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Seaside Science

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students research sea life using laptop computers. For this sea life lesson, students participate in a field trip to the beach and enter observations into their laptop computers. Students classify shells and sea life.
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Cleaning Air with Balloons

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars examine how a pollutant recovery method functions in cleaning industrial air pollution. They listen to a teacher-led discussion, conduct an experiment with balloons, static electricity, and pepper, and observe and record...
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A Recipe for Air

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a pie graph using M&Ms to demonstrate the composition of air. They label each section of the graph, and list the fractions from largest to smallest.
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Lesson Planet Article
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Water, Water, Everywhere!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Get kids excited about environmental studies with these exciting lesson plans about water!
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Rain, Rain, Go Away

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students conduct a number of experiments involving evaporation and condensation. They view and discuss a video about the water cycle and then design posters about the rain based on the book "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs".
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Hitting the Roof

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students examine the state of the British housing market. In this current events lesson, students visit selected websites to study Gordon Brown's plan for eco-towns, how to borrow money to buy homes, and what the home prices are in...
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Comparison of Snow Cover on Different Continents

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students use the Live Access Server (LAS) to form maps and a numerical text file of snow cover for each continent on a particular date. They analyze the data for each map and corresponding text file to determine an estimate of snow cover...
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Severe Weather - Deciding Where to Live

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students recognize the variety and frequency of severe weather occurrences. They research the type of severe weather that may occur in their area as well as determine the frequency of occurrence.
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Predicting Severe Weather

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students recognize the range and variety of severe weather. They plan for severe weather conditions that they may experience on an immediate and long-term scale and use climate information to make personal choices about where to live and...
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An Academic, Economic, Cultural, and Political Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students reflect on how many board games they've played have African Americans, their culture or history incorporated within. They identify four street games and three card games that appeal to African Americans. They play the...
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Chapter 6: The Human Population: Demographics

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students read the indicated text and complete several suggested labs and activities. They answer critical thinking questions. This lesson is very hard to do without the indicated text.
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The Importance of Trees in the Rural Area: Planting a Snowfence

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore the concept of living snowfences. In this tree lesson, students read, "The Living Tree," brochure and discuss the ecological benefits of planting trees to create living snowfences. Students draw plans for planting trees...
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Deep Blue: Exploring the Deep Ocean

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine landforms. In this social studies activity, students bounce a beach ball around in order to discover that seventy percent of the Earth is covered in water. Students
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Aruba Cloud Cover Measured by Satellite

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students analyze cloud cover over Aruba. They compose and submit written conclusions which include data, analysis, errors in data collection, and references.
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Circle the Earth - Explore Surface Types on a Journey around Earth

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students use CERES percent coverage surface data with a world map in locating landmasses and bodies of water at Earth's Equator.
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Cave Mentality

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils identify and define vocabulary associated with caves and rock formations. They construct a cave out of paper and fill it with a geode they crerate. Students write and present orally reports about caves and their importance to our...
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Washing Air

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students observe a model of a wet scrubber. They discuss this and other methods of pollutant recovery. They discover how engineers use this information to protect the environment.
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Advertising

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students listen to a guest speaker about the different types of advertising. Using research materials, they discover the laws about copyrighting material. They visit foreign websites to view their advertising and discuss how it is...
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Activity
Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: What's a Percentage?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this site to learn about percents, and how they relate to decimals and fractions with this interactive online lesson. You will learn about percents, convert percents into fractions and decimals, and find equal parts of a whole.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: What's in That Box of Cookies, Anyway?

For Students 6th - 8th
In this video segment from TV 411, learn how to read nutrition labels on food containers and calculate the calorie content of different serving amounts.
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Unit Plan
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Tune in to Learning: What's a Fraction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this interactive lesson to learn about fractions. You will find equivalent fractions, compare fractions, and more. Immediate feedback is given to your answers. Links to related videos.
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Activity
Lawrence Hall of Science

The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Percent of a Number

For Students 3rd - 8th
This Math Page tutorial explains how to find the percent of a number and features a practice to check comprehension.
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Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Percent

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Explore percents with this easy reference guide. Learn how to convert fractions to percents and percents to fractions. Try the sliding bar to see how a percentage is calculated. Detailed explanations and examples are included.
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Unit Plan
Education Development Center

Math Partners: Statistics and Probability [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Comprehensive unit that consists of lessons and activities designed to help students learn statistics and probability concepts.