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Science Matters

Under Pressure

For Teachers 5th
Sometimes a little pressure isn't a bad thing! A collaborative instructional activity uses models to demonstrate how air pressure inflates and deflates the lungs. Participants use everyday materials to create models of the chest cavity...
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Curated OER

It's a Gas!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate gases and their properties by completing 4 activities. In this gases lesson plan, students perform activities to show that gases take up space, they diffuse, and that odors and vibrations pass through gases. They...
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Curated OER

Environment: Climate Change

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore climate change and the greenhouse effect. Using provided definitions, they assess local weather conditions and analyze long term climatic data for their areas. Once they explore the concept of and connection between...
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Serendip

Homeostasis and Negative Feedback – Concepts and Breathing Experiments

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
More asthma attacks happen at higher altitudes, but why? Scholars complete worksheets, learning about homeostasis and feedback related to breathing. Then, they work in small groups to experiment with breathing in limited amounts of...
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Lake Science Collaborative

Blood Circulation Simulation

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Act out the circulation of blood in the body with an innovative activity. Kids act as either body parts or blood, and carry necessary nutrients and waste throughout different stations to represent the way that oxygen circulates. 
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Virginia Department of Education

The Cycles of Nature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Encourage peer collaboration and assist with the creation of visual aids to identify carbon, water, and nitrogen cycles as your class learns more about nature. They discuss relative information, create a visual aid...
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Curated OER

Combustion Reactions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write a balanced chemical reaction. They articulate how burning fossil fuels increase the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Students incorporate all the environmental risks involved as well.
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Curated OER

Respiratory System

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students analyze the function of the lungs. In this lesson about the Respiratory System, students explore breathing and the movement of air through the lungs. Students perform an 4 part experiment to observe what it might look like for...
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Science 4 Inquiry

The Yin and Yang of Photosynthesis: Day vs. Night

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Floating fragments of elodea can grow even without roots. Young scientists use eldoea plants to observe the oxygen production from photosynthesis. They study the difference between having access to high amounts of light and low amounts...
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Curated OER

Respiratory Attack Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experiment with the alveoli by showing how nicotine, tar and carbon dioxide can affect the lungs. They role play being nicotine, carbon dioxide, tar, alveoli and cough.
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Curated OER

Earth's Atmosphere and Temperature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils explore the layers of earth's atmosphere and conduct an experiment to identify carbon dioxide. They construct models using styrofoam to represent molecules in the atmosphere's layers. To discover how sunlight efffects...
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Curated OER

Do Plants Eat?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners explain that photosynthesis is a process that plants use to convert light energy into glucose. They summarize photosynthesis as a chemical process in which the plant uses carbon dioxide and water to form glucose and oxygen.
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Curated OER

How do plant & animal cells make and use energy?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils show the relationship between the need for plants to undergo photosynthesis in order to generate oxygen. They see the flaws associated with this thinking because of the lack of CO2 and H2O and lack of sufficient gravity in order...
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Curated OER

Primary Producers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the role of carbon in the oceans and how phytoplankton determine the levels present. In groups, they practice measuring primary productivity using two methods. They use the internet to research the role of phytoplankton...
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Curated OER

Dissolved Oxygen Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate what dissolved oxygen is and why it is important to aquatic life and what factors influence levels of dissolved oxygen in a lake. They study how to use MS Excel to make charts to show trends and correlations.
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Curated OER

What Is The Relationship Between Radon and Breathing?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the effects of radon on their breathing. They review the anatomy of the respiratory system before completeing this lesson plan. They also complete equations to show how carbon dioxide forms in their body.
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Curated OER

How Does Human Respiration Relate to Radon?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the role of human respiration and how it relates to radon. They identify damage to the lung from the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen. They work together to complete a lab activity and worksheet.
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NOAA

The Biogeochemical Cycle

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The biogeochemical cycle ... no physics? The fourth installment of a 23-part NOAA Enrichment in Marine sciences and Oceanography (NEMO) program introduces the biogeochemical cycle by having pupils simulate movement between Earth's...
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Curated OER

Is Air a Fluid?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discuss the physical properties of fluids and then demonstrate that air carbon dioxide and oxygen) is a fluid by creating currents.
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Curated OER

Photosynthesis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct a variety of experiments on photosynthesis. In this biology lesson, students identify the factors required for the process to occur. They perform computerized experiments to test the amount of oxygen produced when plants...
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Curated OER

The Energy Debate - Stoichiometry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine crude oil can be separated into useful fractions by a process of fractional distillation. They write a balanced equation for the reaction between a hydrocarbon and oxygen.
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Curated OER

Body and Blood

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the cardiovascular system. Through the use of video, students observe the heart pumping an oxygen-enriched blood supply through arteries to the muscles in use during exercise. They participate in activities to explore...
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Curated OER

The Atmosphere Then and Now

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students recall details about the formation of the earth and early atmosphere. They name the layers of the atmosphere and compare amounts of atmospheric nitrogen, oxygen, and argon. Formulate questions about global warming.
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Curated OER

Making a Human Methane Molecule

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students demonstrate the components of methane molecules to discover their effects on the atmosphere. Students role-play as four hydrogen atoms and one carbon atom linked together to make a methane molecule. Students act as the molecule...

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