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You Need How Much Food When? Where?

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore how human activities shape the earth's surface.  In this awareness instructional activity, 9th graders create pictographs showing the relations of food, people, land, and resources. Students complete worksheet.
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Salt River Project

How Do We Clean Polluted Water?

For Teachers 8th
How do we clean up oil spills and other pollutants in the water? Explore water treatment strategies with a set of environmental science experiments. Groups remove oil from water, work with wastewater treatment, and perform a water...
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Become an Expert

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students practice their researching techniques by preparing a presentation with little notice.  For this information research lesson, students utilize the Internet to research one of several subtopics concerning panthers....
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Harvesting Energy from Food: How do Plants Help Humans?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Beginning botanists view slides of plant vascular tissue. They watch Magic School Bus Gets Planted, which you can find online, and then write a summary of what they have learned about plants. This lesson could be used with upper...
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Sunny Science

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students develop problem-solving, observation, and critical-thinking skills. For this early childhood lesson, students explore the topic of the sun as they notice shadows and light.
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NASA

Cleaning Water

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
From their sweat to the water vapor in their breath, astronauts recycle every possible drop of water while in space. After watching a short video describing the different ways materials are recycled and reused in space...
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ARKive

An Introduction to Endangered Species

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore the world's endangered species with a presentation and bingo game activity. After viewing a presentation about the meaning of endangered species as it relates to specific animals, kids play a game of bingo with cards that...
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Understanding Rotation

For Teachers 1st
First graders do an experiment on the rotation of the earth.
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Changing Ways

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine hard boiled eggs as possible models for the earth's layers.
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Geology and it’s Influence

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compare current geological map and the one from 1800's. In this earth science lesson, students discuss differences between the two and explain the factors that caused the change. They write an essay about how these changes...
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Weather Forecasting Basics

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders analyze weather diagrams and weather maps. In this earth science lesson, 8th graders explain why it is important to know the weather. They complete a handout at the end of the lesson.
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How Can a Spacecraft Always Face the Sun?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students determine the correct orbital path for a satellite that collects data about the sun so that its view of the sun never be obstructed by the Earth.
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The Origins of Business

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the world of inventions by utilizing Google Earth. In this global geography lesson, students research inventions such as the ball point pen, computer, telephone and typewriter. Students use the Google Earth software to...
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How Far Away is SOHO?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers create a scale model of the Earth and the sun that demonstrates where the SOHO satellite is in relation to the Earth.
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What's Crackin' Under New Zealand

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students construct a model of the Earth using clay and oranges. In this earth science instructional activity, students explain the causes of earthquakes and volcanic activity. They write their findings in their science journal.
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Creating a Disaster

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students construct a volcano model. For this earth science lesson, students determine the structure and build of their volcano. They explain the danger of volcanic eruptions.
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Volcanoes: Mount Vesuvius

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explain how volcanoes form. In this earth science lesson, students identify the different types of volcanoes. They create brochures about Mt. Vesuvius before and after the eruption.
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The Formation of Soil

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers identify the different components that make up soil. For this earth science lesson, students create a pamphlet for next year's class. They analyze how erosion and weathering shape the Earth.
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Rock Cycle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explain the processes involved in the rock cycle. In this earth science lesson, students identify the different kinds of rocks. They complete a worksheet during the activity.
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Earth Day Trash Survey Unit

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students develop an action plan to prevent trash from becoming a problem in the future.
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Earth Day Trash Survey Unit

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students analyze the data from questionnaires to prepare a report. They distribute the report via e-mail or through a report published on a Web page to those who participated.
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Earth Day Trash Survey Unit

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students develop a questionnaire to distribute via e-mail or Web page forms that visitors fill out based on the data they gathered during their clean-up activities.
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Cloudy vs. Clear

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners analyze line plots. In this weather lesson plan using real NASA data, students discuss how weather affects the way the Earth is heated by comparing different line plots.
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Rocks and Minerals

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine different types of rocks and minerals. They create models of the rocks and minerals they find interesting. They discuss and explain three ways in which the earth changes.

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