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Cleaning with Dirt
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Learners build a filter from old soda bottles and dirt. They create polluted water, and pour it through their filter to clean it.
Dripping Wet or Dry as a Bone?
Learners investigate the concept of humidity by using a dry and wet sponge as a model. They determine a model for 100% humidity, a sponge saturated with water.
Earth's Energy Cycle: Albedo
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In this activity, learners experiment and observe how the color of materials that cover the Earth affects the amounts of sunlight our planet absorbs.
Pesticide Watch Card
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After learning that some of the chemicals we add to food crops may have harmful consequences on our health and the health of the environment, learners will create a pocket-sized card with their favori
Arctic Story Puzzles
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This activity has three story puzzles learners can solve to learn about life in the Arctic.
Pollution and Lung Health
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Learners will build a lung model to understand how their lungs and diaphragm work to make them breathe.
Our Beautiful World
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In this Bob the Builder(TM)-themed activity, learners go on a nature walk outside and describe what they observe using their senses.
Wrap It Up!
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In this Energy and Environment activity (page 9 of the PDF), learners calculate the mass of a piece of gum, compare it to the mass of the gum's packaging, and then create a bar graph of the results.
Symbol Search
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In this environmental activity (page 6 of the PDF), learners identify household products that are recyclable and explore the different types of recyclable plastics.
Envirolopes
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In this outdoor activity and observation game, learners hunt for a variety of textures, colors, odors and evidence of organisms in the activity site.
Learning the Land
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In this activity, learners will take a step back and learn the history of the land they live on, and the people who used to live on it.
Trash Traits
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In this activity on page 24, learners perform experiments to examine whether or not trash can float, blow around, or wash away.
Paper Maker
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Learners make their own paper. They start by shredding old newspaper, clean toilet paper, and clean paper towels.
A Day in the Life of a San Francisco Native Animal
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In this activity, students will learn some key information about a San Francisco native animal and then write a firsthand account of their experience from the perspective of that animal in the time be
Pollution Diffusion
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Learners design their own experiment to investigate how pollution diffuses through ground material.
Build a Coral Polyp
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In this activity, learners build one or more edible coral polyps and place them together to form a colony.
Sustainable Fishing
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In this activity, learners use a model for how fishing affects marine life populations, and will construct explanations for one of the reasons why fish populations are declining.
Plants Around a Building
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In this outdoor activity, learners discover how the environment around a building affects the growth of plants.
Carbon Cycle Poster
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In this activity, learners gain knowledge about how carbon moves through all four of the Earth’s major spheres (biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere), and understand how humans influenc
Caring Together: Activity Stations
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In this Bob the Builder(TM)-themed activity, learners explore the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) by rotating through several activity stations.