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Activity
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Empty Headed" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Empty Voices", students will participate in a poem in many voices. Adapted from the poem by Linda J. Knaus in Miles of Smiles, students will dramatize a poem that describes all of the crazy things that they have seen.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Observations and Experiments Study Guide

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about the role of observations and experiments in scientific investigation. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Customarily Speaking and Measuring

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students will be using a hands-on approach to learning about length, capacity, and weight. This lesson contains a detailed plan, slides containing notes and problems, and a video tutorial.
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Activity
Science Fun for Everyone

Science Fun: Changing of the Leaves

For Students 2nd - 4th
Learn why leaves change colors in the fall with this science experiment.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 1.1 Scientific Ways of Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to think like a scientist.
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade K: Weather

For Teachers K
Students learn about real and imaginary situations by connecting knowledge from nonfiction texts and media sources to events in literary texts. Students develop an awareness of weather and its patterns, how weather affects living things,...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Sniffing Safari

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This PBS Kids activity is an extension of a Plum Landing episode featuring outdoor scents. Students will learn basic information about outdoor scents; students will also use online drawing tools to design an outdoor scene with...
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Website
Other

Catching Sunshine

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Teachers can enroll their class in this online 'Science-athon.' Students design and build a solar collector, and over a period of several days, collect data and enter it into an online database.
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Activity
Rice University

What Percentage of Your Class Is Right or Left Handed?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What percentage of the class is right or left-handed? Students will investigate this question using statistical processes of collecting the data, organizing it, graphing, and finally analyzing it. Follow-up questions are provided for the...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Hero Elementary: Super Seasons Snapshots

For Students K - 1st
Children can look around to practice making observations and to notice details they might otherwise not notice. There are scenes for each season - spring, summer, fall, and winter. Explore a park to learn how animals and plants change...
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Interactive
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara

Nceas: Scientific Method

For Students 3rd - 5th
This concise site from NCEAS contains an explanation of the scientific method along with a basic example of the scientific method in action.
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Lesson Plan
A to Z Teacher Stuff

Ato Z Teacher Stuff: Lifesaver Descriptive Writing Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This site has a fun way to explore your senses. While eating a lifesaver, students observe their senses and write down what they discover. Great idea, but not many details in the lesson plan.