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Environmental Assessment Course
Students explore how the campus is linked with the larger environment. They investigate how to collect data by interviewing and researching, analyze findings, and make recommendations. Students explore how to present their findings to...
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When is Dinner Served? Predicting the Spring Phytoplankton Bloom in the Gulf of Maine (College Level)
Students are able to explain the ecological importance of phytoplankton. They describe the components that influence a phytoplankton bloom. Students interpret satellite images in order to correlate buoy data.
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Calibrated Peer Review: Introduction-Why Study Geology?
Students read an article written by Sarah Andrews, a geologist who has written mystery novels featuring a geologist who solves crimes. After reading the article, students write an essay based on a Writing Prompt and begin peer review...
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What Would We Do?
Students develop an emergency plan for their pets. In this animal welfare lesson, students discuss how to keep their pets safe in an emergency and create pet emergency kits.
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What's The Weather?
Second graders record and summarize daily weather observations for a week in the form of a bar graph. They cut and glue a weather symbol for each day, record it on the graph, and answer discussion questions.
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Things Are Heating Up!
Third graders study how heat is produced from mechanical and electrical machines and human activities.
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I'm Falling For You!
Third graders are introduced to the concept of gravity by observing different objects being dropped from a high point. In groups, they complete the same activities Galileo did and record their observations. To end the lesson, they...
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The Value of a Garden
Students will work cooperatively. In this environmental lesson plan, students will start by discussing an article and its questions prior to receiving a handout. There are two versions of the handout depending if your students are AP or...
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Creating Public Awareness - Indoor Air Quality
Students design a poster about indoor air quality. In this indoor air quality instructional activity, students make a billboard that tells the occupants of a building about at least one air quality problem.
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Is It Breathable?
Students explore air quality. For this environmental lesson, students observe a simulation of air pollution by blowing into a jar (with a straw) that has chalk dust. Students discuss how air quality can effect the way we breathe.
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Polar Day: Canada's Arctic Barometer
Students study Polar Day. In this climate change lesson, students use specific Internet sources to complete a webquest regarding Canada's Northern Region and how it acts a barometer.
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Sizing Up Hail
Learners participate in an estimation and measurement activity to improve their estimates of the size of hail. They hold several different sized wooden balls and record their guesses of the ball's diameters. They compare their estimates.
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Chip Challenge Entry Form
For this entry form worksheet, students fill out package information such as mass, volume, and unpacking directions used for a mail package for a Pringles chip.
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Is It Hot in the Light?
Third graders make observations about the temperature of items in direct sunlight. In groups, they discuss why asphalt, brick and cement are warmer than items surrounding them. To end the lesson, they examine how heat transfers energy...
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Guidebook
Students create a book about plants they observe after identifying and researching them.
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Cloud Types and Formation of Clouds
Young scholars take cloud and weather related photographs during the year, making certain to make notes of when, where and what time the photograph was taken. At some point all the pictures be gathered and a scrapbook or "cloud library"...
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Geese and Sandhill Cranes of Nebraska
Learners gather information on the geese and cranes found in Nebraska. Students explore ways they can help save their habitats. Also, learners use additional general information they connect artwork to their research topic.