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Peer-reviewed, classroom-ready NGSS-aligned lesson plans, activities, data puzzles, virtual field trips, and design challenges covering environmental hazards, climate change, mental health, Earth systems, community resilience, and more.  

Lesson Plans & Activities

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Be a Water Detective Take & Make Kit

This Take & Make Kit will help you become a water detective so that you can tell the story of water in your community!

 Student's use tools to make observations about how water shapes the surface of our planet and how water supports and is impacted by the life that calls Earth home. Through these observations, water detectives are able tell meaningful stories about water.
STEAM Activity
Action Project
Elementary School
Middle School
We are Water logo with birds and a sun and the subtitle, "connecting communities" on the bottom.
"¡Sé un detective del agua! LIBRO DE CAMPO TODO-TIEMPO GEOLÓGICO"
Sé un detective del agua | Be a Water Detective Take & Make Kit

This Take & Make Kit will help you become a water detective so that you can tell the story of water in your community!

 Ser un detective del agua significa ser un buen observador. Los y las detectives del agua se fijan no solo en cómo el agua cambia la superficie de nuestro planeta, pero también en cómo el agua soporta la vida terrestre y es en turno afectada a su por los seres vivos que llaman a la Tierra su hogar.
eBook
STEAM Activity
Action Project
Elementary School
Middle School
We are Water logo with birds and a sun and the subtitle, "connecting communities" on the bottom.
Polarstern and Fedorov frozen in the ice. Photo: Adelyn Arens
VR Expedition: MOSAiC Distributed Network

This is part of a collection of VR experiences. 

 Take a virtual tour of the MOSAiC Distributed Network, Fedorov, in this virtual experience. This is a stand-alone resource that is part of a MOSAiC VR collection
Virtual field trip
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
University/College
Out-of-school/Non-formal
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Precipitation Patterns Around the Globe

Project EXTREMES lessons were written to be stand alone lessons but can be incorporated into a larger unit.

 Students apply their knowledge of the water cycle to investigate how annual precipitation patterns are related to geography and biology. 
Lesson
Elementary School
Middle School
Extremes
Soil erosion shows roots of trees by side of road, trees are gray and so is the ground
Soil Percolation: Where Does the Rain Go?

Project EXTREMES lessons were written to be stand alone lessons but can be incorporated into a larger unit.

 This lesson activity has students conduct an experiment that reinforces one component of the water cycle.
Lesson
STEAM Activity
Elementary School
Extremes
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