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Mark that Map & Topo Map Questions

By Birch Nature

This activity is designed to have several different student groups each examining a different laminated topographic quadrangle map to practice reading and understanding this type of map. Students mark the important parts of the map, such as scale,

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Environment, Geography

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

$4.00

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Evolution Same-Old-Story Activity

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This two part activity helps students practice understanding the mechanism of natural selection and evolution while examining the adaptations of interesting animals from around the world.Part 1 gives students the formula for how evolution through

Subjects:

Science, Biology, Environment

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

$4.00

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Mud Pie Mysteries - Creating Soil Samples & Hand Texturing

By Birch Nature

In this lesson, student groups create "mystery mud pies" - soil samples of different textural categories - by using pure particle size samples, mass balances, and applied math. They then rotate through the other groups' samples, practicing their

Subjects:

Applied Math, Earth Sciences, Environment

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

$5.00

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Sorting Animals by Dentition Commonalities

By Birch Nature

This activity helps students review both dentition formulas for mammal skull identification and the methods for taxonomic classification by creating dentition flashcards and then blind-sorting them (formulas up, names down) to find commonalities in

Subjects:

Science, Biology, Environment

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

$3.00

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Group Work Rotations & Station Signs

By Birch Nature

This will guide you and your students through rotations for up to five groups and five stations at a time. Each part of the document is intended to be copy-able so that you can hand out the rotation schedules to older students (no more: "If you're

Subjects:

Classroom Management

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Posters, Task Cards, Centers

$5.00

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Mental Stretching & Conversion Factor Activities

By Birch Nature

This is a different take on the numbers that are important in our daily lives. It helps students recognize common numerical phrases and add the conversion factors for length, area, volume, and mass - in both standard and metric - to the numerical

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Applied Math, Science

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities

$2.00

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Species "Scattergories"

By Birch Nature

This is a great game to stretch students' animal knowledge or to review what they've learned (and remind them that they know more than they think they do). All the teacher needs to do is pick a random letter before changing to the next slide and

Subjects:

Science, Biology, Environment

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Games

$4.00

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Sorting Animals by Track Commonality

By Birch Nature

Students can review mammal track identification characteristics by creating track description flash cards and then sorting them by toes, claws, and track pattern. This ends with a wrap up discussion reviewing the characteristics of different

Subjects:

Science, Biology, Environment

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

$2.00

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Webquest: Online Map Scavenger Hunt

By Birch Nature

This webquest has students honing their searching skills for results that meet the criteria laid out in the worksheet. I have pre-searched for all of the maps currently on the worksheet to ensure that they are readily available, but I encourage

Subjects:

Environment, Geography

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Worksheets, Webquests, Independent Work Packet

$3.00

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Top Ten Ways I Can Help Animals Project

By Birch Nature

This project allows students to create a communications product of their choosing in order to educate others on simple actions a person can do to help save all animals or one particular species of animals. The students must do internet research

Subjects:

Science, Biology, Environment

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Bulletin Board Ideas

$3.00

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Animal Anatomy Adaptations Poster Project

By Birch Nature

This poster project has students look at the various anatomical systems of a creature of their choice to examine the adaptations that make that creature the most fit for its environment.

Subjects:

Science, Biology

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Projects, Posters

$3.00

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Critical Thinking Questions for the Introduction to Entangled Life (Fungi)

By Birch Nature

Entangled Life, by Merlin Sheldrake, is an excellent book about fungi and the HUGE role they play in life on Earth. The introduction to this book gives an intriguing overview of the amazing abilities of fungi and how essential they are (in ways we

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Environment, Close Reading

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Worksheets, Independent Work Packet

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Critical Reading: Introduction to Seeds, by Thor Hanson

By Birch Nature

This assignment teaches students to keep their brains on when they are reading informational material. The questions require the students to look up words or information they don't know, to do math where it answers an obvious question, and to

Subjects:

Biology, Earth Sciences, Close Reading

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Internet Activities

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Soil Texture Calculations

By Birch Nature

These calculations are real-world field work for natural resources managers and soils professionals. Students practice calculating percentages based on the heights of layers of sand, silt, and clay within a soil texture tube, dividing the height of

Subjects:

Applied Math, Other (Math), Earth Sciences

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts, Homework

$1.50

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Plant Parts Investigation

By Birch Nature

This hands-on activity can be accomplished with potted plants of any type or size, in any season. If you're in an area that needs to stay clean, students can un-fold paper grocery bags to use as placemats. When students repot the plants, it's

Subjects:

Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Laboratory

$2.00

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Coordinates Practice - Latitude & Longitude for the Natural Wonders of the World

By Birch Nature

This worksheet helps students get used to writing proper coordinates by giving them 15 different Natural Wonders to web search and record. It also helps students to begin some analytical thinking about how the latitude and longitude numerical

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Geography

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Worksheets, Internet Activities, Webquests

$2.00

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Sedimentary Rocks Presentation

By Birch Nature

An in depth introduction to the formation of sedimentary rocks, their types and characteristics, and resources they contain. Download the Sedimentary Rocks - Notes Copy version for already prepared guided notes that can be printed out at two slides

Subjects:

Science, Earth Sciences, Environment

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

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Career Exploration - Fill in the Green Word

By Birch Nature

Since there's a way to make just about every product and process on Earth more environmentally friendly, there are usually jobs in every field dedicated to greening it up! This career exploration web search has students looking for the green jobs

Subjects:

Career and Technical Education

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Internet Activities, Webquests, Independent Work Packet

$1.50

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What's Your Ology? Web Search

By Birch Nature

This is a career or path of study exploration intended to help students discover that their interests may have whole fields of study dedicated to them. Students start with areas of interest, add an "-ology", and explore the combined term or related

Subjects:

Science, Career and Technical Education

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Internet Activities, Webquests, Independent Work Packet

$1.50

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The Biggest Little Farm Content & Critical Thinking Questions Worksheet

By Birch Nature

This is a sheet of critical thinking questions that students can fill out as they watch the documentary film The Biggest Little Farm. This documentary is an excellent introduction to a soils unit, giving students both large and small scale views of

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Environment, Earth Day

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Study Guides, Worksheets, Movie Guides

$3.00

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2023 Conservationist of the Year, Southern Maryland Audubon Society

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2006 M.Ed. Environmental Education, Nova Southeastern University 1999 B.S. Environmental Science, Virginia Tech Certified Master Naturalist in Virginia and Maryland

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