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Ecology

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Pupils gain an understanding of necessary components required within a healthy, sustainable environment and ways human actions can impact that balance while discovering how to recognize and analyze explanations and models used in scientific experiments.

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sustatinable environments, science
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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
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For Teacher Use
Instructional Strategy
Inquiry-Based Learning

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Unit Plan

Teach English, Teach About the Environment

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Spread the message of recycling while teaching your English language learners new vocabulary and practicing verb tenses. Included here are four lesson plans for each level (beginning, intermediate, and advanced) as well as accompanying...
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PPT

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Instructional Video

5 Human Impacts on the Environment

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Balancing Redox Reactions

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Science Can Answer Moral Questions

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Can questions of morality, good and evil, right and wrong, and/or what is worth living and dying for...be answered by science? Author Sam Harris presents a strong case for the need for a universal conception of human values. He argues...
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Interactive

The Anthropocene: Human Impact on the Environment

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9th - 12th Science
CCSS: Adaptable
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