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Scaling it Down: Caves Have Maps, Too

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Measurement and map skills are the focus of this lesson plan, where learners crawl through a "cave" made out of boxes, desks and chairs, observing the dimensions.  Your young geographers measure various aspects of the cave and practice...
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Exploring Caves

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the various characteristics of caves. Through class discussion and hands on activities, students identify what forces converge in the creation of a cave. They complete review activities at the conclusion of the lesson....
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Cave Stories - Tales of Adventure

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners list three things about caves that interest them and list reasons why writers choose caves as settings for stories.
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Exploring Caves

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners explain why many caves have become National Parks. They determine that caves provide shelter from enemies, and from bad weather in the summer or the winter, and provide certain mineral resources. They discover that ancient art...
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How Caves Are Formed

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore caves. In this cave formation lesson, students take a virtual tour of a cave and then participate in a scientific investigation that requires them to grow crystals and chart data regarding their growth.
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Anchialine Cave Species

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Ever heard of a stygofauna or a stygobite? How about an anchialine cave? Set your young biologists on a quest to find information about organisms that live in and have adapted to life in caves located near the water. Class members then...
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Making a Cave

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students discuss caves. In this science lesson, students experiment with how dissolution, a chemical weathering process, leads to the formation of caves. Once the cave is finsihed students draw a picture or describe in writing what it...
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Cave Diagram

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine limestone cave geology and hydology. They study cave vocabulary.
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Deep Inside a Cavern

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students describe how different types of caves and their physical features were formed. They distinguish between stalactites and stalagmites (stalactites grow down from the roof of a cave and stalagmites grow up from the floor)....
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Cave Formation Age Estimation

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars investigate growth rates of flowstone formations. They view a virtual field trip and discuss how flowstones form. They observe the cave fieldtrip and predict the growth rate for a cave formation. They graph growth rates...
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Bermuda: Search for Deep Water Caves: Living Fossils

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore relict species. In this anchialine cave lesson, students identify relict species associated with anchialine caves, and explain the importance of preserving anchialine caves and species.
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Caves Word Search

For Students 6th - 8th
In this caves word search, students identify words related to formations found in caves. They locate 20 words from a given list. An answer sheet is provided.
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CREATE A CAVE

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the concept of caves by conducting an experiment. The lesson contains background information for the teacher. They collect data while making observations and write a review of the concept once the experiment is...
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Reading Follow-up Activity

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students color a worksheet while discussing characteristics and composition of caves.
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Cave Activity: Mapping Fractures

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students tour a cave and observe fractures in the cave's ceiling. They record characteristics of the fracture. They locate three major passages in the cave and ten major fractures.
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The First Cave Divers of Wookey Hole Caves Reading Response Worksheet

For Students 5th - 6th
In this reading response worksheet, learners read about the first cave divers to explore the Wookey Hole Caves. They read an entry that explains the history of the divers and explains the equipment that is used in cave diving. They...
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How Caves are Formed

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this science worksheet, students read a two paragraph article about how caves are formed. They study a detailed diagram with labels and answer 4 questions.
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Wookey Hole Caves- Reading and Field Trip Response

For Students 5th - 6th
In this reading and field trip response instructional activity, learners read a description of the Wookey Hole caves that includes the dimensions, the chambers, the tunnels, and facts about the River Axe. They answer 7 short answer...
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What Are Caves All About?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore materials within their science group and figure out what they can be used for. They also contribute in a group discussion about stalactites and stalagmites and create their own stalactite using the materials given to...
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Cave Mentality

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify and define vocabulary associated with caves and rock formations. They construct a cave out of paper and fill it with a geode they crerate. Students write and present orally reports about caves and their importance to...
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Bermuda: Search for Deep Water Caves 2009: Out of Darkness

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the three models on the origin of troglobitic fauna. In this life science activity, students also consider how the Zonation model explains the fauna's origin. They also use the Internet to research solutional and...
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Science Jeopardy - The Earth Sciences

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The earth sciences are the focus for this Jeopardy-style review game. Categories include geology, space, scientific investigation, meteorology, and oceanography. Diagrams and pictures are involved with most of the questions, making this...
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Nonmetals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research about the chemical processes involved in cave formation. In this chemistry lesson, students draw or find a cave picture with stalagmites and stalactites online. They write a brief caption and share them with the class.
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Save Your Breath

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discuss metabolism. For this metabolism lesson, students evaluate evidence form a research report and discuss the basis for hypothetical metabolic adaptations to low-oxygen environments in the anchialine caves.

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