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A Lot of Garbage
 | Grade Level: Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Games and Activities - Classroom Lessons - School Projects |
| Summary: Students will define and give examples of waste and identify the amounts of solid waste produced by individuals and groups. This activity conducts an audit of classroom waste and is an appropriate activity for grades 1-3. |
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A Whiff of Danger
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: A Whiff of Danger, reviews common chemistry and biochemistry concepts by exploring real data related to the article, A Whiff of Danger Synthetic Musks Encourage Toxic Bioaccumulation. |
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ABCs of Environmental Education (Aluminum Beverage Cans), The
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Glossary |
| Summary: This provides an an educational package to better understand the aluminum beverage can industry and the processing and recycling of aluminum. |
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Acid (and Base) Rainbows
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Experiment |
| Summary: Students are introduced to the differences between acids and bases and how to use indicators, such as pH paper and red cabbage juice, to distinguish between them. This lesson is aligned to Colorado educational standards. |
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Air Pollution: What's the Solution
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Classroom Lessons - Experiment - Web site |
| Summary: Air Pollution: What’s the Solution? is an educational project for students, grades 6 - 12, that uses online real time data to guide student discovery of the science behind the causes and effects of ground level ozone. Core activities include The Ozone Betwee... |
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All About Aluminum
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: This lesson is designed for grades 4-5. Students will use magnetism, appearance, and mass to distinguish between aluminum, tinned and bimetal cans; complete a math worksheet on the properties of metals; understand the connection between natural resources used... |
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Alternative Fuels Biodiesel
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Fact sheet |
| Summary: This teacher guide has suggested activities with correlations to national science standards, fact sheets on soybeans, biodiesel, and each is assigned appropriate grade levels. |
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Aluminum Beverage Cans: ABCs of Environmental Education
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Article/Report - Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Fact sheet - Glossary |
| Summary: Seven intermediate level lessons on aluminum cans, a history of can making as well as teacher and student background and glossaries makes this an useful site for teaching about aluminum cans.This is a standards-based lessons. |
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Architeacher
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Games and Activities - Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Web site |
| Summary: A uniquely interesting resource has recently been brought to my attention that focuses on saving the environment by recycling buildings for new uses and preserving existing buildings. Historic Preservation Education, Community Planning, Architecture and Aesth... |
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Biodiesel Using Renewable Resources
| Grade Level: High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Experiment |
| Summary: Using the principles of Green Chemistry, this experiment examines ways to use renewable resources to replace nonrenewable starting materials and it examines characteristic properties of matter. |
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Biomass (Elementary/Middle School)
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on Biomass.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards |
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Biomass (high school)
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on Biomass. All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards |
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Biomass (pre-K-K)
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on Biomass. All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Biomass Lesson Plans on Alternative Fuels
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Experiment |
| Summary: Select each of these links (table of contends, biomass lesson plans) for sources of innovative, hands-on approaches to learning designed to supplement and reinforce your students' preparedness for higher education goals. These lessons address alternative energ... |
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Buyer's Choice
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: This lesson is designed for grades 4-5 and can be used in social science and math. Students will assess the factors that affect purchases and recognize that a number of economic factors affect consumer choices and that some factors are enviornmental in nature... |
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Classroom Trash Audit
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: In this exercise, students will collect their own personal garbage an entire day. Or students will collect representative samples from the school's waste bins in order to conduct a trash audit. |
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Clean Green Healthy Schools: An Environmental Health and Safety Activities Book for Teachers and Students (March 2003)
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Manual/Handbook |
| Summary: The goal of the Clean,Green and Healthy Schools Manual is to protect students and the school community's health and safety on campus and in the home. Every student has the right to attend a school whose environment, staff and training protects and nurtures ph... |
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Clock Reaction Presentation
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Experiment - Powerpoints, videos and virtual tours |
| Summary: Powerpoint for green chemistry version of timed clock reaction. |
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Coal
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on coal.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Coal
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on coal.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Coal
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on coal.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Coal
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on coal.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Coal
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on coal.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Coal
