National Science Education Standards.

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson is the first of a two-part series on where food comes from. These lessons are intended to help students understand that most of the food they eat comes from farms....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: The purpose of this lesson is to help students identify the various natural resources used to produce common items and to understand how people use science and technology to produce those items. The lesson is meant to help students develop an understanding of what many of the common items we use every day are made of...

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This resource allows students to look at different kinds of materials; to identify the properties of materials and their suitability for different purposes. In this investigation, the familiar tale of The Three Little Pigs is used as an introduction to materials and manufacturing....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This mini-collection aligns with Earth and Space Sciences Benchmark C: Describe Earth's resources including rocks, soil, water, air, animals and plants and the ways in which they can be conserved. The theme of this collection is conservation through waste management and recycling....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This Teacher Fact Sheet on Natural Resources provides helpful information about renewable and nonrenewable natural resources, recycling, the impact of resource consumption on ecosystems, a brief list of natural resources and the products and services produced from them, and much more. The fact sheet is part of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's The Quest for Less, a K-8 program that provides hands-on lessons and activities, enrichment ideas, journal writing assignments, and other educational tools related to preventing and reducing waste....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Students are asked to select the option that best explains why watering vegetables with ocean water is or is not a good idea. This multiple choice question is a sample test item used in past National Assessments of Educational Progress (see About NAEP)....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: The information provided in this PDF file will be helpful to teachers planning lessons on wetlands. Information includes types of wetlands, the series of events that occur in a wetland from early spring through winter, and a glimpse of the diverse kinds of plants and animals that inhabit wetlands....

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