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Lesson 3: The Value of a Water Footprint (Middle School)

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Lesson 3: The Value of a Water Footprint (Middle School)

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Session 1 of this lesson begins with a quick activity to get students thinking about their direct and virtual water use. It introduces a few new ideas for virtual water use that may surprise students, including the virtual water required for the products we buy and use. Then students form marketing teams to explore five categories of water use (indoor, outdoor, diet, electricity, and buying habits) and create infographic posters to share what they learn. Then, in Session 2, students remain in five teams to audit the school's indoor and outdoor direct water use as well as several categories of virtual water use: food, energy, and electronics. They use what they learn to create a strategic conservation action plan that incorporates their How to Save Water awareness campaign in an effort to decrease the school's overall virtual water use. The lesson can be conducted as a short project or a more comprehensive capstone project.

This is the third of the three-part Lessons for Understanding Our Water Footprint: Middle School Lesson Plans.

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Subject:: Biology; Business and Communication; Earth and Space Science; Hydrology; Life Science; Management; Political Science; Social Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 06/10/2022

Lessons on River Ecosystems

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Lessons on River Ecosystems

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The lesson activity titles are:

What are systems? (Purpose: to have students understand what a "system" is, in the broadest sense)
How is the natural environment of the tribal community a system? (Purpose: to tie what students learned during the year about the tribal community and its natural environment to the concept of what a "system" is)
How did settlers of European descent change the tribe's ecosystem? (Purpose: to explore the connections between what European settlers did to the tribe's ecosystem and what the effects have been on the ecosystem)
What can be done? What should be done? (Purpose: to explore and evaluate policy options for future environmental sustenance)

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Subject:: Biology; Earth and Space Science; Hydrology; Life Science; Political Science; Social Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 09/28/2022

Let's Design a Farmer's Market: Lesson 3 Digging Deeper, Unit 5 Agriculture and Business, DIGS AmeriCorps Curriculum CSU

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Let's Design a Farmer's Market. This is the Lesson 3 Digging Deeper activity, from Unit 5 Agriculture and Business, from the DIGS (Developing Individuals, Growing Stewards) AmeriCorps Curriculum from CSU. The curriculum focuses on introducing students in grades 3-5 to Colorado agriculture, industry and environmental issues. The curriculum upon request. Visit: https://engagement.colostate.edu/programs-old/developing-individuals-growing-stewards/

Let's Go to Market: Lesson 1 Exposure Activity, Unit 6 Food Products and Processing, DIGS AmeriCorps Curriculum CSU

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Let's Go to Market. This is the Lesson 1 Exposure Activity, from Unit 6 Food Products and Processing, from the DIGS (Developing Individuals, Growing Stewards) AmeriCorps Curriculum from CSU. The curriculum focuses on introducing students in grades 3-5 to Colorado agriculture, industry and environmental issues. The curriculum is matched to State Standards 2021. The curriculum upon request. Visit: https://engagement.colostate.edu/programs-old/developing-individuals-growing-stewards/

Let’s Talk About Suicide: Raising Awareness and Supporting Students

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"Let’s Talk About Suicide: Raising Awareness and Supporting Students" includes a facilitator’s guide with handouts and a PowerPoint presentation. This adaptable resource offers a sensitive, respectful, and detailed training on suicide awareness and response. It can be used for two-hour synchronous training or for self-study.

Subject:: Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: BCcampus
Author:: Barbara Johnston; Dawn Schell; Jewell Gillies; Liz Warwick
Date Added:: 07/23/2021

Letting Off Some Steam

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In this lesson, students will explore the invention of the steamboat and the role it played in the economy, transportation, and culture of the lifestyles of plantation owners, yeoman farmers, slaves, and townspeople of early nineteenth-century Alabama. Students will compare and contrast steamboats, wagons, and stagecoaches as different modes of transportation for goods as well as people. Students will create a steamboat advertisement to illustrate the importance of the invention of the steamboat in Alabama. This lesson was created in partnership with the Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Social Science
Material Type:: Lesson Plan
Provider:: Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX)
Date Added:: 04/05/2023

Libro: Niñez, familia, y comunidad (Laff y Ruiz)

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Libro: Niñez, familia, y comunidad (Laff y Ruiz)

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Un capítulo utilizado en el curso EDUC 204 Families, Communities and Culture.

Subject:: Early Childhood Development; Education; Social Science
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: LibreTexts
Date Added:: 05/02/2023

Life Story: Sarah "Madam C.J." Breedlove Walker

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Life Story: Sarah “Madam C.J.” Breedlove Walker (1867-1919): Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy, and Black Beauty Culture
The story of America’s first self-made black female millionaire and how she built a beauty empire that celebrated and empowered black women.