| Grade Level: High School |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on coal.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Coco Locomotion
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: Students will read a brief description about the use of coconuts from the Environmental Health Perspectives publication, April 2005. This article describes the use of coconuts in the production of biodiesel fuel. Students will then proceed to calculate the q... |
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Contaminated Water, What's Up in the Environment
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: What's Up in the Environment projects are intended primarily for middle school students, but can be modified. They begin with an extensive description of the project’s objectives, standards, time and materials needed, computer requirements, and lists of on-lin... |
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Death by Particles
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: Students read a brief news article about a resesarch study showing that ambient particulate matter (PM) less than 10 micrometers in size and other air pollutants increase women's relative risk for coronary heart disease. Then they use data from the article to... |
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Decibel Dilemma
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: After students read the EHP article "Decibel Hell: The Effects of Living in a Noisy World" they will track sound exposures over the course of a day. Students will graph their own data as well as the class data to better understand statistical concepts (mean a... |
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Detectives in the Classroom: An Epidemiology Curriculum for Science, Mathematics and Health Educators
Discover How Trees Produce and Conserve Energy
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: Students will design an energy wise community using trees and they will be introduced to landscaping for energy conservation.This is a 13-page pdf. |
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Division of Waste Management (Kentucky)
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Article/Report - Classroom Lessons - Database - Fact sheet - Web site |
| Summary: A directory, education section, fact sheets, forms, news and events as well as links to other environmental resources and programs are offered.
Programs include a hazardous waste program, enforcement, field operations, solid waste, superfund and more. |
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Downwind Learning Science Using an EPA Exposure Model
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: The primary purpose of this project is to guide students regarding the
causes and possible results of air pollution. It introduces students to
the use of the IGEMS/ISC computer model, which has been developed by the
United States Environmental Protection Ag... |
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Dr. Arbor Talks Trees
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Games and Activities - Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Fact sheet - Glossary - Powerpoints, videos and virtual tours - Science Fair Projects - Web site |
| Summary: Tree Basics, Teacher's Guide, Dr. Arbor's Lab, Tree Key, State Tree Gallery and Gloassary aree all included in this site's inforamtion of trees. Users can progress forward by clicking on side arrows through the interactive descriptions of tree parts. Dr. Arbor... |
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Electricity (Elementary/Middle School)
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on electricity.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Electricity (Middle School/High School)
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: A grade appropriate fact sheet on electricity.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Energy Audit: What's Up in the Environment
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Glossary - School Projects |
| Summary: What's Up in the Environment projects are intended primarily for middle school students, but can be modified. They begin with an extensive description of the project’s objectives, standards, time and materials needed, computer requirements, and lists of on-lin... |
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Energy Efficiency World
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Experiment - Glossary - Web site |
| Summary: The Energy Efficiency World website is designed to educate 8- to 12-year-old students about energy, motivate them to make energy-saving behavioral changes, and encourage their families to do the same.
The site is geared for a range of interests and reading l... |
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Energy Hog
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Games and Activities - Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: Saving Energy is not only easy, it saves money, promotes a healthy lifestyle and protects natural resources for future generations. The Energy Hog provides a scavenger hunt as a take home assignment, an interactive learning experience, training games, handbook... |
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Energy Savings Activity Lighting
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: Students will usa a light meter to measure the amount of light in their classroom and compare the energy use of a compact fluorescent bulb to an incandenscent bulb. |
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Energy Science in the Home: Hands-on Activities for the Middle Grade
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: Energy Science in the Home: Hands-on Activities for the Middle Grades curricula is a 5-6 week, inquiry-based program that helps students explore the dynamics of home energy use through investigations that integrate math, science and economics. All activities... |
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Energy Sources
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on energy sources.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Exploring the Secret Life of Trees
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Powerpoints, videos and virtual tours |
| Summary: Exploring the Secret Life of Trees is designed to help 3rd – 5th grade students gain an appreciation of trees, observe trees in their everyday lives, and develop an interest in discovering more about trees. It is intended for adults to work with children to ex... |
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Eyes: Windows to the World
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: Students read and discuss an article on vision disorders related to environmental exposures. Then they use the article as the basis for the creation of a photo collage using both their own photos and images collected from various sources. This is an integrat... |
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Focus on Energy
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Case Study - Web site |
