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Ocean Careers Investigation
Pupils gather information about different careers of the Ocean Adventures expedition team. In this career studies instructional activity students work in groups, read an interview with an Ocean Adventurer, and see the importance of...
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Data Analysis: bird habitats in rice farms
Fifth graders make a graph and write an essay to interpret the data of birds that take advantage of habitats near rice farms. In this data lesson plan, 5th graders calculate the information given to them and interpret it in an essay form.
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Design and Build Lego Cars
Students build cars out of legos. In this building lesson plan, students can also use Lego Mindstorms robotic equipment to add engines.
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Minimize the Effects of Fire
Learners explore environmental safety by reading assigned text in class. In this fires lesson, students discuss the benefits and negative aspects of lighting a fire near a campground. Learners list other ways to avoid leaving an impact...
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Outta Gas
Students explore practical problems that are related to scuba diving. In this oxygen lesson students complete a lab activity.
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Let's Get Specific
High schoolers explore how different species thrive. In this speciation instructional activity students research and complete a lab activity.
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Loggerhead Turtle Fun Facts
Pupils study loggerhead turtles and learn facts about reptiles. In this turtles lesson plan, students read information about loggerhead turtles and study their various sections and characteristics. Pupils then make their own sea turtle.
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Milkweed Monitoring
Ninth graders study milkweed and see how it is effected by ozone. In this air pollution lesson students complete a lab activity that includes data analysis.
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War and International Law America’s Foreign Policy: Military Intervention
High schoolers analyze America's foreign policy. In this military intervention lesson plan, students listen to their instructor present a lecture on U.S. military interventions since 1989. High schoolers respond to discussion questions...
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Reading Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
Students explore Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie. In this reading comprehension instructional activity, students answer questions and define vocabulary words before, during, and after reading the book Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie.
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Earth's Hydrologic Cycle
Students examine the water cycle. In this hydrologic cycle lesson, students follow the provided procedures to demonstrate the how water moves around the planet through the dynamics of the water cycle.
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Where Did My Lunch Come From? A U.S. Regional Tour
Learners explore the regions from which their food comes. In this social studies instructional activity, students identify the different agricultural products that are found in the major regions of the United States. Learners create a...
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The Birth of a Rocky Mountain City and Railroad: Georgetown and the Loop Railroad
Young scholars explore the evolution of a town. In this social studies lesson, students discuss why Georgetown and the Georgetown Loop Railroad were developed and discuss life as a prospector. Young scholars write a letter explaining...
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Rivers that Flow from the Continental Divide: The Journey of Two Rivers
Students explore river routes. In this social studies lesson, students trace the route of a river from its source and discuss the Continental Divide. Students draw the route the river takes and name the states it flows through. Students...
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Hide and Seek
Why do certain animals look the way they do? It could be because they have developed camouflage. Kids can read up on camouflage and mimicry and then respond to five questions related to the content of the passage.
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Bean Bag on My Head
The world is a very different place to those who are blind. That is why it is so important to have your kids with visual impairments explore the world in many different ways. For this activity, a bean bag is placed on the child's head,...
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Science: A Tree for All Seasons
Students observe trees in their schoolyard and record the seasonal changes by drawing pictures. In this ongoing instructional activity, they discover the names of the seasons and place green paper leaves on a paper tree in the classroom,...
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Introduction to Remote Sensing
Students view, discuss, and compare different types of maps produced from remote sensing data. They use image processing software to analyze and enhance sea surface temperature maps.
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Taro
Students locate taro growing areas on a map and how it got there, explain intercultural contact and how taro has been adapted in Hawaii and trace human/taro migration to Hawaii.
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Three Dimensional Geology
Students use rocks and fossils to interpret the geology of an area. They use prior knowledge and make recommendations about where to build a subdivision based on the rocks.
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Coal: More Than Meets the Eye!
Students participate in a hands-on simulation to help them explain that coal resources are deposited unevenly between the earth's surface and under the ground.
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Geo-Exchange Box
Students send a box of clues to a class in another Oregon community along with hints to help them study about their community. Students research their own geographic area, determine what they send in their box, then collect and assemble...
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Exploring Our Watershed System
Students examine how watershed systems are made up, and visit the Susquehanna watershed system and map out the system. They evaluate the order of watercourses in their area.
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The Path of Pollution
Students follow the path of pollution from the Chernobyl accident. Students name and locate countries where radiation traveled to, describe how air pollution travels from one area to another, and seqence the travel of radiation in...