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Harmful Effects of Acid Rain
Students participate in an experiment to become aware of the harmful effects of an acidic solution -- acid rain.
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Greenhouse in a Bottle
Students create models of the greenhouse effect using recycled 2-liter bottles. They discuss how their models compares to the real greenhouse effect the earth experiences.
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Exploring Three Categories of Human Induced Environmental Problems
By exploring the three categories of human-induced environmental problems students can gain a global perspective.
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Ecology Worksheet
In this environment worksheet, students engage in the completion of 32 sentences to find the word that is used to complete the thoughts.
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Stoichiometry Practice Problems
In this stoichiometry instructional activity, students calculate the mass of compounds or gases produced from given chemical reactions. This instructional activity has 5 problems to solve.
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Building A Topographic Model
Students visualize, in three dimensions, features represented by contour lines on a topographic map. They see that the different elevations shown on a two dimensional topographic map can be used to build a 3-D model.
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Clouds
Students recognize the three main types of clouds. In this clouds lesson, students create a cloud mobile to understand clouds.
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"Blow, Wind, Blow" - Wind Power
In this renewable energy learning exercise, students learn about wind power. They then answer the 2 questions on the learning exercise. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Energy Conservation
Young scholars discuss the different uses of energy. They examine the consumption percentages to do household tasks. They discover ways to reduce their energy consumption.
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How Did Maine Factories Affect The Environment
Students investigate the history of interactions with the environment in the 1800s. They conduct research looking for possible negative influences upon the environment. The information is used to conduct a class discussion about the...
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The Environment: Materials
In this ESL activity worksheet, learners answer the question "What should we recycle?" using the 9 pictures as clues. A word bank is provided.
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Mangrove Ecology & Adaptations
Students creat a plant, animal, or other living organism that would be well adapted to a habitat that they previously selected. First they learn about adaptations of Mangroves.
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Nixon & the Imperial Presidency (5)
In this online interactive American history worksheet, students answer 18 fill in the blank questions regarding the Richard Nixon presidency. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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What Makes A Community Sustainable
For this environment worksheet, students read three different case studies in order to apply them to the categories of finding the best possible choices to make for helping a community flourish.
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Earth Day
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students identify the words that relate to Earth Day by reading the 14 clues. Students complete the crossword puzzle with the clues.
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Got the Whole World in My Hands
Pupils review factors that threaten survival of different species. this lesson is part of a multi-segmented unit on animal survival.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Air Pollution
Students are introduced to the concept of air quality by investigating the composition, properties, atmospheric layers and everyday importance of air. They explore the sources and effects of visible and invisible air pollution. By...
University of Arizona
Pulse: From Global to City Air: Air Quality, City Design and Disease
Learners are challenged to design a healthy city in this unit plan. The cross-curricular unit covers content standards for ninth grade in science, language arts, world geography, and math. Students explore air quality and the impact it...
Province of British Columbia
Government of b.c.: Teacher's Guide to Clean Air: The Clean Air Crusaders [Pdf]
The 'Clean Air Crusaders' help teachers work with students to educate them about all kinds of air pollution and ways to improve our environment.
Country Studies US
Country Studies: Uzbekistan: Environment
This article from the Library of Congress addresses the sad state of the environment in Uzbekistan caused by chemical, water, and air pollution. Particular emphasis is focused on the Aral Sea.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Environmental Engineering
In this unit, students explore the various roles of environmental engineers, including: environmental cleanup, water quality, groundwater resources, surface water and groundwater flow, water contamination, waste disposal and air...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Lesson Plans, Teacher Guides and Online Resources for Educators
Find an array of environmental and science-based lesson plans, activities and ideas from the EPA, other federal agencies, and external organizations.
Province of British Columbia
Province of British Columbia: How We Measure Air Quality
Find out how British Columbia measures air quality, collects and measures data, and analyzes and reports the findings.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Tceq: Lesson Plans & Resources for Teaching Environmental Sciences [Pdf]
A large collection of lesson plans on environmental topics. The lessons are broken up into the broad categories of air, water, and waste, and look at issues around quality, pollution, conservation, and recycling. There are activities for...