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What Happened Here?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine environmental concerns that are important in their home, school, and community. In this environment lesson, students use information from the previous lesson to respond to a mess in the classroom. They choose an...
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Urban Planning: Plan a City

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students analyze the concept of urbanization by planning the placement of some of the major urban/suburban features that make up most cities. They arrange the cultural features to benefit the people who live there, and maintain respect...
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Earth: The Source of Resources

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students study responsible stewardship and natural resources. In this natural resources lesson, students share their motto's about the environment with the class. Students then discuss the regulations in 'Rules and Regulations for...
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Class Eco-war

For Teachers 5th - 11th
Students debate environmental issues. In this global issues lesson, students listen to lectures and conduct research on global climate change and discuss methods to sustain the global environment.
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Making the World A More Beautiful Place: Earth Day

For Teachers K
Students study ways to take care of the environment as part of an Earth Day activity. In this environment lesson plan, student listen to a read aloud of Barbara Cooney's, Miss Rumphius, before discussing how she works alone but is part...
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Your Own Backyard

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study Earth's features and their local environments. In this Earth's features lesson, students take a field trip to observe a natural environment and students sketch their observations of the nature. Students watch videos about...
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Weather, Climate and Environmental Change

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners study the complexities for getting definitive answers for past and present happenings in our environment. They discover past global changes on earth and the evidence for why these changes took place before believing everything...
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Making Your Own Sampling Tools

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students examine cause-and-effect relationship between human attitudes and behavior in the environment. They also assist citizens in increasing their sensitivity and stewardship for the environment.
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Exploring Ecology

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the basics of ecology. They discuss ecological succession, the water cycle and human impacts on the environment. Students explore the owls, succession, the human impact on the environment and complete the "Incredible...
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Creek Restoration Project

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students gather and analyze scientific data from a local creek. Over weeks or months, students observe their local environment, collect water samples, and evaluate test results. Extension activities are suggested for evaluating...
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Let's Clean Up Our Act and the Earth!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students complete activities that help clean up the Earth and protect the environment. In this Earth protection lesson, students go outside and listen to the environment. Students discuss their observations and their role in protecting...
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What Christians believe about... The Environment-Extension Work

For Students 6th - 7th
In this Christianity religion worksheet, students answer 8 long-answer questions about Christianity, God, and church. Students could write a long or short response to each given question. 
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Environment: Global Warming

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this ESL activity worksheet, students consider global warming as they read a paragraph and find its text in the word maze.
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Reduce and Respect!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine how to reduce trash to help the environment. In this environment lesson, students listen to the story, The Wartville Wizard, before thinking about how they can reduce trash. They decide why it is important to reduce...
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Reuse and Respect!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine the concept of reusing trash to save the environment. In this environment lesson, students examine the definition of the word reuse, and apply it by finding ways to reuse trash in their school. They talk about what...
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Going Green

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students create an action plan to learn how to preserve natural resources for future generations. In this environmental conservation lesson plan, students research the topic of preserving the natural environment and write a definition...
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Selecting the Best Material to Use While Solving Technological Problems

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine natural resources and discuss their pros and cons.  In this sustainable environment lesson, students describe reasons to use specific resources when faced with different problems, specifically why wood is a great...
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Map the Green Space

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students investigate the environment in their community by creating a presentation.  In this environment lesson, students utilize cameras to document the green spaces in their community and the benefits they create for everybody....
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Organisms and Their Environment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students observe elements of a local ecosystem and gain an understanding of what elements make up an ecosystem.  In this ecosystem lesson students create a class food web that shows the interactions among the elements of the...
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Energy and the Environment: What Can We Do?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students consider the impacts of global warming and brainstorm ways to help decrease their contribution to the problem.  In this climate change lesson, students are exposed to facts concerning global warming and think of ways to...
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Introduction to Invasive Species

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore the environment by identifying invasive species. In this ecosystem observation instructional activity, students identify the native species that exist in an exotic land such as Hawaii and the impact of invasive...
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Creating Artwork to Explain Environmental Change

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review artwork that relates to the environment and communicates a value. They view and analyze art by Andy Warhol, Eric Carle and Albert Bierstadt and then create original pieces with an environmental theme.
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Design Your Own Suburb

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils view and discuss urban and suburban scenes; and list the features of their ideal town and discuss whether these features can be found in cities and suburbs. They draw mental maps of a city and a suburb and brainstorm and list the...
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Enzymes and Jell-O

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students test for the presence of enzymes in fruit and the specificity of those enzymes. They identify the susceptibility of enzymes to certain environmental factors such as temperature and pH in the enzymes environment.

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