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In this video-enhanced lesson, students will identify methods for detecting and locating earthquakes, utilizing excerpts from the NATURE episode "Can Animals Predict Disaster?" (Grades 9-12)
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In this video-enhanced lesson, students will learn how human beings have interacted with and impacted the lives of grizzly bears in Yellowstone Park. (Grades 9-12)
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This video-enhanced lesson plan explores how the interactions of air, moisture, wind, and topography in Death Valley, CA contribute to an environment of extremes. (Grades 9-12)
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This video-enhanced lesson focuses on symbiosis and ecological relationships. Using sharks and marine species as examples, students will investigate the many ways that species that live in close proximity to each other might interact in an ecosystem, and will then explore the ways that ecosystems can be thrown out of balance, often as a result of human action. (Grades 9-12)
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There are important reasons why certain "ugly" animals look the way they do. Their features help them survive in the great outdoors. In this lesson students will explore their reactions to these less than lovely creatures.
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In this activity students will create an aircraft that will compete to fly the best. Students will also create a fictional writing piece that tells a legend or myth of a raptor.
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In this lesson, students will research what scientists are studying on Antarctica and what they hope to gain from their research. They will also create a multi-media story about the challenges penguins face living in this harsh environment.
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In this lesson, students use a problem-based approach to explore the possibility that the qualities of different horse breeds could be incorporated to create the "perfect horse."
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In this lesson, students will use their observation skills and primary sources to learn how wolves communicate. Students will also study the complexities of the wolf and write a story that will help dispel the idea that wolves are inherently "good" or "evil."
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