In this activity, students are given roles in a skit designed to illustrate how a salt marsh works and how the organisms in it interact with each other.

Students will examine the soils of a tropical montane cloud forest. As they visit a series of panooramas, they will record data about the soil's color, water content, organic content, and other characteristics. Students will then create two trend graphs: one which represents the relationship between altitude and water content, and another that relates altitude to organic content. Students will then suggest explanations for each trend.

Students will use “bottle” experiments to observe changes in the decomposition of vegetable scraps. Students vary temperature, moisture, and light conditions to determine the conditions that best facilitate the decomposition of organic material in soil.

Students examine infrared Landsat images that show the city of Kathmandu in different years in order to analyze the urban development of Kathmandu and seasonal changes.

This multimedia resource, part of the NC Science Now series, describes how agricultural researchers at NC State University and local NC farmers have developed and implemented technologies to help strawberries bloom and produce fruit in a less than ideal climate. Components of this resource include a video and a related blog article. Links to these components are provided on the page under the heading "UNC-TV Media."

In this lesson, students explore how an excess of sunlight affects a plant's ability to perform photosynthesis.

Resources include active webpages with text about major topics associated with climate change issues and a music video for the song "Take Aim at Climate Change." The lyrics in the rap music video provide background content information about the causes and effects of global climate change. A supplemental page links footnoted information in the lyrics to additional web resources.

Students will learn about the process of transpiration and the environmental factors that can change transpiration rates in plants. Students will examine data sets gathered from the tropical montane cloud forest of Monteverde, Costa Rica and media from Canopy in the Clouds to deepen their understanding of how hot water in an ecoystem can affect transpiration.

In this lesson, students will explain how plants respond to external stimuli to enhance survival in an environment.

Students will use data sets to examine meteorological conditions in the cloud forest over a one year period. Students will graph the data and interpret their results to make a case for (or against) seasons in the cloud forest.

Sixth Grade Integrated Science textbook for the 2018-2020 school year. This textbook was developed to align to the Utah Science Core Curriculum. (Updated: May 29, 2019)

Students use satellite imagery to explore natural environments on the African continent and their geographical distribution in vast banded areas.

In this series of activities, students compare Earth and Mars and investigate whether or not life could be possible on Mars. Students will also identify characteristics of living organisms.

In this activity, students take a water sample from a local waterway and collect, draw, or take photos of the plants growing nearby, also noting the color of the soil. They will then test the pH of the water sample to investigate the connection between acidity, soil health, and plant growth.

Students will read and analyze climate and biome maps, describe geographic and quantitative patterns, and compare and contrast regional data. This activity is part of "Investigating Your World With My World GIS," a set of activities designed for use with My World GIS software (which can be downloaded at www.natgeoed/myworldgis) to help students learn key content and practice spatial problem solving.

This project will raise student awareness of the problem of waste and waste management in our community. As we progress through the unit the goal is to reduce the amount of waste that our school produces. There are many ways to do this but the most unique aspect is to reduce biodegradable waste from our cafeteria through the process of vermicomposting. Students will design and create worm bins to reduce our cafeteria waste. The project will take a couple of weeks for the content and the construction of worm bins and then we will monitor our worm bins throughout the school year.

This encyclopedia entry is for the term "autotroph." An autotroph is an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals. Because autotrophs produce their own food, they are sometimes called producers. Text for this entry is appropriate for the middle and high school grade levels.

This is an encyclopedia entry for the term "ecosystem." An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. Text for this entry is appropriate for the middle and high school grade levels.