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Lesson Plan February 01 2017

Lesson plan: Invent your own device to battle invasive species

Stunning fish who were once kept as pets are destroying Florida’s coral reef ecosystem. In this PBS NewsHour lesson plan, students will learn how scientists are using a new invention, a lionfish zapping robot, to combat this harmful invasive species. They will then create their own invention to ward off invasive species in their community or region.
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Lesson Plan October 16 2016

Student Reporting Labs STEM Lesson Plan: Solar Cars and S'mores

Can you think of innovative ways we can use the sun to provide us with energy? In this NewsHour lesson, students will design their own solar cars and research how to make their vehicles ecologically friendly.
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Lesson Plan October 03 2016

Student Reporting Labs: Talking trash and your environment
Use this PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs video, "California community works to protect oc…
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Daily Video August 26 2016

Lionfish-zapping robot offers solution to invasive species
Invasive lionfish have devastating effects on native species and ecosystems in the Western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, but robotic technology offers a new way to stem their spread.
climate change
Lesson Plan June 07 2016

PBS Student Reporting Labs STEM lesson plan: Climate change and your community
Ninety-seven percent of scientists currently agree that global surface temperatures have incre…
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Post June 07 2016

Third mass coral bleaching in 18 years threatens Great Barrier Reef
by Amanda Wilcox One of the seven wonders of the natural world is currently in peril: Austr…
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Lesson Plan May 31 2016

Take a poll, debate the issue: Environmental policy
Where do students stand on environmental policy? In this lesson plan, have students take a poll before and after they debate the issue to see if their views change.
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Daily Video March 31 2016

Colorado explores new, stinky source of alternative energy
In Colorado, a growing industry relies on human and animal waste as a new source of renewable energy.
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Daily Video January 04 2016

Out of control crayfish threaten nation’s deepest lake
Warmer temperatures in the United States’ deepest lake may explain the growth of a crayfish population that now threatens the lake’s long-time resident, the Mazama newt, and other wildlife.
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Student Voices December 17 2015

Paris Agreement is "first step" in addressing threat of climate change
Before I took a class on human impact on the environment, I would not have considered myself an environmentalist. Sure, our use of the environment was destroying the earth, but we wouldn’t see the consequences anytime soon, at least not here. Right?
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