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        Fire Assessment

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
        Subjects: Curriculum Design, Professional Development, Number Sense, Mathematics and 2 additional..
        In this activity, students select the probability that a fire will spread from one tree to another in a simulated forest fire. A...
        Contributor: The NSDL Math Common Core Collection
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        Angles

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
        Subjects: Curriculum Design, Professional Development, Mathematics, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Measurement & Geometry
        In this activity, students practice comparing angles when a transversal intersects two parallel lines. This activity allows stud...
        Contributor: The NSDL Math Common Core Collection
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        Number Cruncher

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
        Subjects: Multiplication & Division, Professional Development, Curriculum Design, Coordinate Systems & Graphing and 5 additional..
        In this activity, students enter inputs into a function machine. Then, by examining the outputs, they must determine what functi...
        Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
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        Is It a Mammal?

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Classification, Structure and Function in Living Things
        This formative assessment item uncovers misconception and student ideas about classifications of mammals. It will uncover how st...
        Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)
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        Is It a Fossil?

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Evolution and Adaptation
        This formative assessment item is used to uncover students' ideas about fossils before a lesson has begun. Students will determi...
        Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)
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        Where are the Volcanoes?

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Earth's Resources, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere
        This formative assessment item discusses common misconceptions about volcano location around the world. Resources include backgr...
        Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)
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        Weather at the North and South Poles

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Heat & Thermodynamics and 3 additional..
        This formative assessment item is used to uncover student ideas about weather at the North and South Poles. It will help to dete...
        Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)
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        What to Wear?

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Our Solar System and 2 additional..
        This formative assessment item uncovers student understanding of weather and seasons. It uncovers student ideas about difference...
        Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)
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        Where Do Penguins Live?

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Classification, Structure and Function in Living Things
        This formative assessment item uncovers students' prior knowledge about the distribution of penguin species throughout the world...
        Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)
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        Glaciers and Rocks

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Earth's Resources, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere
        This formative assessment item uncovers students' ideas about glacial erosion and how glaciers transport rocks and other sedimen...
        Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)
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        Melting Icebergs

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources
        This formative assessment item uncovers student ideas and misconceptions about melting icebergs. It determines if students belie...
        Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)
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        Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Curriculum Design, Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Instructional Strategies
        The concepts that underlie the fourth essential principle of climate literacy ("Climate varies over space and time through both ...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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        Professional Bookshelf: Print Publications

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Science and 5 additional..
        Highlighted in this regular magazine feature are exemplary professional development publications that stress research-based stra...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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        Essential Principle 1: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Curriculum Design, Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Education, Child Development & Family Services
        This article provide a list of learning objectives and excerpts from the K-8 content standards of the National Science Education...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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        Lapbooks: Getting Creative with Science in the School Library

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Life Sciences, Current Science, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Our Solar System and 15 additional..
        In this article, the author shows how school librarians and elementary teachers can help students create science lapbooks. The a...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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        Professional Bookshelf: Print Publications

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Learning Theories, Instructional Strategies
        Highlighted in this regular magazine feature are exemplary professional development publications that stress research-based stra...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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        Unit Plans That Teach Foundational Climate Concepts

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Our Solar System, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Professional Development, Earth & Space Science 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)
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        Essential Principle 2: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Life Sciences, Current Science, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Geology & the Dynamic Earth and 18 additional..
        This article aligns the concepts of Essential Principle 2 of the Climate Sciences to the K-5 content standards of the National S...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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        Unit Plans About Organisms, Their Adaptations, and Their Environments

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Life Sciences, Current Science, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning 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)
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        Professional Bookshelf: Print Publications

        Grades: Graduate
        Subjects: Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Learning Theories, Instructional Strategies
        Books about teaching reading and science skills along with content to K-Grade 5 children are identified in this continuing featu...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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