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When Precipitation Patterns Change-Part B: Visualizing Drought Indicators
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In this activity, students will develop a working definition of drought and do a hands-on demonstration to understand the role of soil moisture in drought. Students will also examine precipitation data and streamflow levels and use them to predict where drought is most severe in the United States. Students will check their predictions by comparing them to the U.S. monitors drought severity layer.

Subject:
Earth Science
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Author:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College and its partners
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Where's the Water?-Introduction Part Two of Five
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In this lab, students will analyze data and interpret graphs and charts that show the distribution of the world's water. Students will develop a sense of where the world's water is, as well as where it's going.

Subject:
Earth Science
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Author:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College and its partners
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Where's the Water?-Part A: Worldwide Water Distribution
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In this lab, students will analyze data and interpret graphs and charts that show the distribution of the world's water. Students will develop a sense of where the world's water is, as well as where it's going.

Subject:
Earth Science
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Author:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College and its partners
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Where's the Water?-Part B: Water in Motion
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Part A of this lab talks about where Earth's water is, but not about where it's going. Interactions between the sun's energy and Earth's gravity keep water moving through the water cycle at all times.

Subject:
Earth Science
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Author:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College and its partners
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Where's the Water?-Part C: Available Water
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In this activity students will learn about the available water in the world. Students will look at projections of the amount of freshwater available in the future.

Subject:
Earth Science
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Author:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College and its partners
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Who Lives Here? Investigating and Sorting Schoolyard Insects
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In this lesson, students learn how to make and use pit traps to collect bugs. They wiill then sort the bugs into categories according to their visible characteristics and create a class graph showing what they collected.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Author:
Pat Hegge
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Will the Cup of Water Overflow?
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In this lesson, students predict what will happen when ice melts in a cup of water. The students observe the ice melting in the water all day, and participate in a class discussion at the end of the day to explain why the water did not overflow. Some vocabulary terms used are volume, displaced, and expand.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Author:
Mary Haliburton
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Writing to Support the Theory of Plate Tectonics
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In this activity, using images that depict earthquakes, seafloor ages, topography, and volcanoes, students will make a scientific argument that supports the Theory of Plate Tectonics. They will explore an area that contains a plate tectonic boundary and craft a paper using scientific-discourse categories.

Subject:
Earth Science
English Language Arts
Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Author:
Sabina F. Thomas and William A. Prothero
Date Added:
02/26/2019
You Greedy Energy User
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In this activity, students record their energy usage of particular appliances and devices over a certain period of time in order to become more aware of their energy consumption.

Subject:
Earth Science
Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Author:
Lawrence Marquette
Date Added:
02/26/2019