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Help! Help! Save the Earth!

For Teachers 1st
First graders analyze ways to save our natural resources and preserve the environment. For this environmental protection lesson, 1st graders complete four activities to analyze the importance of our natural resources and what trash does...
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Classroom Trash Audit

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate solid waste. In this environmental instructional activity, students collect their own garbage for a day and analyze the weight and the percentage of recyclable items in their trash.
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Macaroni Quotation Marks

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students practice using quotation marks. In this writing skills lesson plan, students listen to a story, read quotations aloud, and use macaroni as quotation marks where they are needed in the provided sentences.
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Slinky and Waves

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars watch a demonstration using a Slinky during a lecture on basic wave properties. Properties addressed in the demo include wave speed, wave length, amplitude, period, and frequency.
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Recycling - A Job Everyone Can Do

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students research recycling effort that take place in the US. They play an online game and complete handouts using Internet research.
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Pollution Solution!

For Teachers K - 7th
Young scholars listen to the story "Clean Air, Dirty Air" by Lynne Patchett and discover the main types of pollution and how these affect their bodies. In this pollution lesson, students work in small groups to create a machine to...
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Paper, Plastic, Glass, and Metal Recycling

For Students 5th - 6th
In this recycling worksheet, students complete 4 pages with 5 essay questions each. The pages are about plastic, glass, metal, and paper recycling. Research will be needed. This is best suited for students in the UK.
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Christmas Complete The Paragraph Puzzle

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this Christmas complete the paragraph puzzle instructional activity, students write in six missing words from the word list at the bottom of the page to complete the paragraph, with more puzzles and answers available online.
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Domino Adding

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice adding numbers to twelve. In this computation lesson, students construct paper domino patterns and play games in which they use the the dots on the dominoes to make addition problems.
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What a Waste

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students analyze components of garbage. They collect and sort a few days' worth of garbage. They chart the results of an investigation.
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Earth Day Trash Survey Unit

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Learners participate in local Earth Day activities. They keep track of the types of trash they pick up. They aggregate their data to develop whole-class statistics of what they found.
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The Three E's - Exciting Energetic Electrons

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers perform flame tests on salts and record the electron configurations for various cations. They analyze and record the results using spectroscopes.
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Trash Pizza

For Teachers K - 6th
Students work together to identify items sent to landfills. They summarize percentages of the different items found in landfills. They create a pizza pie graph of all of the components found in landfills.
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Natural Resources

For Students 9th - 12th
In this natural resources worksheet, students compare examples of chemical and physical properties, balance equations, and calculate molar mass and moles. This worksheet has 12 problems to solve and 12 short answer questions.
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The Miracle Fish: Learning to Design an Experiment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners develop procedures to explore the behavior of fish.  For this scientific experiment lesson students from a hypothesis, write a question, identify different variables and controls in their experiment. 
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What Should I Recycle?

For Teachers 1st
First graders discuss a plan to minimize waste. In this waste management lesson, 1st graders read "Why Should I Recycle," by Jen Green and create a classroom recycling plan.
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Mechanical Monsters

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars experiment try to build a Lego car.  For this physical science lesson students present and demonstrate the vehicle that they constructed. 
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Rainforest Resources

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Learners explore products of the rainforest. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students discover the resources that the rainforest holds and examine products from the rainforest used around the world.
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Ocean/Beach Center

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine different types of ocean life. They classify sea shells and role play in the ocean center. They color and write about their experience in the ocean center and share their experiences with their classmates.
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Up in the Sky

For Teachers 1st
First graders associate events and objects with day or night. They create a word bank and use is as a reference to create sentences about the sun. They conduct sun-themed experiments and art projects.
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Meteorology (Condensation)

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders define condensation and evaporation. They identify and describe the steps in the water cycle. They ask questions to end the lesson.
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Hydroponics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the concept of hydroponics. They create and run their own hydroponics system. They record and analyze the data they collect.
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The Impact

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate the impact inventions have on society. In this technology lesson, students review the facts they learned about famous inventors and brainstorm an invention that can improve people's lives. Students use a graphic...
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Junkyard Wars: Mechanical Monsters

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine slope and build a Lego car that can take a steep slope. In this mechanics instructional activity students build a car and demonstrate them in class and describe what they did.