In this life characteristics worksheet, students answer 16 questions about living things, Redi's experiment, basic needs, growth and development.

Students investigate their town's tap water. In this water quality lesson, students complete a simple taste-testing experiment and online research to investigate tap water.

Students study a local ecosystem and research the organisms to create a food web. In this ecosystem lesson, students view a video and answer questions. They visit a local ecosystem and make a list of organisms to research. Students...

For this ecosystem worksheet, learners investigate an ecosystem at a local park or national forest, they make observations for five minutes, they complete a grid of their observations and they construct a hypothetical food chain....

Young scholars create a collage of wood products labeled by type of wood product.  In this product engineering lesson, students work in groups to find pictures of solid wood products, engineered wood products, wood pulp, paper...

Students synthesize or express concepts towards solving the question posed at each lab station about climate change. After all lab teams have finished, the teacher facilitates a class discussion on teams' responses to each station.

Second graders observe, discuss, and record the requirements of a healthy environment for both arthropods and people by designing and maintaining an artificial habitat for an arthropod, and considering the requirements for a healthy body...

Students are introduced to the Gaia hypothesis by examining a conceptual sketch. In groups, they analyze the way they can use Dewey's method for problem solving to solve problems within the environment. They are given a problem facing...

students analyze the place of humans among the tropic levels by observing what we eat. They calculate the caloric content of several foods commonly eaten by humans and calculate the total energy cost to grow, process, transport, store...

Students analyze the trophic level of humans by first calculating the kilocalories in own their lunch. They then calulate the kilocalories in a wide variety of foods found in grocery stores and compare the kilocalories needed to acquire...

In this kinetics worksheet, students solve twenty one problems related to reaction rates, half life, reaction orders, catalysts, and activation energy.

In this conservation of energy worksheet, students read about the law of conservation of energy and about energy distribution. They answer three critical thinking questions about what the law of conservation of energy means to us for...

In this filling up worksheet, students calculate the E85 per gasoline-gallon equivalent price to the E85 price per gallon to complete a chart of "alternative fuel". They use the data along with the price per gallon of gasoline to plot...

In this unit conversion activity, students solve 4 problems given a list of conversion factors for units of energy, power and flux.

Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students consider the plight of water as they consider water use and distribution. Students listen to an excerpt from The Well and consider...

Sixth graders observe the pond ecosystem. In this ecosystem lesson, 6th graders observe the organisms at the pond and create a poster that illustrates the pond.

Students research the history of honey and different products that come from honey.  In this bees and honey lesson, students review how honey is made, discuss ways people use honey, research the history of honey and its uses, create...

Sixth graders investigate ways rice is sold by creating a chart of the different rice foods. For this economics lesson, 6th graders examine their local food store and list at least 10 rice by-products in a class chart. Students discover...

Students explore photosynthesis. In this photosynthesis lesson, students label parts of photosynthesis and take notes. Students conduct experiments on leaves, make observations and record their findings.

Students investigate the differences between a land and aquatic ecosystem. They use the information in order to present it in an assessment. There are target questions that can be used to guide research, lead a classroom discussion, or...

Environmental explorers create an experiment related to ponds and then present their finding to the class. This resource is extremely open-ended. It needs more concrete objectives and procedures for meeting them.

In this food web instructional activity, students create a food web matrix and answer short answer questions about the food chain according to the matrix. Students complete 7 short answer questions.

In this food web relationships learning exercise, students click on the links to learn about the food web relationships in the wetlands and answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 8 questions total.

Middle schoolers identify ecological elements and their factors on species, populations and food webs. They analyze ecosystems for these elements and research how these factors influence species survival rate. Predictions on conditions...