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Too Cool for School-The Greenhouse Experiment

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

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students 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. Students conduct a simple experiment, form a hypothesis,...
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Surface Water

For Students 7th - 10th
In this surface water worksheet, students review water runoff, drainage basins, and river erosion. This worksheet has 7 multiple choice and 3 fill in the blank questions.
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Water Cycle Activity

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students build a model and observe the cycle of evaporation and condensation that occurs in the water cycle. They see how the water cycle works, such as water condensing on the side of the jar and drops precipitating into rain that...
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Erosion: Natural or Unnatural

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore how water has the power to erode, how developing the land (building roads, buildings and parking lots) increases the amount of water reaching our rivers, and how this greater quantity of water increases erosion. They...
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The Journey of the Pacific Salmon

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students examine the journey of the Pacific salmon. In this salmon species lesson, students review the stages of the salmon life cycle and conduct an experiment to determine how the water and habitat changes during each stage.
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Lentic Ecosystem or Lotic Ecosystem

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars explore the differences between lentic and lotic ecosystems. For this ecology lesson students study the water systems in Pennsylvania.
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What in the World Is a Watershed?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students discover the role of a watershed. In this geography lesson, students are shown a diagram of a watershed and discuss the definition of a watershed. Students demonstrate the role of a watershed by using an umbrella and spraying it...
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How To Find a Site

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify the three basic needs of humans. They identify on a map the best places to live and make a list of items that they can find on a map - streams, river, hills, plains, forests, etc.
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Watershed Tourist

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students recognize and categorize different bodies of water. In this watershed and water environments lesson, students "Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean." Students define the different bodies of water and sort from smallest to...
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Activist Survey

For Students 5th - 12th
In this stewardship activity, students determine what actions and behaviors help to keep an environment healthy. This activity has 15 true or false questions.
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Early Settlements

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students embark on a journey through colonial times.  In this early settlement lesson, students come to understand what life was like for the settlers in the early colonies. Students research and create projects illustrating their...
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Ask Your Mummy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the scribes, pharaohs, and pyramids of Ancient Egypt. They also locate ancient cities on a map and explain religious traditions.
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The Earth's Ecosystems

For Students 6th - 11th
For this ecosystem worksheet, students complete 6 short answer questions and complete 10 word puzzles about marine and land ecosystems.
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Geologic History of Long Island Sound

For Students 7th - 10th
For this geologic history of Long Island Sound worksheet, students read about how the Long Island sound was formed through rivers and glaciers advancing and retreating. Students answer 5 questions about the reading and the formation of...
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Water Studies Word Problems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this water worksheet, students read mini articles and solve math word problems having to do with water. Students complete 16 word problems.
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"Wet" Your Appetite: Conserving Water

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate how water is utilized in producing food. In this agriculture activity, students examine how much water goes into the creation of their daily menu. Students create a new menu that can conserve water and cut their...
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Waterdrops Water Cycle

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this earth science worksheet, 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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Critter Clues

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work together to examine water quality. They identify the indicators of water quality and complete an experiment. They discuss their results.
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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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Freshwater Habitats

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students take samples from local freshwater sources and examine them for macroinvertebrate life. They take samples from both shallow and deep freshwater environments, measure temperatures, and classify organisms found in their samples.
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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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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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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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