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Tropical Atlantic Aerosols
Students analyze NASA data from the Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer. In this NASA data activity, students access an assigned website to examine information from the MISR on the Terra Satellite. They determine how desert dust...
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Down By the River
Students examine how watersheds work and determine the difference between point and nonpoint source pollution. They research management practices to reduce pollution and investigate how everyone can participate in reducing water pollution.
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Systems of the Body
Third graders gather information by questioning, forming hypothesis, collecting and analyzing data, reaching conclusions and evaluating results, and communicating procedures and findings to others. Then they demonstrate an understanding...
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Aquatic Field Data
Students use laptops and sensors to measure water quality and graph their results. In this aquatics lesson students post their results to a website or email.
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Watersheds, Watersheds Everywhere
Students identify the watershed in which their school is located. They use maps to locate their homes and school. They define and use the correct vocabulary.
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Petroglyphs: Protecting the Past
Fourth graders investigate the three types of rocks and study about petroglyphs. They explore why petroglyphs were used by the Nez Perce People. Students investigate the properties of the three types of rocks and they discuss cultural...
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I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore (Grades 2-5)
Students give examples of erosion and weathering processes. They determine causes of America's Dust Bowl phenomena.Students define erosion as the condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind.
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Palm use in Botany
Students use a Palm loaded with botany software to assist them in deciding if items are produced from trees. They identify local deciduous and coniferous trees.
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Rock Creek Water Quality
Ninth graders test water in a local creek using chemical kits and probes. They take GPS readings and digital photos. They calculate the Water Quality Index and create a spreadsheet of the test data.
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Photojournalism: Documenting the Four Greatest Threats to Global Sustainability
Learners study global sustainability by viewing photos. In this environment lesson students work in groups and create their own photo gallery.
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Kids in Outer Space
Students explore outer space through various activities. In this outer space activity, students read the book Outer Space and The Mice on the Moon. Students work in groups to build their own space ships.
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Solar Relatives
Learners examine the solar system by creating a model representation. In this space science lesson, students research our solar system and the distances between planets. Learners create a model solar system in their gymnasium and...
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A Journey with Belfield Along the Lewis and Clark Trail
Fourth graders make a PowerPoint presentation that includes a picture of a plant or animal, and the name that Lewis and Clark called each specific plant or animal. They make a personal journal entry written as Lewis and Clark may have...
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Rock Creek Water Quality
Ninth graders test water in a local creek using chemical kits and probes. They take GPS readings and digital photographs. They calculate the Water Quality Index and create a spreadsheet.
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Found a Peanut
Students describe a peanut. in this peanut lesson, students get a peanut and they observe it using all five senses to write a very detailed description. They combine their peanuts with that of their group and the group needs to find the...
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Blowing Bubbles, Blowing Colors
Students examine the properties of bubbles by testing different bubble making materials. In this scientific experiment lesson, students create a bubble brew with different soaps while observing the different strengths and sizes of the...
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Human Traits
Students investigate their own traits and how they are affected by heredity. In this human traits and heredity instructional activity, students observe, compare, and describe physical differences among themselves. Students read the book...
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All in the Balance
Students investigate gravity and balance. In this balance lesson, students listen to the story Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully. They experiment with balance by creating a tag board model figure that will balance on a...
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Crash landing
Students invent a device to prevent a raw egg from breaking when dropped from a high elevation. In this crash landing lesson, students compete in a challenge to create the safest device to prevent an egg from crashing.
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Muddy Waters
Students read the book the Dirt Boy. For this design and problem solving lesson, students create a way to clean muddy water. Students give their ideas and discuss them. The teacher shows a filter and demonstrates what it does to the...
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From Egg to Butterfly
Students use file folders and art supplies to create a visual presentation of the life cycle of a butterfly. For this life cycle lesson plan, students read books about the life cycle and view the life cycle with in class habitats.
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Seeds
Students observe, classify, and describe seeds. In this seeds lesson plan, students are given an assortment of seeds to observe, record data on, and classify. Students identify the major parts of a seed.
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Simple Electrical Circuits
Students construct a simple electrical circuit. In this electrical circuit lesson, students use a cell battery, bulb, and wire to construct a simple circuit. Students read about switches, circuits, and electricity in Electro Wiz...
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What's for Dinner?
Students investigate the dietary habits of living organisms by creating a model food chain. For this food web lesson, students define several food chain vocabulary words such as omnivore, carnivore and herbivore. Students utilize...
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