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The Climate Change, Wildlife and Wildlands Toolkit for Formal and Informal Educators is an updated and expanded version of the award-winning and very popular Climate Change, Wildlife and Wildlands Toolkit for Teachers and Interpreters, which was first published in 2001. The kit is designed for classroom teachers and informal educators in parks, refuges, forest lands, nature centers, zoos, aquariums, science centers, etc., and is aimed at the middle school grade level. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in partnership with six other federal agencies-National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA, NASA, U.S. Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management-developed the kit to aid educators in teaching how climate change is affecting the Nation's wildlife and public lands, and how everyone can become climate stewards.

Get started: see the full video, browse Toolkit materials, and explore America's eco-regions.

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The Webbing Tool provides a free-form graphic organizer for activities that ask students to pursue hypertextual thinking and writing. The tool provides a quick way for students to trace out options and rearrange connections. Students can use the Webbing Tool to analyze readings as well as a prewriting activity and flowcharting tool. Students can drag the circle or box shapes representing their ideas to arrange any layout and relationship that they want. Each layer on the chart will have a different color border for the shapes that you choose. Customized versions of the tool, which include additional instructions and more focused choices, are included with some lessons.

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Force and Motion: StudyJams! Science | Scholastic.com

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Whenever there is a change in motion, force is the responsible party. This activity will teach students more about how force and motion are related.

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With close to 1 billion acres of protected lands and waters providing habitat for thousands of species and unrivaled outdoor recreational access for millions of Americans, Defenders of Wildlife is celebrating the remarkable legacy of the National Wildlife Refuge System today as we kick off National Wildlife Refuge Week, October 8-14.

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Defenders of Wildlife works on the ground, in the courts, and on Capitol Hill to protect and restore imperiled wildlife and habitats across North America. Together, we can ensure a future for the wildlife and wild places we all love.

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Advancing Climate Change Environmental Education
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Earth has a history of climate change

Changes in the sun, the Earth's orbit, ocean currents and volcanic eruptions are natural effects on climate. Studies of tree rings, glacial layers, ocean sediment, pollen remains, sedimentary rocks, coral reefs and air trapped in bubbles in ice cores, reveal a climate record going back hundreds of thousands of years. Fossil records show that in the past 490 million years dramatic changes in climate have caused at least five mass extinctions. Some studies estimate that the current rate of extinction is 100 times faster than what would occur without human impact.

The climate is changing now

Indicators that the climate is changing include: rising mean temperatures; rising ocean temperatures; increased ocean acidity; sea level rise; decrease of ice in the Arctic and Antarctic; and retreat of almost all alpine glaciers. Recent studies show that the paths and speed of the northern jet stream (large rivers of wind high in the atmosphere) are shifting because of warmer temperatures in the Arctic-bringing colder winters

Today's climate change is from human causes

The dominant cause of present-day climate change is the increase in carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere by human activities.* Higher concentrations of greenhouse gases are the predominant cause of warming temperatures-geological history shows that as levels of greenhouse gases increased, the earth warmed. Climate change will likely be one of the main drivers of extinction in the 21st century because of the speed at which average temperatures are warming-faster than at any time in the last 15,000 years.
* 97% of active climate scientists agree that today's climate change is caused by human activities
Species are at risk of extinction

A global mean temperature rise of 2 to 3 °C will greatly increase the percentage of species at risk and amplify the dangerous impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems. If an ecosystem is already degraded from other causes not related to climate, such as pollution, a species is less resilient or likely to adapt. The animals shown here illustrate the wondrous diversity of life on Earth, and also highlight the many ways climate change puts all forms of life on the planet, including humans, at risk.

The Animals at Risk from Climate Change educational poster presents a succinct overview of the fundamental impacts of greenhouse gases-the causes, effects and risks to all forms of life on the planet.

By highlighting 25 animals selected for their vulnerability to climate change, the complex interaction of biological traits and environmental conditions that cause a species to be susceptible are made simple and understandable through illustrations, key graphics and brief explanatory text.

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The 75 page downloadable presentation includes all illustrations, keys, text and charts from "Animals at Risk from Climate Change"-a unique and timely companion to the wall poster. The flexible PDF platform functions both as a carefully sequenced slide show and a set of printable handouts.

