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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: Instructional Strategies, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Technology, 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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, Measurement & Tools 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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, Measurement & Tools 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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Instructional Strategies, Mathematics, Professional Development 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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, Professional Development, Curriculum DesignThis 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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, Angles & Pythagorean Theorem 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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Mathematics, Measurement & Tools, Professional Development 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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Our Solar System, Mathematics, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere 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: Our Solar System, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Ecology & Ecosystems, Physics 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: Instructional Strategies, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems 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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Mathematics, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, 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, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Mathematics, Professional Development, Curriculum DesignThis 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: Our Solar System, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems 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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, Measurement & Tools 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, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Mathematics, Professional Development, Curriculum DesignThis 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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Algebra & Functions, Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics 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: Our Solar System, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Professional Development, Heat & Thermodynamics 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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, Angles & Pythagorean Theorem 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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, Professional Development, Curriculum DesignThis 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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Nuclear Energy, Ecology & Ecosystems 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