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Biomes: The Threat of the Sea
Students create posters to raise awareness about Global Warming as an immediate threat. In this environmental lesson, students respond to the video Biomes: The Threat of the Sea by researching global warming and making posters to raise...
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Biomes: the Threat of the Sea
Middle schoolers study global warming including its causes and effects. In this creative lesson students make posters on global warming.
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Exothermic vs. Endothermic
The PowerPoint opens with video footage of the decomposition of nitrogen triiodide and then explains it with diagrams. Graphs of exothermic and endothermic reactions are exhibited, as well as one for the effect of a catalyst on reaction...
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Environmental Issues And Energy Alternatives Crossword
In this environmental issues worksheet, students solve 16 clues focusing on the forms of renewable and non-renewable energy, global warming and acid rain.
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Energy: A Day in My Life
If only we could harness the energy of fifth graders, our energy problems would be over! The class discusses where different forms of energy come from and how we use them. They complete a chart of the activities that they do daily that...
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Electricity Generation
Students study the history of electricity and the different ways we generate electricity. In this electricity lesson plan students complete several experiments on generating power.
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Energy Adventure Scavenger Hunt
Learners complete a scavenger hunt. In this energy lesson, students use various Internet websites to explore forms of energy, non-renewable sources, renewable sources, electricity, uses of energy and energy efficiency.
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Fossil Fuels: Understanding a Nonrenewable Resource
Incorporate fossil fuel issues into your curriculum with these lesson plan ideas.
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Solar Matters
Students design an energy resource wheel and demonstrate how to use it to access information about renewable and nonrenewable energy sources.
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How Can Global Warming Be Slowed?
In this global warming worksheet, high schoolers review the causes of global warming such as deforestation, fossil fuels, and nitrous oxide. This worksheet has 6 matching and 4 short answer questions.
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Biomes: Extreme Climate
Students discuss the causes of global warming. In this earth science lesson plan, students examine how global warming is connected to the arctic and world climate. They write a paragraph about their interconnection.
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Fossil Fuels--Discoveries and Uses
Student examine the close relationship between fossil energy and our daily lives. To demonstrate to the student the close relationship between fossil energy and our daily lives.
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Forms of Energy
Fifth graders brainstorm what forms of energy are used in an energy bike listing them on the board with the description placed beside each form for reference. They work in pairs to diagram the energy transformations that occurred while...
Texas State Energy Conservation Office
Unit 2 - Section 2 - Fuels for Everything
In this alternative energy worksheet, 6th graders read and study the varying types of fuel. Students read examples and ways that alternative fuel can be used.
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Primary Activity: Dichotomous Key of Energy Sources
In this energy sources learning exercise, students fill in a chart using a dichotomous key of energy sources. They use follow the directions and label items such as the sun, a windmill, and an oil rig with the proper number and letter...
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Minerals
Students become aware of the amount of different kinds of minerals are needed to maintain our standard of living by observing the worksheet. They study how it requires production of 40,000 pounds of new minerals and metals every year for...
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Power In Variety
Students discover different types of energy. In this energy source lesson plan students compare different types of energy, renewable and nonrenewable. Students answer questions about the different types of energy and their impact on the...
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Resources
In this resources learning exercise, students review renewable and nonrenewable resources. Students also review how resources can be conserved. This learning exercise has 7 terms in a crossword puzzle, 3 true or false, and 10 short...