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Climate change is a highly integrated process that is regulated by both positive and negative feedback loops. This worksheet provides detailed explanations of seven phenomena and will allow students to determine how feedback loops impact climate change. At the beginning of the worksheet, students are introduced to the topic of feedback loops through illustrations and explanations of both positive and negative feedback loops. This resource helps students work towards achieving the NGSS-HS-ESS2

Have your students measured their ecological footprint? Have you challenged them to reduce their ecological footprint? Empower with knowledge about how to reduce their ecological footprint through this engaging this gallery walk scavenger. In this gallery walk scavenger hunt, students move from card to card, searching for answers to find the hidden phrase. The hidden phrase puzzle provides the perfect motivation to capture the students' attention and get them to read and reread passages to fin

Waste management and its influence on groundwater and soil pollution are vital concepts for our students to understand. This STEM design challenge asks students to explore landfill composition and consider ways to improve their efficiency in order to reduce human impact on the environment. This activity may help you teach the way to reduce human impact on the ecosystem, as a part of NGSS-MS-ESS3-3 or NGSS-HS-ESS3-4. Suggested time for this activity is about 3 hours, divided over multiple clas

Encourage your students to explore how each biome adds richness and benefits to humans through this ecosystem services project. This resource includes: - Powerpoint lesson with definitions and examples of ecosystem services - Doodle diagram notes in 2 versions - Poster guidelines - Editable rubric - Bulletin board letters in 4 color formats (GIVE THANKS FOR WHAT NATURE DOES FOR US) - Bulletin board board- in green tree and fall leaves versions Other Biome Resources by Make Them Think:⭐

This cap and trade classroom simulation activity was designed to actively engage students in exploring not only the process of cap and trade, but also the advantages and disadvantages of the system. Students should have a basic understanding of what the cap and trade market is before beginning this activity. Other concepts they should understand are supply, demand, market equilibrium, surplus and deficit. This activity is designed for groups of 4 students, but can be played as a whole classroom

Are your students curious about the polar vortex and how it changes our weather? Help them answer their questions and engage them in this gallery walk. In this gallery walk scavenger hunt, students move from card to card, searching for answers to find the hidden word. The hidden word puzzle provides the perfect motivation to capture the students' attention and get them to read and reread passages to find the answer. Ten short reading passages correspond to ten questions help solve a puzzle to f

This debate, formatted to occur in a real-time or virtual, online format, will encourage students to think through the opinions of various stakeholders in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). With an ever increasing need for oil resources, multiple oil companies have proposed to harvest in the ANWR. However, how this land and others like it are managed is a multi-faceted issue that must be explored from numerous points of view. This debate will encourage students to think through the op

This concept map allows students to create connections between types of tectonic plate movements and the geographical features that result. It can be used to reinforceme the NGSS Disciplinary Core Idea ESS2.B, which is taught at Grade 4, Middle School, and High School levels. Grade 4- "Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions- The locations of mountain ranges, deep ocean trenches, ocean floor structures, earthquakes, and volcanoes occur in patterns. Most earthquakes and volcanoes

Bees play an invaluable role as pollinators in our ecosystem. Additionally, they supply food and health products that produces billions in revenue each year. Use this resource to celebrate World Bee Day, May 20th, or any day you wish to help your students understand the value of a bee. In this gallery walk scavenger hunt, students move from card to card, searching for answers to find the hidden phrase. The hidden phrase puzzle provides the perfect motivation to capture the students' attention

Are your students watching the solar eclipse? Do they know what causes this amazing phenomenon? This fun, engaging, and low prep activity will teach them how. In this gallery walk scavenger hunt, students move from card to card, searching for answers to find the hidden phrase. The hidden phrase puzzle provides the perfect motivation to capture the students' attention and get them to read and reread passages to find the answer. Ten short reading passages correspond to ten questions help solve a

Media is full of information about climate change, but how much of that is supported by scientific evidence. This resource provides a rubric for a persuasive essay that challenges students to support a thesis about the cause of climate change. Related Products ⭐ OIL DRILLING IN THE ALASKAN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE- DEBATE ⭐ Plate Tectonics Concept Map- NGSS ESS2.B Aligned ⭐ North American Biomes Cross-curricular Project-- Science and Social Studies ⭐ Keystone Species Video Activitie

Provide the opportunity for your students to review connection between convention current cycles and the locations of biomes on the globe! For success in this activity, students should have explored the impact convention currents have on the formation of biomes and their locations throughout the globe. I like to use this activity as a formative assessment for this content, helping both the students and me identify what ideas are understood clearly and where there are misconceptions. Concept maps