EnViSci Network

Grades 3-8

Ask an important environmental science question — and students answer using hands-on inquiry and web-based research. Each EnViSci unit poses a central question that involves National Science Education Standards (NSES) concepts, developing the “big ideas” of science and connecting them to students’ experience of their environment.

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Classroom License includes teacher manual, reproducible science journal, access for 40 students to the NetScience controlled website, and appropriate lab supplies.

• Teacher Materials support classroom teachers as well as science specialists through learning objectives, background information, easy procedures and directions, teaching strategies, directions for website use, pre- and post-tests with scoring rubrics, and reproducible Student Journal pages.

• Free Website Subscription! Each unit includes a kid-friendly Web component that allows up to 30 students to gather background information, organize their data, and compare their class data with that of other students. Preview the website.

• Take a tour of the EnViSci Network!

• NEW! EnViSci Network Signing Avatar allows deaf or hearing impaired students to click the SignIt! Icon, and the character will sign the entire text block. Students can also click on individual words to have the character sign them. Click here for more information...

• Examine surface water for signs of pollutants
• Screen water for coliforms
• Measure dissolved-oxygen levels of water
• Decide whether local surface water is in danger

Classroom License $195.00 (includes website subscription)

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Is Our Rain Acid Rain?

• Build and use rain collectors and gauges
• Measure the pH of rain
• Investigate the causes and effects
of acid rain
• Explore ways to solve the acid rain problem

Classroom License $145.00 (includes website subscription)

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• Investigate the respiratory and circulatory systems
• Measure aerobic-activity levels and pulse-recovery times
• Research the effects of smoking
• Vote on whether cigarettes should be harder to buy

Classroom License $145.00 (includes website subscription)

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Classroom License with Signing Avatar® $245.00 (includes website subscription)

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Signed Unit

• Examine contamination of groundwater and surface water
• Identify sources of tap water
• Explore water treatment
• Measure chlorine and nitrate levels
in tap water

Classroom License $195.00 (includes website subscription)

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Classroom License with Signing Avatar® $295.00 (includes website subscription)

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Signed Unit

• Examine soil layers
• Classify soil according to textural class and color category
• Measure water-holding capacity, organic-matter content, and pH of soil
• Determine best use for local soil

Classroom License $145.00 (includes website subscription)

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• Define solar energy
• Build solar collectors
• Measure temperature change in a solar collector
• Explore uses of solar energy

Classroom License $145.00 (includes website subscription)

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• Investigate sound production and transmission
• Explore volume and pitch
• Research hearing loss
• Measure decibel levels of sounds in school

Classroom License $195.00 (includes website subscription)

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• Learn EPA categories of trash
• Investigate the decay process
• Collect data about trash generated
in one day
• Consider methods for reducing trash

Classroom License $145.00 (includes website subscription)

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(No Apparatus)

• Investigate seasonal differences in hours of daylight
• Examine how the angle of sunlight affects warming
• Compare polar and local conditions
• Research global warming
• Vote on whether production of greenhouse gases should be limited

Classroom License $145.00 (includes website subscription)

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