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Defining Drought

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the hydrologic impacts of drought. Humans can change the course of the water cycle, to some extent, to meet their needs, but can they do so without imposing risks on the plants and animals?
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Exploring Optical Movement in Art

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars describe, represent and analyze patterns and relationships using shapes. They create simple geometric patterns. They demonstrate increasing technical ability and skill to complete visual arts assignments.
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Using Amino Acid Sequences to Show Evolutionary Relationships

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Compare protein fragments, count amino acids, and use the information to explore common ancestry. The resource mentions a student worksheet, however, a separate printable worksheet is not provided. The exercises are written into the...
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Building Bodies

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students identify key anatomical similarities and differences between great apes and humans. They infer likely anatomical features in ancient human ancestors and list principal anatomical changes in primates necessary for adaptation to...
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Exploring Muscle Action in the Human Body

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students collect and graph data and use the internet to research the skeletal muscles.
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Design Challenge: Cup in the Cupboard

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Pupils design device that will place a cup into a cupboard for a physically challenged person. They study the engineering design and how structure relates to function.
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Seed Dispersal

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars explore seed dispersal by designing their own wind dispersed seed structure. Using one piece of paper and a box fan, they construct a seed dispersal structure, record the distance their seed travels, and answer discussion...
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Animal Communication

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students understand that all species have some capacity for communication. Students are exposed to the fact that all species have a capacity for communication. They are enlighten to the fact that communication abilities range from very...
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Using Amino Acid Sequences to Show Evolutionary Relationships

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Junior biologists compare the amino acid sequences from fragments of five different globin molecules. They count the letter differences between each species pair. They construct a graphic representation of the evolutionary relationships...
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Perception and Observation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use common and unusual objects to make observations of details, design, and functionality. They describe and draw each object while working in small groups. The differences between observation and perception is covered as part...
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Backpacking - Lesson 4 - Planning a Menu

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Going on a backpacking trip? You need to plan your meals and your snacks for sustenance. Help guide your pupils in the planning of healthy foods to take, and to make sure there is just the right amount. Have pupils pair up to plan so...
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Holy Starbucks Batman

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate caffeine as a potential new pollutant in a northwest river system. Effects of caffeine on invertebrates and salmon fry will be explored through field work and lab work.
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Two Eyes, A Nose, and A Mouth

For Teachers K - 6th
Students read Two Eyes, A Nose, and A Mouth by Roberta Grobel Intrater. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding faces and facial features. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and...
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Cardiac Function

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this health worksheet, students look for the connections needed to attain the knowledge of cardiac function. The sheet includes the background information.
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Types of Behavior: Animal Behavior Research

For Students 9th - 12th
How does one determine what influences animal behavior; Is it nature or nurture? After a short reading explaining different types of conditioning and other learned behaviors, scholars examine six scenarios to determine whether the...
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What can I do?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify feelings and explore positive ways to handle conflict.  In this mental health lesson students discuss feelings and how to constructively handle them.
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Wildflower Garden

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Take your blooming botanists on a spring walk without activating any allergies with a wildflower WebQuest. The link to the "Spring Wildflower Walk" is broken, but the correct link is attached here. You could also try the activity in the...
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Introduction To Anatomy Quiz

For Students 7th - 9th
Test your class on anatomy vocabulary words with this quiz. Pupils identify various parts of the human body by choosing the correct term for each given description. This is a basic multiple choice quiz with 10 questions. Class members...
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Animation Pre-Production

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Does your class love reading cartoons? Use their talents and interests to examine the process of writing a story they wish to tell through a cartoon. They develop the beginning, middle, and end of a story based on their original...
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Heart Alert

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore some of the causes and preventions of heart disease. Young learners play a game of tag in which the taggers role play as risk factors for heart disease. Players who are tagged call out "heart alert" and are saved when someone...
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Adaptation Worksheet

For Students 9th - 12th
Adaptation or acclimation? Young ecologists determine which is being exemplified in twenty questions. When teaching about adaptations, make sure to talk about acclimation, a short-term learned response to a change in the surroundings....
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Folding Circles

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Students investigate properties of circles. In this geometry activity, students differentiate between similarity and congruence as they observe polygons. They investigate properties of two and three dimensional shape.
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Bad Fish, Bad Bird

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
In an advanced biology instructional activity, learners see a PowerPoint about biologist Dr. Westwood, a two-time victim of poisoning. Designed to be used with clickers in the classroom, you could modify the instructional activity by...
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A Healthy Retirement?

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Do men and women experience heart disease the same way? High school and college-level biologists examine a case study about a woman, Nancy, who is experiencing intermittent health issues; looking at her diet, exercise, and lifestyle...

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