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Modeling River Delta FormationWhat effects does moving water have on land surfaces? Model the process of delta formation with a piece of gutter, sand, and a pan of water in this activity. Get the details.
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Invasion!Invasion!
Engage life science students by investigating a fascinating topic: invasive species. Here’s a lesson plan outline to help you get started. Based on the KWL chart, it guides you through 4 days of invasive species activities that introduce the topic, guide research, and culminate in a research project.
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Your Guide to Meteor ShowersWhat is a meteor? Is it a collection of shooting stars, small comets, or something different? Get the details in this brief guide.
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Solar Cell MisconceptionsAll of your students have seen photovoltaic solar cells used in a variety of ways; however, students may have misconceptions in understanding what influences solar cell output. This activity sets the record straight and explores how ambient temperature and the angle of illumination can affect solar cell output in volts.
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Water Quality AwarenessUse this engaging activity to increase student awareness of the current state of global water quality and availability.
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Understanding Unfamiliar Units: What Is a Light Year?Here's an activity that gets your students moving while they practice measuring units. By putting time and distance traveled into units students can directly relate to, the abstract concept of the light year is more easily understood.
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Build a Maintenance-Free EcosystemThe Carolina™ Minipond Ecosystem Kit has everything needed to easily establish a vibrant, maintenance-free community of microscopic pond critters in your classroom.
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Teaching with Ecosystem AquariumsBy creating and maintaining an aquarium ecosystem in the classroom, students can understand the web of relationships that link organisms to one another, and they can develop a growing sensitivity to living things and what they need to survive.
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Student Earth and Environmental Science
Laboratory Safety Agreement
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Infographic - Ecology: The Study of the Place We Live
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The Ups and Downs of Weather
Human Impacts: How Can Our Impact Be Assessed?
The Composition and Age of Stars
Modeling River Delta Formation
What effects does moving water have on land surfaces? Model the process of delta formation with a piece of gutter, sand, and a pan of water in this activity. Get the details.
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An Innovative Model System for Teaching DNA Replication
Looking for a DNA model set that is easy to assemble, durable, and easy to understand for students and teachers alike? Then check out our DNA Synthesis Set.
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Invasion!
Invasion!
Engage life science students by investigating a fascinating topic: invasive species. Here’s a lesson plan outline to help you get started. Based on the KWL chart, it guides you through 4 days of invasive species activities that introduce the topic, guide research, and culminate in a research project.
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AP® Environmental Science: Population Growth Curve Analysis
Students identify types of growth curves and explain how a population is changing over time.
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Your Guide to Meteor Showers
What is a meteor? Is it a collection of shooting stars, small comets, or something different? Get the details in this brief guide.
View »
Solar Cell Misconceptions
All of your students have seen photovoltaic solar cells used in a variety of ways; however, students may have misconceptions in understanding what influences solar cell output. This activity sets the record straight and explores how ambient temperature and the angle of illumination can affect solar cell output in volts.
View »
Water Quality Awareness
Use this engaging activity to increase student awareness of the current state of global water quality and availability.
View »
Understanding Unfamiliar Units: What Is a Light Year?
Here's an activity that gets your students moving while they practice measuring units. By putting time and distance traveled into units students can directly relate to, the abstract concept of the light year is more easily understood.
View »
Build a Maintenance-Free Ecosystem
The Carolina™ Minipond Ecosystem Kit has everything needed to easily establish a vibrant, maintenance-free community of microscopic pond critters in your classroom.
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Water Pollution Awareness Demonstration
This demonstration is an engagement activity that increases students’ awareness of the current state of global water quality.
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Teaching with Ecosystem Aquariums
By creating and maintaining an aquarium ecosystem in the classroom, students can understand the web of relationships that link organisms to one another, and they can develop a growing sensitivity to living things and what they need to survive.
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Using the Concepts Associated with Providing Clean Drinking Water to Teach Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Introducing students to the issues associated with safe drinking water is a great real-world, interdisciplinary way to teach science.
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