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Tooling Around Arizona: Measuring Distances

For Students 5th - 8th
In this measurement worksheet, student measure the distances between Arizona cities by using a the scale on an Arizona Cities map. Students complete 15 problems.
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Lesson Plan
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Is Our Water Clean?

For Teachers K
Students identify qualities of clean water which will develop an awareness of people in the community who keep our water clean. This instructional activity has a literature tie-in with the "Magic School Bus" series.
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Making a Water Filter

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders draw a plan that they think will clean the sludge in a jar. Students construct the treatment system they designed, take a bottle of sludge to the system and try it out, writing down what happened.
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Water Magicians

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students observe water changing states from a solid to a liquid to a gas.
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Dewey and Chemistry: The Water Cycle Revisited

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars undertake a series of experiments related to the water cycle. All experiments use John Dewey's experiential philosophy as their bases. Each lesson is clearly based on philosophy and attempts to be relevant.
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Bathtub Physics - Density, Buoyancy and Flotation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study Archimedes' Principle, flotation and the reaction of buoyant forces and explain the relationship between density and flotation.
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Bringing Water to a Lesotho Village A Classroom Simulation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students simulate Lesotho village water committees that plan, design, and build a water supply system. The student committees present their plans to the village to persuade them that their plan will increase the availability of water to...
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WATER GOES AROUND AND COMES AROUND

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students build a model of a water system from the source to users and read and interpret a water meter.
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A SALT WATER-Y WORLD

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students observe a model of the distribution of the earth's water and compare the relative volumes and percentages of types of water on earth.
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WONDERFUL, WATERFUL WETLANDS

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students list characteristics of wetland and describe the functions of a wetland.
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Fitness Lesson- Body Composition

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers list and define the 3 basic body types, then execute the basic fundamentals in an interval training warm-up. They measure their own body fat %, then execute basic techniques involved in a game of Ultimate Frisbee.
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World Population Study

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils explore an exponential relationship and how it relates to human population growth and the current global population crisis. They graph both exponential and linear information.
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The Web of Life - Ecosystem

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars examine the concepts of ecosystems and interdependence. They construct block pyramids to demonstrate interdependence, and map off an area to observe and identify animals. They create food chain mobiles and play a web of...
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Descriptive Character Analysis

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students visualize a character or event and personalize it through drawings.
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Get Ready to Hibernate! Migrate! or Get Fat!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars explore the different ways which animals survive the winter months, and sort animals into correct categories using a Venn diagram.
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Colonization: Africa

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils analyze maps of Africa. They label physical features, tribal kingdoms, and European settlements, among other topics on the maps. They write reflective paragraphs on their work.
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Researching Hurricanes with Technology

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explain the components that make up a hurricane.
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Wetland Wonders

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students study the characteristics of wetlands, and their importance to humans and wildlife.
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Shoreline Seining and Sampling

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students investigate ecological systems and the cause and effect relationship between humans and the environment by using the prey items of Ospreys.
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Unit Plan
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Density - To Float or Not to Float? That is the Question!

For Teachers 8th
Students investigate how to find the density of fluids and solids using math. Students also learn how to find the density of regular and irregular shaped objects.
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Unit Plan
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America the Beautiful

For Teachers 7th
Students analyze the physical geography of the United States and how we have adapted to or altered the land to create the country we know today. Students complete maps with physical features, states and cities of interest.
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Lesson Plan
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Natural Records of Change: Working with Indirect Evidence of Past Climates

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students take part in a dice game to better explain the differences between direct and indirect evidence. They apply this knowledge to how scientists have used both types of evidence to determine how climate has changed over time.
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Centennial: A Patchwork Quilt of the People of Utah

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss the many cultures of the people of Utah. They create a database of the family backgrounds of students in the class. They record the major contributions of each ethnic group and display them on a quilt.
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Centennial: Ghost Riders And Rest Stops

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read aged letters that describe communities or stops along the route of the early Pony Express. Each day they mark on a map where the letters come from and chart the Pony Express route. They compare to today's mail and...