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Three Clouds Activity

For Teachers K - 4th
Students understand how clouds are formed. In this cloud instructional activity, students participate in three experiments to make clouds. Students complete activity sheets for each experiment.
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Ecosystems Connect

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners investigate ecosystems near their school and across the world. They examine both living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) elements of each. They recognize ecosystems from various continents around the globe. The use of computers...
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Let's Take a Rock Apart!

For Teachers K - 12th
Learners examine a crushed rock and sort the minerals they find in that rock by color and other properties.
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Sleet and Hail Have Their Own Seasons

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explain the definition of hail and sleet. In this precipitation lesson, 2nd graders discuss when hail and sleet fall and the results of hail falling.
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Worm Composting

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss worm composting. In this decomposition lesson, 2nd graders look at the anatomy of the worm and how it eats food. They have their own worm bin and review what foods can and can not be given to the worms for...
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Three Clouds Activity

For Teachers K - 8th
Students explore how clouds are produced through three different age-appropriate hands-on experiments.
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Let's Take a Rock Apart

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students take a crushed rock and sort the remains of the rock minerals into different categories based on the different properties. In this sorting lesson plan, students learn what makes up a rock and how to sort something into categories.
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Holy Habitats or Meet Metamorphosis

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students examine the metamorphosis of frogs and how it adapts to its environment. They research how world pollutants are effecting the amphibian population.
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Air and Water in the Environment

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in a three part instructional activity in which they identify and describe forms of moisture in the environment. Part one of the instructional activity involves the three stages of the water cycle, part two...
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Celsius or Fahrenheit?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create a thermometer.  In this Celsius or Fahrenheit lesson, 2nd graders create an individual thermometer to use for measuring the temperature.  Students convert the outside temperature. 
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Day and Night

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students discuss why day and night occur after visualizing a teacher-led demonstration.
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Surviving on the Siberian Tundra

For Teachers K - 4th
Students describe ways Nenets have adapted to their environment after listening to a National Geographic article about them. They compare their own adaptions to their environment with those made by the Nenet culture.
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The Rain Game

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students simulate the precipitation process by playing a game. They simulate the behavior of actual cloud drops and rain drops.
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Run-off Race

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students create wetland models in pans and use them to experiment to see how plants help slow the flow of runoff water and keep our waterways clean.

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