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Managing Your Energy Budget

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students experience an inequitable resource distribution and electronically calculate their own Ecological Footprint. The assess their resource use and learn more about sustainable living strategies in a video tour by Penn State...
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Upping the Odds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research test taking tips that focus on nutrition, sleep, and stress reducers. They create a variety of fun projects such as posters and brochures and present their findings to other classes.
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Recycling and Precycling

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research how recycling saves energy and raw materials and reduces pollution. They think about the benefits of recycling. Students find ways our buying habits influence the amount of garbage we produce.
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The Cricket and The Plant

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine determine the symbiotic relationship between plants and animals as the find ways to naturally reduce carbon dioxide emissions. They study the carbon cycle. They work with probe and graphing calculator to examine the...
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Ocean Absorption Lab

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine various techniques that can reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and use chemistry to simulate oceanic sequestration. They conduct an experiment involving the method of oceanic absorption for carbon sequestration,...
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Fractions

For Students 5th - 6th
For this fractions worksheet, students solve and complete 4 different types of problems. First, they cancel the fractions to their lowest terms. Then, students complete each equivalent fraction. In addition, they mark each of the...
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Simple Machines

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students discover that simple machines reduce the effort required in a task.  In this simple machines lesson students see demonstrations of simple machines. 
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ESL-Advanced Conversation Quiz #5

For Students 6th - 10th
In this ESL advanced conversation worksheet, students match a set of phrases with literal meanings, circle correct reduced pronunciations and take dictation.
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ESL Advanced Conversation-Quiz #6

For Students 5th - 8th
In this ESL advanced conversation worksheet, students match words with literal meanings and circle "going to" when it can correctly be reduced to "gonna."
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Airport Noise

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, after reading the explanation given below, use the World Wide Web to investigate jet engine noise, related health concerns, and efforts by NASA Glenn Research Center to reduce engine noise.
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Fractions

For Students 4th - 7th
In this fractions worksheet, learners add twenty-seven fractions together in their lowest terms. Students show each step of their work.
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Paper Recycling

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Paper is made from paper, right? Future scientists take bits of paper and produce sheets of recycled paper. The only drawback? It has to dry overnight.
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Rational Expressions

For Students 11th
In this Algebra II learning exercise, 11th graders simplify rational algebraic expressions by factoring and cancelling the common factors.  The two page learning exercise contains instruction, worked examples, and three practice...
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Musical Instrument Workshop: Somerset Waste Action Programme

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars use recyclable material they bring from home to create a musical instrument. They play their instrument for the class and work as a class to play as in a band or orchestra. Students discuss recycling, and other uses they...
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BEAMS Fractions

For Students 5th - 6th
In this math puzzle instructional activity, students will reduce a series of fractions to their lowest terms. Then students will use the code provided to decipher the puzzle.
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MOBILITY, Traveling Lightly: What’s My Footprint?

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students calculate their carbon footprint. In this environmental technology lesson, students listen to a lecture on climate change. Students brainstorm solutions to reduce environmental impact based on travel options. Students calculate...
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Algebraic Fractions

For Students 11th
In this Algebra II worksheet, 11th graders determine the lowest common denominator of algebraic fractions in order to add or subtract said fractions. Additionally, students reduce fractions to lowest terms. The two page worksheet...
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Inflation and Money

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars define money in terms of its functions and refer back to discussion of markets and the role of money in reducing transaction costs. They give examples of types of money.
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The Awful Eight Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The learners list major air pollutants, what causes them, and their effects on people and the environment. Students list ways they can prevent or reduce the types of air pollution mentioned in the play.
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What Increases the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students analyze the risk factors for cardiovascular disease and classify them according to whether or not they are controllable. They discover how to reduce the probability of high blood pressure through diet and exercise.
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All Wrapped Up

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students work in teams to identify and sort types of packaging used in food production. They consider ways to reduce the environmental impact of packaging and reflect how consumer choices play a role in trash production.
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Plants Help Keep a House Cool!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils experiment with tree shading and house colors to see how to reduce the temperature of a home.
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Water Trash

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine how plastic waste affects the marine environment. They describe techniques that reduce plastic waste in this environment after examining plastic waste that accumulates in their own homes.
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How Does Radon Get Into Your Home?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine their home and calculates the amount of ventilation found. They also compute the surface area of different objects. They determine what is needed to reduce the amount of radon entering the home.

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