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Soil Analysis
Students examine zip lock bags of clay, silt, and sand to determine its origin. They rotate through stations to compare different soils and perform oil separation and Tullgren funnel tests.
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Follow Spring's Journey North Recording Highlights of the Season
Students scan headlines on the Journey North News Updates each day to track the changes that spring brings as it comes to different areas of the United States.
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Landscape Observation: How Portland Has Changed
Students read The Lorax and discuss how populations change the environment. Using given photos, students use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the Portland of yesterday to present day Portland. They write a comparison paper and...
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Researching the World's Oceans
Young scholars research and compare important features of the oceans based on current data. They examine the globe or map, determine the major oceans of the world, and record their names on the data sheet.
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Create Your Own Investigation
Learners design and implement an experiment intended to measure and analyze the air quality of a particular location. They focus on looking for ozone and particulate pollutants.
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It's In the Numbers
Learners explore the careers available in the field of oceanography. They discover the difference between a job and a career and the need for a good education. They work together to create a presentation about oceanography.
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Ozone Testing Tools
High schoolers develop an experiment to measure the amounts of ground level ozone present in their area. They collect data, access a related website and compare measurements. They present their findings.
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Survival
Young scholars identify characteristics of Australia, Africa and Antarctica and compare and contrast them to each other. They work together to identify adaptations that animals have used to survive. They also practice classifying animals.
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In Your Own Backyard
Pupils observe organisms in their habitat and record their observations. They then draw conclusions about the organism's habitat needs and food sources.
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Who Has More?
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the standard of comparing the quantities of whole numbers using different strategies from the concrete to the abstract. They count objects and compare them, use symbols of comparison,...
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Our Solar System to Scale
Students calculate the diameter of planets and their relative distances. In this space science lesson, students discover how small or big the planets are in comparison to each other. Students use cross multiplying fractions to find...
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Water and Ice
Pupils study the water cycle and states of matter. In this water cycle lesson, students observe ice for a period of time and record their observations. Pupils create a Venn Diagram comparing water in solid form and liquid form. Students...
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Stream Flow in Blacks Creek
Students explore what factors affect the stream flow in a local body of water. They collect data to measure stream flow and discharge and construct a hypothesis concerning the factors affecting stream flow.
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Analyzing Journey North Maps
Students analyze what's happening and interpret why it's happening as the season progresses.
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Meteorology
Seventh graders examine the job of meteorologists. They decide which characteristics of the atmosphere that meteorologists focus on. They use local weather maps from newspapers to predict weather in their area.
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Human Body Intro
Students create an "skinny student" model of their own bodies on register tape. In small groups, they record measurements of their bodies then use these measurements to build and decorate the scale models including the positions of...
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Image Processing in the Classroom
Twelfth graders determine how scientists study the universe and particular astronomical objects using Internet research, images and NIH software. They work in groups to examine and use imaging software as they study astronomical objects.
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Clouds
Students study how to use the Internet as a static information collection tool, to enhance the literature stories on the weather and study how to use the calculator.
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What Do We Have In Common?
Seventh graders perform a dissection on a mussels and label their internal organs. In groups, they compare and contrast the mussels structure to those of human beings. They also review the functions that are necessary for survival and...
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Water Quality Monitoring
Learners comprehend the four parameters of water quality. They perform tests for salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH and clarity or turbidity. Students comprehend why scientists and environmental managers monitor water uality and aquatic...
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MEANINGFUL METRICS with DRAMATIC DEMONSTRATIONS
Tenth graders study the metric system. In this metric lesson students complete a lab activity and several metric worksheets.
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Nature of Game Balls
Fourth graders see how, when balls are dropped from the same height, mass and size affects the motion of the balls.
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OBSERVING THE ROLES OF MALES AND FEMALES IN THE NURTURING OF THE YOUNG THROUGHOUT THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
Students watch animal videos to identify and compare the male/female roles of different species of animals. They draw conclusions and compare those roles to those of humans. They discuss how the human male/female roles have changed...
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Comparative Embryological Study of
Students complete two labs. They observe the fertilization and development of sea urchin and zebrafish embryos. They examine the similarities and differences in the development of an invertebrate vs. a vertebrate animal.