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Storm That Drowned a City

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students use a map to locate New Orleans and watch a video on the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. As a class, they watch a demonstration on how a wetland can reduce the impact of a hurricane. In groups, they perform their own...
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Solid Waste Takes Over

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore solid waste and its effects on the environment. They explain some of the major problems caused by waste disposal and the use of landfills. They suggest ways to reduce the amount of solid waste going into a landfill.
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It's all In the Package

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the concept of reducing solid waste and how it relates to product packaging. They read about and evaluate the packaging decisions of two major U.S. corporations, develop a t-chart comparing the pros and cons of various...
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Make Your Own Recycled Paper

For Teachers K - 2nd
Paper Lesson Plan - Students discover how paper is made. Working together, they make their own paper. This activity introduces students to recycling; what it is and its importance. Students study the process of how paper is made, and...
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TE Activity: Trash Talkin'

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students collect and categorize solid waste produced in the classroom. They weigh the waste that has been collected over one week's time, and separate it into recyclable and non-recyclable waste. They talk about the role of engineers in...
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"Once Upon a Time": Tearing Down Fences

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders study how individuals take responsibility in reducing societal misunderstandings. They discover the irony in thinking that building fences provides security and solves societal problems. They consider the fences that every...
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Air Quality and Transportation

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders observe car pooling patterns and the important role car pools play in reducing air pollution. They explain how they get to school and graph the types of transportation that is used. Students make a list of the different...
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Trash! How Cities Work: Dealing with Garbage in the US and India

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify how different cultures deal with the challenge of trash. Read an excerpt from a chapter book based on real life written from the Southern Indian perspective. Describe the life of a street child in Southern India....
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Ecological Footprint

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discover their own ecological footprint and create a plan for reducing this figure. They extend this to the school and community to see how they are doing on this scale. They discuss the concept of the ecological...
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Writing Half Reactions

For Students 9th - 12th
In this half reactions worksheet, high schoolers read about redox reactions and learn how to write half reactions showing the oxidized part of the reaction and the reduced part of the reaction. Students are given 10 redox reactions and...
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Trash: Past, Present and Future

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how much trash they create. In this recycling lesson plan, students define stewardship and conduct an experiment to see how much trash the class produces in a week. At the end of the week the students propose ways to...
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Bad Algae!

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore algal blooms.  In this ecosystem and health activity, students define and describe harmful algal blooms, then discuss ways in which the impact of these algal blooms could be reduced.  Students work in groups to...
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Lucky Canceling

For Students 9th - 11th
In this algebra activity, learners reduce fractions using cancellation. They cannot use zero and cannot use numbers with the same numerator and denominator. There is one problem with an answer key.
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Algebraic Fractions

For Teachers 9th
In this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders find the product or quotient of algebraic fractions and reduce to simplest form.  The two page worksheet contains a combination of eleven multiple choice and free response questions. ...
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MA 371 - Linear Equations 1

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
In this linear equations worksheet, students solve 8 short answer problems. Students write augmented matrices given a system of equations in two and three variables. Students express their answers using an augmented matrix in reduced row...
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Sex And Alcohol: A Risky Mix

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine the reasons people use alcohol and discuss the negative things that can happen when mixing sex and alcohol. In this instructional activity on risky behavior, students explore the ways in which they can reduce the risks...
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When Is It Okay?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the meaning of non consensual sex and explore specific guidelines to clarify what that means. In this when is it okay instructional activity, students identify the ways in which they can reduce the risk of being...
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Oceanic Absorption- Oceanic Sequestration

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine the techniques that may be used to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  In this pollution lesson students simulate oceanic sequestration using chemistry.
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Oceanic Absorption- Oceanic Sequestration

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Young scholars examine the different techniques that may be used to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  In this ocean pollution lesson plan students divide into groups and complete a lab to see how the ocean holds carbon dioxide.
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Properties of Matter (Biomaterial Through Nanotechnology)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners investigate friction between different surfaces. In this physics lesson, students research biomaterials that can reduce friction. They calculate efficiency using a mathematical formula.
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Add Fractions With Like Denominators ©

For Students 4th - 5th
In this adding fractions worksheet, students find the sums of fractions with common denominators and rename and reduce the answers. Students solve 14 problems.
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Add Fractions With Like Denominators (G)

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this adding fractions activity, students add fractions with common denominators, write answers as mixed numbers, and reduce to greatest common factor. Students solve 14 problems.
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A Reading Graph

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students construct and interpret a "favorite classroom books" graph. In this literacy and math graphing lesson, students choose a reduced size copy of the book cover that corresponds with the book(s) they chose to read during their...
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Back to School, Mathematically Speaking

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Reduce "math anxiety" by listening to students' math stories.

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