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The Forest Products Laboratory, located in Madison, Wisconsin, is a place where scientists work to develop wood products for human…
The Forest Products Laboratory, located in Madison, Wisconsin, is a place where scientists work to develop wood products for human use. The scientists at this laboratory develop processes for making...

The questions you will answer with this FACTivity are: Are earthworms a part of your schoolyard habitat? and How much…
The questions you will answer with this FACTivity are: Are earthworms a part of your schoolyard habitat? and How much difference exists among the types of soil-dwelling organisms that live...

In groups, you will develop a taxonomic structure for a category of objects. The question you will answer in this…
In groups, you will develop a taxonomic structure for a category of objects. The question you will answer in this FACTivity is: How are taxonomic structures useful to people?

A guided reading lesson plan that breaks down each section in this article. There are activities for each part to…
A guided reading lesson plan that breaks down each section in this article. There are activities for each part to have students practice the knowledge learned within the article. Materials:...

A guided reading lesson plan that breaks down each section in this article. There are activities for each part to…
A guided reading lesson plan that breaks down each section in this article. There are activities for each part to have students practice the knowledge learned within the article. Materials:...

The scientists in this study wanted to know how rising levels of carbon dioxide in the troposphere might affect the…
The scientists in this study wanted to know how rising levels of carbon dioxide in the troposphere might affect the amount of carbon sent belowground by trees and made available...

A guided reading lesson plan that breaks down each section in this article. There are activities for each part to…
A guided reading lesson plan that breaks down each section in this article. There are activities for each part to have students practice the knowledge learned within the article. Materials:...

In this lesson plan, students will complete a guided reading of a Natural Inquirer article and then will evaluate the…
In this lesson plan, students will complete a guided reading of a Natural Inquirer article and then will evaluate the impacts of the scientists’ research on their own behaviors. This...

The question you will answer in this FACTivity is: Does it take much of a change in climate to cause…
The question you will answer in this FACTivity is: Does it take much of a change in climate to cause a change in the type of vegetation growing in an...

The nun moth is a major pest of conifers and an occasional pest of broadleaf trees in Europe and Asia.…
The nun moth is a major pest of conifers and an occasional pest of broadleaf trees in Europe and Asia. The scientist in this study wanted to discover which trees...