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NOAA Fisheries

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In this lesson, the students will work in groups to learn about biotic and abiotic things as well as producers, consumers, and decomposers.  They will compare and contrast two different aquatic ecosystems and find out how salmon are involved in both ecosystems.  The students will create diagrams that show the interaction between aquatic ecosystems.  The lesson will begin with a phenomenon video called Exploring Ecosystems: Coastal Food Webs by the California  Academy of Science.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVJ5BKcAhAg
Then the students will create different food chains and food webs from aquatic ecosystems. The lesson finishes with a whole group discussion about their findings while completing the activity.

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The Concord Consortium

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In this simulation the students are acting like a scientist by conducting their own experiment with the movement of matter through an ecosystem with foxes, hawks, rabbits, and grass. As the students through the simulation, they will be asked to answer questions, make a hypothesis, explain their thinking about the simulations, and make some conclusions about their learning. This is student led with the teacher being the facilitator, keeping the students engaged with the simulation.

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The goal of this activity is to give students the opportunity to "think like a scientist," making hypotheses, doing experiments, making observations, and analyzing data. Students are encouraged to construct and conduct their own experiments with ecosystems comprising grass, rabbits, and up to two predator species: hawks and foxes.

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NOAA.gov

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In this lab activity the students learn about particles in solids liquids, and gases.  The students view two demonstrations showing that matter particles move faster when heat is added.  They record their observations and answer some questions.  The students will observe the demonstrations of food coloring being added to hot and cold water, placing a empty bottle in hot water, and conduct an investigation with a film of bubble and hot water bottle.  The students will notice that the food coloring in the hot water spreads faster than the food coloring in the cold water. They will find that particles move faster when heated and slow down when heat is removed.

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NOAA Fisheries

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The objective of this lesson is to recognize that salmon are a keystone species.  The lesson provides the students with information about changes to the  population of  keystone species and the major effects it can have throughout an ecosystem. The lesson dives into looking at food chains in ecosystems and how salmon are a major part of many ecosystems.  The students learn that if the population of salmon decreases there are some major consequences for many ecosystems.  The students begin by looking at different ecosystems and try to identify keystone species.  As the students begin to find the keystone species there is a class discussion about salmon being a keystone species.  The last part of the lesson the students look for keystone species that are endangered or threatened.  They then research why they are endangered or threatened and create a poster board on how individuals can help.

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Make Handprint Art Using Ultraviolet Light 

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Make Handprint Art Using Ultraviolet Light 

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Space Place NASA.gov

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In this activity the students will look at UV Light and how it changes the dye of the paper because of a chemical reaction.  The activity has the students use sunscreen on their hands, place them on construction paper, and then leave them in the sun to see the reaction of the dye in the paper.  After some time in the sun, the paper where the handprints are not located fade and the handprints remain the same color.  The students will find out that during a chemical reaction that substances change to form new substances that cannot be changed back.

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Make Handprint Art Using Ultraviolet Light! | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

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We can’t see the sun’s ultraviolet light with our eyes, but with this simple activity we can observe the effects of UV light.

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PHET University of Colorado

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In this simulation the students will look at different matter and adjust the heat level to observe the matter in different phases.  They will see the particle's movement and space as well. The students will describe particle movement as heat and pressure is added to the container. The students will recognize that different substances have different properties that can be looked at and tested.

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Heat, cool and compress atoms and molecules and watch as they change between solid, liquid and gas phases.

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The Wonder of Science

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This phenomenon is a video showing the mixing of three different materials using a sealed bag to show the conservation of mass and creating new substances.  This video shows the conservation of mass by measuring the bag before and after the reaction.  In addition, it is an example of an exothermic reaction.  The bag contains phenol red and when the other materials are added there is a PH change which changes the color.  This video would be used as the phenomenon at the beginning of the lesson or unit.

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Description: This video shows a chemical reaction of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), calcium chloride (road salt), and an indicator phenol red. The chemicals react to form calcium carbonate, sodium chloride, and carbon dioxide gas. This changes the pH inside the bag resulting in a color change in the phenol red. As much air as possible should be removed from the bag as possible to show the production of the gas. This could be used as an example of chemical reaction that releases energy (exothermic). Since the bag is sealed it could be massed before and after to show the conservation of mass (atoms). This phenomenon was submitted by Brian Babulic.

Web Resources: Reaction in a Bag - Flinn Scientific, American Chemical Society - Explanation

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Reaction in a Bag - The Wonder of Science

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Description: This video shows a chemical reaction of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), calcium chloride (road salt), and an indicator phenol red. The chemicals react to form calcium carbonate, sodium chloride, and carbon dioxide gas. This changes the pH inside the bag resulting i

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Exploring Endangered Species: Plum Landing

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Exploring Endangered Species: Plum Landing

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PBS Learning Media

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In the lesson students take a closer look at food chains, food webs, ecosystems, and human impact. The students will research an endangered species in their area and come up with a plan to protect it.  The students watch a video of animal's habitat in the city and by schools.  The students will learn about ecosystems, food webs, food chains, interdependent relationships with organisms, and human impact on an ecosystem.

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Exploring Endangered Species | PLUM LANDING™ | PBS LearningMedia

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In this lesson, students learn about ecosystems, food webs, and human impact on ecosystems as they develop a plan to protect an endangered species that lives in their state.

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PBS Learning Media

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In this lesson the students learn about solids, liquids and gases and recognizing that a chemical reaction can happen when mixing two substances.  They will observe chemical reactions that have results they can observe and will complete one everyday for a week. They will watch the teacher conduct demonstrations where chemical reactions happen and when they do not happen.   Then they will build a canister rocket to show a chemical reaction.  The final question ask the students an open ended question : Where does rust come from?"

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Substances and Chemical Reactions | PBS LearningMedia

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Students gain experience in distinguishing between solids, liquids, and gases and how you know when a chemical change has occurred.

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PBS Learning Media

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The simulation shows an ice cube melting into a liquid when heat is added and then eventually the liquid water changes to a gas, steam.  The gas particles in the simulation are moving fast and taking up all the available space which includes the air itself.  The students will observe the movement of the particles as heat is added and removed from the ice or liquid water. The students will record their observations and make a concluding statement about phases of matter and moving particles.

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Melting and Boiling Simulation | PBS LearningMedia

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Observe the motion and temperature of water molecules in this simulation as heat is applied to a beaker containing an ice cube. As the ice cube melts, the water molecules are freed from their trapped state and can now roam about the glass beaker as a liquid.

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This resource is a phenomenon through the use of a video of humpback whales and their feeding habits.  In the video the humpback whales are circling underwater creating bubbles that produces a wall around fish.  The fish are trapped in a column of water and then the whales move in to feed on the fish. This would be used at the beginning of a lesson or unit and the students would write down three observations and two questions they have about the phenomenon.  As a class the students would discuss their observations and share their questions.

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This site is a curated collection of science phenomena for the NGSS, along with phenomenon based learning resources and help for how to use phenomenon to drive student questions in the classroom centered around 3 dimensional teaching and learning.

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Wyoming PBS Education Collection

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Students learn about composting from the Wyoming PBS composting worms program.  Then students will set up a composting bin using earth worms and record their findings based on their observations.   The students will watch the worms break down organic matter creating casting which provide  nutrition for gardens.  Students will learn about the movement of matter and the importance of decomposers.

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Learn about composting in this video from WyomingPBS Compost Worms, and then set up composting bins and make observations. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Students will understand how decomposers are important in the movement of matter. Students will learn how decomposers (worms) recycle organic waste that was once energy from the sun back into the soil.