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Learning Short a and Long a sounds

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students recognize the difference between the short a sound and the long a sound, then compile a list of words containing short a and long a sounds.
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Winter Survival Kit

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders construct a winter emergency kit for their parents' car and list five things to do or not to do when stranded in a car during the winter.
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Water Purification

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students develop an understanding and appreciation of water purification techniques and their implications for health maintenance.
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Painting Pictures with Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop their own smilies and metaphors. They examine writing of the Poet Laureate. They identify philanthropy in quotations of others.
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What is Heat Transfer?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils explore heat transfer and how it affects weather.
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Holidays & Festivals Around The World-Kwanzaa

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners use technology to conduct research. They use technology to convey principles and information. They demonstrate proficiency in the use of computer based technology.
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Happy Birthday Class

For Teachers 1st
First graders study each other's birthdays in graph form.
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Is It Kinetic or Potential ?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore real life activities that demonstrate kinetic and potential energy. They, in groups, classify the activity card statements as kinetic or potential. They should also include where the potential and kinetic energy...
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Measure This!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students estimate the measurement in centimeters for common classroom objects. They check their estimations, discuss the differences and write a paragraph summarizing the activity.
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Jingle Shapes!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play a movement and freeze activity to jingle bells.
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Dia de los Muertos

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders research the Day of the Dead, an important Mexican holiday. They view videos, investigate Mexican geography and history and compare the Day of the Dead to the celebration of Halloween.
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Composition of Air: Let us Find Out

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students identify the various components of air as they demonstrate that air is present in the environment.
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Groundhog Sizes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars use a variety of sizes of class poster groundhogs to order the objects by size. The groundhogs are replaced by a bag of objects and the sizing exercise continues.
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Dissect with Respect

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students, through exercises and discussions, examine ethics involved in the process of choosing and using laboratory animals, respect for the animal they dissect and how to behave in an ethical manner as they dissect various lab specimens.
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Pysanky Eggs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore Ukrainian culture and the additive dye process using wax as a resist. An original design is created displaying Ukrainian symbolism and placed onto an egg.
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Oceanography

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the importance of oceans in supporting life on earth and identify resources obtained from the ocean.
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How to identify a physical change from a chemical change

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify the difference between some physical and chemical properties and compare some physical and chemical changes. They design an experiment to distinguish between a physical or a chemical property of their choice.
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Celebration Symbols And Their Meaning

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students are introduced to the history and origins of many common symbols used in celebrations. They explore symbols in group centers, identify a symbol that has special meaning to them and design a symbol to represent the classroom.
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Converting Energy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concepts of energy transformation and conversion. They engage in Internet and hands-on activities. Students visit the Atoms Family Website and complete a Building a Better Pyramid activity by adding insulation to...
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Ellen Ochoa

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students identify who Ellen Ochoa was and how she has accomplished many things in her life, such as, inventions. They demonstrate their knowledge of the invention process by creating their own invention while using problem solving skills.
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Making Energy "trails"

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore ten different stations that demonstrate either chemical, kinetic, or mechanical energy. They examine the way energy is transferred during each station's hands-on activity. Stations include vinegar and baking soda,...
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Discovering Chemical Changes

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders predict what happens in a teacher demonstration of a chemical change, before watching it. They observe the demonstration and list what the see on the board before determining which represent chemical change. Working at...
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Density

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders watch a demonstration and complete an experiment to determine how an objects' density allows it to float or sink. They work in small groups to assimilate the characteristics of items that float as opposed to simply...
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Human Impact on the Environment and Pollution

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students illustrate the impact humans have on the environment through analogies and models. They observe demonstrations of human impact and pollution and create a composite picture of how people can have an impact on their environment.

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