Subject:: History; Social Science; U.S. History; Women's Studies
Material Type:: Primary Source; Reading
Author:: New-York Historical Society
Date Added:: 05/09/2023

Lifespan Development

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This is an updated version. Introduction to Lifespan Development (Fall 2019)
Lifespan Development examines the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional changes that occur throughout a lifetime. This course covers the essentials in understanding human development, psychological research, and theories of growth and development. Students will come to understand the lifespan perspective and to analyze growth through each of the major stages of development: prenatal development, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood (including emerging adulthood), middle adulthood, and late adulthood. The course covers key topics in each of these stages, including major developmental theories, genetics, attachment, education, learning, disabilities, parenting, family life, moral development, illnesses, aging, generativity, and attitudes towards death and dying.

Faculty members may readily adapt the course’s OER content to include new developments and research to equip students with what they need to have success in their sociological journey.

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This course, based on Lifespan Psychology by Laura Overstreet, includes additional material from the Noba Project, OpenStax Psychology, and additional noteworthy contributions by the Lumen Learning team and:

Sarah Carter
Margaret Clark-Plaskie
Daniel Dickman
Tera Jones
Julie Lazzara
Stephanie Loalada
John R. Mather
Sonja Ann Miller
Nancee Ott
Jessica Traylor

Subject:: Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: Lumen Learning
Date Added:: 05/02/2023

Lifespan Development

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Welcome to the study of human growth and development, commonly referred to as the womb to tomb course because it is the story of our journeys from conception to death. Human development is the study of how we change over time. Although this course is offered in psychology, this is a very interdisciplinary course. Psychologists, nutritionists, sociologists, anthropologists, educators, and health care professionals all contribute to our knowledge of life span.

Subject:: Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Full Course; Textbook
Provider:: Lumen Learning
Provider Set:: Candela Courseware
Date Added:: 05/02/2023

The Lifestyle Project

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The Lifestyle Project

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The Lifestyle Project is a way for students to learn about environmental alternatives by modifying their own lifestyles. It is a three-week exercise for students to reduce their impact on the environment by changing the way in which they live from day to day. The project has fairly rigid parameters, allowing students to achieve a gradual but definitive change in their everyday habits. Students choose three categories from a list of six: heat, garbage, electricity and water, driving, eating, and activism. For each category the rules are clearly defined, such as turning down the heat three degrees or eliminating the use of the car. Each week the project becomes more rigorous, because students will have to meet the requirements more frequently. They write about their experiences in journals, which are incredibly insightful, illustrating just how profoundly the project affects them.

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Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Applied Science; Biology; Earth and Space Science; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Hydrology; Life Science; Political Science; Social Science
Material Type:: Lesson Plan
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Author:: Karin Kirk
Date Added:: 11/19/2021

The Lifestyle Project at West Chester University of Pennsylvania

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The Lifestyle Project at West Chester University of Pennsylvania

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This five-week project asks students to examine the environmental outcomes of their lifestyle choices, to investigate and try out more sustainable choices, and to write about their experiences.

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Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Applied Science; Biology; Business and Communication; Earth and Space Science; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Hydrology; Life Science; Management; Political Science; Social Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Author:: Tim Lutz
Date Added:: 03/29/2022

The Lifestyle Project at the University of North Dakota

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The Lifestyle Project at the University of North Dakota

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I use the Lifestyle Project in my Introduction to Environmental Issues class. This 3-week project asks students to make changes to their everyday environmental habits. This helps students realize that they have control of their lives and they can make decisions and make changes if they want to. And, given this empowerment, students can think about their impacts on Earth and their obligations to the planet and our society.

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Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Applied Science; Biology; Business and Communication; Earth and Space Science; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Hydrology; Life Science; Management; Political Science; Social Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 11/19/2021

The Lifestyle Project at the University of Redlands

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The Lifestyle Project at the University of Redlands

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This three-week project begins with a measurement of "baseline" consumptive behavior followed by two weeks of working to reduce the use of water, energy, high-impact foods, and other materials. The assignment uses an Excel spreadsheet that calculates direct energy and water use as well as indirect CO2 and water use associated with food consumption.

