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Go to the Source- Your Town's Tap Water

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate their town's tap water. In this water quality activity, students complete a simple taste-testing experiment and online research to investigate tap water.
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Cloze Activity: The Water Cycle

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this recognizing the water cycle cloze activity worksheet, students use the words in the word box to fill in the blanks about evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff. Students write 23 answers.
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Digging the Earth's Crust

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students investigate the Earth's crust. In this geology lesson, students identify the materials made up of the Earth's crust and investigate the different kinds of soil.
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Dinosaurs 1: Where Are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the time of the dinosaurs. In this extinction lesson, students watch a video clip about different dinosaurs and are asked about what they observed. Students talk about how dinosaurs hatched from eggs and compare that...
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Oklahoma Grown: Discovering Oklahoma's Agriculture

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate where Oklahoma's variety of crops are harvested, and grown their own plants. A printable map and crop information guide are provided.
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How Does Blood Circulate?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate the path of their blood through their heart and body.  In this heart activity, 5th graders recognize that blood travels in one direction through arteries and one through veins. Students complete worksheet...
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How Much Soil is There?

For Teachers K - 5th
Students examine that all living things depend on soil to live. For this science lesson, students pretend that an apple is planet Earth. Students cut the apple to represent the portions of Earth with the last section representing soil.
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Water: A Neverending Story

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate the water cycle. In this water cycle science lesson, students participate in a series of activities that demonstrate evaporation, precipitation, and condensation.  Students describe their observations using...
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Fresh Water Facts

For Students 4th - 6th
In this fresh water worksheet, students click on the links in the questions about fresh water to find the answers and then come back and answer the questions. Students answer 9 questions total.
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Exploring the Water Cycle

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate the water cycle. In this water cycle lesson, students create an ecosystem within a 2-liter bottle. Students record scientific observations as they observe the water cycle within their ecosystem.
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Pond Life

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore pond ecosystems. In this living environment activity, students observe the local pond and identify the living things they find by drawing pictures. Students observe organisms that were found in the pond by using a...
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Repopulating Michigan's Waterways

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders identify the parts of an ecosystem and how communities change over time.  In this ecology lesson plan students formulate a habitat restoration plan.
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Too Cool for School-The Greenhouse Experiment

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners create a town model and analyze the type of greenhouse gases their town emits. In this earth science lesson, students build greenhouses to investigate how trapped heat causes temperature change. They relate this activity to...
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Clarity and Turbidity

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners discuss water clarity and how the environment can affect it. They perform experiments to check the readings of the water depth and measure water clarity. Students discuss vocabulary words, record their observations and examine...
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The Little Fluffy White Cloud

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read, analyze and interpret the short story "The Little Fluffy White Cloud" and then answer eighteen comprehension questions about the short story.
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Waterdrops Watershed Issue

For Students 6th - 8th
For this environment worksheet, students take part in a variety of activities that includes an experiment, word search, and readings related to the watershed.
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Waterdrops Water Cycle

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this earth science activity, students read an article about the water cycle. Then they continue the story about the travels of a water droplet through time and space. Students also complete sentences by writing in the correct word...
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Voltage, Current, Resistance

For Students 9th - 12th
In this voltage, current and resistance worksheet, students answer 21 questions about voltage, current and resistance. They find the current in batteries, they find the voltage in a resistor and they identify the voltage in circuits.
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Forest as a Filter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners experiment using soil and water. In this forest as a filter lesson, students identify the role of forest cover, vegetation, and foliage impacts erosion and evaporation. Learners conduct a simple experiment, form a hypothesis,...
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Measurement of Biotic and Abiotic Objects

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students identify biotic and abiotic factors. In this environmental study lesson, students conduct a series of experiments to collect and record data and draw conclusions based on the results. 
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Water Quality: Water Filtration

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students build a water filtration system. In this water quality lesson plan, students work in groups to construct water filtration units that can purify contaminated water. This lesson plan is part of a larger unit on water quality.
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Beat the Heat: Meander Through These Books

For Teachers 7th - 12th
A hazy, daisy, lazy summer reading list for math (and interdisciplinary) learning.
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Fun With Pacific Northwest Cities and Towns

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Intended for fun only, learners play with the names of cities common to their region or state. This lesson includes a list of cities in Oregon and not much else. What you and your class choose to do with your list of cities is up to you.
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Drop in the Bucket

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the sources for the water they use. They determine their town's major water supply and how many gallons per day does the population use.

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