"The presentation is extremely valuable for my work and teaching....You present some of the findings better than I have in the original study."
~Wendy Foden, Chair, IUCN Climate Change Specialist Group: Species Susceptibility to Climate Change Impacts

Without the constraints of the printed format, we have added a 15 page appendix detailing the complexities of topics that include: the sixth mass extinction; scientific consensus; education and climate change; volcanoes; water vapour; abrupt climate change; mitigation; and geoengineering.
A useful tool for classroom or public demonstrations; the synergy that comes from many people coming together and reaching a collective awareness has power and can be the start of awareness and change.
Please note: the purchase of the presentation is intended for a single user. We are a small non-profit organization, so if you would like to share or distribute additional copies, we ask that you purchase them, make a donation, or contact us and let us know. Many thanks.
Comprehensive and rigorously annotated to reliable sources, these resources are valuable, timely and relevant educational aids. If you are an educator, activist, retailer, or interested in becoming a sponsor to enable free distribution to teachers, please contact us at mm@theglobaleducationproject.org or 250 895 4327.

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Animals Affected by Climate Change - Animals Affected by Climate Change

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How is Climate Change is affecting wild animals? Learn about 25 animals from around the world that highlight the fundamental impacts of greenhouse gases - causes, effects and risk of extinction - on all forms of life on the planet.

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How Volcanoes Form

In 1980 in Washington, after 123 years of hibernation, Mount St. Helens erupted. The blast destroyed and scorched 230 square miles (370 square kilometers) of forest within minutes. The eruption released an avalanche of hot ash, gas, steam, and rocks that mowed down giant trees up to 15 miles (24 kilometers) away.

When magma finds a way to escape from beneath the earth's surface, it creates a volcano.

Volcanoes erupt in different ways. Some, like Mount St. Helens, explode. Explosive eruptions are so powerful, they can shoot particles 20 miles up (32 kilometers), hurl 8-ton boulders more than a half mile (0.8 kilometers) away, and cause massive landslides. Explosive eruptions also create an avalanche of hot volcanic debris, ash, and gas that bulldozes everything in its path. Explosive volcanoes cause most of the volcano-related fatalities.

Volcanoes, like Mauna Loa in Hawaii, are effusive. Rather than a violent explosion, lava pours or flows out. Fatalities from effusive volcanoes are rare because people can usually outrun the lava. However, some people get too close or become trapped with no escape. The flowing lava burns, melts, and destroys everything it touches including farms, houses, and roads.

A volcanic eruption forever changes the landscape. Though volcanoes destroy, they also create mountains, islands, and, eventually, incredibly fertile land.

Carpet of Ash

Volcanic eruptions can cause damage hundreds of miles away. Volcanic ash causes airplane engines to fail, destroys crops, contaminates water, and damages electronics and machinery. The ash carpets the ground, burying everything, sometimes even causing buildings to collapse. Mount St. Helens produced more than 490 tons of ash that fell over a 22,000 square mile (56,980 square kilometer) area and caused problems in cities 370 miles (600 kilometers) away.

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Fossils tell stories of what the world was like long ago. This activity will teach students about the way fossils are studied and preserved.

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Matter Anything that has a mass and a volume

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The periodic table is an arrangment of the chemical elements ordered by atomic number so that periodic properties of the elements (chemical periodicity) are made clear.

Explore the chemical elements through this periodic table

The standard form of the periodic table shown here includes periods (shown horizontally) and groups (shown vertically). The properties of elements in groups are similar in some respects to each other.

There is no one single or best structure for the periodic table but by whatever consensus there is, the form used here is very useful and the most common. The periodic table is a masterpiece of organised chemical information and the evolution of chemistry's periodic table into the current form is an astonishing achievement.

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Periodic Table Key

The periodic table we use today is based on the one devised and published by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869.

Mendeleev found he could arrange the 65 elements then known in a grid or table so that each element had:

1. A higher atomic weight than the one on its left. For example, magnesium (atomic weight 24.3) is placed to the right of sodium (atomic weight 23.0):

The True Basis of the Periodic Table

In 1913, chemistry and physics were topsy-turvy. Some big hitters - including Mendeleev - were talking seriously about elements lighter than hydrogen and elements between hydrogen and helium. Visualizing the atom was a free-for-all, and Mendeleev's justification for a periodic table based on atomic weights was falling apart at the seams.

This is the story of how Henry Moseley brought light to the darkness.

2. Similar chemical properties to other elements in the same column - in other words similar chemical reactions. Magnesium, for example, is placed in the alkali earths' column, with other elements whose reactions are similar:

Mendeleev realized that the table in front of him lay at the very heart of chemistry. And more than that, Mendeleev saw that his table was incomplete - there were spaces where elements should be, but no-one had discovered them.

Just as Adams and Le Verrier could be said to have discovered the planet Neptune on paper, Mendeleev could be said to have discovered germanium on paper. He called this new element eka-silicon, after observing a gap in the periodic table between silicon and tin:

Similarly, Mendeleev discovered gallium ( eka-aluminum) and scandium ( eka-boron) on paper, because he predicted their existence and their properties before their actual discoveries.

