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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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