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Article
Curated OER

How to Celebrate Kwanzaa on Your Campus

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
An article details everything you need to know about celebrating Kwanzaa at your school. An opening-day ceremony starts the seven-day holiday celebration followed a daily routine that includes a greeting, candle lighting, reciting an...
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Lesson Plan
Diane Venzera

Kwanzaa Celebration: Celebrating Family, Community, and Culture

For Teachers K - 3rd
Kwanzaa is the focus of a three-part lesson that celebrates the history and traditions of the holiday. Before lighting the Kinara, scholars listen to a read-aloud of Seven Candles of Kwanzaa by Andrea Davis Pinkney. Learners express...
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Activity
Making Learning Fun

Candle Sight Word Activity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Beginning readers pick a sight word card, choose the number of toilet paper rolls that corresponds with the number of letters in the word, and then spell the word by choosing the appropriate letter popsicle stick to place in each roll....
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Assessment
Mathematics Assessment Project

Candle Box

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
Individuals draw a net for a hexagonal pyramid — with some stipulations. The net must contain the printed images so they appear correctly on the box, along with tabs to glue the box together. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Candlemaking

For Teachers 5th Standards
There might not be a butcher or baker, but you'll have a class full of candlestick makers after a hands-on lesson about candles make from beeswax. After a brief history of where beeswax comes from, young artisans craft their own...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Colorful Stained-Glass Candleholder

For Teachers K - 12th
Learners create a colorful candelholder as a gift for a family member, neighbor, or friend. They follow directions to create the candleholder, wrap and present the candleholder as a gift to someone special.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Light My Fire

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars create their own girandoles using common art products and Model Magic in this cross-curricular lesson suitable for the Art or Social Studies classroom. This lesson includes a short vocabulary list.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Jean Hasbrouck House

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students research lifestyles from the 18th century. They examine artifacts from the Jean Hasbrouck House and associate them with the responsibilities and roles of the people who lived there. They make candles and consider the importance...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Making Observations: Candle Activity

For Students 5th - 6th
In this making observations:  candle activity worksheet, students write observations of an unlit candle, then write observations of a lit candle, then sort them as quantitative or qualitative observations.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pounds

For Teachers 1st
In this mathematics worksheet, 1st graders identify which items pictured weighs more or less than a pound. Then they circle the objects that weigh more and place an X on the object that weigh less than a pound.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Threads

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners group observed data, filtering from all their observations the similarities between burring threads. In the second part they make a comparison of a chosen attribute between the two threads.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

What Burns When a Candle Burns? an Introduction to Using the Scientific Method

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers use the scientific method to discover the role of a candle's wick and how radiation allows candle wax to change from solid to liquid to gas. They work in small groups to use the steps of the scientific method approach in...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Candle Observations

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students view a demonstration and record and questions and observations that they have.  In this candle lesson students discuss their observations and give examples of the changes they saw. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Holiday Count and Color

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this holiday counting worksheet, students count and color 6 different sets of objects. First, they read the directions and count the number of each object as instructed. Then, students color the correct number of holiday objects in...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Beeswax Flower Candle

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create "Beeswax flower candles" in this early-elementary classroom Art lesson. Materials needed include foam pieces, straw, a glue gun, clay pots, beeswax, and popsicle sticks. This activity is ideal for the students to create...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

You Light Up My Life: Developing a Scientific Theory for What Fuels a Candle's Flame!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars examine how candles work and how scientific theories are developed and tested. Students propose hypotheses about what is burning in a candle then perform tests in order to develop their scientific theory. After a teacher...
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Website
Other

Akhlah: Shabbat

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn about the holiest day in the Jewish week. Features include an explanation of shabbat and coloring pages for children.
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Website
Other

Akhlah: Hanukkah

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn more about Hanukkah with this resource. There are craft ideas, recipes, and blessings in Hebrew.
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Handout
Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: The Science of Candles

For Students K - 1st
Click on each question to find the answers to how a candle works.