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Understanding the Indoor Environment:Preventing and Fixing Indoor Air Pollution

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners explore air pollution.  In this environmental studies lesson, students work with a partner to create a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting possible solutions to prevalent indoor air pollution problems.  Learners...
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Invention Project

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Students study air pollution and design inventions to prevent indoor environment problems. In this air pollution inventions lesson, students read about and discuss famous inventors and inventions. Students then research indoor air...
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Understanding the Indoor Environment

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils create and deliver speeches about why their school should have an Indoor Air Quality team. In this speeches lesson plan, students make presentations to school board members about having an IAQ team.
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Deck of Word Cards

For Teachers 4th - Higher Ed
Learners study vocabulary words associated with indoor air quality. In this air quality lesson, students participate in a word card game where they write sentences for the vocabulary words given. Learners then check the original teacher...
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Understanding the Indoor Environment: Vocabulary Development

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils acquire new vocabulary by reading an assigned text and determining the meanings of  unfamiliar words.  In this vocabulary development instructional activity, students acquire strategies to use in a small group as they...
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Indoor Air Quality

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students make a work puzzle using air quality vocabulary. In this air quality vocabulary lesson, students design a word puzzle using a teacher designated number of vocabulary words. They peer edit the puzzles with their classmates.
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Vocabulary Development Vocabulary Zoo

For Teachers K - 4th
Students practice their vocabulary skills. For this vocabulary skills lesson, students recall vocabulary words regarding indoor air quality.
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Understanding the Indoor Environment: Word Walls

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students study vocabulary words about indoor air quality. In this indoor environment lesson, students create a word wall with vocabulary words about indoor air quality and pollutants.
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A Hydrothermal Adventure

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students analyze hydrothermal vents. In this hydrothermal vents lesson, students discover the effects of hydrothermal vents on tectonic plates. Students make model hydrothermal vents to understand how they form and operate.
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A Bioluminescent Gallery

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars examine the different types of luminescence in deep sea organisms. In this bioluminescence instructional activity, students investigate how color and light aide deep ocean organisms by describing the characteristics of the...
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Quieting Down Muscles and Bones

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students familiarize themselves with the proper names of muscles and bones and where they are located.
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On Our Own- Surviving on Another Planet

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils investigate current models for Lunar and Martian settlements and study the mathematics behind these designs. They design their own Lunar or Martian settlement with an explanation of why their model would work best.
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Exploring Virtual Europe

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research the geography, government, climate, history, economy, and culture of a European country. They select a country in Europe, explore various websites, and complete a worksheet.
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Learning About Guatemala Through Its Kites

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students are introduced to Guatemala and to the tradition of giant kites. They decorate the kite sail and construct the kite. Students identifies possible causal factors contributing to given historical events.
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Worksheet 1. Reading: Giant Pandas

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students read a passage about giant pandas. They then answer the 8 true/false questions using the information they just read.
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Past Time: Vocabulary Practice Worksheet 3

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this vocabulary practice learning exercise, students choose the best word from 2 possible choices to complete each of 12 sentences. Despite the title, the sentences have little to do with past time.
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Build-A-Bird

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers create an imaginary bird. In this anatomy lesson, students analyze how artists represent birds historically, then determine the anatomical aspects that suit a bird to its habitat. Using this information, high schoolers...
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Where's the Sand?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the characteristics of deserts. In this geography lesson plan, students discuss the characteristics of a desert and label a map with the names of deserts.
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Adjective Clauses

For Students 4th - 6th
In this completing sentences worksheet, students use a word from the word pool to fill in the blanks in ten sentences. Some are adjective clauses.
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Vocabulary Practice

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this vocabulary words instructional activity, students choose the correct word that fits the description. Students choose 12 words that fit the description.
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Vocabulary Practice: Past Time

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions that require them to select the appropriate words to complete the sentences that express past time.
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Create a Cloud in a Bottle

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine the earth's atmosphere. In this hands-on science lesson, students follow the outlined steps to create clouds in 2-liter bottles.
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Show Me a Flowerpot

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students compare and contrast handmade and machine-made products in a study about the evolution of production processes in American history. For this production history lesson, students explore a flowerpot in depth. Students make their...
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Compass Crusaders

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners discover how to use a compass and how to use that knowledge in the field while applying orienteering and mathematical skills.