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Texas State Energy Conservation Office

Investigation: Kinetic and Potential Energy

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
A well-developed lab sheet guides physical science learners through an investigation of kinetic and potential energy. In small groups, collaborators discover whether or not the ramp height or mass of an object has an effect on the...
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Literacy Connects

Activities to Build Phonological Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Begin your reading program each day with a mini lesson on phonological awareness using these engaging activities listed in the resource. Young ones will enjoy word families, clapping and counting syllables, identifying single sounds...
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Michigan State University

Friend or Foe?

For Teachers K - 6th
What one person thinks is a pest may not be a pest to someone else. Here, scholars examine the characteristics of living things and pests through grand conversation and a variety of activities. Class members play a game of pest or not a...
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Virginia Department of Education

Go with the Flow

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How does nature's hierarchy relate to our local human environment? Answer this question, along with others, as the class visually depicts the natural hierarchy provided by nature. Pupils discuss each piece of the pyramid and its energy...
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Virginia Department of Education

Organisms in Symbiosis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Searching for an activity that allows emerging biologists to explore symbiosis up close and personal? Pupils collect samples and view lichens through a microscope and conclude with a discussion about the relationship they have...
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Virginia Department of Education

The Cycles of Nature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Encourage peer collaboration and assist with the creation of visual aids to identify carbon, water, and nitrogen cycles as your class learns more about nature. They discuss relative information, create a visual aid...
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National Park Service

Subalpine Web

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
The theory of keystone species in an ecosystem was first established in 1969 by Robert T. Paine. Pupils open the final lesson in a five-part series with a game guessing which member of the alpine ecosystem they are based on clues. After...
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Agriculture in the Classroom

Roll of the Genes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Animal reproduction in sheep and cattle is explored with the help of Punnet squares. Scholars employ tools using probability to conclude the color of wool a sheep's offspring will have. Acting as animal geneticists, pupils then take...
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Curated OER

Desert Water Keepers

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify ways that cactus plants survive in the desert. They distinguish between water acquisition and water conservation and create their own plant that could survive in a desert climate.
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Curated OER

Goals of the Diversity of Life Unit

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students are introduced to the unit on the importance of diversity of life and the role that interdependence plays in our worlds. this is part of a multi-lesson unit on the diversity of life.
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Curated OER

Where Are The Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine the concept of extinction in relationship to the dinosaurs. In this elementary science lesson students become familiar with dinosaurs and that they are extinct. Students differentiate between different types of dinosaurs.
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Curated OER

The Plant and Animal Walk

For Teachers K
Students draw pictures and write words to describe objects and experiences. They observe outside and draw at least three animals and three plants. Students observe plants and animals describing how they are alike and how they are...
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Curated OER

Testing Soils for Garden Planting

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders collect soil samples and record the location of the samples by using GPS.
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Curated OER

Planting A Garden On Campus

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars investigate the school campus area in order to plan the best spot for a class garden. They create a map of the school and research the different types of soil that exist in order to find the best spot. The class takes the...
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Curated OER

What Are Heritage Plants?

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students listen to a story, plant seeds, and study about heritage seeds. They read seed packages for plant needs and sizes, plant seeds. They read story "How Groundhog's Garden Grew" which covers many activities of planting, growing...
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Curated OER

Ecosystems and Climate

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine climatic effects on ecosystems. They plant tomatoes and observe the differences in plant growth with differences in light. They create picture collages of plants, animals, and insects found in each climate of the U.S.
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Curated OER

Beaver Ecology

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Young scholars explore the lives of bgeahvers. They identify the physical and behavioral adaptations that help beavers survive in their environment. Students compare and contrast how beavers influence the ecology of both forest and...
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Curated OER

Who lives with Mallard?

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars explore how all living things have needs that are obtained from their surroundings. They identify the surroundings where an animal or plant lives is its habitat. Students identify that a habitat is a community of living...
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Curated OER

Plants

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study the factors necessary for plant growth and how plants adapt to their environment. They examine ow different plants require different environments to thrive.
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Curated OER

Winter

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine how animals adapt to the harsh New England winter. They discuss articles they have read on the subject.
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Curated OER

Modeling Mendel's Pea Experiment

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students discover what Mendel uncovered in his famous pea experiments. They form explanations for the result of crossing a true-breeding round pea plant with a true-breeding wrinkled pea plant (the F1 generation) and for the results...
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Curated OER

Native Plants: An Outdoor Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars recognize various California native species by their physical appearances and characteristics. They recognize the adaptations that plants make to their surroundings and how humans make use of plants.
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Curated OER

Where The Blue Fern Grows

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students discuss ancient plants and their adaption in the world. Students review forms of plant propagation. Given proper supplies and directions, students apply a variety of fern spores to peat pellets, monitor the growth, and...
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Curated OER

Peanut Anatomy

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore the peanut plant. In this peanut instructional activity, students discuss the needs and parts of regular plants. They research peanut plants to see why they are unique. 

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