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Environment simulations for Microsoft PowerPoint
Global and Local Convection PowerPoint! ClimateRegions/Winds/Currents/Land&Sea
This PowerPoint explains how convection affects weather patterns and climate.Students must know that because warm air near Earth’s surface rises and then cools as it goes up, a convection current is set up in the atmosphere. There are three atmospheric convection areas in the northern hemisphere and three in the southern hemisphere: arctic region, temperate region and tropical region. Students will learn the wind belts located in that region: polar winds, trade winds and westerlies. Colorful gr
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
The Water Cycle Powerpoint! Colored & Interactive!
Students will learn the stages of the water cycle through this colorful, kid friendly PowerPoint. The steps included are: Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Transpiration, Runoff, Groundwater and Surface water flow. Students will fill in the blank using the notes guide posted in the store. Colorful photos and easy to read from student desks. Web animation link is included! Although this animation is not created by myself I use it every year & usually have students write down the defin
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Nitrogen Cycle Interactive Tutorial
This interactive PowerPoint tutorial contains 85 interactive slides that covers the topic of the Nitrogen Cycle. In this tutorial, students will learn how nitrogen cycles through the environment in series of processes (nitrogen fixation, nitrification, denitrification, assimilation, ammonification). At the end, there is a 10 question quiz to check for understanding. This is NOT a typical main idea/bullet point PowerPoint presentation. This is very much an interactive/multimedia slideshow where
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Urbanization Simulation
A simulation game to recreate the growth of a city. The game gives students a one minute timer to add a list of things to a blank map for every 10 year period of growth beginning in 1843 and ending in 2003. The simulation is meant to be frustrating and difficult so that students really get an idea of the many issues that can arise when a city develops quickly. The city used in this powerpoint is Portland, Oregon, but you could easily change the city to be the one in which you live or another cit
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Airmasses & Fronts PowerPoint! Great Animation included!
Students will summarize the relationship of the movement of air masses and frontal boundaries to storms. Students must know that the interactions between air masses and fronts result in various weather conditions. Students will take brief notes about air masses & fronts then complete a handout using this PowerPoint and the website http://www.phschool.com/atschool/phsciexp/active_art/weather_fronts <----- preview this! Its great! You can download the Fronts and Airmasses handout from my s
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Fully Interactive Food Web Game
Teach or review food webs & food chains, with this exciting movement-based activity. Students will assume the roles of up to 10 different organisms in a food web and play the game to determine who eats whom. The file is fully editable so that you can add your own organisms. This food web game has been a hit with students in classrooms and with adults at education conferences.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
NGSS:
5-PS3-1
Google Slides: Tragedy of the Commons
I am selling a Google Slides presentation that I made (as well as a warm-up activity and debriefing questions) that helps facilitate the simulation/game: "The Tragedy of the Commons Game". The game lesson plan and directions can be found for free at various websites through a simple Google Search. The free lesson plan does not include a slide deck. I find that the slide deck makes implementing the simulation much easier. However, the game can be played just by using the free lesson plans found o
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Grades:
9th - 12th, Adult Education
Photosynthesis Review - Touching On Photosynthesis - An Interactive Board Game
"Touching On Photosynthesis" is an interactive walkthrough of photosynthesis that takes place in a Thylakoid located in the Chloroplast of a cell. Players take turns rolling dice to collect sunlight and water which is used to charge electrons in Photosystems II and I which moves hydrogen ions into the Lumen and makes NADPH. Players use the hydrogen ions located in the Lumen to power the ATP Synthase to turn ADP into ATP. Players also use sunlight to charge the electrons in Photosystem I to turn
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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Asynchronous- Ecosystem Interactions Unit- 24 lessons
This is a complete unit on California's Integrated Segment 1- Ecosystem interactions.This unit is based around the phenomena of Declining Salmon Fall Runs in California's Central Valley. This is a complete unit with teacher instructions for 24 lessons, assessment rubrics, and a summative assessment.This unit focuses on the following topics: Population dynamics, Trophic Structure, Trophic Cascades, Human impact on Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Social Justice issues related to Human Impact on
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Grades:
9th - 12th
CCSS:
NGSS:
HS-LS2-3
, HS-LS2-7
, HS-LS2-5
, HS-ESS3-2
, HS-LS2-4
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Erosion and Weathering PowerPoint and Simulation
This bundle contains an introductory PowerPoint, directions, and a student recording sheet for an experiment with wind erosion at the beach. Students are asked a real-world question: How does dune grass affect sand dune erosion? Then they go through all the steps of the scientific method, including graphing their results. The final phase is conclusion and application.
