Content Themes: Changes in earth and sky

Objectives Students will: discover the impact of soil conditions on rainwater absorption learn gardening practices to help increase moisture absorption Central Concepts Water does not penetrate well in some soil conditions, ...

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By:  NGA Editors Overview Students investigate the relationship between plants and soil. Materials: Student observation journa ...

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C hallenge older students to explore the sun's seasonal movements by determining the average height of the sun at noon in each of the school year seasons. Establish a viewing spot where obser ...

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By:  Eve Pranis "Our homes have locks on the door, latches on the window, and insurance policies in the dresser drawer.... Meanwhile, outside our windows, every rains ...

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Seeking Climatic Clues "Because my seventh graders were interested in exploring how the climate differed throughout our region, we found e-mail pals at a school in another part of the ...

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Tracking Blooms "When we began the PlantWatch Project, my sixth graders were tickled by the idea that plants can tell us things we wouldn't know if we didn't look at them," reports Pe ...

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Investigating Weather "Our lives are so affected by weather-related changes that occur throughout the year here in the North, that my third graders and I regularly track signs of seas ...

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"When I asked my second through fifth graders what soil was, they concurred that it was just made of dirt," reports St. Louis, MO, teacher Brenda Kukay. "But after dissecting and inspecting soils from different contexts, then trying to create some from ...

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Here are some suggestions from classroom teachers to spark student understanding and investigations of weather and climate. Make rain! Have students cut the top off a clear plastic soda bottle about one-fourth of the way down the bottle. Pour so ...

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Weather describes the variations that occur in the atmosphere from day to day, while climate refers to the typical weather found in an area based on years of observations. To understand these concepts, it helps to understand what influences climate. ...

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