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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating the Precipitation Streamflow Relationship

For Students 9th - 10th
The intricate relationship between precipitation and streamflow is illustrative of the complexity and changing nature of the water cycle. These key aspects can be investigated to help understand the water cycle. The duration and...
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US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Groundwater Information by Topic

For Students 9th - 10th
A massive amount of information about groundwater. Topics covered include groundwater basics, humans and groundwater, groundwater quality, and its place in the water cycle. Includes true-and-false quiz and a Q&A section, as well as a...
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Other

Study of Northern Virgina Ecology: Black Carpenter Ant

For Students 3rd - 8th
Lots of information about the black carpenter ant. Learn about their physical characteristics, colonies, life cycle, food sources, and predators. A detailed chart listing many plants and animals permits exploration of their relationships...
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Oceanography

For Students 9th - 10th
Join NASA in its study of oceanography and learn about the Earth system, the physical ocean, and life in the ocean. Try out the Giovanni: Earth Data Visualization Tool and access satellite-derived data to enhance the learning experience.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Electricity and Magnetic Fields

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The grand challenge for this legacy cycle unit is for students to design a way to help a recycler separate aluminum from steel scrap metal. In previous lessons, they have looked at how magnetism might be utilized. In this activity,...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Geology, Soil and Land Management

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore how Earth processes shape the land, and how important managing the land can be in response to these natural activities.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Dinosaur Train

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Dinosaur Train sparks children's interest in life science and natural history. As they explore a variety of animals, children develop the inquiry skills and knowledge needed to help them think, talk and act like paleontologists. Choose...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Floodplain Modeling

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore the impact of changing river volumes and different floodplain terrain in experimental trials with table top-sized riverbed models. The models are made using modeling clay in aluminum baking pans placed on a slight...
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Physics & Chemistry: Phosphate

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses what phosphates are, their role in the phosphorous cycle, where they occur in the natural world, their chemistry, and the impact of the use of phosphate fertilizers in agriculture.
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Other

The Geological Society: Climate Change: Evidence From the Geological Record

For Students 9th - 10th
In this statement, The Geological Society describes the changes that are happening to the global climate in terms of what evidence has been observed in our geological history. For example, what happened during past events of rapid...
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Globio

Glossopedia: Giant Panda

For Students 3rd - 8th
Giant Pandas only live in the mountains of southwest China. This article focuses on Giant Panda habitat, diet, life cycle and reproduction. Extensive information is given on panda babies and the contrast between life in the wild and life...
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Lesson Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Unemployment

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and calculations used in measuring unemployment, the labor force, the unemployment rate, the labor force participation rate, and the natural rate of unemployment. Topics...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Through 10 lessons and more than 20 hands-on activities, students are introduced to the concept of an environment and the many interactions within it. As they learn about natural and human-made environments, as well as renewable and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Cloud Age Two

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Nature, Cloud, a two-year-old horse, interacts with his family in the wild. [3:23]
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Article
Other

Few: Human Impact on the Environment & Environmental Impact on Humans

For Students 9th - 10th
Human beings have an enormous impact on the natural environment, and ultimately on each other. The way we chose to house, clothe, shelter, and meet the needs for vital resources such as food, energy, and water, not only affect the...
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Lesson Plan
National Pest Managment Association

Pest World for Kids: Termitology

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An inquiry based lesson plan that delves into termite biology, distribution and habitat, life cycle, social structure, and the role of termites in nature and the food chain.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Mexican Long Tongued Bat

For Students 4th - 8th
Mexican long-tongued bats feed on fruits, pollen, nectar, and probably insects. The populations that summer in the United States migrate to Mexico and northern Central America in winter, following the blooming cycle of plants such as...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Moebius Strips

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students make Moebius strips and use them to demonstrate the interconnectedness of an environment. They will explore the natural cycles (water, oxygen/carbon dioxide, carbon, nitrogen) within the environment.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Galileo's Battle for the Heavens Plotting Sun Spots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students follow in Galileo's footsteps as they examine the nature of sunspot cycles, define solar minimum and solar maximum, and graph data for a solar cycle. Then they will predict the next solar maximum and when the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Raging Rivers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
The lesson introduces students to the steps of the water cycle and rivers. They think about the effects of communities, sidewalks and roads on the natural flow of rainwater. Students also learn about the role of engineering in community...
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Read Works

Read Works: 1st Grade Lesson: Purposes for Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the books Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat by Joanne Mattern, Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston, and Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London to learn to...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: 1st Grade Act. 12: The Little House

For Teachers K - 1st
This activity introduces students to cycles and patterns. Students will engage in shared reading. Students will learn word patterns and repetition in language cycles. Students will learn that time in math and cycles of change in science...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: The Climate Change Skeptic's Argument

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan examines the possibility that the contemporary climate change is due to natural solar cycles. Objectives are to review the evidence of total solar irradiance, analyze data to understand the influence of solar variability, and...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Beliefs of Hinduism

For Students 9th - 10th
Common to virtually all Hindus are certain beliefs, including, but not limited to, the following: 1. a belief in many gods, which are seen as manifestations of a single unity. These deities are linked to universal and natural processes....

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