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Teaching Resources



Worksheets

Theme: Environmental Issues

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  • Too Much Trash!
    Description:
          Read the pie chart to find out what Americans are throwing away in the trash.

  • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
    Description:
          Encourage students to recycle with this chart-reading reproducible.

  • Power Up with Nature
    Description:
          A chart highlighting renewable energy sources

  • Where Does the U.S. Get Its Energy?
    Description:
          A pie-chart activity on U.S. sources of energy in 2004

  • A Greenhouse Gas
    Description:
          Give your students practice reading a pie chart with this reproducible that shows the sources of man-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

  • Cause and Effect
    Description:
          Challenge students to fill in the graphic organizer with three effects of global warming and show what they learned about other stories in this week's issue.

  • Earth Day Challenge
    Description:
          Use these questions to identify some ways we use natural resources everyday

  • Get Water-Wise
    Description:
          Study a graph to find out how much water Americans use at home each day

  • Water Smart
    Description:
          Students complete a graphic organizer based on the story "Water Worries."

  • TFK Earth Day Challenge
    Description:
          A problem-solving reproducible on ways to conserve resources

  • "READ ALL ABOUT IT!"
    Description:
          Students can reflect on what they have learned about coral reefs with this worksheet.

  • Calculate Your Daily Water Use
    Description:
          Have students calculate how much water they use in a day.

  • What's Causing the Crisis?
    Description:
          Use a Venn diagram to organize the environmental and human causes of the coral-reef crisis

  • The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming
    Description:
          Use a detailed diagram to examine the greenhouse effect and global warming

  • The Great Honeybee Mystery Teacher's Guide

  • A Brighter Future
    Description:
          Students compare an energy-saving compact fluorescent lightbulb with a regular incandescent lightbulb.

  • Energy in the House
    Description:
          Have students read a pie graph to learn how energy is used in the average American home.

  • A Special Sailboat
    Description:
          Students read a diagram to learn about an Earth-friendly boat.

  • A Nature Observation
    Description:
          Use this graphic organizer to help students observe nature.

  • Spread the Word
    Description:
          Students use the cover story "Take It from Nature" to complete a graphic organizer and plan a speech about biomimicry.

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