Climate Change: Reduction Gr. 5-8

Climate Change: Reduction Gr. 5-8
Title Climate Change: Reduction Gr. 5-8 PDF eBook
Author Erika Gasper-Gombatz
Publisher Classroom Complete Press
Pages 64
Release 2008-09-01
Genre Education
ISBN 1553199251

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Explore creative ways to reduce human consumption and output in an effort to help clean up our planet and reduce operating costs. Advocates and skeptics of Climate Change will both benefit from our valuable resource. Start by looking ahead at Earth's future and finding out how warm it will get. Design your own dream car that runs on alternative fuel. Research different transportation choices in your region and create a pamphlet to showcase them. Find out about product life cycles and what industries can do to lower their emissions. Create a plan of your own green city that will run completely on clean energy. Learn how green buildings work and what components go into creating this fascinating technology. See what other countries are doing to create communities free of carbon dioxide emissions and waste. Then, find out what you can do to lower your own greenhouse gas emissions. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on activities, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Climate Change: Effects Gr. 5-8

Climate Change: Effects Gr. 5-8
Title Climate Change: Effects Gr. 5-8 PDF eBook
Author Erika Gasper-Gombatz
Publisher Classroom Complete Press
Pages 64
Release 2008-09-01
Genre Education
ISBN 1553199243

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Students gain an understanding of the effects of climate change on the environment and human life. Our resource explores how the evolution of human society is affected by the climate. Start by going back in time and exploring the ice ages from Earth's past. Learn about the lives of early humans, and how climate has affected where they move and live. Observe a homemade melting ice sheet to understand its effect on sea level. Then, create a model to show rising sea level in action. Find out if climate change has any effect on the rise of extreme weather experienced in recent years. Learn about the dangers to human health, such as mosquitoes, heat stroke and pollution. See how changes in climate affect an area's economy by virtually destroying the farming industry. Finally, choose one ecosystem and find out how climate change is affecting it. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on activities, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Climate Change: Causes Gr. 5-8

Climate Change: Causes Gr. 5-8
Title Climate Change: Causes Gr. 5-8 PDF eBook
Author Erika Gasper-Gombatz
Publisher Classroom Complete Press
Pages 64
Release 2019-04-17
Genre Education
ISBN 1553199235

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Provide students with insight into the science of our atmosphere and the effects of humanity's actions on the Earth System. Our resource gives a scientific perspective on climate change that will help students separate fact from fiction. Investigate the different layers of the atmosphere. Conduct an experiment to see just how an object's color affects how much radiation it absorbs. Find out what effect rising temperatures have on Earth's oceans. Create your own model of the carbon cycle. Explain how the residence time of methane in the atmosphere could help people fight climate change. Learn what effects ozone has on human health. See firsthand how nitrogen-fixing bacteria can replace nitrogen fertilizers. Figure out why synthetic gases were banned, and how long their effects will stay in the atmosphere. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on activities, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Climate Change Big Book Gr. 5-8

Climate Change Big Book Gr. 5-8
Title Climate Change Big Book Gr. 5-8 PDF eBook
Author Erika Gasper
Publisher Classroom Complete Press
Pages 174
Release 2008-09-01
Genre Education
ISBN 155319926X

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Get a well-rounded look at the causes, effects, and reduction of Climate Change with our 3-book BUNDLE. Start by providing insight into the science of our atmosphere with Climate Change: Causes. Create your own model of the carbon cycle. See firsthand how nitrogen-fixing bacteria can replace nitrogen fertilizers. Next, understand the Effects of Climate Change on the environment and human life. Observe a homemade melting ice sheet to understand its effect on sea level. Then, create a model to show rising sea level in action. Finally, explore creative ways to Reduce human consumption and output. Design your own dream car that runs on alternative fuel. Find out what you can do to lower your own greenhouse gas emissions. Each concept is paired with hands-on activities. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Reading Comprehension Gr. 5-8

Reading Comprehension Gr. 5-8
Title Reading Comprehension Gr. 5-8 PDF eBook
Author Brenda Rollins
Publisher Classroom Complete Press
Pages 64
Release 2009-09-01
Genre Education
ISBN 1553199154

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A child’s ability to read and comprehend the written word is his touchstone to success in school and in life. Designed to teach the reading skills that are basic to reading fluency, our resource emphasizes the primary building blocks of reading acquisition. Start off by identifying the main idea of a passage. Find out how details will point to the most important part of a story. Then, use graphic organizers to help identify context clues. Find out what questions to ask before drawing conclusions. Gather all the facts and prior knowledge to help. Learn all about making inferences, and how clues from the text and your own knowledge and experiences will tell you what the author is trying to say. Discover the differences between facts and opinions. Learning to read between the lines will help with comprehension. Finally, discover transition words as you learn about sequencing. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, reproducible writing tasks, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Economy & Globalization Gr. 5-8

Economy & Globalization Gr. 5-8
Title Economy & Globalization Gr. 5-8 PDF eBook
Author Erika Gasper-Gombatz
Publisher Classroom Complete Press
Pages 64
Release 2010-01-01
Genre Education
ISBN 1553199642

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Learn how the global economy functions and how the world relies on each other to survive. Our resource debates the pros and cons of nationalization and privatization as it relates to the global economy. Review the early history of currency, from the barter system to metal money, then finally what we use today. Go back to the Great Depression and act out a scene to showcase the economic hardships faced by people living during this era. Hold a panel discussion on international immigration policy. Design your own multinational company and write a business plan. Write a case study about a particular example of outsourcing. Conduct a class debate about whether or not trends towards economic globalization have been good for people around the world. Practice exchanging world currencies using up-to-date currency exchange rates in an international airport. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional hands-on activities, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

American Government Gr. 5-8

American Government Gr. 5-8
Title American Government Gr. 5-8 PDF eBook
Author Brenda Rollins
Publisher Classroom Complete Press
Pages 62
Release 2007-03-01
Genre Education
ISBN 1553199553

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Break down the complicated system that is the American government to discover how it all works. Our resource explores the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the federal government to make it easier to understand. Learn what a government is, its roles, and why we need it. Recognize that there are several different kinds of government, like constitutional monarchy, dictatorship and representative democracy. Determine which kind of government embodies the United States. Find out the purpose of the Constitution and what rights citizens have within their government. Make a list of the main ideas for each of the amendments to the Bill of Rights. Move through the systems of government to discover how a bill becomes a law. Become the president and solve three problems your country is having. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional writing tasks, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.