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Upwelling - Cold One Day, Warm Another?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Discuss with your oceanographers what forces cause nearshore upwelling and downwelling. Display a line of wind vectors alongside a graph of the temperatures so that they can discover whether or not they are related. Discussion questions...
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Investigating Properties of Water: Temperature

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Investigate how temperature affects the density of water and stratification that occurs in bodies of water when temperatures vary. Water of differing temperatures is given different colors to see the layers that form. The lesson is meant...
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Regions of Virginia

For Teachers 5th
For this geography worksheet, 5th graders identify the regions of the state of Virginia and sort them according to location. Then 10 questions focus upon the specifics of different regions.
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Virginia Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this Virginia history worksheet, students match the names, places, and words in the word bank to the 10 statements that define them.
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Virginia Word Search

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this Virginia word search worksheet, students locate and identify the 10 Virginia-related words, places, and people in the word bank within the word puzzle.
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Swimming With the Crabs

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this expository writing activity, students read an article about crabs and a graphic organizer with crab facts. Students fill in a graphic organizer, including their specific topic about crabs and details to support their topic.
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Net Results

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate through role play how decisions by watermen, recreational fisherpeople, and lawmakers influence and are influenced by economics and the abundance or scarcity of fish and shellfish stocks. They consider social,...
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Something Fishy (Statistics)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to a problem involving an environmental issue. They are introduced to the capture-recapture method which involves capturing fish, tagging them, returning them and recapturing another sample. Pupils work in...
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Water Resources

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers study water resources that are important to the people of North American and Africa. They use satellite images and data to explore how human actions can degrade, improve, or maintain water resources. They analyze and...
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Where Are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate dinosaurs. In this life science lesson, students watch video clips on the website http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/dinos/video/video.html and discuss the characteristics of the dinosaurs. Students create dinosaur...
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A Trip to St. Michael's

For Students 6th - 9th
In this earth science instructional activity, students read a 5 journal entries and illustrate how the places look based on the journal description.
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What in the World Is a Watershed?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students discover the role of a watershed. In this geography lesson, students are shown a diagram of a watershed and discuss the definition of a watershed. Students demonstrate the role of a watershed by using an umbrella and spraying it...
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Native Versus Exotic

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students investigate the presence of exotic and natural species in the ecosystem. They define the differences between exotic and native while looking at one specific ecosystem in Maryland. They write how the exotic species are considered...
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Water Features of Virginia

For Teachers 4th
Students locate and identify water features important to the early history of Virginia. Thye recognize where most cities developed and locate and label the rivers on a Virginia wall map.
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Bordering States & VA Regions

For Students 7th - 12th
In this Virginia geography learning exercise, students respond to 2 fill in the blank questions and 16 multiple choice questions regarding the bordering states and regions of Virginia.
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Our Keystone FFA Spring

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify where their water sources and explore a watershed on a map.  In this watershed lesson students walk a wetland, and identify sources of pollution.
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Virginia: Reading Comprehension

For Students 4th - 7th
In this Virginia reading comprehension learning exercise, students read a multiple-page selection regarding the state and then respond to 10 true or false questions.
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Photographs from the Great Depression: Jacob Have I Loved 

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the Great Depression and World War II. In this Great Depression lesson, students analyze photographs of the depression era as they begin reading Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved.
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A Trip to St. Michaels

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this St. Michaels worksheet, students draw pictures next to the journal entry of someone visiting St. Michaels, Maryland. Students draw 5 pictures total.
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Don't Get Caught!

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this fish worksheet, students read about fish and write about how they can help fish. They write about how they can save fish, fish migration, fish getting sick, and testing for pollution in water.
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‘Catch Up’ With John Smith

For Students 3rd - 7th
In this John Smith instructional activity, learners access a linked Internet site, watch the cartoon about John Smith, and then answer 20 fill in the blank and 2 short answer questions regarding the video.
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America the Beautiful

For Teachers 7th
Students analyze the physical geography of the United States and how we have adapted to or altered the land to create the country we know today. Students complete maps with physical features, states and cities of interest.
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Playing in mud puddles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the effects of rainfall on different surfaces and discuss water pollution. They review the water cycle and the uses of water in daily lifestyles. Students discuss the effects of soil run off in streams and rivers.
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Geography of the United States

For Teachers 9th
Students examine the population growth of the United States.  In this Geography lesson, students construct a map of the fifty states.  Students create a graph of the population of the USA. 

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