| Summary: Find energy efficiency answers for where you live or work, about product and services providers or tell your energy saving success story. |
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Following the Sun to Greener Buildings
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: The EHP Online lessons provide students lessons that are based upon actual articles. The EHP summary for this lesson is as follows "Students read the articles Growing Green Communities and identify green building techniques that have environmental and health... |
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Fossil Fuels to Products
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: Students learn about exploration, production, refining, chemical manufacturing, transportation, marketing, and uses of petroleum, natural gas, and their products in the industrial sector with background information and hands-on activities. |
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Geothermal
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate factsheet on Geothermal Energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards |
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Geothermal
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on Geothermal Energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Geothermal Energy
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten |
| Summary: Grade appropriate factsheet on Geothermal Energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Get to Know Glass
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: In this lesson for 4th and 5th grade students will learn about the process of making and molding glass, and the energy and natural resources used in the process, complete a math worksheet on the properties of glass, understand the connection between natural re... |
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Great Lakes--Make the Human Health Connection
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: Environmental Health Perspectives online lessons have a new addition that focuses on the Great Lakes’ environmental problems. This is designed for grades 10-12. As a reminder, EHP lessons are built around real issues and news articles and the article link is p... |
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Hazardous Products Substitutes
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Games and Activities - Classroom Lessons - Experiment |
| Summary: This lesson is designed for grades K-3 and can be used in both science and health education. Students will recognize signal words and visual symbols that indicate the presence of hazardous substances; identify "how much" of various products would be dangerous... |
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History of Electricity
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on the history of electricity.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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History of Electricity
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on the History of Electricity.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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History of Energy
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on the history of energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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How Big is Your Footprint
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: Students will increase their awareness of the impact of their choices on the earth's resources. |
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Hydropower
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on Hydropower. All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards at http://www.need.org/guides.htm |
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Hydropower
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on Hydropower. All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards at http://www.need.org/guides.htm |
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IDEM Air Quality Environmental Education Lesson
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Glossary - Web site |
| Summary: These lessons provide teacher preparation, presenter preparations, lessons and activities, extensions, standards, glossary of air quality and air pollution terms and additional resources. These are designed for K-3 and 4-6. |
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IDEM Childrens' Health Environmental Education Lesson
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Glossary |
| Summary: These lessons provide teacher preparation, presenter preparations, lessons and activities, extensions, standards, glossary of childrens' environmental health terms and additional resources. The lessons focus on Integrated Pest Management and the ways in whic... |
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IDEM Land Quality and Solid Waste Environmental Education Lesson Plans
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Glossary |
| Summary: These lessons provide teacher preparation, presenter preparations, lessons and activities, extensions, standards, glossary of solid waste management terms and additional resources. The lessons focus on providing solid waste and landfill information. Some le... |
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IDEM Recycling Environmental Education Lesson Plans
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Glossary |
| Summary: This lesson plan is appropriate for grades K-6 and is designed for Indiana standards, but easily modifiable for other state standards. Lessons provide teacher preparation, presenter preparation, lessons and activities, glossary of recycling terms and ways to... |
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Introduction to Energy
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on Energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Introduction to Energy
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on Energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Investigating Air: Organizing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Information about the Quality of Air
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: BiblioResources (Books) - Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: Non-Fiction, Lessons
Authors, NSTA ISBN 0-87255-173-7 This book is full of lesson plans and background information that provide investigations, which lead students to the answers to questions such as what is air made of, how does a... |
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KEEP (Wisconsin K-12 Energy Education Program)
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Classroom Lessons - Fact sheet - School Projects - Web site |
| Summary: The mission of KEEP is to initiate and facilitate the development, dissemination, implementation, and evaluation of energy education programs within Wisconsin schools. KEEP offers resources for high school, elementary education, field trip suggestions, teachin... |
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Kids and Chemicals Facts and Laws
