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Virginia Standards for Tracking Ocean Ecology with Chlorophyll A
No full textThis resource supports science standards for grades 4-6. This assignment is based on the Virginia Standards of Learning Sci3.10a: The student will investigate and understand that natural events and human influences can affect the survival of species. Key concepts include the interdependency of plants and animals. Sci3.10b: The student will investigate and understand that natural events and human influences can affect the survival of species. Key concepts include the effects of human activity on the quality of air, water, and habitat. Sci3.10c: The student will investigate and understand that natural events and human influences can affect the survival of species. Key concepts include the effects of fire, flood, disease, and erosion on organisms. Sci4.4: The student will investigate and understand basic plant anatomy and life processes. Key concepts include the structures of typical plants (leaves, stems, roots, and flowers), processes and structures involved with reproduction (pollination, stamen, pistil, sepal, embryo, spore, and seed), photosynthesis (sunlight, chlorophyll, water, carbon dioxide, oxygen, and sugar), and dormancy. Sci4.5: The student will investigate and understand how plants and animals in an ecosystem interact with one another and the nonliving environment. Sci5.6: The student will investigate and understand characteristics of the ocean environment b) physical characteristics (depth, salinity, major currents).
Virginia Standards for Evidence of Change Near the Arctic Circle
No full textThis resource supports earth science standards for grades 8-12. This assignment is based on the Virginia Standards of Learning ES.1c: The student will plan and conduct investigations in which scales, diagrams, maps, charts, graphs, tables, and profiles are constructed and interpreted. ES.2c: The student will demonstrate scientific reasoning and logic by comparing different scientific explanations for a set of observations about the Earth. ES.11a: The student will investigate and understand that oceans are complex, interactive physical, chemical, and biological systems and are subject to long- and short-term variations. Key concepts include physical and chemical changes (tides, waves, currents, sea level and ice cap variations, upwelling, and salinity variations).
Math Standards for March of the Polar Bears: Global Change, Sea Ice, and Wildlife Migration
No full textThis resource supports math standards for grades 7-12 in the topics of data analysis and probability. These assignments are based on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards.
Math Standards for 1492: Using Data to Explain a Journey
No full textThis resource supports math standards for grades 6-8 in the topics of data analysis and probability. These assignments are based on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards.
Virginia Standards for Rock Star Precipitation
No full textThis resource supports science standards for grades 3-5. This assignment is based on the Virginia Standards of Learning Sci4.6: The student will investigate and understand how weather conditions and phenomena occur and can be predicted.
Math Standards for Validation of Stratospheric Ozone
No full textThis resource supports math standards for grades 9-12 in the topics of algebra and data analysis and probability. These assignments are based on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards.
Virginia Standards for Circle the Earth - Explore Surface Types on a Journey around Earth
No full textThis resource supports Virginia Earth science standards. ES.2c: The student will demonstrate scientific reasoning and logic by comparing different scientific explanations for a set of observations about the Earth. ES.3: The student will investigate and understand how to read and interpret maps, globes, models, charts, and imagery.
Virginia Standards for Think GREEN - Utilizing Renewable Solar Energy
No full textThis resource supports science standards for grades 7-12. This assignment is based on the Virginia Standards of Learning ES.3: The student will investigate and understand how to read and interpret maps, globes, models, charts, and imagery. Sci6.3: The student will investigate and understand the role of solar energy in driving most natural processes within the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, and on the Earth's surface.
Teaching Tip on 'Fundamentals of Physical Geography'
No full textVery basic things have been explained nicely.
Teaching Tip on 'Unique Landforms'
No full textThis website offered by Discovery School gave a very interesting lesson on how water and erosion affect landscapes. The MN Academic Standards that this lesson address is Grade 4, Earth Science. I thought it was a great lesson, however, I modified it slightly to focus more on Minnesota landforms. The lesson involves students investigating sedimentary rocks and what they are made of. These rocks are affected by water and erosion. Students will be asked to research the coastline of Lake Superior. They will be asked to answer these questions:
Locate it on a map.
How did your the coastline develop?
What forces of nature caused it to form?
What is unique about it?
What efforts are being made to preserve the landform?
Once their research is complete they will be creating a display of their topic. Their displays should answer the questions from their research. I thought that this lesson would be valuable to a 4th grade classroom because they are researching a landform that is located in their state and some of them may have even been there. I also liked it because they were able to create their research topic with their own hands to reinforce the ideas they learned while researching.