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Slovenia: The Landscape

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students imagine they are taking a trip around Slovenia. They create a nature journal for their trip including the description of the landscape, climate, animals and plants. They are to give details to make it seem real. Students may use...
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Sweden: The Landscape

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students imagine they are taking a trip around Sweden. They create a nature journal for their trip including the description of the landscape, climate, animals and plants. They are to give details to make it seem real. Students may use...
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Natural Resources Product Booklet

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct a research activity and create a base product booklet that helps them recognize the resources that are available to them from the natural resources in the area that they live in.
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Kernels of Wisdom: Investigating Natural Variations in Corn

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Here is a brain-popper! Corn, or more appropriately, maize, was intentionally domesticated by humans around 9,000 years ago and over a period of hundreds to thousands of years! Genetics and botany researchers have collaborated to find...
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Advocacy, Recognition, Prevention Through Art and Health

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students analyze how the environment and family history impacts personal health. For this personal health lesson, students discuss cancer and survey the school community about the disease. Students create a bulletin board about...
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Energy Crossword Puzzle

For Students 7th - 8th
In this energy crossword worksheet, students read 36 clues pertaining to energy conservation. Students fit their answers in a crossword puzzle. There is no word bank.
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The Effect of Natural Selection on Genes, Traits and Individuals

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Rotating through five stations, evolutionary biologists explore the question of how changes in DNA facilitate the changes in a population over time. High-quality, colorful cards of animals, skeletons, skulls, and DNA sequences can all be...
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The Planets Moon

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the theories of the creation of the universe and examine the properties of celestial bodies. They analyze the relationship between the sun, Earth and other planets. They discover the infinite potential of the science of...
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GPS - The War Hero

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students understand what the Global Positioning System (GPS) is and how it works. They discover the history of the development of GPS and how the military uses GPS. They realize why GPS was essential to the success of Operation Desert...
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Beauty in the Eye of the Scientist

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research science's 10 most beautiful experiments and the historical periods in which these experiments were conducted. Then, students create magazine covers for issues of a fictional magazine.
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SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students research one of the six wives of Henry VIII in groups to provide expert presentations. In this European History lesson, students view a film and take notes on Henry VIII's wives. Students evaluate the information from the...
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Rocketry in Motion

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate why a balloon flies in one direction as air escapes in the opposite direction, which helps them understand the nature of rockets and fireworks. Individually and in teams, students conduct research to create a...
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Time Marches On

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research the development of remote sensing, various instruments used throughout time and create a time line depicting the history of remote sensing.
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Eagles and Other Raptors

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers become familiar with basic facts and behavior of the American Bald Eagle using a combination of classroom presentation, Video, Internet searching, "hands on" computer activity, and touching of feathers and displays.
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Motion Through the Ages

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders conduct internet research to produce a timeline of man's growth in understanding of concepts of motion and planetary motion through history.
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Memory Book - A Cooperative Learning Experience

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students document sections of their life through pictures, stories, and video to create an English "memory book". They use photographs, video and edited video which includes their history, includes calculated growth, and genetic...
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A New Regime: The Beginning of SupersonicFlight

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students learn through multimedia about the history of supersonic flight and the men who made it possible.
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Being Nosy About Our Neighbors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the scientific method to explore the effect of size on impact cratering. They compare images of landforms on Earth to those of other planets to compare surface processes. Students infer the geologic history of another...
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How Many?

For Students 5th - 6th
In this measurement worksheet, students complete a 12 question multiple choice online interactive assessment about standard modern and ancient measurement.
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Make Quiz Time a Fun Time

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate a topic and prepare a quiz activity. In this space science lesson, students investigate one of the planets and construct a quiz for their classmates.
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About to Explode

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore Mount St. Helens' quiet eruption of 2004-2005. They examine different types of eruptions and then present creative first-hand accounts of different volcanic eruptions in history.
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The Story of the Transistor

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils brainstorm on how certain items have become smaller as technology advances. They watch a video about the history of the transistor.
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Modern Marco Polos: Searching for China

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students conduct Internet research to determine information about China's laws, government, philosophy, architecture, inventions, calendar and language. Students create a web site about ancient China and how it has influenced world history.
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Bridge Building

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students design and build their own balsa wood model bridges. The technological development of bridges, the science principles that apply to bridge building, and the construction techniques and skills necessary for creating a bridge be...

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