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Showing 1,898 results for chemical changes in matter ...
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students learn the difference between physical and chemical changes in matter, and go for a hike to observe both in nature. At stations, students explore how rocks are weathered by both physical and chemical changes. Students then observe the mechanisms scientists use to measure ozone in the lower atmosphere and act out the chemical changes that destroy ozone in the upper atmosphere.
Perspectives After the Surrender at Appomattox CH
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This program will allow students to think about the different perspectives of those who lived through the Civil War, and how various viewpoints interpreted the events surrounding the Surrender Meeting at Appomattox. This program consists of several assignments designed to help students explore these differences through the stories of three people present at Appomattox Court House in 1865.
No Laughing Matter
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Voice Matters
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Always Changing
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Working in three teams, students will use reference material to create and present a play showing 100 years of change for each forest type.
Climate Change Kit
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Wolverines and Climate Change
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will demonstrate an understanding of specific adaptations that have prepared the pika and wolverine to survive in cool climates with harsh winter conditions. Students will additionally demonstrate an understanding of timescales and evolution, and how due to the increased speed of global temperature rise, climate change can have negative effects on these mammals despite their ability to adapt.
Changes at Log City
A Map Changed by Destiny
Why Water Matters
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The Cuyahoga River gained national attention when TIME magazine published the infamous burning river photograph in 1969. Though the incident helped propel improved standards in water quality nationwide and ultimately helped inspire the Clean Water Act, we continue to struggle as a nation with water quality issues. Explore the topic of water quality with your students and help them discover that water quality issues are a global environmental problem.
Every Decision Matters
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Stay or go? Obey or resist? For slaves, every choice had life-altering impacts. When choosing to seek her own freedom, Harriet Tubman risked her life and health and left behind the only community she had ever known. To stay meant she risked sale and continued to live in the limited and brutal conditions of slavery. To return so her loved ones could experience freedom risked a return to slavery but offered new life. What factored into a slave's choices?
Climate Change: A Warming Planet
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Our world is always changing. Look out your window long enough and you might see the weather change. Look even longer, and you'll see the seasons change. The Earth's climate is changing, too, but in ways that you can't easily see. Round-n-round the Earth goes, where change may happen nobody knows! This program will help students understand the changes occurring in the Earth’s climate, its impact on local ecosystems and help them discover ways to help.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Define the mission of the National Park Service. Name three national park areas and their significant features. Explain how Shenandoah protects plants and animals, specifically the Shenandoah salamander. Identify three environmental/human influences that can impact the ecosystem of the Shenandoah salamander. Describe potential consequences to the Shenandoah salamander's survival. Explain three ways that individuals can help reduce the impact of human-accelerated climate change.
Changes in the Landscape: Weathering and Erosion
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Climate Change Scavenger Hunt
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Climate Change & Bird Range
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Tule Springs Expedition Research Learning Center partners with our local Audubon Society Chapter to participate in the Climate Watch bird survey citizen science project. Citizen scientists across North America report the data they collected during these surveys to help document how bird species are responding to climate change and shifting their ranges. This activity explores how different climate change scenarios may affect bird populations locally. Author: Jake Johnson & Lauren Parry
Exploring Seasonal Changes with Phenology
Ever-Changing Currents Mini-Lesson
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade