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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Geological History of Oxygen

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Earth didn't always have oxygen, so what caused the change that allows humans to live here? Learn about the change in O2 levels throughout geological history through an interactive graph. Each section offers greater detail on the changes...
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NOAA

Chemosynthesis and Hydrothermal Vent Life

For Students 6th - 12th
What's life like in a hydrothermal vent? Find out in part five of a 13-part series. Learners journey to one of the harshest environments on the planet, the hydrothermal vent, to learn about the creatures that survive the extreme...
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Physics Classroom

Rocking the Boat

For Students 9th - 12th
Sometimes it's okay to rock the boat! Science scholars manipulate wave properties using a fun interactive. Part of a larger playlist that dives into waves and sound, the lesson helps users work their way from apprentice to wizard by...
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American Museum of Natural History

Theodore Roosevelt's Outdoor Adventures

For Students 6th - 12th
Time for a virtual sightseeing trip. Pupils explore the Grand Canyon, Devil's Tower, and Yosemite Valley in an interactive online experience. They answer questions about the organisms in each location and draw conclusions based on their...
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Amnesty International

Respect My Rights, Respect My Dignity: Module One – Poverty and Human Rights

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Creating an environment where learners feel both educated and empowered challenges any teacher when discussing a sometimes bleak topic. A respectful resource provides them with the details and permits them to make a plan of action....
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Curated OER

How Can We Live Here? Life In Extreme Environments

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the limits of life on Earth to extend their beliefs about life to include its possibility on other worlds. They investigate three hypothetical environments and the bacterial life forms that could exist on Earth.
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Curated OER

Help! Help! Save the Earth!

For Teachers 1st
First graders analyze ways to save our natural resources and preserve the environment. In this environmental protection lesson, 1st graders complete four activities to analyze the importance of our natural resources and what trash does...
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Curated OER

Student Designed Investigations: Observations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students choose an organism and create an experiment with that organism. In this observation lesson, students expose a living thing to something from its environment and record their observations. Students must have some prior knowledge...
PPT
Curated OER

Climate Shifts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Eight slides of information related to shifts in the climate make up this presentation. The vocabulary and concepts displayed are geared toward high school meteorology learners. Content is not cohesive from slide to slide, but the...
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Curated OER

Composting

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Using 2-liter bottles, junior ecologists create composting tubes in which they place nitrogen-rich and carbon-rich materials. They observe what changes occur over two weeks' time. Provide more specific direction to your class as to what...
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Curated OER

Ecosystem Interactions Web

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students pick an ecosystem (forest, desert, coral reef, open ocean, grassland, mountain, savanna, etc.) and design an interaction web for their chosen ecosystem. Each group shares their ecosystem's web of life with the class.
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Curated OER

The Environment and Interactions of Living Organisms

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study the environment and interactions of living organisms. They identify abiotic and biotic factors and create a foldable and vocabulary cards. They create a poster illustrating soil and watch a video to study symbiosis.
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Curated OER

Organisms and Their Environment

For Students 5th - 12th
In this organisms and their environment activity, students will review concepts relating to ecological studies, levels of organization in ecology, and relationships between organisms in ecosystems. This activity has 10 fill in the blank,...
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Curated OER

Understanding Interactions Among Local Species and the Local Environment

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine the differences between biotic and abiotic factors, explain the difference between habitat and niche and compare how organisms get their nutritional needs.  In this local environment lesson students trace the path...
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Curated OER

Environment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine how connected they are to the environment and how organisms are affected by other organisms. They also discover that the environment is affected by human interactions.
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Curated OER

Lesson 8-The Changing Environment: Good or Bad?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, after listening to "A River Ran Wild," explore all the ways the natural environment has changed and how it affects the community and the people who reside within it. They collect data by interviewing a community member,...
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Curated OER

Keep the Environment Clean

For Teachers K
Students discuss ways our environment becomes polluted. They make a list of ways to keep it clean.
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Curated OER

Social Interactions in the Habbo Hotel

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine compare real life social interactions. They participate in an online website, interacting in pseudo real life activities. Students initiate conversations with others online. Students examine benefits and drawbacks to...
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EduGAINs

Go Eco! Ecosystems

For Teachers 7th - 10th
How is a movie theater like a desert biome? Compare systems to ecosystems with a set of activities that focuses on accessing multiple intelligences and building upon knowledge. As learners discuss the ways elements of an ecosystem depend...
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Concord Consortium

Sunlight, Infrared, CO2, and the Ground

For Students 9th - 12th
How bright are your classes? An interactive lesson has scholars explore how light interacts with carbon dioxide in the air and the surface of the earth. They watch a temperature scale as light interacts with the environment.
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Curated OER

Charles Darwin

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive history worksheet, students respond to 9 short answer and essay questions about Charles Darwin. Students may check some of their answers on the interactive worksheet. 
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Curated OER

Close to Home

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine habitats for animals by creating their own in class environment.  For this environment lesson, 4th graders research the Internet for information on certain wild animals and the places in which they live....
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Curated OER

Ways To Go Green

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this environmental awareness worksheet, students learn how to "go green" by reading 10 tips that can be used in everyday life. Students answer 10 multiple choice questions. This is an online interactive worksheet.
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Curated OER

The Giver - Essay Questions

For Students 6th - 10th
In this literature worksheet, learners respond to 15 short answer and essay questions about Lowry's The Giver. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.

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