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Migration

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore migration using the Internet and several pre-chosen websites. In this animal migration lesson students divide into groups and complete a lab activity. 
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Teeter Totter

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore the two types of spotted sandpipers. They create a puppet show using the spotted sandpiper from Puerto Rico and the spotted sandpiper from Alaska. Students research the habitats of the two sandpipers.
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Rubber Gardens

For Teachers K - 8th
Students recycle discarded automobile tires and create gardening sites for limited space areas.
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Grizzly Habitat

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students find areas on playground where they would live if they were a grizzly bear, share their reasons for their choice, talk about habitat areas, and choose their sites again, based upon new information.
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Changing Perspectives on the Japanese Internment Experiment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils discover the characteristics of Japanese internment during World War II. They discuss racist policies and use the internet to gather information to write their own version of history. They write essays from different points of...
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Teaching About Asia; Freeman Seminar

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students integrate the study of photography and Eastern Culture for the purpose of increasing artistic expression. They produce high quality photographs in conjunction with conducting research with meaningful writing produced with the...
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Geese and Sandhill Cranes of Nebraska

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars gather information on the geese and cranes found in Nebraska. Students explore ways they can help save their habitats. Also, young scholars use additional general information they connect artwork to their research topic.
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Arbor Day Across the United States

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students perform research about hardiness zones used to guide planting. They read a hardiness zone color-key map and create their own color-key maps to show when different states celebrate Arbor Day.
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Com-Post With Us?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students discuss the importance of reducing, recycling and reusing materials to help the environment. As a class, they create a worm bin and observe how it turns material in to compost. They use the internet to research the...
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Presenting Ecology through Rodent Control

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars discuss and explore an ecological problem regarding rodent populations.  In this investigative lesson students work in teams, research a problem and present their findings to the class. 
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Save the Earth: It's Everyone's Home

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore how recycling helps save trees and protect the environment. For this environmental concern lesson, students color a handout of animals that live in forests. Students discuss how recycling paper can save trees and set up...
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Pond Animals During The Seasons

For Teachers K
Students interact with a CD Rom to examine pond life. In this pond life lesson, students access a CD Rom entitled "Sammy's Science House CD Rom" in order to see pond life during the different season of the year. They study the associated...
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Children's March Teacher's Guide, Activity 1

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Young scholars study how political movements involve students as well as adults. They discover that young scholars of all ages have the power to make a difference in the world.
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Planet of Plenty

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine a small piece of land to determine the diversity of life on Earth. They role play as visitors from outer space seeing life on Earth for the first time. They measure and observe their plots while working in small groups....
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Houses and the People They Shelter

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students examine different homes and shelters across cultures and time periods. In this Houses and the People They Shelter lesson, students draw conclusions about society and culture according to the features of their dwellings. Students...
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Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes

For Teachers K
Students, through observation of crickets, recognize and use proper names for human and insect body parts. They compare and contrast parts of human and insect body parts.
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Think Safe! Be Safe!

For Teachers K
Students predict, observe, and explain how pillbugs, grasshoppers, stink bugs, and humans stay safe and protect themselves.
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Boy Cricket Girl Cricket

For Teachers 1st
First graders differentiate between (adult) male and female crickets through observations, counts, and drawings of crickets.
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Arthropods at

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students 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.
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Insect Investigator

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine and identify common insects. They observe these insects in their environment and keep track of how many they see. They use magnifying glasses and special hats to get into the role of an inspector.
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Working with Willows

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore their sense of touch and discover why the sense of touch is important to us and to how we observe and identify our world.
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Zen Gardens

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners study the design elements and symbolism of Japanese gardens through a hands-on lesson in Zen Garden design.
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars discuss their prior knowledge of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Using the internet, they research the personal, political and economic influences that made an impact on the expedition. They also discover how the...
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Recycling: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students journal information regarding recycling from previous research. They use Microsoft Word to write their entries regarding recycling that is used in oral and video presentations. They visit "Green School" sites on the Internet to...

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