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How Sweat Glands Cool Your Body

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use water and rubbing alcohol to explain how sweat cools mammals' bodies. They write their findings in a journal. After a lecture/demo, students perform a simple experiment that demonstrates this phenomenae.
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Investigation 2 - Greenhouses

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders set up a miniature greenhouse to help them explain how nonliving things affect the growth of living things.
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Can You Tell By Touch?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars feel inside a bag and use only their sense of touch to describe and identify one of the objects that is inside the bag.
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Trail of the Cougar

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars examine cougar behavior, habitat, social organization, efforts to support their survival and the threats to it. They create posters to present information about cougars.
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What is a Cloud?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify a cloud and explore how they form. They create an acrostic poem about clouds.
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Insect Introduction

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate insects and non-insects by creating their own definitions. They complete a series of activities relating to insects.
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3 Holiday Projects

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students explore the concept of reusing and recycling everyday materials and make holiday-oriented decorations and gift wrapping. Letters containing environmental issues are composed and sent to political and corporate decision-makers.
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Conservation

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine how destructive fishing practices affect the health of coral reefs. They watch a Powerpoint Presentation, conduct an experiment, and in small groups create a Powerpoint Presentation.
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Oily Oceans

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students are read a book about oceans. They participate in an experiment discovering the effects of oil on water. They discuss different types of pollution and how they can be prevented.
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Indoor Air Pollutant Sensing LAB: Peppermint Diffusion

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students engage in an experiment for the scientific concept of diffusion of particles. There are instructions for classroom set up prior to conduction of the activity. Students sit in the classroom that is filled with the smell of...
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Preventing Water Pollution

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders write at least two ways to clean the water and two ways to prevent pollution with appropriate guesses, striving not to create any more pollution in the water. They understand how pollution affects water as well as the rest...
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Lakes

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students role-play members of an ecosystem. In this lake ecosystems lesson, students simulate various organisms within an ecosystem to discover the impact on the environment.
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Cells Are Us

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore cells. In this science lesson plan, students investigate how the cell is the basic unit of life, that cells divide slowly to become mass of cells, and that there is a gradual loss of cells throughout life.

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