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Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems: The Water Planet Unit PlanPbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems: The Water Planet Unit Plan
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Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems: The Water Planet

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Observe different forms of water and how it covers about 75 percent of Earth's surface in this media gallery captured by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Use the satellite and ground images in this resource to enhance student observations as they identify and describe bodies of water on Earth's surface.

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an alaskan lake, arctic sea ice, earth, earth's features, earth's surface, explore water on the earth's surface, pbs learning media, the blue marble, the blue planet, the colorado river, the water planet, identify and describe bodies of water on earth's surface
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K - 1st
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Science
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