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Homes Heating Up- A Hermit Crab Investigation

Overview

In this lesson, students will conduct an investigation to discover how the behavior of hermit crabs change as water temperature changes.

Goals

Students will understand and practice the steps of a science investigation through an investigation about hermit crabs’ reaction to changing ocean temperature. Students will understand that as ocean temperatures increase some animals will adapt and some will

Resource Details
Lesson
Antarctic
Less than a week
Elementary and Up
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A Whale of Importance to the Arctic People

Overview

Elizabeth Eubanks M.Ed (working with Angela Gilmour, Anne Jensen, Danielle Dickson, Leslie Pierce, and Rachel Potter) connected with PolarTREC and NOAA TAS. This lesson is inspired by the need to share the importance of the Bowhead Whale in relation to the culture of arctic people. It is a portion of an entire collaborative unit to be utilized between

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Lesson
Arctic
Less than a week
All Aged
n/a
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You are the Archaeologist

Overview

In this lesson, students learn about what archaeologists do and then practice implementing these skills with "real artifacts".

Objective

Students will: * be able to define an artifact and an archaeologist. * use evidence to support their decisions about the origin and use of an unknown item.

Preparation

Some of the objects that have worked well

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Lesson
Arctic
About 1 period
Middle School and Up
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