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User-friendly rivers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore and explain their connection to rivers through watersheds. They break into three groups. Each group needs: Blue enamel paint, Miniature objects to simulate a model river system, modeling clay, Tempera paint, Toothpicks...
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What Makes a House a House

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine the ways in which the environment influences the house design. They describe how the physical environment, weather and local materials influence the type of house a family builds. They draw a house according to a given...
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Energy Resources

For Students 7th - 9th
In this energy resources instructional activity, learners read about the greenhouse effect and global warming. Then they explain why scientists are so concerned with greenhouse gases. Students also describe how global warming affects...
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Wild Weather Word Hunt

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this weather worksheet, students and their families search for weather news in the newspaper, media or Internet. Students record a list of weather words. Students then research and write down a one week forecast for their city.
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Submarines

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this online interactive submarines activity, students respond to 11 fill in the blank and multiple choice questions regarding the information included in the provided paragraph.
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The Three Gorges: Should Nature or Technology Reign?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the construction of the Three Gorges Dam in China. In this Three Gorges Dam lesson, students research Internet sources pertaining to the dam. High schoolers discuss the geography and culture of East China as they...
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Glacier Climbing

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars discover where glaciers exist and how they move. In this glacier lesson, students work in groups to create a glacier in a replica valley and observe its properties.
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Threatened, Endangered & Extinct Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners examine the basic needs of living organisms. In this science lesson, students study ecosystems and discover that organisms have basic needs that must be met.
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Revising With Precision

For Students 5th - 6th
In this revisions worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences, 15 total, with "vivid and precise" word. Students are instructed that they may use a thesaurus. 
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Botany: How does the rice plant grow in water?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read about how rice grows in water and make a rainstick when they are done. In this rice lesson plan, 2nd graders make a rain stick out of rice, posterboard, scissors, glue, and a cardboard tube.
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Nutrition: How important is rice to the world?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders point out places on a map that grow rice around the world. In this rice growing lesson plan, 4th graders read about the importance of rice and use a map to see where it comes from.
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Stormy Weather

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders compare human and wildlife environments.  In this stormy weather lesson, 5th graders imagine they are an animal or human during a storm.  Students compose a story with comparisons and reasons for how an organism's...
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Electricity Generation

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students study the history of electricity and the different ways we generate electricity.  In this electricity lesson students complete several experiments on generating power.
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Exploring the Science of Water in Art: Water Cycle Lesson Plans

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Water cycle lesson plans provide an opportunity for teachers to collaborate, and students to discuss this important resource.
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Controlling the Flow of the Colorado River: A Study of Dams

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research and map the Colorado River and its dams and predict the effects of a dam on an area. They suggest reasons a dam would be built and compare the Colorado River system with other major river systems within the US and...
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Herbert Hoover: Iowa Farm Boy an World Humanitarian

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Learners research Herbert Hoover's life and how he became known as a "Great Humanitarian." Students use images and historic places in their research.
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WONDERFUL, WATERFUL WETLANDS

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners list characteristics of wetland and describe the functions of a wetland.
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What's The Plan?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify how the human activities in the state of Maryland have changed/ evolved over the last 50 years. They evaluate a land planning document and prepare a fictitious planning document for a given area of land.
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When Disaster Strikes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the ways major industries are affected by and respond to natural disaster. They interview local representatives of these industries on how they prepare for and manage such disasters.
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It's Your Move

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study about the creation of a German village in South Korea for returning emigrants. They examine other cases of migration and relocation from modern world history.
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HOW FAST DO SEDIMENT GRAINS OF DIFFERENT SIZES SETTLE?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students conduct an experiment using sand, a jar, and a paper clip to analyze the effects of different kinds of sand vis a vis its sediment. They graph their findings and analyze for factors of size, shape, and density.
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Bridge Construction

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students build a model of a bridge and test the amount of weight it support. They identify different types of bridges: suspension, arch, girder, truss, cantilever, cable-stayed and moveable.
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Military Rescue in the Red River

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the role of Canada's military, and debate whether it is large enough to perform its job well.
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"No Irish Need Apply..."

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers describe conditions that led to massive immigration from Ireland in the 1840s, and compare response of native-born Americans to Irish immigration with responses to Mexican immigration today.

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