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Ice Cold In this task, students will explore how salt effects ice and determine if there are some salts that work better for melting. This task includes: |
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Instruments In this task, students will use various instruments to take measurements. This task includes: |
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Keep It Hot In this task, students will create their own experiment that explores different materials abilities to insulate beverages. This task includes: |
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Land Cover Classification The Land Cover Classification task is part of the Biosphere Unit from Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE). In this task, Students learn how to evaluate the accuracy of a classification they perform. They will also learn identify different types of land cover from satellite images. This task includes:
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Let the Sunshine In In this task, students will collect and analyze data to predict how a product will work. This task includes: |
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Lilac Phenology The Lilac Phenology task is part of the Biosphere Unit from Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE). In this task, students will learn about plant response to light by setting up simple investigations in the classroom. Students will observe and classify local plants based on their patterns of change other than growth. Students will also learn about plant pigmentation and photosynthesis while conducting simple investigations to demonstrate the presence of pigments other than chlorophyll in leaves. Thus task includes:
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Medicine in My Backyard In the Medicine in My Backyard task, students will play the role of ethno-botanists to investigate medicinal plants in their communities and read poetry written more than 900 years ago that helps reveal the healing power of plants. Students will gain an awareness of the important purposes of medicinal plants by collecting stories from their communities on how humans have traditionally lived with plants. They will let the (local and global) communities know through several activities why medicinal plants are an essential part of life, so that the natural environments in which they exist must be sustained for the future. Students and their local communities will be able to use their medicinal plants as part of their nature preservation and heritage and will promote this through several activities with their respective communities (seed bank, cultivation, video). |
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Nature's Global Zoo In the Nature's Global Zoo task, students will create virtual zoos representing the area in which they live and present them virtually to create a global zoo we all can visit. Students will research animals native to their country or area within their country and design a virtual zoo so that the Earth's citizens can visit it online. |
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Nitrates The Nitrates task is part of the Hydrosphere Unit from Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE). In this task, students will measure the nitrate-nitrogen content of water using a nitrate test kit. This task includes:
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Old Problem - New Solution In this task, students will analyze the impact of a mining project and answer accompanying questions. This task includes: |
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