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Glossary - Powerpoints, videos and virtual tours |
| Summary: This lesson is designed so students are able to identify some of the synthetic chemicals they have contact with during their days; so they can consider the affects that toxic chemicals have on people; that they can reflect upon alternatives to toxic home-use p... |
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Know Zone, The
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Article/Report - Classroom Games and Activities - Fact sheet |
| Summary: Visit California Air Basins for an interactive experience that explains air basins and helps to create a basic understand for smog. Lesson plans and activities are provided as well as additinal links and fact sheets. |
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Lead Poisoning Prevention Curriculum Project
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Games and Activities - Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Web site |
| Summary: This guide combines traditional curriculum design with other designs including standards-based curriculum design. It has been developed for pre-k through high school with sections dedicated to preshool-K, 1-2, 3-5, 6-8 and high school. Each contains curricul... |
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Look at a Landfill
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: This lesson is designed for grades K-3. Students wil identify landfills as the most common method of disposing solid waste; describe the form and function of a sanitary landfill by observing a model; understand that waste does not "go away" or decompose when... |
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Lunchroom Trash
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Games and Activities - Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: This lesson is designed for grades K-3 and can be used in social science, math and English. Students will take a first-hand look at excess packaging and determine ways to reduce waste. |
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Making a Model Landfill
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: Students will construct a model of a landfill and analyze the most effecti design, identify the way in which a landfill is different than a natural cycle, identify the pros and cons of landfill disposal and alternative forms of disposal and practice map readin... |
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Mapping the Air in Your School
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Experiment |
| Summary: The EHP Online lessons provide students lessons that are based upon actual articles. The EHP summary for this lesson is as follows "Students read the articles Beyond the Bench: Mapping the Air in Public Schools." Then students measure temperature and relative... |
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Mercury in Your Community and the Environment (A Wisconsin Curriculum)
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Checklist - Classroom Lessons - Fact sheet |
| Summary: Facts, lessons, activites and links to national standards accompany general information on mercury in our world and known health issues. This also addresses cultural and religious uses of mercury as well as some of its unique properties. |
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National Pest Management Association Inc
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Games and Activities - Classroom Materials - Language Options - List - Manual/Handbook - Web site |
| Summary: This resource is designed for consumers and professionals in the pest control industry. The website offers teacher resources, activities for children interested in learning more about pests, and it offers a link to locate recommended professionals. |
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Need to Conserve Energy (The)
| Grade Level: High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Experiment |
| Summary: Using principles of Green Chemistry, this experiment will compare the environmental costs of heating and measure reaction time and discuss the relationship to the reaction rate. |
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Needs and Wants (Grades 4-5)
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: BiblioResources (Books) - Classroom Games and Activities - Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: This lesson is designed for grades 4-5. Students will recognize the impace of humans on natural systems; make predictions about the impace of certain behaviors and how personal or cultural perspectives affect these behaviors; assess factors that affect consum... |
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Needs and Wants (Grades K-3)
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary |
| Type: BiblioResources (Books) - Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: This lesson is designed for grades K-3 and can be used in Social Science and English. Students will be able to discriminate between wants and needs, quantiy and quality, necessities and luxuries; evaluate their own motives for buying things; think about the l... |
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Nonformal Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: Nonformal Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence introduces nonformal educators to a set of recommendations for developing and administering high quality programs. Too often non-formal educators (museums, nature centers, government agenci... |
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Now You See it, Now You Don't
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: This lesson is designed for grades 4-5 and can be used for both science and math with english extensions. Students will classify organic and inorganic objects, perform a mini-compost experiment, record observations, compare and contrast decomposition rates for... |
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Plastic Polymers
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Checklist - Classroom Lessons - Experiment |
| Summary: This lesson is designed for grades 4-5. Students will conduct a series of tests to determine the properties of different types of plastics, audit the plastic waste generated in their homes, understand the positive and negative impacts of using plastic, the ba... |
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Project Yellow Bus
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Materials |
| Summary: Project Yellow Bus seeks to educate the private and public sector abut renewable energy. It provides a five-week lesson plan that includes grade specific plans for K-5 teachers, focusing on biodiesel and other renewable energy resources. It primarily seeks t... |
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Quest for Less: Activities and Resources for Teaching K-6
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: Download the complete document (10 MB) or individual chapters. The Quest for Less units include Product Life Cycles, Methods of Handling Waste, Putting it All Together and a glossary. |