Although Mendeleev had made a crucial breakthrough, he made little further progress. With the benefit of hindsight, we know that Mendeleev's periodic table was underpinned by false reasoning. Mendeleev believed, incorrectly, that chemical properties were determined by atomic weight. Of course, this was perfectly reasonable when we consider scientific knowledge in 1869.

In 1869 the electron itself had not been discovered - that didn't happen for another 27 years.

In fact, it took all of 44 years for the correct explanation of the regular patterns in Mendeleev's periodic table to be found...

Read More... The Periodic Table continued

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Department of Mathematics and Science What physical properties do all solids have in common? solids The particles in solids are close together and vibrate in place. For this reason: A solid has its own definite shape and definite volume. A solid keeps its shape even when it moves.

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Fact Monster - A Trusted Reference Site for Kids

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Fact Monster is a free reference site for students, teachers, and parents. Get homework help and find facts on thousands of subjects, including sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education, and health.

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Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home.

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students can add to their portfolios

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ClassDojo helps teachers, parents, and students build amazing classroom communities.

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IXL is here to help you grow, with immersive learning, insights into progress, and targeted recommendations for next steps. Practice thousands of math, language arts, and science skills at school, at home, and on the go!

Remember to bookmark this page so you can easily return.

To get started:

1. Sign in with your username and password on this page. Please ask your teacher if you don't know this information.

2. Take the Diagnostic and visit the Recommendations page for skills that are picked just for you! Or, explore skills by grade or topic.

3. Choose a skill and let the learning begin!

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IXL is here to help you grow, with immersive learning, insights into progress, and targeted recommendations for next steps. Practice thousands of math, language arts, and science skills at school, at home, and on the go! Remember to bookmark this page so you can easily return. To get started: 1.

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In Step with STEM and WILD Work :: Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies

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This page contains detailed information about Project WILD's In Step with STEM and WILD Work sections from the K-12 terrestrial guide.

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Science News Explores publishes news from all fields of science for students from middle school and up, with resources for parents and educators.

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Instantly access over 40,000 of the best books & videos for kids on Epic

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If you are looking for help preparing yourself, your students, or your children for the Virginia Standards of Learning tests in elementary or middle school Social Studies and Science, you have come to the right place. Request a trial password here if you are visiting this site for the first time.

Solpass activities are intended to supplement, not replace, solid classroom instruction by providing review of the specific concepts and information that the students are likely to encounter in the classroom and on the SOL end-of-year tests. By making test preparation easy and convenient, we hope to encourage excellent classroom instruction, which need not be sacrificed for narrowly focused "teaching to the test".

New Science Standards will be implemented in the 2020-21 school year.

In 2018, the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) adopted new standards in science. The new standards will be taught beginning in the 2020-21 school year and tested in the spring 2021 testing season. SOLpass guides and activities will be updated to reflect the new standards before classroom implementation begins in the fall of 2020.

VDOE reduces the number of SOL tests

In 2014, Virginia eliminated the following five elementary and middle school SOL tests: Grade-3 Science, Grade-3 Social Studies, U.S. History to 1865, U.S. History 1865-Present and Grade-5 Writing. The curriculum will be taught, as before, with classroom assessments occuring throughout the school year.

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If you are looking for help preparing yourself, your students, or your children for the Virginia Standards of Learning tests in elementary or middle school Social Studies and Science, you have come to the right place. Request a trial password here if you are visiting this site for the first time.

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this site also provides students with a good explanation of the steps involved in developing a science fair project!

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How fast an object is moving, 1. Energy of motion; 2. Stored energy, Any push or pull that causes an object to move, stop, or change its speed or direction, Resistance to motion created by two objects moving against each other

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Tammy Maxey, Administrator and Yasuko Mitsuoka Grow, Designer

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This teacher and kid friendly web site provides educators and students with information, lesson plans, activities, and state contacts to increase agricultural literacy.

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Making Predictions & Identifying Outcomes

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Making Predictions & Identifying Outcomes

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Scientific Inquiry: Outcomes and Predictions: StudyJams! Science | Scholastic.com

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Identifying possible outcomes is one way to make predictions. In this activity, students will learn about outcomes and predictions.

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Scientific Theory: StudyJams! Science | Scholastic.com

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Scientists make theories about how things work and then they test them. Students will learn more about scientific theory and evidence with this activity.

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Tools of Measurement: StudyJams! Math | Scholastic.com

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Not sure when to use a yardstick? This activity will teach students about the different tools of measurement and when each one will come in handy.

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Scientific Methods: StudyJams! Science | Scholastic.com

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Scientists use the Scientific Method to organize their observations and test their theories. This activity will teach students all about these methods.