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Time And Money: Time Zones Word Problems
In this math instructional activity, students examine a map of North America with all the time zones marked. Students solve 11 time zone word problems and fill out a chart which displays shipping times.
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Time Zones
Students solve time zone problems and chart travel around the world. In this time zone lesson, students learn about the history of time zones and view a time zone map. Students use the time zone map to solve time zone problems. ...
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Time Around the World
Seventh graders investigate the characteristics of a time zone map. They read and interpret time zone maps. Students compare the time in various time zones. Students solve time zone problems.
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Time Zones
In this time zones worksheet, students are given a map of the Earth indicating the time zones, the prime meridian and the international date line. Students answer 5 questions about solar occurrences and determine when each would be seen...
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Telling Time in Different Time Zone
Fourth graders create clocks and complete small group activities to represent the six different times zones in the US. Using small paper plate clocks, 4th graders visually demonstrate the differences in these time zones.
Teacher's Corner
Hey Batter, Wake Up!
Does jet lag affect a baseball team's performance in games? Read about how a baseball team's chance of winning a game can be affected by traveling over one, two, and three time zones. Readers then respond to five short answer questions...
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Time Zones
Third graders have a greater understanding of time zones, explain the basic history and purpose in the creation of time zones, and use time zone maps to calculate the time/day in a certain area.
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Zone Out!
Students review telling time to the hour and half hour on an analog clock. In this time lesson, the students learn how to determine the time in each of the 4 standard time zones.
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Regents High School Examination: Physical Setting Earth Science 2008
Throughout this earth science exam, high-school geologists complete a series of multiple choice and short answer questions about the solar system, atmosphere, and earth system. This is an amazing test, as are all of the exams developed...
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Costco and Zoning
Students research zoning laws in the community. They interview city planners to find out necessary steps for approval. Students collect information about facilities being proposed. They write an article on their findings.
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A Watery World
With about 70% of the earth's surface covered in oceans, it's fair to say that we live in a very wet world. Young scientists gain a better appreciation of this fact as they use maps to identify the world's ocean basins in the first...
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Time and Time Again
Students analyze the effects of time zone differences on how we function as a global community, focusing particularly on the turn of the millennium as a way for students to calculate time zone differences.
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What Time Is It?
Fourth graders distinguish between analog and digital clocks and read time from both types. In this clock reading instructional activity, 4th graders discuss the types of clocks and the time zones. Students find times in specific time...
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It's About Time!
Students examine the potentials, both positive and negative, of adapting an international 'Internet time' system. They create and solve word problems that require them to translate between the current time system and Internet time.
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Climatic Zones
Third graders recognize and locate Frigid, Temperate, and Torrid climatic zones on the word map or globe. They explain that plants, animals, and human societies display adaptations to the climates they live in .
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World Climate Growing Zones
Students create a map showing where crops would be grown around the world. In this crops lesson plan, students show how the world climate would produce different parts of the world at different times. Students fill out worksheets.
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The Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico
Learners explore hypoxic (low oxygen) conditions in the Gulf of Mexico. For this ocean habitat lesson, students hypothesis, design and implement an experiment to explain the existence of the "Dead Zone" in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Maps, Charts, and Graphs
Students define key geographic terms and track a hurricane on a map. They examine various types of maps and find locations on them,including rivers, cities and mountains.
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Determining the Time of an Earthquake
In this earthquake worksheet, learners will study a table showing the travel times of seismic waves from an earthquake. Students will use this information to determine when and where the earthquake occurred. This worksheet has 6 short...
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Tracking Ocean Ecology
Students look at the data maps given to them about how chlorophyll affects the algae blooms and make predictions about the harm they will cause. In this data maps lesson plan, students manipulate data sets from the website.
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Lesson Design Archaeology- World Map
Students practice locating positions on the world map. In this map skills lesson, students explore the world map and items such as the compass rose, Equator, mountains, cities, etc. The students practice locating positions on the world...
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Radon Gas in the Basement: A Radiation Hazard
In this radon gas worksheet, students read about the harmful effects of radon exposure over time. They use a map that shows radon gas zones to answer 3 questions about exposure to the gas and the amount of radiation that humans get from...
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Viewpoints
In this latitude and longitude worksheet, middle schoolers complete 10 matching questions identifying key features or locations on a map. Students also use lines of latitude and longitude to identify the time in 4 different places.