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Environmental Health Hazards and Children

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students are introduced to the environmental hazards their community is facing. In groups, they develop a list of the ways humans have changed the Earth and how these changes have lead to environmental hazards. They record their...
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How Plants Help Us Breathe

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss how humans breathe and how plants help us to stay alive. In groups, they identify and label the different parts of plants and describe their functions. They compare and contrast the ways plants and animals breathe...
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Water: Our Most Important Beverage

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders complete a KWL chart on what they already know about water and what they want to know. As a class, they participate in an activity in which they discover the amount of drinkable water on Earth and are introduced to the...
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Will Smog be a Problem at the Olympic Games?

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students locate China on a world map, then read a news article about pollution in Beijing. In this current events lesson plan, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion about smog and a vocabulary activity, then students read...
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Oceans Away

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars explore oceans. In this science lesson plan, students locate oceans, seas and continents of the world, identify ocean-related occupations, and complete activities pertaining to food chains as well as pollution.
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Water: Read All About It!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss newspapers and water and work in groups to develop their own paper focusing on water issues. In this journalism lesson, students discuss the value of newspapers and water as an issue. They work as a group to develop a...
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Solar Distiller

For Teachers 4th - 10th Standards
Explore the sun's ability to distill contaminated water with this simple set of classroom experiments. After filling two glass bowls, one with muddy water and the other with salt water, they are covered with plastic wrap and placed in...
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Identifying Your Watershed

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify the watershed where they live and how it is related to their own water consumption. In this watershed lesson students locate their watershed on their town map. The high schoolers find the source of their water...
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Oceanic Absorption- Oceanic Sequestration

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine the techniques that may be used to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  In this pollution lesson students simulate oceanic sequestration using chemistry.
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Oceanic Absorption- Oceanic Sequestration

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students examine the different techniques that may be used to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  In this ocean pollution lesson students divide into groups and complete a lab to see how the ocean holds carbon dioxide.
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Think Green

For Teachers 9th
THINKGREEN has a computer printer cartridge collection program. After reading the story of how Assumption Secondary School in Burlington, Ontario started participating in the THINKGREEN recycling program, pupils work in groups of three...
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Pollution Prevention

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students investigate how to reduce solid and hazardous waste, and estimate the amount of household hazardous waste in their community. Students discuss methods of changing people's habits, and how to convince them to use alternative...
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Government Failure: Congestion, Pollution and the Pensions Crisis

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students determine reasons for market failure while examining clear definitions for government failure, rent seeking, and log rolling. They gain an idea of how governments can solve the problems they face in correcting these failures.
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Contaminated Water

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students review and use the steps in the scientific method to complete the experiment. In groups, they research the importance of water to plants and animals in their local area. They examine how water can become contaminated and take...
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The Chemistry of Water / Industrial Waste at My High School

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students gain factual knowledge of the nature of industrial waste at on their school site. They gain process knowledge of the laboratory techniques and collection procedures for wastewater samples.
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The Atrazine Dilemma

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students understand how farming practices and the topography of a region can effect the health and safety of all living things. Students play a game which helps them understand how the chemical Azatrine has spread in the watershed.
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How Much Azatrine?

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners understand the connections among people, places, and environments in the local school and community, Kansas and its surrounding states, the U.S. and its region, and the world.
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Cool, Clear Water - Or Is It?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners use a problem solving method to offer a solution to one of the water quality problems within the Kansas Lower Republican River Basin. Groups research a problem area, then produce a skit, poem, song or story to illustrate the...
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Marine Debris

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students will perform experiments to examine if debris will float, or blow in the wind. They discuss the effects of these characteristics on marine debris.
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Water Quality Monitoring

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars study the water quality of a stream in their area, by measuring the temperature, pH, alkalinity and conductivity. They integrate biology with earth science when using the microscope to study the living organisms in the water.
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Analyze the Results

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners conduct water tests and sample macroinvertebrates from a nearby source to make a general determination about the overall quality of water. They use worksheets and analyze data as part of a larger unit.
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The Case of the Disappearing Frogs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars complete an Internet based activity to investigate the case of the disappearing tadpoles. They discover the interrelationship of living things.
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MicroBiology Chp 1

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this biology instructional activity, students locate and identify various vocabulary terms found in Microbiology. There are 42 words located in the puzzle.
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G is for Groundwater

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this groundwater worksheet, learners read the sentences 'Groundwater is beneath the soil,' and 'G is for Groundwater.' Students may color the picture of the groundwater image.

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