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Environmental Education -- Communities

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify urban and rural environmental problems. They work together to develop possible solutions. They ask questions to end the instructional activity.
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Wetlands Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover how wetlands filter out contaminants before they can reach other bodies of water. In groups, they design and build a model of a stormwater wetland. They test the water quality and inform their classmates about the...
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Creative Writing - I AM A FISH

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders write a letter to the editor about the impact of people on marine life from the point of view of a fish.
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This Stuff Makes Me Sick

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers participate in a lab showing the effects of pesticides on Lumbriculus variegatus. Several extensions and variations are also included in this lesson including one which relates the experiment to how pesticides enter our...
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It's All About Justice

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine a specific environmental concern to their local community. In groups, they explore how the justice system would deal with the problem by participating in a treasure hunt. They review the meaning of federal and state...
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Introduction to Macroinvertebrates

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate the world of macroinvertebrates and identify the environmental stressors that threaten their existence. Outdoors, they role-play as stressors and invertebrates, with the intolerant species doing pushups, spins,...
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A Green Patina Finish

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a blue-green patina that serves as a protective coating on copper jewelry or other artwork. Using four different experimental methods, students apply patina to copper pieces and compare the results of the different...
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Graph our Litter

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine their schoolyard for litter and graph its spread.  In this Math instructional activity, 8th graders present their graphs to other students.  Students determine what might be the causes for any differences that they...
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State Report Card

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders evaluate their own state on how well the government protects their citizens from specific health issues. In groups, they list the environmental health concerns regarding water, air, toxic waste and radiation. They...
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Standards And Science

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners study how standards are established in Science. They also look at the value of different perspectives with questions about ecological standards. The class creates its own standards for ecology with the help of a survey to obtain...
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Earth Day

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students identify the words that relate to Earth Day by reading the 14 clues. Students complete the crossword puzzle with the clues.
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Beginning Critical Reading - Soaps and Detergents

For Students 6th - 7th
In these critical reading worksheets, students read the short story about soaps and detergents. Students then answer 3 critical reading questions about the passage.
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Marine Communities

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Young scholars view a video and then complete lab exercises to help them explain marine communities and animals in them.
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Something Fishy

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify and discuss the adaptive characteristics and behaviors of fish. They view slides of fish, and design and create a model of a fish of the future, listing the ways their fish adapt to survive.
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Rain Forest Deforestation

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore the destructive deforestation of rain forests in Brazil to clear the land for crops and livestock. Students demonstrate how the burning of a forest releases carbon dioxide by performing an experiment.
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Technology and Change

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners write a paragraph explaining how a technological innovation from a particular country has affected the world. Using a variety of resources, students identify a technological innovation, giving accurate historical and...
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Global Warming--Points of view

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to global warming through analysis of political/editorial cartoons dealing with the subject. They discuss the cartoon and what the feel it means and then discuss the mechanics of and the concerns about global...
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Mud in the Water

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners build a soil erosion model to study the importance of soil conservation. They investigate how land forms from both constructive and destructive forces.
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Science: Trouble in the Troposphere

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars research a NASA Website and record information about an assigned city's tropospheric ozone residual monthly climate. In groups, they graph the information for the past year. They form new groups and compare their city's...
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Don't Cry Over Spilled Oil

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill while evaluating oil spill clean up activities. They discover the long term impact can have on an ecosystem by completing this experiment.
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Coal and The Kentucky Economy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read about and study what an economy is. Students then answer questions that require them to define what an economy is and list the components of a healthy economy. Students also list two ways that coal helps the Kentucky...
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Hazard Mitigation: Bioterrorism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discuss different ways to spread infectious diseases. In this bioterrorism lesson, students model the rate of smoke emission using CalRoad software. They analyze the effects of airborne release of biological...
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Why Should We Clean The Beach?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners volunteer for the International Coastal Cleanup. They describe the purpose of the Lake Michigan Foundation and a history of the dunes. They reflect on their experiences with writing.
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Ecosystems

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders perform various labs, create presentations, and do hands on activities to explore the ecosystem.

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