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Water Issues on Puerto Rico and Oahu: A Comparison of Two Islands
Fifth graders explore how the tow islands receive and use fresh water. They also address some of the threats to the fresh water supply on each island. Students explore the instructional activity objectives through water cycle models...
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Topographic Maps
Your choice of hands-on topographic mapping tasks is provided in this resource. From actual map-making to viewing and interpreting stereographic photos, the activities are sure to succeed. To make the most of this lesson, you will need...
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Fossils and Lithologic Units
Practicing paleontologists map the geologic time scale, simulate the formation of sedimentary rock, and analyze fossil data. Instructions for four activities and five assessment choices are provided for the teacher. This comprehensive...
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Weather's Outer Limits
Pupils make educated guesses and explain their reasoning and compile, graph, and map weather data. They then study environmental weather extremes on earth and discover that many variables determine climate.
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Drifting Continents
In this plate tectonics worksheet, students study the continents map and complete 8 short answer questions related to them. They predict what the Earth will look like millions from now.
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Where Did It Come From?
Students research island formation, plot locations on a map and make an analysis of why some islands are formed where they are.
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Biomes: Coastlines and Seas
Students study the different types of coastlines and their territories. In this marine coasts lesson students identify life forms that are in the coastal regions.
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Rainforests
Second graders explain the characteristics of a rainforest habitat. In this rainforest lesson, 2nd graders examine the layers of the rainforest and the locations of rainforests. Students complete a scavenger hunt on an...
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Weather Alert
Students become familiar with the effects of weather on humans. In this weather pattern lesson, students identify weather patterns and how people can prepare for them. Students complete a weather research sheet.
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Is There Ice on Mercury?
For this ice on Mercury worksheet, high schoolers read about the data collected from the NASA Messenger and the Arecibo Radio Telescope indicating the possibility of ice on Mercury. Students solve 6 problems including finding the scale...
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Hurricane Paths: Comparing Places with Different Prevailing Winds
In this wind worksheet students study a wind rose and graphs for Boston and answer several short answers on prevailing winds.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Air Data
The AirData website gives you access to air quality data collected at outdoor monitors across the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U. S. Virgin Islands. The data comes primarily from the AQS (Air Quality System) database. You can...
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Serdp: Managing Contaminated Sediments
This resource is from the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), an environmental research arm of the Department of Defense. It explains how sediment contamination has affected DoD facilities and what is being...