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This website uses video of exemplary classroom teaching to showcase K-12 instrction on watersheds and nonpoint source pollution. Nine lessons (five at the middle level) cover topics such as testing for water quality and watersheds. The site also provides an electronic field trip to a watershed.

Good source of Science Experiments. This is just one of them.

Sources for SBG rubrics in science

This publication is all about developing your middle school students' understandings of earths oceans and the major effect they have on climate. Understanding and interpreting local weather data and understanding the relationship between weather and climate are important first steps to understanding larger-scale global climate changes. Activities that ask students to collect and analyze local weather data as well as analyze global data can be found in the Lessons and Activities section. Analyzing and interpreting data is a major focus of this publication. Numerous data sets can be found in the Sources for Real Data section. The Background Information section and the article Tomorrows Forecast will help reinforce your own content knowledge.

More exemplary resources from the Middle School Portal 2: Math & Science Pathways project.