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Connect the Species
Fourth graders, in pairs, explore energy transfer and species interrelationships by viewing slides on a microscope. hey explore phytoplankton (producers) and zooplankton (consumers)
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What Makes up an Ecosystem?
Eighth graders design posters of working ecosystems using pictures from magazines. They label autotrophic, heterotropic, or saprotrophic energy sources, and identify predators and prey.
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Why So Many Frogs?
Students explain the different stages in the growth of a frog, then analyze and collect data to make generalizations about a larger population. They determine the survival rate of a population of tadpoles under controlled conditions.
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Who? Who? Whoooooooo?
Students read Poppy by Avi and then dissect an owl pellet. They complete a KWL chart and play vocabulary games to prepare for the dissection. They examine what the pellet can tell us about the owl's life.
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Dinnertime On The Reef
Students identify the main parts of a coral reef. They describe a coral reef food chain.
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Tortoise Tales
Students read journal entry from a Gal??pagos field researcher, find examples of five ecological relationships (competition, predation, parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism) and take notes on the details they find in the entry using a...
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Plankton
Students research phytoplankton and zooplankton. For this food chain lesson, students read This is the Sea That Feeds Us and discuss plankton, food chains, and webs. Students define phytoplankton and compare them to land...
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Holey Clamshells
Students analyze data to make hypotheses and conclusions regarding the predator/prey relationship between moon snail and surf clams.
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Finding Caterpillars
Learners examine how animals protect themselves from predators and camouflage themselves. They participate in a simulation in which they locate red and green yarn "caterpillars," organize their data, and generate a bar graph using...
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Recyclers Revisited
Fifth graders observe their plant experiments that they started in a previous lesson and examine the role of decomposers in the nitrogen cycle. Two weeks after they set up a worm terrarium, they analyze any changes they observe, and...
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Exploring Ecosystems
Fourth graders investigate ecosystems. In this ecosystem lesson, 4th graders explore producers, consumers, and decomposers and study the interdependence of each.
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Health: Basic Minerals
Pupils examine minerals as food nutrients and discover their importance as food sources in the diet. Among the learning options are completing worksheets, creating recipes, making billboards, and actually preparing some recipes rich in...
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Limu in Your Lunch
Learners explore various types of algae found in Hawaii. For this science lesson, students research species of the three types of limu and identify various uses. Learners explore products that contain limu.
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Blackberries
Students read and answer questions about other animals that like blackberries besides humans. For this blackberries lesson plan, students read about what animals like to eat blackberries and what they do for them.
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Living With the Heat: The Ring of Fire
Students investigate the planet Earth's infamous ring of fire and the life that thrives from it. In this ocean environment lesson, students investigate hydrothermal vents and how organisms thrive off their heat. Students...
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Summer: Getting the Bugs Out
Young scholars study biodiversity while examining insects. They research insects that already exist and how they adapt to their environment.
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Hometown Ecology
Students examine how ecology is at work in their own community. As a class, they identify what they already know about the world around them and discuss how they personally affect the environment. Using magazines, newspapers and the...
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Classroom Composting
Students discover the benefits of composting. They identify the steps of decomposition as well. They are read a book and discuss what items decompose.
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The Digestive System
Sixth graders use the Internet to examine the human digestive system. Using a diagram, they identify and explain the functions of each organ involved in the digestion process. They complete an online activity as well to end the...
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Signs of the Seasons
Students closely observe the natural world, record data, and notice patterns as the seasons unfold, they build a deeper understanding of seasonal change! The definition of phonology is the focus of this lesson and how it changes...
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Nutritional Needs
Learners determine caloric needs for an active person and what role nutrition plays in one's energy, In this nutritional needs lesson, students discuss the definition of calorie and identify high calorie foods. Learners work...
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Glucose Factory
Fourth graders determine, through laboratory activity, the presence or absence of glucose in a variety of plant leaves and stems. They work in groups and perform a three part laboratory which shows them how plants convert sunlighht to food.
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Animal Masks
Students design and make animal masks. In this research and application lesson plan, students use a computer to research what a panther eats, select an animal mask they want to make and then use the materials provided to create...