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        Angles

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
        Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Curriculum Design, Professional Development, Mathematics, 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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        Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Curriculum Design, Professional Development, 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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        Essential Principle 1: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Earth & Space Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Curriculum Design, Professional Development
        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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        Essential Principle 2: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, History-Social Science, Heat & Thermodynamics 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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        Fire Assessment

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
        Subjects: Number Sense, Professional Development, Probability, Education, Child Development & Family Services 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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        Glaciers and Rocks

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Geology & the Dynamic Earth
        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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        Is It a Fossil?

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Evolution and Adaptation, Professional Development, Geology & the Dynamic Earth
        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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        Is It a Mammal?

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Life Sciences, Classification, Professional Development, 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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        Lapbooks: Getting Creative with Science in the School Library

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, History-Social Science, Heat & Thermodynamics, Current Science 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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        Melting Icebergs

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development
        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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        Number Cruncher

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
        Subjects: Number Sense, Addition & Subtraction, Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family Services 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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        Professional Bookshelf: Print Publications

        Grades: Graduate
        Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Learning Theories, Professional Development, 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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        Professional Bookshelf: Print Publications

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Learning Theories, Professional Development, 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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        Professional Bookshelf: Print Publications

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Science, Professional Development 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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        Unit Plans About Organisms, Their Adaptations, and Their Environments

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Evolution and Adaptation, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Life Sciences, Classification 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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        Unit Plans That Teach Foundational Climate Concepts

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Instructional Strategies, Light, Sound & Other Waves, Heat & Thermodynamics 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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        Unit Plans: The Sun and Earth's Climate

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Instructional Strategies, 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)
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        Weather at the North and South Poles

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Earth's Resources, Heat & Thermodynamics, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Professional Development 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: Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Geology & the Dynamic Earth 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 are the Volcanoes?

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Geology & the Dynamic Earth
        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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