities. They conduct an experiment that shows how movement of rivers change the landscape. They compare fresh and salt water communities and its wildlife.
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Inner Space Cavern Cave Field Activity: Drip Rate Analysis

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compare drip rates at several different locations throughout a cave. They observe, first hand, the heterogeneity in flow paths present in karst aquifers such as the Edwards aquifer.

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