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NASA

Water Works on a Blue Planet

For Students 6th - 12th
Keep within a water budget. Learners find out that less than 2.5% of Earth's water is available to drink—and that there is a fixed amount of water. Scholars read an interesting article comparing the available water to a game of Monopoly...
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American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Natural Selection: How Evolution Works

For Students 9th - 10th
An interview with Douglas Futuyma, renowned evolutionary scientist, explaining the theory of natural selection and how it steers toward evolution.
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Other

Biology Discussion: Natural Resources: Depletion Reasons, Types and Conservation

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses how the the natural resources of the world are being depleted at an alarming rate, and that humans depend on them for their survival. Elaborates on four main causes of resource depletion, and initiatives that could help to...
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BSCS Science Learning

Bscs: Bscs Helps Students, Parents, and Teachers Connect With Nature

For Students Pre-K - 1st
BSCS Science Learning has developed this resource to help students, parents, and teachers get away from technology and formal learning and spend some time connecting with nature. Included are links to resources about the benefits of...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Natural Disasters Around the World: Understanding and Empathy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Come and learn how to begin to help parents and educators address the aftermath of a natural disaster with children through reading and books. This site features a list of titles to begin this journey of healing.
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Oregon State University

The Elements of Law Natural and Politic

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the entire text document of "The Elements of Law Natural and Politic" by Thomas Hobbes. This is a detailed document and very informative.
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Other

Ohio Memory Project: Geography and Natural Resources of Ohio [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read about the geography and natural resources of Ohio in your study of this state. Discusses geology, rock and mineral resources, geologic time, and glaciation.
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American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Natural History Museum Collections in the 21st Century

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover why some people feel that natural history museums are more import now than they have ever been. Familiarize yourself with some of the challenges these museums are facing.
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Other

Embassy of Venezuela: National Parks and Natural Monuments

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to the 26 national parks and 11 natural monuments in Venezuela. Each national park and natural monument has a brief description.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Cities and Suburbs: Nature Transformed

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay on the history of cities and suburbs and how nature has been transformed in the U.S. Author Christopher Sellers guides us with informational text, questions and scholars debate.
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Other

Verywell: What Is Nature Versus Nurture?

For Students 9th - 10th
An article featuring the ongoing philosophical debate over psychology's nature versus nurture. Cherry clarifies the differences between the two schools of thought and provides the changes in theory over the years.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: American Romanticism: The Use of Nature in American Gothic

For Students 9th - 10th
This article "The Use of Nature in American Gothic" focuses on how nature is used in American Gothic literature.
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USA Today

Usa Today: List of Texas Natural Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the importance of the five most abundant natural resources in Texas.
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Other

Human Nature Review: Noam Chomsky: The New War Against Terror

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcription of lengthy talk given by an major American scholar on the attack of 9/11 and its implications for the American society by Noam Chomsky in The Human Nature Review, 001 Volume 1: 37-58 ( 5 November )
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: How Is Water Recycled in Nature?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about nature's most reliable geochemical cycle, the water cycle.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is a Natural Disaster?

For Students 2nd - 8th
Learn the effects of natural disasters and the difference between natural disasters and man-made disasters. Also explores ten different natural disasters.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Naturalization

For Students 9th - 10th
What is naturalization? Describes the requirements and application process needed for one to become a citizen of the United States if not acquired at birth.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Are Natural Resources?

For Students 2nd - 8th
Overview of the types of natural resources and a list of natural resources found in India.
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Other

Simply Psychology: Saul Mc Leod: Nature vs. Nurture in Psychology

For Students 9th - 10th
There are five approaches to psychology which are on a spectrum from nature versus nurture. The approaches with inherited traits lean towards the nature end and those with acquired traits are on the nurture end. This article helps...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Exploring Nature

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This article gives some excellent ways we can engage our children in exploring and learning about nature.
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Other

Nature in Egyptian Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This short, illustrated paper describes depictions of nature in Egyptian art. Content discussed in the article includes animals used in art, the natural flora and fauna surrounding the Nile river and how they were used in art, and how...
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Other

Great Plains Nature Center: Osage Orange

For Students 9th - 10th
The Great Plains Nature Center provides an informational page on the Osage Orange tree. Also, they provide answers to following questions about the Osage Orange: are they edible?; how do you grow them?; do they repel insects?
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American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Searching for Nature's Medicines

For Students 9th - 10th
With awareness we can protect biodiversity so as to allow nature to provide us with medicines, medical research, and knowledge that living things depend upon other living things.
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Other

Natures Four Teamwork Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
This article takes a look at the nature of what is proposed to be the four teamwork systems. The idea of teamwork is compared to roles within biological teams. Subtopics of this concept are broken out and accompanied by concise...

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