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How Do Satellites Work?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students model how satellites transmit data by using numbers not images.
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Meet the Eastern Flock: Hatch Year 2002

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read nonfiction books and magazine articles about whooping cranes.
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Do You See What I See?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students observe and describe different objects seen under a microscope and compare the individual perspectives of what was seen.
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Creating Communities

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Pupils design a community with minimal environmental impact. They rate each other's community's presentation using the "Planning and Zoning Commission Rating Scale".
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Discovering Science with Lewis & Clark

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students photograph plants and contribute their pictures to a class powerpoin on plant variety.
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Urban Impact on Chollas Creek (California): A Field Study

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students, in groups, take samples from a creek and keep a field journal on their samples. They also perform tests on their samples.
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Row, Tow, Pull Your Boat

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use previous knowledge and research to analyze and solve a scenario relating to the use of simple machines and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They present their findings to the class in oral presentations.
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Oviperous Animals

For Teachers K
Students explore animals that come from eggs using pictures and information taken from the Internet. The reading of the stories, "Chickens Aren't the Only Ones" and"Tap Tap, the Egg Cracked" is used as a introduction to the topic.
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Learning To Identify Insects

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students utilize the Internet to locate a variety of insects. The pictures located are compared and contrasted and placed into a book which is published by the class.
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Sonoran Desert

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students discuss the complicated environmental issues that face different people today. They establish legal positions surrounding several different scenarios.
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Plants in Texas: Then and Now

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders discuss continuity and change, identify various plant materials, and compare and contrast ways in which early people used plants in Texas in prehistoric times with ways that modern man in Texas uses plants today.
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River and Woodland Communities

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students examine the differences in the lifestyles of people living along a river and in the woods. They develop and discuss a class chart of the differences and similarities between the two communities.
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Local Area - Ecosystems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine ecosystems in the Connecticut River Valley. They view and discuss photos of ecosystems within their community, and create a picture web of an ecosystem.
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The Fog Won't Cloud Your Artist's Eye

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils examine art that shows some type of weather event. After watching two filmstrips on weather, they create a fog picture of themselves and read about lighting and thunder. They paint pictures in the style of five artists they have...
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Standards And Science

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study how standards are established in Science. They also look at the value of different perspectives with questions about ecological standards. The class creates its own standards for ecology with the help of a survey to obtain...
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Behavior Code

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop codes to guide individual actions and responsibilities as members of the team. They explore memories, journal entries, etc. about about teamwork. Through prompting questions, they translate these into a draft behavior...
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Sea Ice Research

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study sea ice and its importance in climate and climate change. They discuss sea ice as a presence of a food source for marine animals in the arctic and complete a lab activity. After completing the lab, they watch a video...
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Love Them or Leave Them?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners describe their pet and their feelings towards it and record their descriptive phrases on the board. They arrange comments on a spectrum from negative to positive. They read the article The Ambivalent Bond With a Ball of Fur and...
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National First Ladies' Library

Are We There Yet?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the wide-reaching effects of the Cold War, even to its involvement in domestic road construction. They research the National Defense Highway System (Eisenhower Highways) for information about the creation of the program,...
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Bats Online!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read books and other resources to learn about bats. In this bats lesson plan, 2nd graders read books and research the internet about bats. Once students learn about bats, they will take an online bat quiz.
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Make Quiz Time a Fun Time

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate a topic and prepare a quiz activity. In this space science lesson, students investigate one of the planets and construct a quiz for their classmates.
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Keeping Our Pets Safe in an Emergency

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a service learning project to benefit the members and animals in their community. In this animal welfare lesson, students review emergency preparedness. Students discuss animal safety in an emergency. Students...
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How Does a Tree Grow?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders learn about the life of a tree. For this tree growth lesson, 8th graders discuss and dramatize the life of a tree from seed to trunk. There are no
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The Vocabulary of Space

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students build their knowledge and understanding of vocabulary related to space.  In this space lesson, students discuss four categories of words and phrases related to space. 

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