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Duration: 7:45
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EarthX STEAM Curriculum Lesson Extension: You Are My Sunshine, K-1 Grades
Students will learn about how the living things living in and near the lake rely on each other and how the changing seasons create changes in their lives.
Former biology teacher, Karlene Schwartz, introduces students to the stories of the loons and many other creatures that call Squam Lake home, which is located in New Hampshire. As her tale goes on, students can see how the seasons cause changes to the lives on the lake.
Connections to EarthX STEAM Curriculum Lesson: You Are My Sunshine
The sun’s thermal effects can create changes in materials. The tilting of the earth on its axis causes a change in the energy transmitted by the sun to the earth. This causes changes in the weather, which contributes to the changing seasons. As the seasons change, the living things on the earth change with them.
Next Generation Science Standards
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Duration: 7:33 (cc)
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EarthX STEAM Curriculum Lesson Extension: Trash to Cash, 5th Grade
Students will be introduced to a wide variety of solutions to the plastic pollution currently being implemented in parts of Australia.
Phillippe Cousteau talks with Jennifer Lavers, Heidi Taylor, Donna Shiel, Anthony Hill, and others from Melbourne, Australia, to uncover a variety of solutions to plastic pollution that everyone can do.
>Connections to EarthX STEAM Curriculum Lesson: Trash to Cash
The reuse of waste is one way to cut down on the amount of trash heading to our landfills. Plastics are one type of waste that take hundreds of years to biodegrade and often end up in our oceans and waterways.
Finding ways to deal with this type of pollution is vital.
Next Generation Science Standards
TEKS Science Objectives
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Duration: 6:13 (cc) ENG/SP
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EarthX STEAM Curriculum Lesson Extension: Locally Grown, 5th Grade
Students will learn about innovative solutions that are being implemented in order to help fish thrive and be abundant enough to support a growing world population.
Phillippe Cousteau hears from Dr. Louise Firth, Dr. Daniel Merrifield and Justin Ruscombe-King about innovative work being done to help fish populations stay healthy in order to feed a growing global population. Shown are an engineered coastal habitat and an aquaculture farm.
Connections to EarthX STEAM Curriculum Lesson: Locally Grown
Native plants on land have adaptations suitable to their environment just as native fish have theirs. As human population growth increases along the coasts, people must make adjustments to their coastal environments in a way that will create ecosystems favorable to the aquatic life living there. In addition, native species of fish should be encouraged to be raised for human consumption in a manner that keeps in mind the best use of natural resources.
Next Generation Science Standards
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6th Grade Virtual Field Trips Coming Soon
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Duration: 6:38 (cc)
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EarthX STEAM Curriculum Lesson Extension: Energizing Your Lawn, 7th Grade
Students will learn about an innovative closed system of agriculture that creates an environmentally sustainable food source.
Phillippe and Ashlan Cousteau meet with executive chef and farmer Adam Navidi to find out how he uses aquaponics to grow food for his restaurant using less water than the average family uses at home on a daily basis.
Connections to EarthX STEAM Curriculum Lesson: Energizing Your Lawn
The growing of food to feed a growing population has changed from small farms feeding the local population, to food being sourced hundreds or even thousands of miles away. The resources demanded of this type of agriculture has environmental consequences. Alternative farming methods can help with these issues.
TEKS Science Objectives
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Duration: 9:22 (cc)
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EarthX STEAM Curriculum Lesson Extension: Reef-Life, 8th Grade
Students will be introduced to how the health of a reef off the coast of Florida is being monitored in order to find ways to protect it.
Phillippe Cousteau and US Geological Survey Marine Biologist Ilsa Kuffner dive below the surface to explore the invisible threats to corals that may impact all marine life in these waters.
Connections to EarthX STEAM Curriculum Lesson: Reef-Life, 8th Grade
Creating artificial reefs helps restore an ocean’s ecosystem. Through the creation of an artificial reef, research as to the health conditions of the area can be monitored to better understand how to keep reefs thriving.
Next Generation Science
TEKS Science Objectives
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Duration: 7:14
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EarthX STEAM Curriculum Lesson Extension: Back to the Future, 8th Grade
Students will learn about the vital role sea turtles play in their ecosystem, how humans have affected their well-being and what can be done to counteract the negative influence.
Khrystyne explains the importance of the many varieties of sea turtles inhabiting Laguna Madre off of the Gulf of Mexico on the Texas coast. She will introduce students to two of the sea turtles recovering at their facility and discuss how human actions have threatened the health of sea turtles.
Connections to EarthX STEAM Curriculum Lesson: Back to the Future
As more humans settled the western part of the United States in the 1800’s, they had both a positive and negative impact on the ecosystems they found. When a negative impact was made, it affected multiple organisms. Sea turtles are experiencing similar effects from negative human interaction as well.
Next Generation Science Standards
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Duration: 14:31
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EarthX STEAM Curriculum Lesson Extension: Growing Pains, High School
Students will learn about the geology and ecology of an aquifer, what its current threats are, and how to best protect this vital natural resource.
Florida scientists, explorers, and citizens team up to provide a look at the health of the Florida Aquifer, the primary source of water for over 25 million people in the southeastern US. There are signs that human activity may be negatively affecting the water quality, both above and below the surface.
Connections to EarthX STEAM Curriculum Lesson: Growing Pains
Pollutants from common household products and nitrogen runoff from farms create a negative impact on living things, such as plants. They can also harm water sources that provide drinking water for humans, affecting them negatively for the long term.
Next Generation Science Standards
TEKS Science Objectives