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5th grade environment laboratories for Microsoft Word
Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors Game
Very fun and engaging game/activity to help teach your students about Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors. Students will compete for "food" in this activity in order to determine the carrying capacity of the class. The worksheet comes with a pre-activity question and 3 post activity questions. Includes "food" cards and guidelines for teacher to use. Your students will enjoy this activity, while learning. Item is completely editable.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Ecology Bundle
Coriolis Effect Balloon Lab
The Coriolis Effect is a very challenging scientific concept to understand, and it is hard for kids to wrap their brains around it when it's so far removed from their classroom and lives. This hands-on lab activity allows students to model the Coriolis Effect - feel and see it happen right before their eyes. Students use balloons as the Earth and draw the winds as the balloon earths spin on their axis. They can see the Coriolis Effect happen and see the directions that the winds blow on both the
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5th - 9th
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Pollution - Groundwater Lab (Earth Science)
This is an Earth Science lab where students create a model of buried pollution to see the effects of water and draining on the pollution.
Materials needed:
plastic container
sand
Kool-aid
water
book (used to elevate the container)
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5th - 12th
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NGSS Assessment Tasks and Test Questions MS-LS2 Ecosystems Interactions
Great for distance or home learning! This bundled resource contains quality, EDITABLE sample assessment, test questions and performance tasks for the NGSS Middle School Life Science Performance Expectations MS-LS2 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics It includes 25 questions or tasks total for MS-LS2-1 through MS-LS2-5 only. The questions can be edited, copied and pasted into various forms of assessments to align to the NGSS. Ideas for differentiation, answer keys, and links to other o
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5th - 9th
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MS-LS2-2
, MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-5
, MS-LS2-4
, MS-LS2-1
Also included in: NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
What is a watershed? Hands on activity
I took this actual activity from 3 different sources. One was set for a demonstration, two were set for kids to do - one had one step and one had 2 steps.
To extend what was there, I took what was just the activity and changed into a hands on with questions and a map added to it and put it in student friendly written instructions instead of verbal instructions.
I am using this in an environmental science class that has freshmen to seniors. It is a very simple and cheap activity that really i
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5th - 12th
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Fossil Fuel Cookie Lab
Your teacher will provide you with a cookie. This cookie represents a land area that may contain deposits of coal (represented by raisins), oil (represented by pieces of nuts), or natural gas (represented by chocolate pieces). You will also be provided with a toothpick, which represents the mining and drilling equipment used in obtaining the coal, oil, and natural gas.
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5th - 10th
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Water Cycle Bag Experiment
Students will create the water cycle in a bag in groups. Worksheet is broken up into step by steps so that each child can participate in the project. After the students create the water cycle in bag, there are some questions for them to answer such as what do they think will happen to the water in the bag and what happened to the water in the bag after a few hours. Also I will be listing a PowerPoint with visuals for a step by step of what the students will need to do!
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Terrariums: Water Cycle & Greenhouse Effect Lab
In this hands-on, interactive experiment, students will build a terrarium in a soda bottle. In doing so, they will model the atmosphere, the greenhouse effect, and the water cycle. They will follow experimental procedures practicing all parts of the scientific method. The laboratory packet includes, pre-readings, pre questions, experimental procedures, observations and data, and follow-up questions. The end of the laboratory report connects the terrarium growing experience to agriculture sci
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5th - 9th
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NGSS Life Science Middle School Bundle of Activities Labs Lessons
This NGSS Next Generation Science Standards for Middle School Science is a life science bundle of all of my NGSS aligned life science worksheets, labs, activities, assessments and other resources combined into one product! These activities are sure to fit perfectly into your biology and/or ecology units and come at a bundled discount! It offers OVER A MONTH of lessons and activities! You will have access to over 360 pages of resources that are sure to engage and challenge your students! Simply p
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5th - 9th
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Populations Lab: Design a Study to Estimate the Size of a Population - NGSS
This activity proceeds as follows:1. Students brainstorm about why it is important to estimate the population of organisms2. Students learn how to estimate population using the “sampling” technique3. Students learn how to estimate population using the “mark and recapture” technique4. Students design a study to estimate a real population, and carry out their study.5. Extension Activity: Students read an article about the overfishing of Bluefin tuna, which is down to 4% of the population that it w
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
NGSS Assessment Tasks and Test Questions MS-LS2-5 Maintaining Biodoversity
NEW! This resource contains quality, EDITABLE sample NGSS assessment questions and performance tasks for the Life Science Performance Expectation MS-LS2-5. Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. It works for both in person and distance learning and includes 5 questions or tasks total which can be edited, copied and pasted into various forms of assessments to align to the NGSS. Links to other resources are also included!Use these sample questions
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5th - 9th
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MS-LS2-5
Climate Change Ice Core Lab
This activity is a short easy experiment to help your students understand how scientists know that the carbon dioxide levels have increased over the years. Day 1 of the lab consists of reading a letter from the Antarctic University Research Team asking your students for help in determining the level of Carbon Dioxide in an ice core sample. The next two days of the lab consist of your students working in partners determining the level of Carbon Dioxide in ice samples that were provided by the res
