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Survival Lesson Five: What do we do?

This week we will answer the following questions: What helps living creatures survive? Why is the survival of other living things important for humans? What can we do to help the environment?

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Survival Lesson Three: Ecosystems

This week we will be learning about how living creatures depend on each other, and make up what are called ecosystems: Go to this site on Ecosystems. Do some Science in Motion and Game activities or one of the Review with Quiz activities (those are longer) until the timer rings; Then write about what you [...]

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Medicine Lesson 4: Medicine from the Rainforest

This week we will be learning about the importance of rain forest for medicines we need and use. After watching a video on this topic, do this activity, then share what you have learned about this subject. Image Credit: from pictoscribe’s photostream on flickr

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