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Spreadsheet Activity
Students create a spreadsheet to match a given sample. This includes adjusting column width and row height, changing alignment, changing size and style of print, changing number format.
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Bubble Gum Chemistry
Students explore the concept of graphing data. In this graphing data lesson plan, students determine the percentage of sugar in bubble gum. Students graph type of gum vs. sugar percentage. Students create a table of their data.
Creative Chemistry
Displacement Reaction of the Halogens
This publisher has put out some terrific laboratory activities for your aspiring chemists! This edition uses displacement reactions to develop a reactivity series for three halogens. Not only do they explore the reactivity of bromine,...
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What Contains Carbon?
Learners explore elements by analyzing everyday objects and materials in class. In this carbon lesson, students define several vocabulary terms such as carbon dioxide, hydrocarbon, and carbonate. Learners view a group of items,...
Arts & Humanities
Let's Go Buggie!
To celebrate art youth month, little ones get out the magnifying glasses and get close-up with bugs. They make scientific observations of bugs you bring into the classroom. Then, they use markers, clay, paint, or crayons to make artistic...
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Questions - Appearances are Deceiving
Five evolution-related questions are answered by beginning biologists on a separate sheet of paper. First, they are asked to list adaptations that allow organisms to survive under various conditions. The second question refers to...
Curriculum Corner
“I Can” Common Core! 1st Grade Language
Support first graders with developing their basic language skills using this Common Core checklist. With each standard rewritten as a positive I can statement, students are encouraged to work hard toward reaching these clear...
Cornell University
What Is Rust?
Why do metals rust differently? Scholars experiment with metal combinations in a hands-on activity. They create unique environments with different metals and compare the rate and amount of rust for each.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Electronic Cigarettes: What's the Bottom Line?
A five-page infographic unveils the ins and outs of e-cigarettes. Numerous bullet points and pictures detail what e-cigarettes are, the ingredients found inside, and the health effects of using them.
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Properties of Metals
Fifth graders study the properties of metals and use them to identify different properties. In this metal properties instructional activity students complete a demonstration .
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Reactions of Photosynthesis
If you are looking for a simple quiz that delves deeper into the photosynthesis process, you found it! Fill in the blanks, graph and diagram interpretation, multiple choice, true/false, and short answer are all included in this...
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Games for Probability: In-Class and Powerball Simulation
Your soon-to-be statisticians play a game to understand the difference between independent and dependent experiments and probability. They draw colored cubes from a bag and then, by either replacing the cube in the bag, or not, for each...
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Science: Fossil of a Carbonized Plant
Learners classify leaves by shape and margins and use them to create models of plant fossils. By using paper over a leaf, they simulate fossilization of organisms onto sedimentary rocks. Following instructions on worksheets, students...
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Energy and Life
This two-page quiz mostly covers ATP, but touches on autotrophs and heterotrophs, as well. Learners show what they know through multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short-answer questions.
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Using Microscopes In The Classroom
Get up close and personal with parts of a microscope lesson plans and activities for elementary students!
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My Dream Job
Students discuss the importance of having an interesting and fulfilling job. Working in small groups, students discuss different occupations and the skills and tools related to those occupations. Continuing in groups, individual...
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Charlotte's Web
Fourth graders focus on fluency by reading the book Charlotte's Web. In this reading strategies lesson, 4th graders partner read, do guided reading, and independent reading to increase fluency. Students use Venn Diagrams, discuss...
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Make Your Own Periodic Table Worksheet
In this periodic table learning exercise, students make their own periodic table using 12 given elements and their properties. Students use these elements to arrange them into the proper periods and families based on their properties.
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Plant Science Discussion in the Classroom
Students are introduced to the lesson plan by showing them leaves from common deciduous trees, such as oak, tulip, hickory, and maple. They describe the different parts of a leaf. Students are asked the following questions: How are the...
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Chemistry is Crystal Clear
Students observe crystals and their shapes and formation. In this crystal formation lesson, the teacher prepares crystal gardens for the students to observe, then the class finds examples of crystals in nature and observe a teacher...
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Finding the Percent of Iron in Lawnsand
For this percent of iron in lawnsand worksheet, students perform a titration of lawnsand using potassium manganate (VII) solution and find the number of moles of iron in the sample. Students use the number of moles to find the mass of...
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Plants
Sixth graders examine how plants collect water and breathe. In groups, they participate in a variety of activities in which they discover how plants operate in terrariums. To end the lesson plan, they discuss why plants are important to...
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Completing Sentences
In this parts of speech worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with different parts of speech. Students complete 12 sentences.
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Physical and Chemical Trends in the Group 7 Elements
In this elements activity, students complete a graphic organizer by comparing the melting point, boiling point, density, and electronic configuration of given elements. Students determine the characteristics of Group 7 elements. This...