Document: Exploring the Environment(coral reef) Abstract: Officials of the United Nations Environmental Program with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, have recently become concerned with news from scientists throughout the world that coral reefs are dying at alarming rates. The officials have called together representatives from nations around the world to examine the problem and make recommendations on what is to be...

Document: GRASP Food Web Activity Abstract: Students will investigate why the vegetable and flower gardens at the local state park and surrounding neighborhoods are being destroyed by deer and rabbits.  Students will be Jr. State Park Rangers.  They will help the state park Ranger Lily Greer discover why the surrounding neighborhood gardens, small shrubs and trees are being eaten to the...

Document: Biome Project Abstract: Students will demonstrate an understanding that the Earth is one interconnected system. 

Document: Symbiosis GRASPS Abstract: For the student to demonstrate that they are able to identify the common forms of symbiosis – competition, mutualism, commensalism, predation, parasitism – and accurately describe each form (the roles of each organism plays, whether the organism is harmed or not, and describe the interaction).

Document: Childrens Book of Ecology Performance Document: Ecology Children’s Book Rubric Abstract: In class we will be discussing many aspects of ecology and there will be many terms that will need to be memorized.  I will help you to achieve this by asking you to produce a children’s picture book based on the knowledge that you acquire in and out of the...

Document: Solar Energy Lab Abstract: Here comes the sun!  In this experiment, we’ll try to harness the sun’s energy. Try to conduct the two parts of this experiment back-to-back, so that the sunlight will be of approximately equal intensity.

Document: Design a Non-Profit Abstract: Students will understand and describe availability, allocation and conservation of energy and other resources

Document: Topsoil Tour Lab Abstract: Completing this worksheet, you should be able to answer the following questions: What is pH? What does the pH of a solution tell you about that solution? What are the nutrients that plants need to grow? How do plants use nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous?

Document: Topsoil Tour Post Lab Abstract: Completing this worksheet, you should be able to answer the following questions: What is pH? What does the pH of a solution tell you about that solution? What are the nutrients that plants need to grow? How do plants use nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous?

Documents: Effects of a Closed Environment Lab Activity-2 Abstract: We must understand the interdependent relationships between photosynthesis and animal respiration before we can proceed in developing systems that will allow long term survival in space. Utilizing the processes of photosynthesis and respiration, students investigate living organisms in a closed environment