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It's Simply A Balancing Act In this task, students will design a new amusement park. This task includes: |
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Magnets In this task, students will design an experiment to explore magnet strengths. This 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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Middle Investigation Test - Atmosphere This task is from PALS and was previously part of Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)'s Atmosphere Unit. Students will interpret GLOBE data charts and identify data components. This task includes: |
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Middle Investigation Test - Hydrology This task is from PALS was previously part of Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)'s Hydrology Unit. Students will interpret GLOBE data tables and plan investigations. This task includes: |
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Middle NCTE Activity - Air Temperature This task is from PALS and was previously part of Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)'s Atmosphere Unit. Students will write two sentences about the previously recorded temperature measurements. This task includes: |
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Middle NCTE Activity - Rainfall This task is from PALS and was previously part of Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)'s Atmosphere Unit. Students will write a paragraph describing the path that a water molecule takes through different clouds. This task includes: |
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Middle NCTE Activity - Solid Precipitation This task is from PALS and was previously part of Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)'s Atmosphere Unit. Students will write a paragraph as a water molecule that turns into a snowflake. This task includes: |
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Middle NCTE Activity - Water Temperature This task is from PALS and was previously part of Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)'s Hydrology Unit. Students will write the similarities and differences of how water plants and animals respond to the measures water temperature. This task includes: |
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Middle NCTE Activity - Water pH This task is from PALS and was previously part of Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)'s Hydrology Unit. Students will write a paragraph from the point of a water molecule. This task includes: |
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