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National Geographic: Adaptations: Changes Through Time
People, plants, and animals make minor adaptations all of the time. This lesson will idenitfy why adaptations are critical for survival by diving into pterosaurs.
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National Geographic: Animal Navigation
A classroom activity helping students understand how migratory animals know where they're headed when it is time to move.
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National Geographic: Design Your Own Space Probe
A science activity for tween students using science and engineering skills to design a space probe to explore the solar system with. Complete lesson plan is provided to guide classroom work.
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National Geographic: Measuring Weather With Tools
Work with students to identify and understand the tools used to measure weather and how they're used.
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National Geographic: The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Its Life Cycle
Engage students with a retelling of Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and watch a video from "Great Migrations" to enhance scientific discovery of the life of a butterfly.
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National Geographic: Endangered Animals of the Americas
Students select an endangered or threatened animal to research, locate it on a map, and create a persuasive essay or poster to convince others to help the animals.
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National Geographic: Endangered Animals of the Americas
Discover animals that are endangered. Students will work on the power of persuasion to address endangered species throughout the American continents.
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National Geographic: Population Density in the United States
Several factors contribute to the population trends across the United States. This lesson will explore maps to discover and understand these trends.
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National Geographic: Staple Food Crops of the World
An interactive map identifying where many of the staple foods are grown around the world. In addition, find questions that can be answered based on review of the maps, fast facts about the crops, and terminology.
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National Geographic: Coral Reef Food Web
Explore the food web in a coral reef with these illustration. Identify the consumers, producers, and decomposers that are located within this ecosystem. Site includes illustration exploring the different food chains as well as questions...
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National Geographic: Coral Reef Fish Survey Simulation
Students will learn surveying methods for an ecosystem through a short video. The video focuses on exploring the number and types of fish and the health of the coral reef ecosystem. Site includes a lesson plan and activity worksheet.
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National Geographic: Salem Witch Trials
This interactive "Salem Witchcraft Hysteria" is based on the historical facts of the Salem witch trials. Enter if you dare, can you survive the Salem Witch Trials?
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National Geographic: Political Borders
Lesson in which students explore the concept of borders and regions by examining culture and physical location and determine how and where borders should be placed. Lesson contains two activities with maps.
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National Geographic: More Physical Geography and Borders
Lesson on the physical features that create borders and boundaries. Small group and whole class activities, background information, worksheets and assessment.
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National Geographic: Languages and Religions of Europe
Lesson activities in which students explore major religions and languages of Europe. Comprehensive adaptable learning materials.
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National Geographic: Languages and Religions of the United Kingdom and Ireland
Lesson in which students explore how language and religion have affected borders in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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National Geographic: European Borders Through History
Lesson in which students use maps to explore how European political borders have changed over time. Maps after WWI, WWII and European Union provided for comparison.
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National Geographic: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Lesson reviews what middle schoolers have learned in the unit on European cultural and physical landscape. Students compare maps, questions and ideas from the beginning of the unit and identify new questions for research.
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National Geographic: Symbiotic Relationships in Marine Ecosystems
In this lesson students analyze videos to make observations about species, populations, and communities of organisms and discuss their symbiotic relationships. Then they create a hypothetical marine ecosystem and describe the adaptive,...
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National Geographic: Human Impacts on the World Ocean
In this lesson, students are introduced to the idea that humans have enormous impacts on marine ecosystems and resources, and explore the stakeholders involved.
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National Geographic: Human Impacts on Marine Species
Students learn about three examples of human impacts on marine life: migration patterns and shipping, algal blooms and water chemistry, and marine debris. Some of these impacts are due to human activity in the ocean, and some impacts on...
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National Geographic: Fisheries
In this lesson plan, students explore issues related to fisheries sustainability and simulate fish monitoring methods commonly used by scientists and resource managers.
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National Geographic: Marine Protected Areas Exploration
In this high school lesson, students explore Marine Protected Areas on an interactive map and compare and contrast three case studies. They learn how the MPA classification system works in the United States, apply that system to example...
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National Geographic: Marine Protected Areas Management
In this instructional activity, students read a case study and debate the pros and cons of a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the region. Then they select a Marine Protected Area and develop and present a management plan for it.