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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWeather and Climate: From Home to the Poles - Issue 4, June/July 2008
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Technology, Education Theory and Practice, Professional Development and 3 additional..This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, explores how elementary teachers can move from a study ...Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVolume of Rectangular Prisms
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Professional Development, Geometry, Mathematics and 5 additional..This lesson is designed to introduce students to the concept of volume and how to find the volume of rectangular prisms. This le...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVolume of Prisms
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Professional Development, Geometry, Mathematics and 5 additional..This lesson is designed to develop students' understanding of volume and ability to find volumes of triangular prisms. This less...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVisualizing Informational Text
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Professional Development, Mathematics and 2 additional..Visualizing is a reading comprehension strategy that can be applied to science-themed texts, according to this article from Beyo...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVisual Patterns in Tessellations
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Professional Development, Mathematics, Curriculum Design, Education, Child Development & Family ServicesThis lesson is designed to introduce students to tessellations and where they appear in nature, art, etc. The lesson provides li...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVenn Diagrams
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Angles & Pythagorean Theorem, Professional Development, Mathematics and 3 additional..This lesson is designed to introduce students to sorting objects/elements using Venn diagrams. This lesson provides links to dis...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnivariate and Bivariate Data
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Curriculum Design and 2 additional..This lesson is designed to introduce students to the difference between univariate and bivariate data, and how the two can be re...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnit Plans: The Sun and Earth's Climate
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Heat & Thermodynamics, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning and 12 additional..In this article, teachers find two unit plans (grades K-2 and 3-5) that use resources featured in the science and literacy artic...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnit Plans That Teach Foundational Climate Concepts
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Heat & Thermodynamics, Instructional Strategies and 9 additional..Four unit plans provide opportunities for in-depth explorations of important foundational climate concepts -- weather, water as ...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnit Plans: Earth's Climate Changes
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth & Space Science, Human Anatomy & Physiology and 8 additional..Unit plans for Grades K-2 and 3-5 are a regular feature of the magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle. The plans draw on ar...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnit Plans About Organisms, Their Adaptations, and Their Environments
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Evolution and Adaptation, Current Science and 13 additional..Unit plans at two levels, K-grade 2 and grades 3-5 develop understanding of the issue theme, We Depend on Earth's Climate, by fo...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnexpected Answers
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Probability, Professional Development, Mathematics, Curriculum Design, Education, Child Development & Family ServicesThis lesson is designed to introduce students to statistical situations where the probabilities or outcomes might not be what is...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnderstanding Earth's Climate: Virtual Bookshelf
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Heat & Thermodynamics, Agriculture & Natural Resources and 7 additional..This list of children's books recommends nonfiction titles that supplement basic information found in lessons and activities of ...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTriangle Area
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Angles & Pythagorean Theorem, Professional Development, Mathematics and 5 additional..This lesson is designed to introduce students to calculating the area of right triangles. This lesson provides links to discussi...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTree Diagrams and Probability
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Probability, Professional Development, Mathematics, Curriculum Design, Education, Child Development & Family ServicesThis lesson is designed to develop students' ability to create tree diagrams and figure probabilities of events based on those d...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTranslations, Reflections, and Rotations
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Algebra & Functions, Angles & Pythagorean Theorem, Professional Development and 3 additional..This lesson is designed to introduce students to translations, reflections, and rotations of objects on the Cartesian coordinate...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Sun and Earth's Climate: Virtual Bookshelf
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Heat & Thermodynamics, Earth & Space Science and 3 additional..This book list contains children's books that have been screened for accuracy in depicting scientific concepts. Each book's cont...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Mandelbrot Set
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Number Sense, Measurement & Geometry, Angles & Pythagorean Theorem, Professional Development and 3 additional..In this activity, students can zoom in on the Mandelbrot set and Julia sets for different C-values. At any point, students can c...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Mandelbrot Set
Grades: 6 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Measurement & Geometry, Professional Development, Mathematics, Curriculum Design, Education, Child Development & Family ServicesThis lesson is designed to develop students' understanding of complex numbers, iterations, and two variable functions by introdu...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Biosphere/Climate Connection
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Heat & Thermodynamics, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Evolution and Adaptation, Current Science and 24 additional..This article continues an examination of each of the seven essential principles of the climate sciences on which the online maga...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0