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Interactions Everywhere!

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Students examine interactions within the environment and environmental engineering careers. They discuss and view photos of natural and manmade environments, explore various websites, create a web to identify interactions between living and non-living parts of an environment, and analyze a Moebius strip.

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environmental engineering careers, living and non-living, natural and manmade environments, science
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3rd - 5th
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Science
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