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Environmentally Friendly

For Teachers 4th - 8th
What can your pupils do to promote better conditions for wildlife? After researching issues around wildlife management, class members use the Internet to locate three different organizations devoted to protecting wildlife. They then...
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Wildfire: Friend or foe?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore positive and negative effects of wildfire and analyze positions on fire management. They conduct library research to uncover as much about wildfires and prescribed burns as they can. Students participate in a role-play...
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Teaching with Nature

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students participate in a nature walk to learn about their natural environments. In this nature study lesson plan, students brainstorm a list of things to look for on their nature walk. Students go on the nature walk and locate objects...
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Wild Dog Debate

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students participate in a mock conference addressing the possible extinction of African wild dogs. For this wild dogs lesson plan, students state their arguments and ask questions about the issues they have researched.
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Grizzlies: Back from the Brink

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the grizzly bear and the struggle for the grizzly bear to come back from the brink of extinction.
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Sharkland Wiki

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, while researching the waters around southern Africa and viewing a video of the episode "Sharkland" from Thirteen's series NATURE, critique reliability of online resources and analyze the various components of a wiki. They...