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Types of Pollution
Teach your students about the different types of pollution - water, air, and land. With real life videos depicting each type, discussions of their effects, and a virtual simulation will immerse students in what pollution is like.
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
, 5-ESS3-1
, MS-ESS3-5
, MS-ESS3-4
, MS-ESS3-3
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Global and Local Convection PowerPoint! Climate Region, Winds, Currents, Breezes
This PowerPoint explains how convection affects weather patterns and climate.Students must know that because warm air near Earth’s surface rises and then cools as it goes up, a convection current is set up in the atmosphere. There are three atmospheric convection areas in the northern hemisphere and three in the southern hemisphere: arctic region, temperate region and tropical region. Students will learn the wind belts located in that region: polar winds, trade winds and westerlies. Colorful gr
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Airmasses & Fronts Notes Guide // Animation!
**Actual document is not formatted like preview picture, all four fronts included with a picture** Use this handout as scaffold/guided notes along with Airmasses and fronts PowerPoint. It is to be used with the animations found at http://www.phschool.com/atschool/phsciexp/active_art/weather_fronts also! Students fill in the blank with one of two options based on the front featured.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Find identical animals
The game is designed to work with children 2-3 years. We train attention. The child must identify two identical animals in the image.The child performs the task together with the adult, which allows to determine the correctness of the answer. The game consists of 12 slides.
Grades:
PreK - 1st
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EVOLUTION: Selection graphs POWERPOINT (disruptive, direction, stabilizing)
This is a power point I have create for selection graphs. It has the pictures of the graphs, examples of the graphs, and step by step showing the change in the selection for each graph. After each selection it has questions to do with white boards to assess if the students understand it. This goes well with the selection graphic organizer and graphs that are uploaded as well.
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Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
Food Web Simulator Student Response Sheet
Using the food web simulator from learner.org, students can run a simple food web, analyze results, and create their own unique food web. In addition, two sample results are included for students to analyze, using the NGSS CCCs and SPs. This product allow students to work independently or in small groups, allowing you to circulate throughout the classroom. This student response sheet that can be converted to a Google Slides presentation to keep everything digital! Check my store for the inst
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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Arctic Engineering Challenge
Students pretend they are participating in a program at the Nunavik Arctic Survival Training Center and must build their own shelter for the duration. This slideshow walks students through the engineering design process using real life examples and situations before culminating in a marshmallow igloo model building contest.
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Not Grade Specific
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
STEM: Fossil Flowers
Make your own trace fossils of plant materials! Use glue or Mod Podge on flagstone rocks or river rocks. Your students will love their very own "Fake Fossils"
Includes 3 posters of trace fossils:an amazing trilobite, a real shell in rock amonite and minerals that made a dendrite that looks like flowers.
A new and exciting craft for the 2018 "Libraries Rock"
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PreK - 2nd, Adult Education
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Also included in: STEM: Earth Science Bundle
Getting Excited about Soil Power Point
This is part of the Getting Excited about Soil series there is also a lesson plan that goes along with this Power Point. This power point just touches over the basics and is very short to keep the attention of the younger audiences. It is a great way to begin getting students interested in agriculture.
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Grades:
2nd - 7th
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