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Vanishing Rainforests: How can We Save Them?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students focus in on the Amazon Rain forest. They research about various plants and animals that exist in our rain forests. Students develop knowledge of resources that come from our rain forests. They analyze the cause/effect of rain...
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What's Goin' Down?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of environmental stewardship. In this service learning lesson, students investigate the locations of the world's rain forests and concerns regarding the world's rain forests.
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Weather: The Climate

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners observe the weather each day and record what he or she sees. They can record his or her data in any appropriate manner, from drawing pictures of a sunny sky to recording the temperature and rain fall on a chart.
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Reading Trees: Understanding Dendrochronology

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine tree-ring dating and discuss the lack of water the settlers in Jamestown faced. They create paper tree rings, simulate rain patterns, and describe the history of construction paper tree sequences.
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Weather Graphing

For Teachers K
Every morning students complete the weather chart. They use colors to reflect the cloud cover and symbols for rain, snow, etc.
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Water Pollution Experiments

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders conduct experiments in simulated water pollution using a box of items to hold "pollutants"and an aquarium, representing a waterway. They observe how "rain" from a watering can poured into the box washes the pollutants into...
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Weather or Not (Cloud Formation/Condensation)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate the formation of clouds and rain in this experiment. They decide how dust in the air helps to make clouds form and how dust helps meteorologists make forecasts.
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The Unknown Secrets of the Rain Forest

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the rain forest and where they are located. Students examine why the rain forests are important and what is happening to them. They investigate the water cycle and life cycle of a frog. Students build a rain forest in...
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October 14th Rainforest Week Brownie Meeting

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students talk about the destruction of the Rain Forest and learn a Rain Forest Song. They start the meeting off with a tropical forest coloring sheet. They relate to the plight of the Rain Fores and understand the importance of saving...
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Reclamation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars recognize the importance of reclaiming the land after mining. They observe the experiment demonstrating the process of erosion and record their results of the effects of rain upon the land.
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Singing And Chanting In Rhythm

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners sing and chant various songs keeping a steady beat, or pulse, while performing as a group in this early-elementary level General Music lesson. Emphasis is placed on the use of Solfege syllables and the song "Singin' In The Rain".
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When Disaster Strikes! Rocks, Minerals, Erosion and Weather

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students pretend the area they live in is subject to wind, waves and rain. In groups, they pretend they are a groups of meteorologists or geologists and are to report on the weather and damage that could occur there. Each group develops...
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How Do You Dew?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine how the processes of condensation and evaporation occur. They describe the relationship between heat energy, evaporation and condensation of water on Earth. They give examples of the processes of evaporation and...
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Poetry and PowerPoint

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read and discuss the poem, "April Rain Song" by Langston Hughes. After brainstorming examples of vivid verbs, figures of speech, language patterns, and imagery used in the poem, 3rd graders write a poem on a topic of...
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Letter R

For Students Pre-K - K
For this printing worksheet, students write 2 lines of lower and uppercase R's. Students also form the words rain, raincoat, and rabbit and color in a related illustration.
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Sprinkles: Weather Packet

For Students 1st
In this weather worksheet packet, 1st graders will read a weather rebus, learn about weather tools, play a weather game, read about and draw clouds, experiment with rain puddles, unscramble weather words and write a weather wish.
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Fill in the Letters

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this lowercase letters activity, students practice writing the alphabet as they fill in the rain drop shapes with the missing letters between a and z.
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Noun Brainstorm

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this noun activity, students write all the words they can think of that fit the category of the rain cloud. Students write the nouns on the lines.
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Vowel Combinations: ai

For Students K - 1st
In this vowel combinations worksheet, learners note the vowel combination ai as they trace the words snail, train, and rain and read the 2 sentences at the bottom of the worksheet.
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American Sign Language Cards

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this American Sign Language instructional activity, students cut out and study six illustrated cards. Students follow the written directions and picture clues to learn to sign these words: animal, tree, bag, wind, rain, bird.
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Rainforests: What Are They?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate rain forests by reading a habitat checklist.  In this environment lesson, 2nd graders read the book The Great Kapok Tree, and discuss what characteristics make up a rain forest.  Students explore a habitat...
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Watersheds and Wetlands

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students simulate a chemical spill. In this watersheds and wetlands lesson, students build a watershed and observe what happens when it rains. Students add wetlands to their watershed models and examine the effects of water pollution.
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Botany: How does the rice plant grow in water?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read about how rice grows in water and make a rainstick when they are done. In this rice lesson plan, 2nd graders make a rain stick out of rice, posterboard, scissors, glue, and a cardboard tube.
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Learning About Thunderstorms

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write about thunderstorms. In this thunderstorm lesson plan, students pick an aspect of thunderstorms to research such as lightning, thunder, hail, or rain.  They write a summary about this topic. 

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