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Tasha Vogel Global Warming [|Global Warming Videos] This link includes a number to videos to discuss the changes on Earth as a result of Global Warming. These short videos include information on Global Warming, how Humans are affecting the planet, the Human Footprint, How changes in temperature can affect the planet. Grade Level: K-6

[|John Muir] Jill Opie John Muir - Preservation Ethic Students will discover the contributions of John Muir, called the Father of the National Park System, a pioneer of environmental protection, an advocate of the preservation ethic, and founder of the Sierra Club. This site has links to other environmental pioneers as well as activities for young students. This Kids Page is sponsored by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Grades 1 - 4

Ann Perteet[|Illusions from Bill Nye] Title: Illusions This video enables students to learn how the nature of science has to do with experimentation through strategy, analysis, inquiry and constructive criticism. Grade level: 3-12

Nicole Welter Inventors a​nd Innovators [|Inventors and Innovators] To explore the scientific enterprise and the contributions of diverse people. Students will use the Inventor of the Week Archives to create and develop a project on American inventions. There are about 150 inventors profiled in this resource. In this lesson, the range of inventors selected by students should represent a group of people who used science in a variety of settings, including laboratories, farms, factories, and hospitals. Grade Levels: 6-8

Toni Adams [|Got Broccoli?] This lesson helps the students understand why the body needs food, and how it takes necessary nutrients as food passes through the digestive system. In this lesson, the students will conduct research, utilizing a variety of web resources, to learn about the nutritional value of vegetables and how it contributes to good health. From their research, students will create advertisements about the nutritional value of their vegetable to promote healthy eating. Grade Level: 3-5

Courtney Hartmann Pond Life [|Pond Life] This lesson uses technology by using the internet to investigate familiar and unfamiliar ecosystems. This lesson also engages the students in learning how organisms satisfy their needs in their environment. This lesson is great because it uses the computer and the internet and gives the students the opportunity to use technology in the classroom. Grade level: K-4

Kaitra Becker Gathering and Interpreting Data [|Dogs and Turnips Lesson Plan] Some of the goals of this lesson are that our ideas can change as we gather more information and that people can come to different conclusions based on the same information. Students randomly turn over word cards that make up a long sentence. They try to figure out the story that the sentence tells even though they only have a few words to go on. Grades: 6-8

Karrie Thomas [|Space Today] This website provides dates and information about the moon, the planets and different spacecrafts and shuttles in a timeline. The user can click on a mission name for a description of the spacecraft, experiments, data returned, launch and orbit, communication system and other information. Grade level: 6th-8th

Grace Pellegrino "Know Your Earth" Multimedia (video) __[|Know Your Earth video clip]__ This video describes climate change and its effects on oceans, land, the atmosphere, and ice sheets throughout the world. This video uses an animated astronaut to explain how scientists gather data and use it to make changes in the world of science. The video explores NASA's Earth-observing satellite fleet. Grades: 3-6

Eric Neils A Dinosaur's Neighborhood [|NatGeo. Xpeditions: A Dino's Neighborhood] Students will search to find the right ecosystem for a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Students will choose from three choices (desert,riverside, tundra). Students will then explain their choices. Older students can find real world choices on a map or globe. Younger students can draw their T-rex. Grades K-4.

Jen Salzman Our World: More Than Just Dirty Snowballs [|ECLIP] This NASA eclip guides student teams in grades 3-5 to create ice cream comet models to be analyzed by another team of students. They evaluate basic facts about comets to determine how scientists discovered this information. They explore the Stardust Mission and Deep Impact Mission and discuss the scientific contributions of each mission. Grades 3-5

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