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Stars in Your Eyes

For Students 6th - 9th
In this solar system worksheet, students answer 20 short answer questions about the stars, the planets, the sun and moon, meteorites and constellations.
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Scavenger Hunt: Who am I?

For Students 7th - 9th
For this solar system worksheet, students use an on line source to find the names of the people who discovered the planets, comets, asteroids, black holes and the idea of the big bang theory.
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Lost in Space - A Solar System Study

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Fourth graders study the planets of our Solar System collecting data on a worksheet. They use online tools to create a puzzle or other digital product using the information from their research.
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Reduce Reuse Recycle

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discover methods that can save the planet by recycling.  In this sustainable planet lesson, students read The Berenstein Bears Don't Pollute Anymore, and practice memorizing the 3 R's.  Students write commitment...
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Investigating the Hydrosphere

For Teachers 4th - 8th
No matter the scientific discipline, your students can benefit from a study of water.
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Animals and Humans

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify the functions of various body parts. They participate in the "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" song, draw a picture of themselves and other mammals, and create a traced outline of their body that they add features to....
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What Do You Know About Mars?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learn exciting facts about Earth's neighboring planet—Mars! Young scientists collaborate on a KWL chart about Mars, adding information as the activity progresses. Scholars listen while teachers read an article about Mars and watch...
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Extend the Earth Day Learning With "The Wump World"

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
By using the book "The Wump World," students can discuss environmental issues and extend the Earth Day experience.
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Exploring Biomes Lesson 1: Mapping Biomes

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Environmental science learners examine satellite imagery of temperature, vegetation, precipitation, and productivity. They use these maps to understand how scientists divide the planet into major biomes. As part of a larger unit on...
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Hunting for the Controversy

For Teachers 4th - 8th
You can help students deepen their understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of hunting animals with these lessons and activities.
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Art Across the Planet: Exchanging Art

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore art when it is used as a source of information about society and material culture. They communicate with students in a foreign country, and share ideas and experiences in order to create drawings of their homes to exchange.
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Sunspots and Space Weather

For Students 4th - 8th
This assignment is out of this world! It is an online worksheet about sunspots and solar cycles, a sort of WebQuest if you will. Links to two NASA websites and spaceweather.com are written into the questions so that your aspiring...
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Kinesthetic Astronomy: Earth's Rotation

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
After completing the activity, "Kinesthetic Astronomy: The Meaning of a Year," zoom in on Earth's rotation using the same simulation setup and this outline. Each class member dons a map of the Western Hemisphere and plays the part of...
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Solar Kit Lesson #7 - Positioning Solar Panels I: Explorations with Tracking

For Teachers 6th - 9th
For this first part of a two-part lesson, learners track and record the sun's azimuth using a solar panel. They graph and analyze the data to identify relationships among the time of day, the altitude and azimuth of the sun, and the...
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Variables Affecting Earth's Albedo

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study the variables that affect the Earth's albedo.  In this environmental data analysis lesson students interpret and graph information and calculate changes. 
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Edgar Allen Poe: More Than the Master of Horror

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Celebrate Poe's birthday with works that don't feature incorporeal hearts or evil houses.
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High School EcoHouse Curriculum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How has the level of carbon dioxide changed over recent years, and what is contributing it? Groups work together to research and present their findings in a creative way. Also built into the lesson is a visit to a sustainable house, but...
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Planet Cards

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this science card worksheet, students cut out the different cards and study the planets Earth, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus. Students' objective is to learn each planets' orbit, rotation, distance...
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The Planet Mars

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this worksheet on the planet Mars, students look at a picture of the planet and read accompanying facts, along with a brief paragraph.
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The Planet Venus

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this worksheet on the planet Venus, students look at a picture of the planet and read accompanying facts, along with a brief paragraph.
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Labeling the Solar System Worksheet

For Students 3rd
In this labeling the solar system worksheet, students label the planets in a graphic of the orbits of the solar system. They also label the sun as the center of orbits.
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The Solar System

For Students 3rd - 4th
In these space science worksheets, students find the words in the word search puzzle. Students then answer the nine questions about the planets.
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Discovering Planet X

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the movements of the planet Pluto. Students participate in a hands-on activity to record data similar to the movements of the planet Pluto. Students compare their data to that found on a website.
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Solar System

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this Solar System learning exercise, learners are quizzed. Students answer questions about the solar system and the planets and other celestial bodies that comprise it.

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