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Continental Drift: What's the Big Idea?In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how the theory that explains the position of Earth's continents was established and later modified, and gain important insights into how science and the scientific community operate. |
5-12 |
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Energy Transfer in a Roller CoasterIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine energy forms in moving objects and discover how changes from one form to another move cars through a roller coaster ride. |
5-12 |
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The Facts About ConcussionsIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore brain injuries called concussions: what they are, how they occur, the challenges in diagnosing them, and ways to protect yourself from them. |
5-12 |
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Florida's Everglades: The River of GrassIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the unique environment of southern Florida's Everglades and gain insights into the interrelatedness of living things, nonliving things, and climate. |
5-12 |
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Forces of Gravity and Air ResistanceIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how the forces of gravity and air resistance affect the motion of falling objects. |
5-12 |
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How Does Your Environment Affect Your Health?In this media-rich self-paced lesson, students explore how environmental factors affect human health and how they can reduce their exposure to health hazards in their environment. |
5-8 |
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Life OnlineIn this media-rich lesson, students examine how digital technologies have changed the way people communicate, and decide where they stand on a range of online behaviors. |
6-12 |
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Newton's Third Law: Action–ReactionIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, an early astronaut's experiences teach students that Newton's third law of motion—for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction—applies both on Earth and in outer space. |
7-12 |
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Nutrition: What Your Body NeedsIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine the nutritional content of different foods and learn about the health benefits and risks associated with the food choices they make. |
5-12 |
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Observations of Climate ChangeIn this media-rich self-paced lesson, students learn how data gathered through surveys with local residents and data collected by remote satellites are complementary tools that help deepen our understanding of the effects of climate change in the Arctic and elsewhere. |
6-12 |
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Personification: CowbirdsIn this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students explore personification as a literary device through the story of the cowbird, which is portrayed as "evil" in a documentary video. |
5-12 |
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Planning Your Future Career in Advanced TechnologyIn this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore the industries that produce and rely on advanced technology and assess how their goals and interests may make them well suited for a career in this cutting-edge sector. |
9-12 |
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Powering Your Body with ExerciseIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the positive effects that exercise has on the body and some activities they can do to improve their health. |
5-12 |
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The Promise and Perils of Genetic TechnologiesIn this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore some of the technologies designed to detect and treat inherited diseases and the ethical debate surrounding them. |
9-12 |
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Protect Your Health and EnvironmentIn this media-rich self-paced lesson, students explore health hazards in their environment and learn how to make their environment safer. |
3-4 |
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Reconnecting with Your EnvironmentIn this media-rich activity designed for teacher professional development, take a nature walk to observe aspects of your local environment, then plan an activity for students that will help them better understand their own surroundings and how they interact with the natural world. |
6-12 |
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Reproduction: One Goal, Two MethodsIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the advantages and disadvantages of the two basic forms of reproduction for the living things that practice them. |
5-12 |
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Snake Jaws: Connecting Structure and FunctionIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how animals' physical characteristics, such as jaw structure, are directly related to the function they perform when the animal interacts with its environment. |
5-12 |
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Solving a Public Health ProblemIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students study a disease outbreak and the investigation that followed to understand the role that public health workers play in protecting the communities they serve. |
5-12 |
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Speaking Your Mind About Global WarmingIn this media-rich self-paced lesson, learn about the causes and impacts of global warming, as well as potential solutions, and then plan to produce a video response to this pressing issue. |
6-12 |
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Surviving WinterIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the varied physical and behavioral adaptations that animals rely on to help them survive changing environmental conditions, such as the arrival of winter. |
5-12 |
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Take Action for Nature and Your CommunityIn this media-rich activity, students explore human relationships with the natural world, learn how both Alaska Native ways of knowing and Western science can be used to study and help the environment, and take action on a local environmental issue. |
6-12 |
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Taking Action for a Clean EnvironmentIn this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore activism, some of the tactics that youth activists may use to influence others and bring about change, and the characteristics activists possess. |
9-12 |
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Tiktaalik: A Fish Out of WaterIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn that transitional fossils provide scientists with evidence to establish how major animal groups are related to one another. |
5-12 |
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Unit Conversion: Water UseIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine how to use fractions to measure and help conserve freshwater resources. |
5-8 |
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Using the 3Rs to Help the EnvironmentIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine our growing waste problem and learn about strategies we can use to lessen the strain on our landfills and Earth's natural resources: reduce, reuse, recycle. |
5-12 |
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