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Recycle Lifecycle
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: This lesson is designed for grades K-3. Students will define the word recycle, learn to recognize the universal symbols for recycling and be aware that recycling an alternative to disposal. A Plastics Coding Chart is included. |
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Recycle Lifecycle
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: This lesson connects material use and recycling with physical and earth
science concepts. Recycle symbols are provided in a format appropriate for younger elementary. |
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Recycling by Composting
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Glossary |
| Summary: What's Up in the Environment projects are intended primarily for middle school students, but can be modified. They begin with an extensive description of the project’s objectives, standards, time and materials needed, computer requirements, and lists of on-lin... |
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Renewable Energy Lesson Plans
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Fact sheet |
| Summary: Renewable energy lessons for elementary, middle school and high school explore a variety of renewable energy forms using lessons and associated fact sheets. These are available online or they can be ordered at a web site provided (see Get Stuff). These lesson... |
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Rethinking Recycling
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Manual/Handbook |
| Summary: Rethinking Recycling contains activities and lesson plans for students in grades K-5. The lessons can be used separately or as a unit. Many of the lessons satisfy Oregon's new Common Curriculum Goals and Benchmarks. Rethinking Recycling was first published in... |
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Saving Energy
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on Saving Energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Saving Energy
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on saving energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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School Power Naturally In the Classroom
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Experiment |
| Summary: School Power Naturally offers solar energy curricular materials for students in grades 5 - 12. Developed for New York State, these are applicable to classroom everywhere. As of early 2006 there were 45 lessons, divided into Level II and Level III. They also... |
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So Many Cookies...So Much Packaging
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Games and Activities - Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: Designed for K-3 to help children understand that when they buy something, they also buy the packaging. Packaging has many important purposes, such as safety, marketing, protecting and transporting the product. This lesson will allow comparision of the differe... |
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Soaps, Solvents and Cleaning: A slippery problem
| Grade Level: High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Experiment |
| Summary: Using the principles of Green Chemistry this experiment examines the effects of surfactants on solvents, discusses ways to make cleaning agents environmentally friendly and the role crystallization plays in cleaning? |
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Soil Module from AMBIENT
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Database - Fact sheet - Powerpoints, videos and virtual tours - Web site |
| Summary: The AMBIENT curriculum soil module evolves around the scene of a legal action regarding an old hazard, lead poisoning of kids. Several news videos are included and lessons and problem solving are developed around these resources. |
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Solar
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on solar energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Solar
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on Solar Energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Solar Cars: What's Up in the Environment
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Glossary |
| Summary: What's Up in the Environment projects are intended primarily for middle school students, but can be modified. They begin with an extensive description of the project’s objectives, standards, time and materials needed, computer requirements, and lists of on-lin... |
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Solar Energy
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on solar energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Solar Matters I
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: This unit provides an introduction to solar energy, the importance of it in our lives and its impact on the future of energy devleopment. Included is a solar bead activity, cooking tips, and solar cell simulation (and much more). Designed for grades K-2. |
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Stuff Curriculum and Resource Guide
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: BiblioResources (Books) - Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Glossary |
| Summary: This curriculum packaged complements the book Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things. As an approach to science, social studies and environmental education, this material has a simple premise, that young people are curious about their world. Stuff... |
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Talking Trash Solid Wastes
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Experiment |
| Summary: Using the principles of Green Chemistry, this experiment analyzes the trends in the generation and reclamation of solid wastes within the United States over time and it evaluates reasons for making wastes.
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There is No Away (Grades 4-5)
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: BiblioResources (Books) - Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: Designed for grades 4-5, this lesson will help students recognize that there is no "away" in "throw it away"; identify the destination of the waste they generate at home and at school; identify the negative aspects of dumping or burning trash; learn the "solid... |
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Transportation Fuels: The Future is Today
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: Students learn about conventional and alternative transportation fuels and participate in several activities to learn and teach others. Designed for grades 7-12 with modification for middle school. This is a teacher guide with introudctions to petroleum, gasol... |
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Transportation, What Car WIll You Drive?
