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Curated OER

Flight Dreams - Flight Factors

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students investigate the physics of flight by experimenting in class.  In this history of flight instructional activity, students define terms such as gravity, lift, and drag in order to better understand how a plane is able to stay in...
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Curated OER

What is an Insect?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners examine insects and identify physical characteristics of insects. They perform observations of insects, then use a worksheet imbedded in this plan to answer questions about them.
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Curated OER

Echolocation and Communication

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners participate in a role-play activity to determine how whales use the properties of echolocation to communicate.
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Curated OER

Classifying Living and Non-Living Objects

For Teachers K
Students investigate living organisms and define the properties of a living species.  In this life characteristic lesson plan, students examine plants in their class and discuss whether or not they are alive.  Students create a living...
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Curated OER

What Makes the Wind Blow?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Student study the properties of wind. They make a miniature hot-air balloon and compose diamond-shaped poems about the wind. They explain that as the sun warms air around the earth, the air rises. Colder air then moves in to fill the...
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Curated OER

Create a Cloud in a Bottle

For Teachers K - 5th
Students look at how clouds form. In this cloud lesson plan, students make a cloud using water,  2 liter bottles and a match. They watch how the pressure and temperature changes the atmosphere in the bottle to create a cloud. 
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Curated OER

Keep the Environment Clean

For Teachers K
Students discuss ways our environment becomes polluted. They make a list of ways to keep it clean.
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Curated OER

Where Is Away?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore ways to dispose of trash. In this lesson, students discuss where trash goes when it leaves their house and other inappropriate ways to dispose of trash. Students brainstorm ways to produce less waste.
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Utah LessonPlans

Seed Sort

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students form a variety of categories for seed mixes (wild bird seed or 15 bean soup) and create graphs to display their categories.
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Curated OER

Pop Rockets

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners work together to design and build a paper rocket. They place a propellant in the contraption to make it fly. They discover Newton's third law of motion.
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Curated OER

Bubbles

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars examine bubbles. For this early childhood science lesson plan, students experiment with different bubble wands and then share their insights.
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Curated OER

Exploring Rocks

For Teachers K
Students recognize differences in the size, shape, texture, and color of different rocks. In this rocks lesson plan, students also learn and repeat back how a volcano erupts and make one out of a toilet paper tube.
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Curated OER

Facts of Matter

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students make group decisions about matter as they explore and interpret many types.
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Curated OER

MANAGING THE SCHOOL FOREST

For Teachers K - 8th
Students study how to plant a seedling, how to mulch the trees into the nursery bed, transplant seedlings to another site or school, and determine why we need to water and mulch trees.
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Curated OER

Hide & Seek Butterflies

For Teachers K
Students examine a variety of butterflies and discuss how they believe they get their color variations. In groups, they brainstorm the advantages and disadvantages of their color schemes. To end the lesson, they watch butterflies in...
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Curated OER

Physics Post-Lab

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars explore physics. In this science lesson, students discuss physics in their everyday lives. Young scholars complete a physics worksheet.
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Globe

The Globe Program: Air Quality Module

For Teachers K - 1st
In this storybook, the GLOBE Kids investigate colors in the sky and learn how air pollution affects sky color and our health. Learning activities engage students in describing sky color and conditions in the atmosphere, creating a model...
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: The Properties of Air

For Teachers K - 1st
Lesson plan to teach properties of air. Students use balloons, plastic bottles, plastic bags and a meter stick to conclude that air is a gas that has weight, exerts pressure, and moves.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Hot Air Balloon Experiment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Explore how heat affects the density of air by building and flying a hot air balloon using large plastic bags and the hot air from an electric hairdryer.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Bottle Fountain Experiment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Demonstrate how heating expands air molecules by constructing a bottle fountain powered by air pressure.

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