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Fruit Cup DNA Extraction From Kiwi
Young scholars extract DNA from kiwi using household equipment and supplies.
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Quiz: Weather Terminology #2
In this science worksheet, 3rd graders focus on the weather. Students respond to ten fill in the blank questions regarding weather terminology.
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Quiz: Weather Phenomena #2
In this science worksheet, 3rd graders will focus on the weather. Students will respond to eight multiple choice and fill in the blank questions about various aspects pertaining to our weather.
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I'm a Weather Watcher Watching plants grow by......my,my,my
Students investigate how weather affects how plants grow. They collect data on weather and plant growth for a week and display the data on a graph. For a culminating experience they design a movie using software that shows plant growth...
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Three Clouds Activity
Students explore how clouds are produced through three different age-appropriate hands-on experiments.
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Survival Science: How Evaporation and Condensation Can Save Your Life!
Eighth graders demonstrate how scientific principles can be used to provide resources in an emergency situation. In this evaporation lesson students view a demonstration on a solar still and see a brief PowerPoint presentation.
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Take Me to the River! Using the Black River for Earth Science Review
Ninth graders use maps to identify landscape regions and drainage patterns producing the Black River. They create PowerPoint presentations pertaining to the Black River watershed, its geologic history and highlighting safe rafting...
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The Water Cycle
Students create an "animated" water cycle wheel that illustrates where water comes from and where it goes.
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Coal and the Environment
Students read about how burning coal affects the environment. After students finish reading about how burning coal affects the environment they have a group discussion to discuss what they thought about the information.
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Biome Detective Sheet
In this biomes learning exercise, students research the plant and animal life found in different habitats. This learning exercise has 38 short answer questions.
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Water Cycle in a Bottle
Young scholars study the water cycle. In this water science lesson, students complete a water cycle experiment using soda bottles.
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Leaders in a Media Age
Students identify ways in which the president can use various media to communicate his messages and intent. They demonstrate ways in which the news media can create public opinion.
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Learning Lesson: Atmospheric Collisions
Learners participate in a demonstration showing how rain drops grow by coalescence. They use ping pong balls and put them in an air stream. They end the lesson discussing flash flood safety.
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Weather Patterns
Students use yearly averages over a five-year period to understand weather trends for a specific area.
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Hey, You Stole My Rain!
Students review various scenarios in regards to the water cycle to determine what the best solution is to the problem. Students write their opinions on the controversies.
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Cloud Forecast
Students record weather observations and research online weather data. In this weather observations activity, students study the cloud cover for several days and record their observations in a chart. Students identify the cloud types and...
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Students create a design for a school garden. In this garden design activity, students analyze what plants grow best in their school's climate and work in teams to design a garden. Students measure the existing space, determine the...
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: Forming a Precipitate
Students investigate the concept of a precipitate by combining two clear, colorless solutions that produce a solid.
NASA
Sci Jinks: Precipitation Simulator
Manipulate the dew points and temperature points in the activity to create different forms of precipitation.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Clouds and Precipitation
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of clouds, how they form, the kinds of precipitation they can create, the main types of clouds, and cloud descriptor terms.
University of North Carolina
Unc: History of the Negro Church: Electronic Edition
This website is quite unique, in that it compiles historical data in a segmented form of the birth and evolution of Black Christianity in America. Carter G. Woodson, one of the most respected names relative to the anthology of the Negro,...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Clouds and Moisture: Rain, Snow, Sleet, and Hail
Animated resource teaches young researchers about the different forms of precipitation.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Earth Science: Weather and Water in the Atmosphere
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses what causes weather, what humidity is and its role in the weather, how clouds are classified, and types of precipitation and how they form.
Libre Text
Libre Text: Precipitation Reactions
Precipitation Reactions occur when cations and anions of aqueous solutions combine to form an insoluble ionic solid, called a precipitate. Whether or not such a reaction occurs can be determined by using the solubility rules for common...