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Optimize! Cleaner Energy Options for Rural China

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
What are the trade-offs when looking to get the most benefit from an energy source? Small groups compare the cost-to-emission levels of several energy sources by looking at the information graphically. The groups utilize this information...
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Unit Plan
Calvin Crest Outdoor School

Survival

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Equip young campers with important survival knowledge with a set of engaging lessons. Teammates work together to complete three outdoor activities, which include building a shelter, starting a campfire, and finding directions in the...
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Lesson Plan
Chymist

Landfills and Recycling

For Students 9th - 12th
Examine the nature of landfills through experimentation. Scholars build miniature landfills and monitor changes over a six-week period. Observations allow individuals to draw conclusions about the different types of trash and their...
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Handout
ProCon

Vegetarianism

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What do Mike Tyson, Ellen DeGeneres, and Paul McCartney have in common? They're all famous vegetarians. Using the resource, scholars learn about the pros and cons of eating a vegetarian diet. They read a fascinating history of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Geometry: Practical Applications of the Distance Formula

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners, working independently and in groups, apply the distance formula to practical situations. After solving various problems, students in pairs design coordinate planes from the school blue print to measure the distance from the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Teeth And Eating

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore and study all about teeth and eating. They examine types of teeth, how their teeth develop, looking after teeth and teeth in other animals. Each student also reviews the process of how teeth help all mankind to eat food.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Three Worm Phyla

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the three worm phyla. For this classification lesson, 9th graders observe, compare and contrast the planarian, tapeworm, and fluke.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Nutrition 3: Got Broccoli?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover why the human body needs food in order to survive. In groups, they analyze advertising for the foods they eat the most and try to identify the nutritional value of them as well. They complete a worksheet showing them...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Inside Out: An Up-Close Look At Foods We Eat

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify the origins of meats and vegetables consumed by humans on a daily basis. They classify foods (meats, dairy products, grains...) and create a food pyramid.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Enzyme Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the effects of specific enzymes on samples of liver tissue, muscle tissue (chicken), apples, and potatoes.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Sponges, Cnidarians, Flatworms, and Roundworms

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this simple animals worksheet, students review the characteristics of sponges, cnidarians, flatworms, and roundworms. This worksheet has 12 matching questions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Embryology Word Search

For Students 11th - 12th
In this word search worksheet, students locate 43 vocabulary words related to embryology. The word list includes insulin, appendix, and stomach.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Snot: NC Summer Tour Lesson 2007

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study various aspects of mucous. In this mucous instructional activity, students investigate the purpose of mucous. Students create fake mucous.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Owl Pellet

For Teachers 4th - Higher Ed
Students discover an owl's diet. For this animal science lesson, students observe owl pellets, determining what the owl ate. Students put together the owl's food chain, after determining the animals in the owl's diet.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Blend-A-Plant Levels of Organization

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners' identify and analyze the levels of organization and the emergent properties through experimentation. Students' apply the differences in the properties of a plant before and after it has been subjected to a kitchen blender.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Alcohol and Its Impact on the Brain

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine water as it changes states.  In water and ice lesson plan students study the water cycle and what happens to it as it changes state. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mussel Anatomy Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils identify the parts and functions of a mussel. They explain how its physical adaptations help it survive in its habitat. They label the parts as a quiz to complete the lesson.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

9 Phyla of the Animalia Kingdom.

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify characteristics of all 9 phyla of the Animalia Kingdom. They create a table of the 9 phyla and research a representative organism for each.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Embryological Development Using Medaka Fish

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners analyze and record major events that occur in the development of Medaka fish eggs from fertilization to hatching. In small group, students describe the processes involved, creating a timeline of the major events in the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cooking Lesson

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders taste different flavors on their popcorn. In this taste bud instructional activity, 4th graders make predictions about taste and dip popcorn into four different flavors. They record how the flavors tasted - sweet, salty,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Grizzly Hibernation

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners explain why and how grizzlies hibernate. They make a den using cardboard boxes. They write a story told from a new-born grizzly.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Nutrition 2: Good Food, Good Health

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how food provides them with energy and materials for their body. In groups, they identify good and bad foods to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Using the internet, they research how food can affect their overall health.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Blood

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this blood activity, students describe the four functions of blood. Then they write what each part of the human body illustrated does below the picture. Students also complete the table on possible blood types of a receiver and donor...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Worksheet #39 Questions - Battle of Saratoga

For Students 8th - 9th
In this Battle of Saratoga quiz activity, students test their knowledge through ten fill in the blank questions that relate to the aforementioned subject.

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