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Plant Power: A WebQuest for 4th Grade: Process. What Goes Where? Composting for Kids. The Dirt on Decomposers: Crash Course Kids #7.2. Plastic Bag Ban - Behind the News. Plastic Bag ban | News, Videos & Articles. Museum of Science and Industry: Simple Machines Game. Lesson Plans - Waste and Our World. Grand Lake Meadows. SIM. Pollinators—Busy doing what? Why leaves change color - Untamed Science. Every fall in the deciduous forests of the world, there is a miraculous change in the color of the leaves. They turn from green into brilliant shades of yellow, orange, red, and purple. Sometimes you can see several shades on the same leaf. But why are these color changes happening, and what is going on in the plant? Fortunately, that’s the topic of this Untamed Science video. If our video didn’t answer all your questions, read more below about exactly what’s happening in the plant.

The changing leaf colors you witness each year boil down to a few chemicals in the leaves. ChlorophyllCarotenoidsAnthocyaninsTannins Chlorophyll The leaves of plants are responsible for absorbing light from the sun to convert it into energy for the plant. Chlorophyll is green because of the way it absorbs light; the pigment absorbs the blue and yellow wavelengths but not the green. Carotenoids This is a family of pigments that are almost always present in the leaves. Anthocyanins Tannins. Growing our wheat | Grainchain. Too Good to Waste. Video Field Trip - Landfill. Home : Green Calgary. Waste in Our World – Sample Inquiry Based Learning Project : EmTech – Emerging Technologies in K-12 Classrooms. How do we Manage Waste in our World? Video Instructions Essential Question : How do we manage waste in our world? Instructions: Complete your learning contract, choosing one subsidiary questionGenerate 2-4 telling questions to answerUse the web resources below as well as class notes, handouts, print resources, and/or library books to help answer your telling questionsRecord your answers to your telling questions on a graphic organizer or on paper.

Please print or handwrite your answers and do so in point formComposting Graphic OrganizerandRecycling Graphic OrganizerCreate your end product to demonstrate your understanding. My Information Sources Composting Nature’s Recycling Coloring Book Discovery Kids Worm World – Worms as RecyclersWorm Composting Photo PresentationComposting for Kids Recycling Sort it Out – ACCESS and City of EdmontonThe “Return it” StoryRecycling Photos you can BorrowRecycling Video – Discovery Education Streaming General Waste Management Extra Time Activities. Garbage - Landfills and Dumps - an educational ecology video. ASN | Thank you. Main | Inside Education.

PowerKnowledge Life Science. Kindergarten Topic List. Simple Machines Links. Lever and Screw Simple Machines Lesson. 20. Sing Simple Machines Song & Review. “Simple Machines Song” (Tune: Yankee Doodle) (Variation from this lesson.) When it’s moved by force we call it work, but here’s what I’ve been told: Use any simple machine to help and ease that heavy load.

The inclined plane is like a ramp, a ladder, stairs, or hill. Increase the distance = reduce the work. Mechanical Advantage thrill. The wedge is used to separate, lift, or hold in place. Our levers come three different ways, depending on the fulcrum. The screw just turns to do its job - like opening your juice. The wheel and axle turns around to help you get things going: Uphill, downhill, straight ahead, your force or distance growing. The pulley uses cord or ropes or even chains or strings. CHORUS: Wheel and axle, pulley, wedge Screw, inclined plane, lever When you learn to use simple machines You’ll show you are so clever. TEACHER/FAMILY 4: YOU WILL NEED: words to the song. Episode Guides | Bill Nye the Science Guy. Part 2 - Gear Jammin' with Bill Nye. Part 1 - Gear Jammin' with Bill Nye. MbenassiVille | UserVille | wonderville. Science Grade 4.

Articles for Kids. Stories for Kids - Learning Today by Stories for Kids - Learning Today. Science A-Z: Internet-delivered, Leveled Elementary Science Units. The Story of Stuff | Sustainability Classroom Resources at Resources for Rethinking. This video provides a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. Using cartoon graphics, host Anne Leonard explores the many connections between global economic, environmental, and social issues, and challenges us to create a more sustainable world. By exploring the life cycle of manufactured goods, the video highlights the role that governments and large corporations play in encouraging us to spend and consume at the expense of dwindling resources, environmental degradation and unfair labor practices.

A lesson plan to support the video can be found here. Recommendation of how and where to use it This video could be used as an effective introduction to the study of sustainable consumption. It would motivate discussion on the role of government and big corporations in promoting and benefitting from our spending.