This live, interactive electronic field trip to a North Carolina estuary is conducted on two dates each year. Previous field trips are stored for non-interactive access. Teachers can access resources on such topics as estuarine and coastal monitoring, management, cultural traditions, invasive species, and habitat restoration. The lesson plans include grade level and standards applicable for technology, ... Full description.

The purpose of the ESS activities associated with the GLOBE 1987 Global Patterns Poster is to help students understand the broader global context for local GLOBE measurements. Students discover patterns in global maps of environmental data, interpret those patterns, and draw conclusions and make predictions based on them; communicate those interpretations and predictions; and develop an understanding ... Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan discusses how weather predictions are made by meteorologists and the function of certain weather instruments. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, materials, activities, and closure ideas for the lesson. The Classroom Connectors address content with an activity approach while incorporating themes necessary to raise the activity to a ... Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan teaches young students that our Solar System is composed of many objects which revolve around a star, the Sun. In this lesson students learn about the Earth-Moon-Sun system, satellites, orbits, rotation and revolution. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, materials, activities, and closure ideas for the lesson. The Classroom Connectors ... Full description.

After an introduction that explains the life cycle of both medium and massive stars, the book offers twelve related activities. Level 1 activities are suitable for primary students and involve ordering, drawing, matching, and word puzzles. The level 2 activities, which start with a four square activity and include doublets, word spirals, matching, and a decision box maze, are suitable for intermediate ... Full description.

This activity uses role-playing to demonstrate the connection of the planets to the sun, a very abstract concept for primary age children. Students will make models to represent the planets in comparative size, use their models to demonstrate revolution and rotation of the planets around the sun, and learn the definitions of the terms "revolution", "rotation", and "orbit". Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan teaches young students about the effects of changing atmospheric conditions on weather. Students learn about air masses, fronts, pressure changes, and other conditions that change weather. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, materials, activities, and closure ideas for the lesson. The Classroom Connectors address content with an activity ... Full description.

This activity will aid in the understanding of high and low pressure behavior, vacuums, and molecular structure. Students play the roles of "air molecules" to simulate high and low pressures, and use balloons to simulate clouds. They should be able to describe high and low pressure areas, identify a front, and explain why areas of high pressure seek areas of low pressure. There is also a suggestion ... Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan is designed to develop in young students an understanding of how rocks and soil move through a continuous cycle on Earth. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, materials, activities, and closure ideas for the lesson. The Classroom Connectors address content with an activity approach while incorporating themes necessary to raise the activity ... Full description.

This activity is designed to help students fully understand our planet's relationship to the Sun. Students will make predictions and measure shadows over a period of time to observe that the length of a shadow (and the angle of the Sun's rays to the Earth) changes each week. They should conclude from their data that the position of the Earth relative to the Sun changes with the seasons. Full description.