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4th - 12th
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HS-ESS3-5
, HS-ESS2-2
Also included in: Climate Change Unit Lab Bundle
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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NGSS Assessment Task and Test Questions MS-LS2-4 Change Affect Population
NEW! This resource contains quality, EDITABLE sample NGSS assessment questions and performance tasks for the Life Science Performance Expectation MS-LS2-4. Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations. It works for both in person and distance learning and includes 5 questions or tasks total which can be edited, copied and pasted into various forms of assessments to align to the NGSS. Links to other res
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5th - 9th
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MS-LS2-4
Biotic Index Lab - Stream Water Quality Lab
This is a fun lab activity for students learning about the environment - and ways that scientist can determine the healthiness/cleanliness of a stream or body of water. This is an example of a "Biotic Index" - using the sampling of freshwater invertebrates to determine the overall healthiness of a stream. Included in this lab are step-by-step directions on how to perform this task - along with paper cutouts of various freshwater invertebrates that can be copied and given to students to mimic a
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5th - 10th
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Butterfly Camouflage Lab
Students color and hide 3 paper butterflies around the classroom. They use colored pencils, crayons and markers to provide camouflage so the butterfly blends in with its natural environment. After 2-3 days of creating and preparing, students get an opportunity to hide their butterfiles. The instructor acts as the predator to find as many butterflies as possible. After 2 trips aroudnd the classroom, any butterflies that have not yet been discovered are revealed by their creators. Prizes are
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3rd - 10th
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Shoe Dichotomous Key Lab
Students come in and all place their right shoes into a large pile. They then use the provided template to create a dichotomous key that separates the shoes into smaller and smaller piles based on their charateristics until all students have their shoes back.
The next day, repeat using the already created dichotomous key and discuss why it didn't work the next day (students wearing different shoes have introduced "new" organisms into the environment).
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4th - 12th
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Counting Turtles Mark and Recapture Lab
Students use a cardboard box to represent their "pond" and several cutout paper turtles to represent their population.
Students take turns reaching in and capturing some of the turtles, and marking them with a highlighter.
Turtles are replaced and students take turns again capturing turtles. Using the provided formula, students are able to estimate the total population based on the number of recaptured turtles after round 2.
Lastly, students count the actual number of turtles in the po
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3rd - 12th
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Food Chain Model Game: Model How Food Chains & Ecosystems Function - NGSS
Brief: In this Next Generation Science Standards Aligned lab, students write rules for a game that simulates how a food chain works. They play two games: In Game 1, they play their first iteration of rules, taking 12 rounds of population data, and graphing the data. In Game 2, students play revised rules; tweaking their original set of rules to make the game a better model for a real ecosystem. They, again, graph their data, and analyze the results by answering conclusion questions. This ac
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4th - 12th
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Fossil Fuels Complete 5E Lesson Bundle
-5E Lesson Plan
-Fossil Fuels Reading and Pre/Post Reading Activity
-4 Complete Stations
-Student Worksheet
-Extension Activity
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Introduce fossil fuels with this inquiry-based lesson! Start off the lesson using the Reading Cycle to help student retention of information. Students then go off into 4 stations to learn about fossil fuels. Their student worksheet provides opportunities that push students to think, to engineer new
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5th - 8th
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Frogs in a Pond Ecosystem Simulation
Students are assigned a starting population of frogs from one of 11 different ponds in the Central Florida area. They track the health of their population over a 10-year simulated timespan (10 rolls of the dice). Each time they roll, something happens to their frogs that year that impacts the population. Sometimes an alligator moves into their pond and starts eating frogs. Sometimes a hurricane hits increasing the size of their pond and the number of insects their frogs eat (resulting in a p
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4th - 12th
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NGSS Assessment Tasks and Test Questions MS-LS2-3 Cycling of Matter Energy
NEW! This resource contains quality, EDITABLE sample NGSS assessment questions and performance tasks for the Life Science Performance Expectation MS-LS2-3 Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem (food webs). It includes 5 questions or tasks total which can be edited, copied and pasted into various forms of assessments to align to the NGSS. Links to other resources are also included!Use these sample questions for: pre-a
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5th - 9th
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MS-LS2-3
Oil Spill Clean-up Lab
The students will experiment with different objects in cleaning up an oil spill. They will try to clean up as much oil as possible while leaving the same amount of water in the bowl. This hands-on activity will simulate the difficulty of cleaning up an oil spill. Discussion questions, interesting facts, and full lab is included when you purchase this document.
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4th - 6th
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Environmental Lab: Clean Up Your School! NGSS Aligned
This activity proceeds as follows:1. First, learn about the theory of Tragedy of the Commons, using a short video link2. Then students describe a real-world example using a website (provided) as a resource3. Then students walk around the school (in pairs), or as an entire class (teacher lead), and must identify examples of Tragedy of the Commons around the school4. Students generate possible solutions to the problem areas that they located5. In conclusion, students choose two real-world exa
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5th - 12th
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