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6th grade environment centers for Microsoft Word
Make a Cloud in a Bottle Lab!
This lab allows students to make their OWN cloud in a bottle. The lab tells them how to change the pressure in the bottle which will result in cloud formation inside the bottle if the lab procedure is followed correctly!
The lab includes questions that they complete while they do the lab.
There is an attached completed answer sheet for the lab as well!
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6th - 10th
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Plant Sort: Flowering & Non-Flowering
1. Laminate and cut the cards above (first 10 are non-flowering, second 10 are flowering)2. Glue sorting mat onto front of envelope/file folder3. Decide which way to play! a. Whole Group: give each student a card and spread out around room, then say ‘go’ and have students find pairs (2 students both having flowering OR both having non-flowering plant) b. Partners: Matching Gam-: flip cards upside down, take turns selecting 2,
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2nd - 12th
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Food Chain or Food Web Word Search or Wordsearch
30 words scattered in all directions including diagonal and backwards. Ecosystem, decomposers, tertiary, primary, secondary, prey, producers, energy pyramid, autotrophs, eagle, carnivore, consumers, herbivore, photosynthesis, scavengers, trophic levels, food web etc....
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3rd - 12th
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Tornado and Hurricane Mini Lab
Students will get a hands on experience by creating hurricanes in a bowl and a tornado in a bottle. Students will be required to answer questions to farther deepen their understanding of these natural disasters.
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4th - 7th
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Redwood Trees: Giants of the Forest Lesson + 16 T/F and 5 Short Answer Questions
This lesson titled "Redwoods: Giants of the Forest" is one and a half pages of informational text followed by two pages of true and false questions along with short answer questions. The lesson explains: what gives them their red-brown color; why the trees are so huge in size; why they are so old; their height and which 3 trees are the tallest; how thick their bark is; what makes them fire and insect resistant; why they were valuable for lumber; why the goverment passed laws to protect the trees
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Biography RACHEL CARSON, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST w/ 20 Reading Comprehension Qs
This lesson is called “Rachel Carson: Scientist and Writer Who Sparked the Environmental Movement.” It describes the life and career of Rachel Carson who watched as more and more chemicals were developed. It didn’t seem to her that anyone was thinking of the consequences. Useful insects as well as harmful ones were destroyed.Plus harmful chemicals accumulated in the soil, water and in the animals. Rachel Carson saw the danger and then issued a warning. The warning came in her book Silent Sp
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4th - 7th
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Water and Air Pollution Test
There are 10 items of water pollution = 1 page
There are 10 items of air pollution = 1 page
The test consist of Vocabulary, grammar, causes, effects and conservation.
This Presentation is related to:
1. Light Energy Test/Worksheet
2. Light Energy Reading Scinece
3. Energy PowerPoint Presentation
4. Energy Test/worksheet
5.Energy Test
6. Heat Energy Powerpoint Presentation
7. Heat Energy Reading Science
8. Earth Day Reading Science
9. Recycle Worksheet G.3-6
10. Martin Luther King,
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3rd - 8th
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Data Practice: Interpreting and Creating
This packet gives students great practice in analyzing and interpreting data tables, charts, and graphs, as well as creating them. The practice is rigorous, and builds a solid foundation of data interpretation, analyses, and graphing skills. These are critical skill sets for students to have in life - data literacy is huge in society, politics, economic, science and more! They are also important skills for students to have on all EoG tests.
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5th - 8th
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Winds and Convection: Explain the Diagram
This activity includes a series of scientific visuals and diagrams about vocabulary and concepts regarding convection and winds: Air Pressure, Convection, Global Winds, Local Winds, Land Breezes, Sea Breezes, and the Jet Stream. The diagrams prompt students for vocabulary, explanations and questions. Having students explain the diagrams is a creative way to both building conceptual understanding and/or assessing understanding. The visuals are more engaging for students than basic vocabulary a
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5th - 9th
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Recycling Club/ Green Team: Lesson Plans, Activities and Resources
Take the hassle out of planning! Recycling Club/Green Team lesson plans, activities and resources for a 10-week cycle!
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K - 8th
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Adapted Reading-Animals and the Layers of the Rainforest
This product that you are about to download is designed for Special Education students who are autistic, or have a very difficult time reading. This product includes pictures to various important words throughout the reading. This will help students to visualize the information that they are reading. An activity that I will seek to add is to have my students identify the animals that can be found in each layer of the rainforest using a t-chart or some form of graphic organizer.
