Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject Interdisciplinary, Science, History/Social Studies, English Language Arts
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science, English Language Arts, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
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:
1. Student Instructions
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science, English Language Arts, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
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:
1. Student Instructions
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science, English Language Arts, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
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:
1. Student Instructions
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science, English Language Arts, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
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:
1. Student Instructions
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science, English Language Arts, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
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:
1. Student Instructions
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science, Mathematics, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Middle NCTM 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 calculate the average daily temperature.
This task includes:
1. Student Instructions
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science, Mathematics, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Middle NCTM Activity - Clinometer
This task is from PALS and was previously part of Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)'s Earth Systems Unit. Students will draw shapes out of the given angles using strings.
This task includes:
1. Student Instructions
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science, Mathematics, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Middle NCTM Activity - Rainfall
This task from PALS and was previously part of Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)'s Atmosphere Unit. Students will calculate the amount of rainfall since the last measurement.
This task includes:
1. Student Instructions
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science, Mathematics, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Middle NCTM Activity - Soil Moisture
This task is from PALS and was previously part of the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)'s Soils Unit. Students will write an equation to help them make various measurements of soil.
This task includes:
1. Student Instructions
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