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Education Outside

Honey Tasting

For Teachers 4th Standards
Young scientists will be abuzz as they sample and compare the tasty treats produced by Apis Mellifera. 
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Rainforest Alliance

My Forest or the Rainforest?

For Teachers K Standards
The differences between tropical and temperate rainforests range from animals and flowers to climate and landscapes. Kindergarteners compare and contrast characteristics of their local forest to a tropical rainforest.
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Rainforest Alliance

How Do Jaguars and Howler Monkeys in Belize Depend on Us?

For Teachers 1st Standards
How does weather play a role in the lives of land and sea creatures? Find out with a lesson focused on habitats and the ways animals from different homes are connected. Here, learners explore how the life of a jaguar and howler monkey...
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Polar Trec

Polar Detectives: Using Ice Core Data to Decode Past Climate Mysteries

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
How does examining an ice core tell us about weather? Learners set up and explore fake ice cores made of sugar, salt, and ash to represent historical snowfall and volcanic eruptions. From their setups, scholars determine what caused the...
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Consortium for Ocean Science Exploration and Engagement (COSEE)

Climate Change Impacts on Blue King Crabs

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Carbon dioxide is not only causing global temperatures to increase, it causes the oceans to become more acidic. Lesson focuses on the blue king crab and the fragility of the habitat due to climate change. Scholars create a concept map...
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Georgian Court University

Introduction to Marsh Ecology

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Compare and contrast the characteristics of fresh and salt water marshes. After exploring the typical plants and animals found in each marsh type, participants use a set of flash cards to sort into fresh and salt water marsh life. Their...
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Curated OER

Effect of Technology on the Environment

For Teachers 5th
There's no doubt that one of the most consistent dangers to our environment is the risks associated with the extraction and shipment of oil. This activity focuses on oil spills - how they happen, the effects they have on the environment,...
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Curated OER

Exploring Ecosystems

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars examine the relationships between plants, animals, and the environment in ecosystems. They sort animal cards, collect natural materials from the schoolyard, and record an ecosystem web in the form of a poster.
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Curated OER

The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
With The Great Kapok Tree, by Lynne Cherry as the hook learners discuss the rainforest, the animals that live there, and conservation efforts. Then, students write a letter to the man in the story asking him not to cut down the Kapok...
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University of Washington

Toothpick Fish

For Teachers 6th - 8th
With colored toothpicks representing genes, youngsters practice passing them through generations of fish and learn about heredity. Consider this as an introductory activity since it does not represent recessive genes with lowercase...
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Curated OER

Conservation in Small Spaces: Conservation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students define conservation, identify actions that conserve habitat and those that reduce habitat, and generate ideas about how one can practice conservation in everyday life.
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Curated OER

Carbon Footprint Estimator

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars discover what a Carbon Footprint represents. For this sustainable lifestyle lesson, students determine their Carbon Footprint as an individual and as a class. Young scholars use a the Internet to calculate how many earths...
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Curated OER

Renewable Resources: Ancient Civilizations

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine how ancient people used natural resources. In this renewable resource lesson, students will be put into 5 groups each focusing on a different past civilization. Each group will identify they types of resources their...
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Curated OER

Pond Safari

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate organisms and animals by examining a nearby pond. In this ecosystem lesson, students participate in a field trip to a local pond where they utilize a net to gather animals, plants and pollution items, Students...
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Curated OER

Energy: Power to the People

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of renewable energy. In this green design lesson, students research local energy issues facing their community and create policies to address the issues.
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Curated OER

Water Wise

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students calculate their family's water consumption. In this water usage instructional activity, students discuss the water they use in their homes. Students complete the 'water wise' worksheets to tally their family's use of water....
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Curated OER

Mobility: A Green City, Past, Present, and Future

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore transportation systems through history. In this transportation lesson, students determine how modes of transportation affect quality of life and design transportation plans for cities.
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Curated OER

Are You a Water Waster?

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students determine what it means to be water wasters. In this water conservation instructional activity, students follow the provided procedures to identify how much water is used in their household when people brush their teeth.
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Curated OER

Water and Sanitation

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners examine water contamination problems. In this global studies lesson, students compare and contrast water sanitation issues on Malawi, Tanzania, and Ontario. Learners propose solutions to the water sanitation problems.
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Curated OER

Water Quality Assessment

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students evaluate water quality of different sources.  In this water assessment lesson plan students chemical testing, identify biological factors in the stream, and write a paper on their position of the stream's quality. 
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Curated OER

Groundwater Realities

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers review the components of the scientific inquiry method. In groups, they use the internet to research the sustainability of water resources in their community. They examine an environmental impact study, answer...
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Curated OER

Ports in a Storm: A Surge of Solutions

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine various environmental health issues related to ports and the shipping industry. As a class, they generate a systems model related to the ship- salvaging industry. Then in small groups, they create their own systems model...
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Curated OER

Lesson 2-Explore/Explain Sound Communication

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students watch and listen to human speech and explore visual and audio cues that aid their understanding. During a short walk, students listen to the sounds around them and classify them as environmental, voiced, or musical.
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Curated OER

Make a Statement!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discuss a class collection of bumper stickers dealing with an environmental issue. They discuss whether or not the bumper sticker have a positive effect or could change a person's viewpoiint.

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