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Calories

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore calories. In this lesson about calories, students practice counting and recording calories. Students use a sample Calorie Calculation Chart to record how many calories consumed in one day. Students do an experiment on...
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Water

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine water, its function and how much you should consume.  In this water lesson students study water and why it is important, how much you should drink and what its functions are in your body. 
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Peak Load Growth Along the Wasatch Front: What's Driving Electricity Demand in Utah?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars study how electricity is used in Utah. They create an advertising plan to educate consumers about peak cycles and energy costs for the cycling service of electricity. They present their advertising plan to the class for...
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Euclidean Geometry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Go back to where it all began! Investigate how axiomatic systems and Euclidean geometry are based on undefined terms, common notions, postulates, and propositions by examining passages from Euclid's Elements. (Social studies teachers...
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Launch It

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Launch pupil interest in rockets. Scholars build rockets out of straws and balloons to learn about Newton's Third Law of Motion. Their task is to hit a target five feet away. It's not as easy as it seems!
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Ecosystems - Plants and Animals Together

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students study the biotic and abiotic factors of an environment.  For this exploratory lesson students examine the different trophic levels and how organisms are connected. 
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Food Chains

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners investigate how food chains work. For this food chains lesson, students construct a food web for a pear tree habitat. The interactive whiteboard is an optional tool in this lesson.
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Food Chains

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create their own food chains on Kidspiration starting from the energy of the sun and what it creates. In this food chains lesson plan, students learn about how insects eat plants and so on.
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Bugs in the Woods

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify insects and plants in the forest ecosystem in a structured field trip with stations and activity booklets.  In this bugs lesson, 2nd graders explore the ecosystem of the forest, complete the booklet and play...
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A Serving By Any Other Name

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars examine the information given on food labels. They also discover what a serving size is and determine how much they eat over the suggested serving. They also calculate the number of calories are in different foods.
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What Do Snails Eat?

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students conduct a food choice experiment with snails, recording the results on a chart to determine what snails eat.  In this what do snails eat lesson, students color a picture of snail anatomy, perform the experiment with 3 food...
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Ecology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Pupils gain an understanding of necessary components required within a healthy, sustainable environment and ways human actions can impact that balance while discovering how to recognize and analyze explanations and models used in...
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Kingdom Fungi

For Students 7th - 8th
In this kingdom fungi worksheet, students conduct an experiment creating and observing dough. They describe what happened to the dough while they observed it and name the type of fungus is the yeast added. Students also explain what...
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The Six Kingdoms

For Students 9th - 12th
In this kingdoms learning exercise, students compare the six different kingdoms. Students complete 2 short answer questions based on this information.
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People and the Ocean

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students view a demonstration of the ocean and what we can do to help it, and also identify seafood items that students would order on a menu. In this ocean lesson plan, students learn how people are connected to the ocean and how we can...
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Utilizing Community Resources

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students gain an understanding of scientific methods and use process skills (such as observing, classifying, and predicting) to solve a problem. They develop an understanding of the need for natural preservation.
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Water Quality and Dissolved Oxygen

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the relationship between dissolved oxygen and organic materials and aquatic organisms. This is a 3-lesson plan series in which students explore dissolved oxygen and then design an experiment testing the effects of...
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How Can You See Which Soda Has More Sugar?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders weigh regular and diet soda to see which one is heavier and therefore which one contains more sugar. In this soda lesson plan, 6th graders discover that regular soda contains more sugar because it weighs more. 
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Let's Sort a Salad

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners examine edible plants by identifying salad ingredients. In this botany lesson, students discuss the different vegetables that can be eaten in a salad and draw them on a worksheet. Learners review vegetable vocabulary and examine...
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Growth of a Bean Documented by Child and Camera

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders photograph the growth of a bean plant and keep a daily written journal of observations. They drew, graphed and took notes on the plant growth which they compared to the photographic journal.
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Environmental Hazards

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify environmental hazards on a simulated field trip. They analyze the exposure and suggest methods to eliminate or reduce exposure to toxic sources.
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Ethyl Alcohol

For Students 9th - 12th
In this ethyl alcohol worksheet, learners read about the characteristics of ethanol including the effects it has on the body when ingested and digested. This worksheet has 2 short answer questions.
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Eco-Graphics - Photographic Studies of Man's Impact on the Environment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, in groups, explored and photographed their own community disposal problems, focusing on the impact of waste disposal behaviors, laws, systems, and management.
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Alcohol Use, Abuse, and Alcoholism

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine influences contributing to alcohol use and abuse. They asses the genetic and environmental factors involved in alcoholism. They create a histogram for modeling alcohol use and calculate the results into percentages of...

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