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Handout
Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Symbols in Chemical Equations

For Students 3rd - 8th
Chem4Kids! provides an overview of the symbols representing numerical values in chemical equations. Each symbol is defined and described.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Brave Irene [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for William Steig's children's book, Brave Irene, is provided on these pages. Four character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Cinderella Bigfoot [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for Mike Thaler's children's book, Cinderella Bigfoot, is provided on these pages. Fifteen character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Evil Lurks [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for a suspenseful piece, Evil Lurks, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Gary Paulsen's Lawn Boy [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for Gary Paulsen's children's book, Lawn Boy, is provided on these pages. Nine character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: What Do You Come For? [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This resource is a reader's theater script adaptation of Alvin Swartz "Someone Named Eva" from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Five character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Rump and Ugla [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A reader's theater script for the modern fairy tale, Rump and Ugla, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Balance Magic

For Students 3rd - 8th
See if you can balance a sculpture on the end of a toothpick!
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Website
US House of Representatives

Office of the Clerk: What Is Congress

For Students 3rd - 5th
Introduce Congress and it's main responsibility with these simple activities. Included is a simple explanation of Congress, worksheets, and an easy game.
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Website
Other

Official Robert Munsch Website

For Students 3rd - 5th
Delightful place to visit! Read a biography, listen to some of his stories, read some of his unpublished works, and look at art and stories by students who have written to Robert Munsch.
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Lesson Plan
US Department of Energy

Need Project: Solar Oven [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
An introduction and activity to engage students in building a solar oven.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Mediterranean Sea: How Long Does It Take for the Earth to Go Around the Sun?

For Students 4th - 6th
Learn about the Earth's revolution and rotation in this module.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Tes: Yr 5 Poetry Unit 1 a Poetic Style

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This learning module engages students in analyzing different poems. A poetry unit overview, a poetry checklist, figurative language notes, sixteen poems and graphic organizers are included to help...
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Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Learning to Skateboard

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a literary text about the relationship between a brother and a sister and answer questions on comprehension, main idea, text evidence, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: What Did I Touch Today?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
For this lesson, students will assess what items in the classroom are touched the most. Students will investigate germs and distinguish between communicable and noncommunicable diseases.
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Handout
Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Atoms

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides a detailed overview of atoms. Content explores an atom's structure, as well as what ions are, how atoms bond, what compounds are (including how to name compounds), and what isotopes are.
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: How Many Valentines?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students look for patterns to determine how many valentines will be distributed in a class of 28 students. After trying the problem, they can look at several other methods that could be used and compare the answer they got. There is also...
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Unit Plan
Utah State Office of Education

Utah Science: Where Did It Come From?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Is your room a mess? Does your nose have freckles on it like your mom's? Are your eyes the same color as your dad's? Which one of these things does not belong in lessons about heredity? Give these investigations a whirl while learning...
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Unit Plan
Utah State Office of Education

Utah Science: Matter

For Students 4th - 8th
Discover atoms and molecules which make up matter, motion of atoms and how to measure the mass, volume and density of matter.
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Activity
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Create Your Own Time Capsule

For Students 3rd - 8th
By making time capsules, we can decide what message to send to the future about our own lives. If it were discovered years from now, what would the objects say about you and the time you lived in?
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Activity
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Trip Up Your Brain

For Students 3rd - 8th
Try this trippy experiment to fool your brain.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Me and My Dolls

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Me and My Dolls by L. T. Meade, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A Thoughtless Seven

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of A Thoughtless Seven by Amy LeFeuvre, a fiction book for children.
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Handout
Cosmos 4 kids

Cosmos4 Kids: You and the Universe

For Students 3rd - 8th
What is the universe? Learn about this topic in this reference article which includes a video that discusses a finding of a distant galaxy by NASA's Hubble.