UPDATE: The gra
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PreK - 11th
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Micro Ecosystems Lab (Ecosystem in a Bottle)
Have you ever grown an ecosystem in a bottle? Students will plant an ecosystem in a beaker or jar, and investigate how different chemicals or variables affect the environment. This is an excellent project for studying sustainability or ecosystems, and can easily be modified with materials you have at hand.Students will:- learn about variables and control- build and observe their own ecosystem- collect and graph data from the experiment- answer analysis questionsMaterials needed:250 mL beaker or
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: Biology Lab Bundle
Water Filtration Lab
In this hands-on investigating, students experiment with different emergency water filtration techniques. The activity should be preceded and/or followed by discussions about worldwide water contamination and the shrinking availability of fresh water. This activity provides students with a sense of real meaningful work and responsibility in working towards solutions to real world issues.
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5th - 9th
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Nonrenewable and Renewable Resources
This is an Adobe Spark Page to help quiz your students on nonrenewable and renewable resources by involving movement! Simply copy and paste the link in the word document into your web browser!
K-ESS3-3 Earth and Human Activity
Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.*
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2nd - 6th
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Rocks and Rock Cycle Unit
Rocks and Rock Cycle Unit
Day 1: Digging for Clues (Rock identification)
Day 2: Favorite Ingredients (Minerals)
Day 3: Made by Fire (Igneous Rocks)
Day 4: Settle Down (Sedimentary Rocks)
Day 5: Pressured Rocks (Metamorphic Rocks)
Day 6: Rockin’ Along (Rock Cycle)
Day 7: Rock Hunt (Review)
Day 8: Assessment
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3rd - 6th
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Pollution Reading Comprehension
This reading comprehension is a great overview, introduction, review or reinforcer about pollution - human and natural sources. The article is written in friendly and engaging language and includes a diagram. The article is about a page and includes standards-aligned comprehension and analyses questions. The article can be used for project research, literacy groups, individual DEAR or homework reinforcement.
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Laffy Taffy Landform/ Stress Types Lab
This is a GREAT way to illustrate types of stress and how they form certain landforms! And at the end, students get to eat the candy!!
Note: I did learn this lab from a workshop, but I created this document on my own.
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2nd - 6th
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Environmental Issues in Latin America
This packet addresses the environmental issues prevalent in Latin America with an emphasis on identifying cause/effect/solution. It provides informational text on air pollution in Mexico City, Deforestation of the Amazon Rain Forest, and oil-related pollution in Venezuela. Students will show comprehension by answering multiple choice questions and open-ended response as well as completing cause/effect/solution diagrams.
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5th - 8th
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Pollution Detectors Lab
In this hands-on investigation, students build pollution detectors to collect different types of particulate matter. Students can choose places around the school, community and their homes to place the detectors in order to analyze the pollution in these different places. This is an engaging and purposeful activity for students to analyze local issues of pollution and connect these to larger global air quality issues.
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5th - 10th
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Rock Lab (Basic Identification & Classification)
Rocks are set up in stations around the room with numbers and letters for example, 1B - granite
Students will go around from rock to rock for about one minute or so for each rock.
They record the number & letter of the rock (under the correct classification: igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic), then they identify if it is intrusive/extrusive, clastic/organic, foliated or unfoliated and EXPLAIN WHY.
This is one of the first labs to work on identification after students have practiced
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6th - 8th
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Bird Beak Adaptations Lab
A hands on way to discover the adaptations of various bird beak types. Students love this game of picking up beans, noodles and other materials using forks, chop sticks and tweezers.This one is a winner! Kids love it!
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1st - 12th
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Skittlefish Natural Selection Lab
A simple lab that uses skittles, called "skittlefish", and colored paper to illustrate the concepts of variation, adaptations, and natural selection. Students "hunt" the skittlefish and drive natural selection, causing the species to change. Students can see for themselves that no individual skittlefish changes colors, yet the species as a whole changes color. Goes well with my free Speciation google slides presentation - I have used both in one class period.
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6th - 12th
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Create a hurricane Project
A combination of resources for teaching about hurricanes.
Includes:
1. Instructional videos about categories, how they're formed, how to prepare for a hurricane, how houses are built to withstand hurricane fprce winds etc
2. A documentary about Hurricane Katrina
3. A project that allows students to apply concepts from the videos to design and construct hurricane-proof houses with paper, straws and tape (using math concepts of area & volume). Students test their hurricane-proof houses with
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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SCIENCE WRITING/ RESEARCH PROJECT/CONTEST: URBAN FARMING
Teachers: This project is good for a botany contest. See what the students design and create for the future of urban agriculture!
The Earth's population is large, and growing and science will lead the way on creativity, and expanding the output of farm production!
Have a great time as students talk about their designs, and hang them on a bulletin board. Perhaps, a few prizes might be exciting.
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Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education
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