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Water Monitoring Vocabulary

For Teachers 7th - 12th
As the title implies, this is a list of vocabulary terms relating to water monitoring. If your ecology class is learning about how to test water quality, this will be an appropriate reference sheet for them. As a bonus, if you live in...
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Worksheet 2 - Instantaneous Velocity

For Teachers Higher Ed
In this distance worksheet, students determine the distance between two objects, find the average velocity of an object, and define instantaneous velocity. This two-page worksheet contains six two-step problems.
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Glaciers and Ice Wedging

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe buckling sidewalks and potholes before attempting to determine how these things are caused. They freeze water filled plastic cups that have been covered. As the water freezes, the students observe what happens to...
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Recycling Water

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this water worksheet, students review the steps involved in the water cycle. This worksheet has 9 fill in the blank and 3 short answer questions.
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It's Just a Phase

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners describe the phases of the moon and play a game with moon phase cards.
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Biomes: Extreme Climate

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a web connecting global warming, the Arctic, and wold climate. They write a paragraph explaining the role of the Arctic in world climate.
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Extreme Climate

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss global warming, greenhouse effect, permafrost and other key words.  In this climate instructional activity students create a web that connects global warming, the Arctic and world climate then write a paragraph...
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Losing An Island

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars examine carbon dioxide and determine the impact of greenhouse gases on the earths spheres.  In this pollution lesson students complete a lab activity to see the impact of gases on the environment, 
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Environment Vocabulary and Definitions

For Students 4th - 5th
In this environment worksheet, students are given a list of vocabulary words related to the environment and their definitions. Worksheet has no associated activities.
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Physics: Bounce - Projectile Motion and Collisions

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students conduct and observe experiments in Newtonian mechanics, kinematics, and projectile motion. They analyze the motion of a ball rolling off a table, falling, and then bouncing. Students answer a series of questions analyzing the...
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BOWEN'S REACTION SERIES

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research Bowen's Reaction Series and recreate the process in an experiment which details the crystallization sequence of minerals that can be observed in nature.
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Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research separate elements of the theory of Plate Tectonics, then share that information with each other, drawing conclusions from the culminated information.
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Modeling Estuaries

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a model estuary. In this modeling estuaries lesson, students identify characteristics and mix water of varying densities. Students form a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, and analyze the results.
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It's Just a Phase: Water as Solid, Liquid and Gas

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students construct models of the way water molecules arrange themselves in three physical states - solid, liquid, and gas. They explain the molecular behavior of ice, water, and water vapor.
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Mystery Minerals

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners minerals and how they form. They investigate the classification of minerals according to physical properties. Students watch a video about mineral characteristics. In groups, learners participate in hands-on activities and...
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THEMIS: A Magnetic Case of 'What Came First?'

For Students 9th - 11th
In this magnetic reconnection worksheet, learners solve seven problems using the data and graphs from the THEMIS satellite constellations, which show a series of events triggered by a magnetic reconnection. Students interpret the data in...
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Sea Ice Board Game

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars understand the sea ice cycle and can explain its stages. In this Sea Ice lesson, students play a game to identify types of sea ice. Young scholars answer critical thinking questions about sea ice. Students complete a sea...
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Rainforest

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine how important the rainforest and its resources are for our everyday survival in the future.
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Weather

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students gain an understanding of air pressure. In this science lesson plan, students define weather, understand pressure, specifically air pressure, demonstrate the pushing power and other properties of air, and learn how a barometer is...
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A Day In My Life

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students brainstorm how they can conserve energy in their daily lives. In this energy lesson plan, students discuss how they use energy and ways to conserve it.
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Weathering and Erosion

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students conduct two experiments. In this weathering and erosion lesson, students identify the different ways that weathering occurs, name the natural elements of weather and explain the process of erosion. Students watch a PowerPoint on...
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Applied Science - Science and Math Lab

For Teachers 4th - 11th
Students investigate topology. In this Applied Science lesson students explore higher, more abstract mathematics using tangles. Students make topologically related shapes.
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Working With Electronic Topography Maps

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Junior geologists examine topographic maps online and learn how to read them. they answer seven associated follow-up questions. This lesson plan is only a general outline and does not provide the details or the websites that you...
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Why do people mover where they do?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read factual stories of migration to Hawaii, analyze and explain push and pull factors, interview parents about their cultural heritage, identify countried of origin of their ancestors, graph migration patterns on an world map,...