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People Take Action

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students locate landforms of California on a map. They discuss the problems and solutions that were used to save the lizard from extinction. They discuss how working together to solve problems is useful.
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TE Activity: A Merry-Go-Round for Dirty Air

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students observe a simulation of a cyclone to examine a method of pollutant recovery in cleaning industrial air pollution. They examine how engineers develop technology to reduce air pollution and determine percentages for technology...
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Spy on a Spider

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students view slides or live specimens to name and describe the distinguishing features of groups of arthropods, especially spiders and insects. They complete worksheets, observe webs and then search for and record where spiders can be...
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Creatures from Planet X: Spiders

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students are given a description of some fascinating animals from "Planet X". They follow the descriptions given to illustrate one of these animals paying careful attention to introduced vocabulary such as 'appendages', 'receptors', and...
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Facts, Feats and Folklore: Spiders

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students review and discuss a variety of sayings, folklore and superstitions about spiders. They discuss this information and choose either an interesting fact or appealing foklore tradition to illustrate.
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Letters from the Japanese American Internment

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students make deductions about life in an internment camp by reading and comparing letters written to Clara Breed. Along the way, they consider the advantages of looking at a historical event from the multiple points of view of...
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Machines: Useful But Dangerous

For Teachers 1st
First graders study, observe, and use a simple machine. They study necessary safety and review posted safety rules related to using a machine and identify strategies for reporting any accidents or injuries.
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Simple Machines

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study how simple machines can help us alter forces and discuss the term mechanical advantage. They then identify dysfunctional simple machines and discuss in groups how the dysfunctions will decrease the effectiveness of each.
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Plants

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the specific needs, characteristics, and uses of plants. They discuss the needs of plants as they grow. Students observe plants in various settings as they grow and note the changes they see.
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Transformation of Energy-8th Grade

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine how electricity is produced in relation to the atom as well as what causes electric current to flow and what determines how much current flows through a circuit. These and other concepts of transformation of energy...
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Nanaotechnology: Small Science, BIG DEAL!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils read an article that introduces them to the science and applications of nanotechnology. They discuss the the everyday examples of how nanotechnology is and can be used. In small groups, they observe and make inferences about...
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Air Quality: Everyone's Responsibility

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify and interpret the causes of air pollution in their local community. They collect and analyze data to identify pollutants in the air and seek solutions to eliminate the contaminants in the atmosphere. Finally, students...
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Baga Drum

For Teachers K - 6th
Pupils examine a Baga Drum in order to explore the history of the Baga people of West Africa. In this art history lesson, students recognize figures used in Baga Drum design that represent aspects of Baga culture. They also design and...
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Peer Pressure Refusal

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners consider how to stand up to peer pressure. In this personal health lesson, students discuss options for refusing peer pressure as they respond to the provided questions.
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Crossword- Read the Clues and Fit the Answers in the Puzzle

For Students 4th - 5th
For this crossword puzzle worksheet, students read 8 clues and fit the answers in a crossword puzzle. The worksheet has no word bank and no theme.
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Breaking News English: Samoa Drivers Switch to Left Side of Road

For Students 4th - 5th
In this ESL comprehension instructional activity, students read or listen to the passage, then complete a variety of warm up, before listening/reading, while reading/listening, listening, after reading, homework and discussion...
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Environmental Law & Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about environmental law and how communities are affected by environmental concerns.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Principles, Structure, & Implementation of International Environmental Law

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This module introduces the fundamental norms and institutions that comprise international environmental law and then focuses on six specific topics: air pollution and protection of the atmosphere, hazardous waste, endangered species,...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Benefits and Costs of Us Environmental Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about specific examples of environmental laws in the United States.
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Iuscomp: Environmental Laws: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a detailed article on environmental law in Germany.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Environmental Politics and Policy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How did environmental issues enter into the world of politics and policy? Explore this impressive collection of resources to enhance lessons.
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US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Summary of the National Environmental Policy Act

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site from the EPA as a portal to find the text of the National Environmental Policy Act, passed in 1969, as well as a history of the act.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Variations on Mendel's Laws (Overview)

For Students 9th - 10th
Article reviews Mendel's basic model of inheritance then provides an overview of variations on Mendel's laws, including multiple alleles, incomplete dominance, co-dominance, pleiotropy, lethal alleles, sex linkage, genetic interactions,...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Newton's Laws of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Making objects move around the computer screen and responding to a variety of environmental forces by understanding Newton's Laws of force and acceleration.

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