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Ecosystem Pre-Assessment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Test scholars' knowledge of ecosystems with a 20-question pre-assessment. Assessment challenges learners to answer multiple choice questions, read diagrams, and complete charts.
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Post-Assessment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Twenty questions make up an assessment designed to test super scientists' knowledge of ecosystems. Scholars answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions about organisms, food chains, energy flow, and more.
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Basic Needs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Scholars take part in a grand conversation about the basic needs of living things. Working collaboratively, pupils brainstorm and identify similarities to come to the conclusion that the environment meets the needs of all living...
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Oh Heron

For Teachers 4th
Two teams—the environmentalists and herons—play four rounds of the game, Oh Heron. Using hand symbols to represent food, shelter, and water, players locate their match to produce more herons while those unmatched decompose. 
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Seed Adaptations for Dispersal

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
After a grand conversation about seeds, adaptation, and dispersal, scholars work collaboratively to examine seeds and record their findings on a four-column chart.  Small groups share their observations and further discuss seed...
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Matter Cycles — Sum It Up

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Scholars become part of the cycle of matter with a reader's theater that showcases producers, consumers, decomposers, and the sun. A diagram and discussion concludes the learning experience and enhances comprehension. 
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Planet of Plenty

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine a small piece of land to determine the diversity of life on Earth. They role play as visitors from outer space seeing life on Earth for the first time. They measure and observe their plots while working in small groups....
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Invertebrates

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars identify insect body parts and look for local insect life. They create an insect using recycled material and design a classroom mural with bug facts. They study Monarch butterflies and dragonflies.
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Birth, Growth, And Development

For Teachers K - 5th
Students understand that all living things have a life cycle that includes being born, developing into an adult, reproducing, and eventually dying.
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2.0 "Water Is Life" Global Water Awareness Mini-Unit (Grades3-5)

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars study the amount of potable water on the Earth. In this water activity, students examine the amount of potable water as compared to all the water on the Earth. They discuss why many parts of the world do not have access to...
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Beach Cleanup at a Local Beach

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students participate in an environmental clean-up activity. In this environmental lesson, students travel to a local beach. Working in small teams, students collect trash from the local beach. Returning to school, students sort the trash...
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Under the Sea Webquest

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work in small groups to research a selected species of ocean creature. They conduct Internet research, complete a WebQuest and worksheet, and complete a group oral presentation that includes an illustration of the food...
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National Chemistry Week

For Teachers 4th - 8th
National Chemistry Week lessons enliven classroom science investigations.
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"Five Little Seeds"

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete various activities related to the plant life cycle. They read the book "The Tiny Seed," read and discuss the poem "Five Little Seeds," complete a "Plantenstein Mystery" and other online activities, write and...
Interactive
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Plant Life Cycle

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this exploring the processes from seed to reproduction of a plant online interactive worksheet, students read a passage explaining the plant life cycle and answer multiple choice questions about what they read. Students choose 8 answers.
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Homes for Hermit Crabs

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars discover the differences between hermit crabs and mollusks and identify their parts. After reading a story about hermit crabs, they complete an anatomy worksheet. For another activity, students fold and cut a diagram of a...
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Food for Thought

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore the food chains in a variety of ecosystems and its relationship to the survival of threatened or endangered marine animals or fish in the ocean. The interdependence of the species is investigated in this lesson.
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Marshland Ecosystem

For Teachers K - 12th
Students classify animals based on their physical characteristics and eating habits.  In this animal identification lesson plan, students investigate the life forms shown on a Parisian ceramic basin, and discover ecosystem the...
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Species on the Edge

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students study science. In this endangered species lesson plan, students examine sea turtles and actions that can be taken to help keep them alive. They work in small groups to research different species of turtles and share their...
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A Giraffe Debate

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners study the life, adaptations, and habitats of giraffes. They investigate the issue of giraffe survival in the wild or in a wildlife sanctuary. They conduct a class debate and present position papers.
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Student Designed Investigations Part 2 – Testable Questions, Predictions, Materials and Procedures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars create their own investigations. In this science experiments lesson, students use the steps of the scientific method to design an investigation. Young scholars share their findings on a poster.
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Termitology

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners engage in an inquiry-based study of the ecology of termites. Through hands-on investigations, they explore the life cycle of termites, the termite's role in the food web, and the unique social structure of termite colonies.
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Favorite Penguin

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students research their favorite penguin. For this science lesson, students research penguins and create a presentation of their findings.
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Basic Orienteering

For Teachers 4th - Higher Ed
Students study orienteering. In this science lesson plan, students study the parts of a compass and use the compass to set a bearing and follow the bearing on the compass.

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