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Drinking Water and Ground Water Kids' Stuff - U.S. EPA
Grades
K to 12
tag(s): conservation (128), earth (224), earth day (105), water (134), water cycle (32)
In the Classroom
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Recycling Lesson Plans - Pennsylvania Dept of Environmental Protection
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K to 12Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Hurricanes - BBC
Grades
1 to 8tag(s): weather (201)
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You must try an interactive whiteboard to share the animated guide to hurricanes with your students - wow! It is very easy to understand and extremely informative. The animated guide truly helps students understand the complexities of hurricanes.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Earth: Our World In Motion - National Museum of Natural History
Grades
3 to 8tag(s): atmosphere (31), earth (224), rocks (52)
In the Classroom
Introduce the site and the "Big Idea" on a projector or interactive whiteboard, then assign students to choose one of the activities to complete. Share results with the class on an interactive whiteboard or projector as groups complete the activity. Include this link on your teacher web page for enrichment and at-home exploration. Students could also be assigned the "non-computer" activities for homework.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twister: The Tornado Story - The Why Files
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): weather (201)
In the Classroom
Take this opportunity to integrate a geography lesson to grades 4-6 and locate the states in "tornado alley." Given a set of guiding questions, assign older students in pairs to create a tornado information brochure. This site could work well on laptops or in a lab after you introduce the site on a projector.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Stellarium - Stellarium Open Source Software
Grades
4 to 12In the Classroom
You may need tech support to help you install the program on a school computer. There is an extensive wiki (user-contribution help section) to answer your questions about using Stellarium.Try it on a projector in your classroom or even on an interactive whiteboard where students can draw and highlight items "in space." When you find successful strategies for using the software, be sure to participate in the wiki to share them. Or contact TeachersFirst to let us know more about ways to use Stellarium, so we can share them with other teachers!
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Teach Engineering Resources for K-12 - University of Colorado Boulder
Grades
K to 12tag(s): amazon (9), architecture (85), bridges (11), cells (99), density (24), engineering (129), environment (325), forces (45), friction (14), heart (43), human body (132), latitude (15), light (51), longitude (15), map skills (84), marine biology (35), mars (40), medicine (70), motion (69), pollution (65), robotics (29), rockets (16), simple machines (35), space (221), STEM (174)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site as a resource for finding STEM lessons and activities for all grade levels. Collaborate with your peers using a bookmarking tool like SearchTeam, reviewed here to share all of your resources. SearchTeam offers users the ability to add notes to shared resources making it easy to discuss and add comments to items shared. Instead of having students write journal entries during science or maker lab activities, use a video response tool like FlipGrid, reviewed here to have students respond to essential questions and comment on their peers' observations. As a culminating activity to a unit, ask students to create an explainer video answering essential questions to the unit topic. My Simpleshow, reviewed here is an easy to use tool for creating animated video explainers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Volcano World - Department of Geosciences at Oregon State University
Grades
4 to 10In the Classroom
Use a projector to take a virtual field trip as you start the study of volcanoes, then include this site as a link on your teacher web page for students to research different volcanoes and current activity.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Experiments: Patterns of Change - NASA Earth Observatory: Ereni Gleason and Kelly An
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): climate (95), environment (325), pollution (65)
In the Classroom
Tis is an ideal activity to do on an interactive whiteboard with students operating the controls and highlighting areas of change with the whiteboard's drawing tools.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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NyeLabs - Bill Nye, Inc.
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K to 12tag(s): scientists (69)
In the Classroom
If showing your class a Bill Nye video, the episode guides will help to organize the lesson. Students may enjoy simply surfing the site, some very interesting facts are displayed! Don't forget to check out the "home demos" for some new ideas. This is a great site to include as a general enrichment link from your teacher web page. Hook some young scientists!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Extreme Weather: Hurricanes - Nicole Koonce, Jennifer Conlon
Grades
3 to 8tag(s): disasters (40), hurricanes (40), weather (201)
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Further weather lessons or emergency procedures could be a spinoff from this lesson design.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Singing Science Records - Ballads for the Age of Science
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): animals (322), energy (207), mammals (36), motion (69), plants (174), space (221), water (134), water cycle (32), weather (201)
In the Classroom
Include the links to specific songs for review on your teacher web site or play one of the songs as students enter the room (a sort of audio anticipatory set). You will definitely need to turn up the speakers. Elementary music teachers might want to pick up one of the songs while the students are studying these topics and teach the music and lyrics during music class!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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NOW for Educators: Global Warming - PBS
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): climate (95), environment (325)
In the Classroom
The site includes a link to a great slide show with Flash animation that explains the science of global warming, suitable for middle school students, which would make a good stand-alone mini lesson for teachers with a SmartBoard or projector.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Calendars through the Ages - Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): calendars (47)
In the Classroom
Lots of great stuff for "did you know?" discussions or as an extension of a study of timelines and other graphic organizers of information. A few interesting visuals, but the strength of this site is in its information. Might be a good source for monthly bulletin boards or an enrichment area for gifted students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Inconvenient Truth: Take Action - Inconvenient Truth
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): energy (207), environment (325), ozone (10)
In the Classroom
Warn your students not to venture into the portion of the site where they are "purchasing" contributions to i=offset their CO2 emissions. Instead, ask them to figure out which of their behaviors causes the worst pollution. Have them do a family survey at home to calculate what the family can do.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Dimming the Sun - NOVA/WGBH
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): climate (95), climate change (70), earth (224), earth day (105), pollution (65), sun (69)
In the Classroom
Use this site as a starting point for your discussion of global warming and environmental issues or as a research source for student projects. The interactive timeline would display well on a projector or interactive whiteboard to give students the "big picture" they so rarely have on their own.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Faultline - Exploratorium
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): earth (224), earthquakes (50), plate tectonics (22)
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Share this site on an interactive whiteboard or projector. As a class go through the information titled Great Shakes, then show students how navigate through the site on their own. Have students take notes on the material and write down questions they still have and topics that confuse them. They can do this with pen and paper or online. If you want the assignment online, explain to students they need to open a new tab in their browser window and take notes with a tool such as Memo Notepad, reviewed here; tell students to be sure to save the URL to share their notes and questions with you and their peers. Conclude this lesson by having small groups of students click on "Active Zone" and choose one of the creative, hands-on activities to bring into your classroom and demonstrate on an assigned day (they'll love the cream-filled cookie one!).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Virtual Tour of the 1906 Earthquake - USGS
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): earth (224), earthquakes (50), plate tectonics (22)
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Try saving the various "layers" to your computer, then use in the classroom with a projector, turning on the various layers in sequence. Lots of instructional possibilities with this one.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Big Here Quiz
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): ecosystems (93), environment (325), pollution (65)
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Basic Environmental Science Concepts - Environmental Literacy Council
Grades
5 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): air (148), climate (95), environment (325), geology (81), nutrition (159), weather (201)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site for use by you and your students to find fact-based information on the environment. Instead of using pencil and paper to take notes, have students use Padlet, reviewed here, to write and organize notes into columns. Ask them to include links to access information easily. Ask students to create infographics using Canva, reviewed here. Use infographics to share images, statistics, and other useful information on their chosen topics. Challenge students to create their own game using a toll like Scratch, reviewed here. Scratch offers users the ability to tell stories through animated drawings and storytelling,Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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