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Agriculture in Your Life

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners explore the origins of food and other everyday products around the United States. In this agricultural lesson, students learn basic vocabulary and practice matching common items with their agricultural source. They categorize...
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The Energy of Life in Zebrafish

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study the stages of development of an unknown organism. In this zebrafish lesson, students examine and collect data as they use microscopes to view a zebrafish embryo.
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Life Cycles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify inherited traits. In this heredity lesson, students watch a video and construct a genetic description of themselves.
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Garden Pests and Problems: Insect Life Cycles and Metamorphosis

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this insect metamorphosis worksheet, students read about complete and gradual metamorphosis and label insect's metamorphosis. Students label 2 insects.
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Circle of Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students consider why we eat and where our food obtains its energy. They illustrate food chains that might be found on an open field, dissect owl pellets, identify the remains of animals in the pellets, watch videos and participate in...
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A Look at the Life That Electronics Lead

For Students 4th - 6th
In this comprehension worksheet, learners fill in ways on a graphic organizer that people or companies can conserve energy, reduce waste or minimize the impact to the environment. Next, students solve 3 "environmental" math word problems.
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Breathing is Essential to Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners explore the job of the lungs. In this Human Body lesson plan, students participate in five activities in order to develop a better understanding of the lungs. Each of the activities relates to how the lungs help us breathe and...
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Water is Life, Water is Poetry Seminar

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students participate in a discussion about water and create water-inspired poetry. In this poetry lesson, students demonstrate a memorable experience involving water by constructing a poem.
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Sociology: What is life like for Gulf Coast rice farmers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read 1 page about Gulf Coast rice farmers and then describe what rice farming in the U.S. is like in the United States. In this rice farming lesson plan, students tell why they would or would not want to be a rice farmer.
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We Garden: My Life as a Fruit or Vegetable

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore agriculture by participating in a role-play activity. In this farm to fork lesson, students ask and answer questions as though they were a specific plant about to be eaten. Students write responses to critical thinking...
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Science Experiment Using Lima Beans

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders tie together elements about the world and their environment. Students incorporate styles of higher order thinking skills. Students measure skills of observations, conclusions, inferences and predictions.
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Pulse of Life

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students calculate their pulse rate and explore how heart rate is affected by various activities.
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EMS Lesson 1: Variety is the Spice of Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners discern that dominant and recessive traits occur in a variety of combinations in any given group of people.
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Life at Risk

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the characteristics of the peregrine falcon. They investigate endangered and extinct species, and how the environment affects the process.
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Children in the Fields: The Life of the Hispanic Child Laborer During California's Agriculture Explosion

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the agriculture explosion in California in the late 1800's to the early 1930's. They analyze primary source material putting themselves into the shoes of a child laborer. They also gain an understanding of...
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Marine & Aquatic Habitats Activities - Walk in the Wetlands

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students research various types of fresh water wetlands and identify the common animal and plant life in these different ecosystems. They further analyze the need to protect these wetlands and explore their varied uses.
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The Life Of Bees

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the matriarchal structure of a bee colony. They participate in various activities to identify the structure of a bee colony and the roles of each type of bee plays in the colony. Vocabulary and a worksheet with answer...
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Molecules of Life

For Students 4th - 5th
In this molecules worksheet, students read a 1 page article on molecules and then answer 10 true or false, multiple choice, short answer and/or fill in the blank questions referring to the article.
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Tree of Life: lineage

For Students 4th - 8th
In this lineage worksheet, students pick a tree to research and write its lineage and where it originated from. Students complete the lineage of a tree with 14 blanks.
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Tree of Life

For Students 4th - 6th
In this monarch butterfly worksheet, students use the website given to chart the lineage of the monarch butterfly. Students complete 13 lineage blanks.
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Tree of Life: monarch butterfly

For Students 4th - 8th
In this lineage worksheet, students write the step by step lineage of the monarch butterfly. Students fill in 13 blanks where the first and last stage are given.
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Tree of Life: lineage

For Students 4th - 8th
In this organism worksheet, learners use the website provided to trace the lineage of an organism. Students complete 17 lineage lines.
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Physical Science: Solar Energy

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students review and discuss how Solar energy and electricity produce light and heat. They create a photo/picture journal and include pictures taken during solar energy activities to a PowerPoint slide presentation.
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Deep Sea Vents

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners study the vent and non vent deep sea and see the differences in habitats.  In this investigative lesson students complete a worksheet and work in groups.