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Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Applied Science; Biology; Business and Communication; Earth and Space Science; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Hydrology; Life Science; Management; Political Science; Social Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Author:: Chris Sinton
Date Added:: 12/15/2021

Lifetime Inflation Activity

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This online activity shows how to use FRED, the Federal Reserve's free economic data website, to measure changes in the cost of living in your lifetime. Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) collects data on prices consumers pay for tens of thousands of goods and services, everything from software to car insurance. Using rigorous statistical methods, the BLS transforms this mountain of price data into the consumer price index (CPI). The CPI is a numerical index that measures inflation by tracking monthly changes in prices urban dwellers pay for a diverse market basket of thousands of goods and services. Following simple instructions, you will locate the overall level of U.S. consumer prices as it existed on your birth date. You will then compare that level with the level today to see how prices have inflated during your lifetime. FRED's ability to create a graph with a custom index scale will allow you to visualize the rise in prices over your lifetime.

Subject:: Economics; Social Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson; Lesson Plan
Provider:: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Provider Set:: Economic Lowdown Lessons
Author:: Mark Bayles
Date Added:: 06/14/2023

Linguistics for Teachers of English

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Linguistics for Teachers of English

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The primary goals of this text are to acquaint prospective teachers of English with certain aspects of the history, structure, and use of the English Language. Through considering the nature of the English language; how language and culture are interconnected as well as how it is acquired and how and why it changes, readers will come to a fuller understanding of sociolinguistics. This text discusses the nature of language, as well as how it is acquired; how and why languages change, and how the English language in particular has changed (and continues to change); why different varieties of English have developed, and why they continue to be used; how linguists have attempted to account for the (ir)regularities of English; how language and culture are related; and how linguistics can be used as a tool in the classroom. This text presents important topics for English teachers to know: the relationship between “standard” and “nonstandard” dialects, how and why language varies, how we can make informed decisions about what is “right” and “wrong” in language use, and generally how a sound knowledge of how language works can inform and benefit the pedagogical strategies needed to develop as a teacher. Ultimately, I want readers to think about language in ways not thought of before: objectively, passionately, critically, analytically, and logically. This allows readers to move beyond memorization of facts to original thought (which is sort of like the difference between knowing how to add and subtract, and being able to balance a checkbook).

Subject:: Linguistics; Social Science
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: New Prairie Press
Author:: Carol Russell
Date Added:: 06/21/2023

Linking Value Chains: Lesson 2 Understanding Colorado Agriculture, Unit 6 Food Products and Processing, DIGS AmeriCorps Curriculum CSU

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Linking Value Chains. This is the Lesson 2 Understanding Colorado Agriculture activity from Unit 6 Food Products and Processing, from the DIGS (Developing Individuals, Growing Stewards) AmeriCorps Curriculum from CSU. The curriculum focuses on introducing students in grades 3-5 to Colorado agriculture, industry and environmental issues. The curriculum is matched to State Standards 2021. The curriculum upon request. Visit: https://engagement.colostate.edu/programs-old/developing-individuals-growing-stewards/

Listening to Immigrants’ Stories: Comparing the American Dream to the Reality Upon Arrival to the United States

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This 12-day unit focuses on the various experiences of immigrants traveling to the United States. Students will identify a variety of reasons people choose to move to the United States by analyzing a range of texts that detail the individual experiences of immigrants from various parts of the world. Texts and conversation will encompass themes common to the immigrant experience: hope, hardship, and adaptation.

In order to give students a real world application and view of the immigrant experience, they will learn the skills of interview questioning in order to conduct their own interview. Students will use the texts explored in the unit to inform the questions they craft for their interview.

Subject:: Social Science; World Languages
Material Type:: Lesson Plan
Provider:: Pulitzer Center
Author:: Vanessa Carcanaquez
Date Added:: 06/16/2023

Little Nino's Pizzeria

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Students are read the story Little Nino's Pizzeria and identify the inputs in a pizza, categorizing them as intermediate goods, natural resources, human resources, and capital resources. They use a Venn diagram to sort attributes of each restaurant mentioned in the story and the attributes the restaurants share. As an assessment, students write a restaurant review, categorizing the inputs of pizza.

Subject:: Economics; English Language Arts; Social Science
Material Type:: Lesson; Lesson Plan; Reading
Provider:: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Provider Set:: Economic Lowdown Lessons
Author:: Barbara Flowers; Bonnie Meszaros
Date Added:: 06/14/2023

The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza

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Students learn about consumers and producers and give examples from the book The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza. They become producers by making bookmarks. The students draw pictures on their bookmarks of something that happened at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of the story. They become consumers when they use their bookmarks to mark a page in a book they are reading.

Subject:: Economics; English Language Arts; Social Science
Material Type:: Lesson; Lesson Plan; Reading
Provider:: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Provider Set:: Economic Lowdown Lessons
Author:: Bonnie Meszaros; Della Hoffman
Date Added:: 06/14/2023