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Energy Audit

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students collect data about energy usage and use mathematical calculations to analyze their data. In this energy conservation and statistics math activity, students survey their homes to complete an energy usage worksheet. Students...
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Exploring a Teaching Career Through an Energy Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 12th
After learning how to dentify information on energy and its conservation. your class can work in groups to create an activity and lesson plan for elementary high schoolers, teaching all about energy and its conservation. Students...
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Energy Crossword Puzzle

For Students 7th - 8th
In this energy crossword worksheet, students read 36 clues pertaining to energy conservation. Students fit their answers in a crossword puzzle. There is no word bank.
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Wasting Energy at Home

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students act as energy conservation engineers and identify the ways energy is conserved or wasted. They also discover many ways to personally conserve energy everyday. Students discover how engineers perform home energy audits to...
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Scientists Create Energy-Making Artificial Leaf (29th March, 2011)

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students read an article about alternative energy and complete the associated worksheets. In this ESL/ELL alternative energy lesson, students read or listen an article about research at MIT in which scientists designed a energy-making...
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Primary Activity: Energy and Machines

For Students 2nd - 5th
Conservation kids take this printable home, draw a picture of their bedrooms, then cut out and paste pictures into the drawing to show what energy-using appliances are present. This assignment is a very practical way to wrap up a unit on...
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Conservation for the Ages

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use the Internet to research a topic about energy conservation. They summarize the research information in an original studenT book and visit a local elementary school to present their projects.
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Help Save the Polar Bear

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this ecology awareness instructional activity, learners read a poem written on a polar bear's tummy that tells how changing light bulbs and saving energy will help save the polar bear and then color the bear. Students color 1 picture.
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Recycling: The Way to Save...Fad or Fact

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students write stories about recycling and illustrate them. They examine various containers and determine whether or not they are recyclable. They make a chart about the containers and visit a recycling center.
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National Hanging Out Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this National Hanging Out Day activity, students complete activities including reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, correct word choosing, multiple choice, sequencing, unscramble the sentences, write questions,...
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National Napping Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this National Napping Day instructional activity, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences,...
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Earth Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this Earth Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice, unscramble the words, sequencing, unscramble the sentences, write...
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Breaking News English: Green Invitation

For Students 5th - 10th
In this cardboard box solar cooker worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion...
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Cooler in the Shadows

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore Earth science by creating a scale model in class. In this shadow lesson, students research the impact the sun has on Earth shadows and complete a space science worksheet. Students create models of the Sun and Earth and...
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Cool It! Comprehension: Chart 4

For Students 7th - 8th
In these reading comprehension worksheets, students read chart 4 about fixing global warming and then complete several activities that help them understand the things that can be done to reduce the amount of energy wasted.
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Reading Through Rainforests

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate the concept of the rainforest through the use of nonfiction texts. The teacher reads to the class to give some information. Then they read their own books to find further information and perform the follow activities...
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The Flat Stanley Project

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars read the book Flat Stanley. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students participate in earth-friendly activities based upon the book. This lesson includes ideas such as using recycled paper to make a "paper pal."
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The Designed World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study the classification system used in a library. In this sorting and classification lesson, students visit their library and define the classification system in place. Students discuss the sorting method and then come up with...
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Articles: Exercise 2

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners are presented with three paragraphs with missing articles. Students must supply the correct article using "a," "an," or "the."
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Information, Please!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explore their community recycling program and observe how aluminum cans are processed for recycling.
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Talking Trash

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Define vocabulary related to global waste. Creative thinkers review and illustrate terms for the Global Garbage Picture Dictionary. They play a vocabulary game in which co-operative skills among players in encouraged. A great way to...
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The Power of Persuasion

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore the power of persuasion. In a classroom setting, students discuss incentives, testimonials and deceptive pricing schemes that are used to influence others. After observing professionally made infomercials, students...
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Blackout!

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this blackout situational worksheet, students recall an experience when there was no power, share their feelings and reactions, and explain their answers. Students write three answers.
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Create a Commercial

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students apply their knowledge of the persuasive appeals by creating a commercial which uses one or more of the three appeals (logos, pathos, and ethos) in order to persuade. They also differentiate among the three appeals as used in...