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: Upper elementary students are introduced to traditional and alternative transportation fuels. This is a teacher guide that introduces petroleum, gasoline, diesel, hybrid electricity, ethanol, propane, CNG (compressed natural gas), biodiesel, electricity, metha... |
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Trees are Terrific ... Travels with Pierre
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Games and Activities - Classroom Lessons - Powerpoints, videos and virtual tours |
| Summary: Trees Are Terrific...Travels with Pierre, is designed to help young children (5–8 years of age) gain an appreciation of trees, observe trees in their every day lives and develop an interest in learning more about trees. It is intended for adults to work with c... |
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Turning on the Juice
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Games and Activities - Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Experiment - Fact sheet - Glossary - Powerpoints, videos and virtual tours - Web site |
| Summary: How does the "juice get to the plug" is the question and the answers come through activities. course guides, teacher's manuals and parent information. This is everything and anything a teacher might need to know for teaching about electricity. Animated power... |
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Understanding the Organism Insect and Arthropod Biology and ID
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: This lesson provides tools for identification of insects and understanding the organism's life cycles and survival requirements. |
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Unequal Housing, Unequal Health
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Case Study - Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: The EHP lessons provide lessons for students that are linked to actual articles. The summary for this lesson is "students read the article Dwelling Disparities: How Poor Housing Leads to Poor Health" to obtain a comprehensive picture of how environmental heal... |
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Using Chemistry to Treat Lead Poisoning
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Experiment - Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) |
| Summary: The EHP Online lessons provide students lessons that are based upon actual articles. The EHP summary for this lesson is as follows "students read the article Challenging Assumptions about Lead and IQ: Effects Increase, Not Decrease in Older Children" and cond... |
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UV Bead Magic (Solar Beads)
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: Using ultraviolet detecting beads, students will be able to explain how the amount of UV radiation varies in differing conditions of sun and shade and they will be able to explain the importance of using sunscreen. (A source for solar energy beads is www.teac... |
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Waste and Tinker Toys Atom Economy
| Grade Level: High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Experiment |
| Summary: This is an experiment using Green Chemistry principles that explores the idea of atom economy, or avoiding wastes by incorporating as much of the starting materials into the desired product as possible; relates the Law of Conservation of Matter to the idea of... |
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Water Cycle, The
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: A grade appropriate fact sheet on hydropower.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Watersheds: What's Up in the Environment
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Glossary |
| Summary: What's Up in the Environment projects are intended primarily for middle school students, but can be modified. They begin with an extensive description of the project’s objectives, standards, time and materials needed, computer requirements, and lists of on-lin... |
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Watt Does It Cost to Use It?
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: Students will become familiar with how electrical usage is counted and prices and they will evaluate representative household and school electricial items. |
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Watts on Schools, Bringing Solar Energy to the Communities we Serve
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Case Study - Database - Experiment - List - Web site |
| Summary: Move backwards and forward at this site dedicated to Solar Energy and you can learn about what schools are doing, calculate wattage, download data, find appropriate activities and learn about the photovoltaic systems. |
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Wetlands: What's Up in the Environment
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Glossary |
| Summary: What's Up in the Environment projects are intended primarily for middle school students, but can be modified. They begin with an extensive description of the project’s objectives, standards, time and materials needed, computer requirements, and lists of on-lin... |
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What Color Is Your Waste
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Experiment |
| Summary: This lesson examines the principles of Green Chemistry through an activity on accessing commonly used and environmentally packaging.This activity can be used as a demonstration for middle school students or as a lab exercise for high school students. It can a... |
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What is Biomass
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate information on Biomass. All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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What is Electricity?
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on Electricity.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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What is Energy?
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on Energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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What is Geothermal?
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on Geothermal Energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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What is Hydropower?
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on hydropower.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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What is Solar Energy?
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on solar energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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What is Trash
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: In 1999, Oregon disposed of 2.8 million tons of garbage. (See “Where
Is Away?” Background for more details about solid and hazardous waste
disposal). The terms “waste” and “resource” are relative and reflect our
own needs and values rather than any objectiv... |
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What is Wind?
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on Wind Energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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What's Your Hypothesis?
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: Students develop an hypothesis about the connection between air pollution and cardiovascular disease and then test this hypothesis using statistical analysis. |
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Wind
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on wind energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Wind
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on Wind.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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Wind Energy
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Grade appropriate fact sheet on Wind Energy.All NEED Curriculum Correlations to the National Science Education Standards for all grade levels. NEED has also correlated our materials to many State Education Standards. |
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