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Carbon, Greenhouse Gases, and Climate

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Climate models mathematically represent the interactions of the atmosphere, oceans, land, sun, surface, and ice. Part two in the series of four lessons looks at the role greenhouse gases play in keeping Earth warm and has participants...
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Reading Follow-up Activity

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners color a worksheet while discussing characteristics and composition of caves.
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Determination of Water Hardness

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students investigate water hardness. For this water hardness lesson plan, students determine the water hardness in 4 samples of water after buffering each. By using titration and an indicator, students can determine the amount of calcium...
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What Is A Cave?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore their existing concepts of caves and match them with a working definition to use during the unit. They name the two types of rock formations in which most American caves occur, and define "show cave" and "wild cave."
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Exploring Caves

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the various characteristics of caves. Through class discussion and hands on activities, students identify what forces converge in the creation of a cave. They complete review activities at the conclusion of the lesson....
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Find a Cave

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students locate their own communites and the nearest caves on a United States map. They calculate the distance to the nearest cave using rough scale.
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Exploring How Rocks Are Formed

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine the three types of rocks. They discover the processes that occur so each type of rock can be formed. They participate in activities to help them see how rocks are formed.
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Your House Comes from a Mine

For Students 4th - 5th
What do your learners know about mining? Invite them to read about all of the materials that come from mining that go into building a house. Additionally, they answer four questions at the bottom of the worksheet.
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4.5: Exploring Uses of Rocks & Minerals

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students, in pairs, use observation skills to identify objects from the past and present in our environment made of rocks and minerals of Illinois.
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Groundhog Day Tag Game

For Teachers K - 5th
Students play the Groundhog Day tag game to follow instructions and play according to the rules of the game. They attempt to run to the "holes" to be safe or if caught they move to a pre-determined area off the playing field.
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October:Holy Gargoyles!

For Teachers K - 8th
Students experience and participate in making mythic creatures during a study in architecture history and spooky sculpture for Halloween. They interact with the subject of gargoyles and the creation of their own gargoyles, ghosts and...
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Tennessee Crossword Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this Tennessee crossword puzzle activity, learners use the 10 clues to identify the words that belong in the word puzzle to correctly complete it.
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The Delicate Balance - Iowa's Natural Resources

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Discover the natural resources in Iowa by studying it's history. In this environmental lesson, your students will observe a topographical map of Iowa and identify where its most valuable resources are. They complete an Iowa name...
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Season Sarcophagus

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars analyze a sarcophagus art and create a similar piece of art. In this sarcophagus art lesson, students investigate possible meanings of the Season Sarcophagus and create a work of art that is similar to the subject or...
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The Ocean

For Teachers 3rd
Plant and animal life of the ocean is the focus of this science instructional activity. Young scientists sort a variety of seashells and explore why many sea animals have shells. They examine the shells, write journal entries...
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Relative Ages of Rocks

For Students 7th - 12th
In this ages of rock worksheet, learners will review the processes and techniques of determine the age of rocks. Then students will use a rock layer diagram to determine what rock materials are older or younger. This worksheet has 16...
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Weathering and Erosion

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners investigate how changes occur on the surface of the earth through erosion and glaciation. They observe what happens to salt and iron after they interact with water and vinegar, and analyze what occurs when water is sprinkled on...
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Creating a Rock Sequence

For Students 7th - 12th
In this rock sequence learning exercise, students will sequence a list of 10 historical events according to the principle of superposition. Students will label these events on a cross-section diagram.
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Soil pH Effect on Germination of Specific Weeds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers collect weed seeds from three varieties of weeds (knapweed, thistle, or toadflax, for example they may choose others in addition to the spotted knapweed.) They sterilize soil for thirty containers, plant seeds in sterile...
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Nonmetals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars research about the chemical processes involved in cave formation. In this chemistry instructional activity, students draw or find a cave picture with stalagmites and stalactites online. They write a brief caption and share...
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Waterdrops

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science worksheet, students investigate the subject of ground water. Students read a story and articles and complete 8 pages of games and activities such as making their own sinkhole, matching, fill in the blank story and a...
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Understanding pH, Alkalinity, and Hardness

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students comprehend the interactions of pH, alkalinity, hardness, and carbon dioxide in aquaculture water. They read the SRAC fact sheet number 464 "Interactions of pH, Carbon Dioxide, Alkalintiy and Hardness in Fish Ponds." Students...
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Nature of Science and Measurement Review

For Students 9th - 12th
In this nature of science and measurement worksheet, students answer 30 questions about experimental design, pure science vs. applied science, density, metric conversions and dimensional analysis.
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Save Your Breath

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss metabolism. In this metabolism lesson, students evaluate evidence form a research report and discuss the basis for hypothetical metabolic adaptations to low-oxygen environments in the anchialine caves.

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