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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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Weather Watch

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research severe weather conditions that occur in their region of the country and develop guidelines to deal with natural disaster-related emergencies.
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Water: Naturally Cleaned

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars use stream trays covered in different types of rocks or soil to investigate infiltrates and runoff. For this water pollution lesson, students work in groups with stream trays that have different substrates. They write a...
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Richmond Nature Park Field Trip

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify different plants and their uses by attending a field trip. For this Canadian plant lesson, students explore the great outdoors of Vancouver, B.C. and discuss the uses of plants by the Native Americans that once resided...
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Tree-mendous!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify the ways people use trees. In this Science lesson, 5th graders play a word game with tree classification. Students determine the need for protecting natural resources.
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Exploring the Dynamic Nature of the Sun

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students compare and contrast images of the sun taken at different times and viewed at different scales. They record their observations in a journal and create a graphic organizer to help analyze their observations.
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Help! Help! Save the Earth!

For Teachers 1st
First graders analyze ways to save our natural resources and preserve the environment. In this environmental protection lesson plan, 1st graders complete four activities to analyze the importance of our natural resources and what trash...
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What is electrical energy?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students distinguish between items with and without energy. For this energy lesson, students understand that natural resources power electrical apparatus and that energy needs to be saved.
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Travels of a T-Shirt

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders recognize the natural resources used in an energy web.  In this consumerism lesson plan students identify solutions to over consumption and the impact of consumerism. 
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Are You Prepared?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils research specific natural disasters using the Internet and a collection of books. The natural disasters include; floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, winter stroms, wildfires, thunderstorms, volcanoes, and earthquakes. They...
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Floods

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore Earth science by answering study questions on-line. In this natural disasters lesson, students research Australia flood statistics over the past 40 years and identify patterns. Students utilize the web to view...
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Peppered Moth Simulation Activity

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students simulate peppered moth predators using SmartNotebook. In this life science lesson, students collect survival data and analyze results. They explain the importance of changes in species over time.
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Candy Dish Selection

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore natural selection. They explore the concepts of adaptations, and the way which random factors affect the survival of individuals and populations.
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MagLev Train System Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners are able to analyze practices that affect the use, availabiltiy, and management of natural resources. They are able to show that the forces of friction retards motion. Students investigate electricity and magnetism as...
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Recycling and Resources

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine ways to conserve natural resources. In this environmental lesson, 6th graders read the book Just a Dream and discuss the natural resources that they recycle. Students brainstorm ways to conserve natural resources...
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Evacuating a Volcano: A Simulation

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore hazards associated with cataclysmic natural events, and human responses to them by creating emergency plans.
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Help I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine how natural disasters impact humans and how to develop a disaster relief plan. They develop a list of natural disasters, and in disaster relief teams, create an emergency plan for their families to follow if a selected...
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The More Things Change...

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students participate in a mock town hall meeting after researching issues relating to fishing rights. After reading The Lorax, they discuss the importance of conserving natural resources. In partners, they write a story of their own...
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How Does Evolution Work?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students pretend they are a scientist like John Endler in this Web activity. They visit his pools, from hypotheses, and test them out. In the process, the explore about natural selection and sexual selection. They are able to explain the...
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Travelers for Trade and Global Peace

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Students explore the resources in other countries. In this communities lesson, students examine characteristics of their community to those of other communities. Students examine Canada, El Salvador, and India and their natural resources.
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Our Space Station Earth

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover ways to preserve the Earth's resources. In this natural resources instructional activity, students investigate how many gallons of water the average American uses per day and then total their estimated usage. Students...
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Earth: The Source of Resources

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students study responsible stewardship and natural resources. In this natural resources lesson, students share their motto's about the environment with the class. Students then discuss the regulations in 'Rules and Regulations for...
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Landscape Picture Map

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars explore pollution of water sources. In this ecology lesson, students define and identify natural resources. Young scholars use map skills to locate local rivers and lakes used for recreation. Students brainstorm ways in...
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Going Green

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students create an action plan to learn how to preserve natural resources for future generations. For this environmental conservation lesson, students research the topic of preserving the natural environment and write a definition for...

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