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Paper Mache Globes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a paper mache model of the earth. At the conclusion of a discussion about the earth, they are given paper mache materials, they create their globe and appropriately draw and label landforms, bodies of water and the...
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Explosives

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils assume the role of police detectives and investigate chemical agents used to make explosives and suspected terrorists based on information provided. Students have a list of questions to lead their investigation and must produce...
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iChat AV and iSight Camera

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students interact with science and math classes around the world by doing the same experiment and communicating their results. They use iChat AV and an iSight camera to share relevant information about their area, decide on the...
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Weather Watchers

For Teachers K - 1st
Students conduct Internet research of their community's weather and compare it to the weather in another location. After conducting research, students become weather reporters by reporting their findings to the class by using a...
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Science: Finlay and Yellow Fever

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders research the work of Carlos J. Finlay and his contributions to science. Once they have discussed his theories about diseases, they create tables comparing diseases that use insects as carriers. The lesson also includes a...
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Storm Protection

For Students 5th - 8th
In this weather learning exercise, students read an excerpt about how to protect yourself, others, and property from various types of storms. There are five short answer questions related to the excerpt that students respond to.
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How They Get Building Materials Out of the Ground

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners experience a virtual quarry. In this science musical lesson plan, students understand how materials are quarried and manufactured from rocks, musically interpret a quarrying sequence with untuned musical instruments, and...
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Recycling Responsibility

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice recycling. In this character counts lesson, students discuss why students should be responsible about recycling. They cut out pictures from a magazine showing items that can be recycled. 
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What's Goin' Down?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of environmental stewardship. In this service learning lesson, students investigate the locations of the world's rain forests and concerns regarding the world's rain forests.
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"Potato Mountain": Reading/Understanding Topographic Maps

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate how to read topographic maps.  For this map reading lesson students complete a topographic map activity. 
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Charles Lindberghs's Flight to Paris

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students practice map skills. In this map skills lesson, students locate the cities of New York and Paris on a map. Students read about the flight made by Charles Lindbergh in May 1927 from New York to Paris. Students answer 8 questions...
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World Climate Growing Zones

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create a map showing where crops would be grown around the world. In this crops lesson plan, students show how the world climate would produce different parts of the world at different times. Students fill out worksheets.
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You Need How Much Food When? Where?

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore how human activities shape the earth's surface.  In this awareness lesson, 9th graders create pictographs showing the relations of food, people, land, and resources. Students complete worksheet.
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Whose Breakfast isn't for the Birds?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore coffee production.  In this cross-curriculum rainforest ecology lesson, students research regions where coffee comes from and investigate how the native birds in the rainforest are effected by coffee production. ...
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Digging, Smelting and Forging: But Why in Pennsylvania

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine the history of the iron industry in Pennsylvania. In this iron industry lesson, students learn about Israel Acrilius and his role in the iron industry. Students identify natural resources used in forging iron. Students...
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Edible Coal Mining

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore the concept of bituminous coal and the role it plays within our world.  In this economic and earth science lesson plan, learners discover and model the extraction methods with hands-on activities.  Learners also identify...
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Preventing Forest Fires (Elementary)

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Learners complete activities to learn about the importance of fire prevention and protecting the diversity of the forest. In this forest protection activity, students discuss forest fires and work in groups to research the species count...
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Preventing Forest Fires

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine how forest fires burn depending on the slope, tree density, and forest arrangement.  In this Environmental lesson, 11th graders observe and record different burn patterns.  Students analyze contemporary fires and...
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Exploration Watershed

For Teachers 6th - 7th
  Students discuss what a watershed is, and locate watersheds on a map.  In this watershed lesson, students use the information they have been introduced to and create a color coded watershed map of their own.     
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Be a Watershed - Create a Living River

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate water ways by conducting an experiment with classmates.  In this natural resources lesson, students define a watershed and identify where large ones are located within the United States.  Students utilize cups,...
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Piece Like a River

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students investigate water formations by creating a puzzle.  In this water properties instructional activity, students create a giant river puzzle by drawing on large butcher paper as a class, then dividing the image up into many...
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The Lesson: Disaster

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students study natural disasters. In this Chinese and Burmese disasters lesson, students visit selected websites to discover information about earthquakes and cyclones and their devastating effect on the 2 countries. Students complete a...
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How do Volcanoes Fit in the Picture?

For Students 5th - 8th
In this volcanoes worksheet, students look at maps and answer short answer questions about volcanoes, plate boundaries, and earthquakes. Students complete 4 questions.
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Squaring Off

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners define examples of patterns and explore the makeup and purpose of patterns found in nature. They create models illustrating the patterns researched in class and relaying the purpose of patterns in various natural objects.

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