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Oil Slick Emergency

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine how to recover and remove oil from an oil spill.  In this oil spill clean-up lesson students use role play and act like a committee to determine how to clean up an oil spill.
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Blackeyed Peas

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine the history of black-eyed peas. For this black-eyed peas lesson, students read about the history of the peas/beans and about how they are Oklahoma's number one vegetable crop. They also read that they are considered to...
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Technology (Post Lab): Utility Companies

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study physics. In this utility company research lesson, students discover how their local utility company charges for electricity. They listen to a presentation and then conduct internet research to find more information on...
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Secrets of the Ocean Realm - Survival in the Sea

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils determine the sequential links in a marine food chain and identify the roles that various organisms play in this chain. Students develop charts as visual aids for illustrating marine food chains.
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Science: Comparing Beer and Bread

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students compare and contrast cellular respiration in yeast and plant and animal cells. After discovering the role of yeast in making beer and bread, they describe the short and long term effects of alcohol on the nervous and digestive...
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Energy and the Environment

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders define terms associated with renewable and nonrenewable resources. They identify materials that are renewable and nonrewable. They categorize a list into the correct type of resource.
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Fuel Mystery Dis-Solved

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students describe how temperature and surface area exposure affect the rate at which fuel is consumed. They explain why engineers want to know about the properties of a fuel when designing rockets. They create a bar graph of result data.
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Marine Debris and Me

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils study the environmental issues that pertain to the marine environment. In this research ocean landfills instructional activity students come up with alternative means of disposal. 
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ENERGY USE ADDS UP!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the amount of power used in your home and what appliances use the most. They analyze the concept that producing energy costs us money, affects our environment and produces waste products. Students come up with three...
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Dissolved Oxygen Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate what dissolved oxygen is and why it is important to aquatic life and what factors influence levels of dissolved oxygen in a lake. They study how to use MS Excel to make charts to show trends and correlations.
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A Primary Industry and its Environmental Impact in a Region

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students research and write about the importance of a primary industry in an assigned region of Canada. They study the environmental impact of developing a primary resource.
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Milk: A Practical Application

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine the impact of the physical and chemical properties of milk and its use as an important food.
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Whale Fast Food Conversions

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars calculate feeding rates of whales and compare this to the feeding rates of humans.
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Food Webs in the Bay

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students get acquainted with a type of ecosystem and how different organisms of that ecosystem compete with one another for resources. They analyze the submerged aquatic vegetation of a bay ecosystem. Students study plants.
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The Effect of Medications on Daphnia

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how human beings affect the world's ecosystem by examining the affects of medication on daphnia, a small freshwater organism very sensitive to pollution. Students use a computer model to repeat the experiment and analyze...
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Exploration of North America

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine some famous explorers who have helped to discover our country. They discuss explorers from three countries today. They are: Spain, Portugal, and England.
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Building an Ecologically Balanced Living Space

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design and build an ecologically balanced living space based on the principles of an old growth forest. They take one part of a house (or structure in the community) and redesign it according to the principles of the forest cycle.
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WEEDS ON THE WINDOWSILL

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Discuss the suffix "cide." Have students name words having this suffix (homicide, suicide, genocide). Ask students what all these words have in common. Then ask students to define the word "pesticide." (Pesticides control organisms that...
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What does AG have to do with me?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars practice alphabetizing while categorizing sources of basic agricultural products. They discuss agricultrual products, discover where they are grown and draw a simple agricultural scene on poster board.
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Make Sense of Nature

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in this program that heightens their awareness and curiosity of nature as well as their sense of adventure and exploring new surroundings. They identify and choose an object from nature after exploring it with other...
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Wet in the City: Read a Water Meter and Water Bill [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this lesson, students will monitor the school's water meter to get an overview of the total water consumption and the cost of that water which will help them develop an idea of water consumption patterns and how much money the school...
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Nasa: Sedac: Water Resources and Consumption

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of twenty-four data sets from SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center) that examine water resources and issues around the world. They look at dams and reservoirs, floods, drought,...
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California Urban Water Conservation Council: H2 Ouse: Water Saver Home

For Students 9th - 10th
Travel room-by-room through a virtual house and learn about the uses of water in homes and about ways to conserve water. Includes information about at-home water meters and how to read them.
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Dogo News: California Governor Imposes Water Restrictions

For Students 5th - 8th
Article reports on California Governor Jerry Brown's mandatory water restrictions resulting from the state's ongoing drought. Includes video.

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