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Make Your Own Garden

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore gardening. For this Quiet in the Garden lesson plan, students read the picture book by Aliki and extend the lesson by taking part in up to 5 hands-on activities.
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Planting Phil's Garden

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study how to care for plants. In this plant care lesson, students observe a plant care demonstration and examine flowers using their senses. They listen to Janet Wakefield's, What If Everybody Gave? They complete a community...
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Globe Skills Lesson 5

For Students 6th - 11th
In this map skills worksheet, students read a text selection about locations during the American Revolution and then respond to 8 fill in the blank questions.
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Planting Phil's Garden

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore gardening. In this agriculture lesson, students plan and plant seeds according to the procedure modeled by a "master gardener." Flowers are distributed at a local retirement home.
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Ancient China Test

For Students 6th - 9th
In this geography and history test learning exercise, students respond to 25 short answer and multiple choice questions about the history and geography of ancient China.
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Life Cycle of Brassica Plants: Planting Seeds

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore botany by participating in a calendar class activity. In this plant observation lesson, students examine a diagram of a Brassica plant and identify its anatomy before planting their own seeds and viewing the changes over...
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Conservation Collage

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify many different ways the environment is polluted, and determine ways to prevent pollution. They create a collage of pictures describing how the earth becomes polluted.
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FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Identify agricultural products grown in each region of the country. Discuss how geography affects what is grown or raised in a particular area.1. Hand out a copy of the two activity sheets "Food From Sea to Shining Sea" to each student....
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Chemicals in Your Life

For Students 9th - 12th
In this chemicals worksheet, high schoolers fill in 61 blanks of statements comparing the chemicals used in farming and the chemicals found in medicines and food.
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Science Excursion: Cover Mapping Land

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Pupils study remotely sensed images and topographic maps to classify land cover types in their watershed area. They take samples in the watershed area to interpret the images.
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The Trail of a Snack Food

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify some of their favorite snack foods. Using this information, they discover the resources needed to produce the food. In groups, they research different alternatives to make their favorite food in order to protect the...
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Think Green

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students experience and practice compositing and recycling through hands-on-activities. They distinguish between which items from their trash can be recycled, composted and reused. The process for making recycled paper is also covered in...
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Trash Disposal Choices

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate the use of landfills. In this landfill use and recycling lesson, students discuss what happens to trash and junk. They review the types of trash before categorizing a list of items they throw away each day. They...
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Don't Trust Your Eyes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars brainstorm a list of possible actions that they could do to protect the water resources from pollution. They create hypotheses and conclusions by completing experiments and observing different pollutants.
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Water Pollution Lesson Plan: Don't Trust Your Eyes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students develop a list of actions they could perform that would protect our water resources from pollution. They formulate hypotheses, conduct experiments and draw conclusions about actual pollutants found in our water supply.
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The Macaroni Lab

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students are given an introduction to the "ecosystem", what factors make up an ecosystem (biotic factors, abiotic factors, food chain, producers, consumers and decomposers) and how those factors interact.
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Where to shop?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study a topic of an environmental nature that is relevant to them (as individuals) on a local level, but with global implications. They consider whether their family's shopping habits have any lasting effects on the environment.
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Using Land

For Students 7th - 12th
In this land usage worksheet, students read about farmers in Bolivia are using a system called raised-bed agriculture to feed its people. Students complete 2 short answer questions based on what they read.
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The Principles Of Composting

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students put items in a plastic bag and watch the effects of composting. While completing the experiment, students answer questions and ask permission to start their own compost pile at home.
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Archaeobotany

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students study pictures of seeds and the conditions in which they grow during their study of archaeobotany. They infer ancient plant use by looking at archaeobotanical samples. They determine the change of plant use by interpreting a...
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Compost Columns

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this unit of lessons, middle schoolers examine the role of compost columns and recycling. They create a KWL chart about garbage in Chicago. They also examine life cycles and packaging of everyday products.
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What's The Flow?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners examine urban runoff and identify peak flows. They examine causes for different flow rates, and complete worksheets and a graph.
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Turn On A Light And Do Your Own Revegetation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners use electricity and plant a seed to observe the process when coal is the major fuel source to produce electricity. They use the packet of native seeds to experiment with revegetation.
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Compost Tag

For Teachers K - 5th
Students identify biodegradable items. In this environmental activity, students participate in a game of tag. A student's name is called out along with a biodegradable item and the student is tossed a ball.

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