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Dinosaur! Fossil Rush: Tale of a Bone

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore 1870s when a "bone rush" led to amazing discoveries, as fossil-hunters risked life and limb in their quest for dinosaur remains. The class uses the attached visual encyclopedia to prep for a discussion on early paleontology. Two...
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Hunt the Fact Monster

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Fact Monster search engine worksheet, students access the Internet to one specific website to find the answers to five questions with multiple choice answers.
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Seahorse Reading Comprehension

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this seahorse reading comprehension activity, students read a paragraph about seahorses and respond to 5 fill in the blank questions regarding the paragraph. Students also color the picture of the seahorse
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Levels of Classification

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners use diagrams to compare structural differences that taxonomists use to classify animals. In this classification lesson plan, students compare structures of different species from given diagrams. In one diagram they identify the...
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Fearsome Creatures 1

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this wild animals worksheet, students fill in the blanks or choose the correct words to sentences about wild animals. Students complete 47 blanks.
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It's All in the Rocks

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students think critically to determine fact or inference when examining sedimentary layers with embedded fossils. They are being introduced to geology as well as evolutionary biology.
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Science: Making Trace Fossils

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore types of fossils and discover how sediment affects fossil preservation. They focus their study on trace fossils and create their own using sediment, water, and a small organism such as a snail or lizard. Students use...
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PICTURE PERFECT PYRAMID

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a model of the USDA's Food Pyramid Guide, using shoe boxes. They bring an assortment of shoe boxes from home. Students are given a copy of the "Food Guide Pyramid." They wrap boxes for the bread group in white, the...
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Fishy Fish

For Students 4th - 6th
In this fishy fish comprehension learning exercise, students read and assess understanding. In this true and false, fill in the blank, short answer, and multiple choice learning exercise, students answer ten question.
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Lesson 1 - What Are Fossils?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students define and research fossils. In this fossil lesson plan, students access teacher assigned Internet sites to examine images of fossils. They determine the definition of a fossil and find out how fossils are formed. They also...
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Fossils: Clues to Ancient Life

For Teachers 4th - 8th
You can make your students amateur paleontologists with great fossil lesson plans.
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Fun with Fossils

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the geologic process of fossil formation. For this geology lesson, 2nd graders discuss the job of a paleontologist and make their own model of a fossil. This lesson includes teacher directed questions.
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How Big is a Dinosaur?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create enlarged replica of a stegosaurus drawing, using a grid to practice coordinates.
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Draw T. rex

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore how scientists determine what prehistoric animals looked like based on their bones. They draw a picture of the skull of a Tyrannosaurus Rex by copying an image from an overhead or book.
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Teaching the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine":A Handout for ESL/EFL Students

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students inspire communication skills thru the lyrics of a song. Students watch and correlate the production of a fantasy film with speaking and listening skills. Students quote the themes from the video.
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The Deep

For Students 7th - 9th
In this deep ocean learning exercise, students answer twenty questions after watching a video about the species that live in the deep ocean. Topics include jelly fish, hatchet fish, anglers, tubeworms, sea urchins, and plants that grow...
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Charlotte's Web

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders focus on fluency by reading the book Charlotte's Web. In this reading strategies instructional activity, 4th graders partner read, do guided reading, and independent reading to increase fluency. Students use Venn Diagrams,...
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Dinosaurs are for the Birds

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students use the Internet to see photographs of fossils from dinosaurs. They read articles about dinosaurs and birds and what they had in common. They also examine a dinorama site in which they discover why some dinosaurs needed feathers.
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Beaver Ecology

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students investigate beaver adaptations, life cycle, and the effects of beaver behavior on ecosystems. They compare and contrast how beavers influence the ecology of both forest and aquatic ecosystems.
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Mystery Dinosaur: Who am I?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this dinosaur worksheet, learners read a description of a dinosaur and then write down which dinosaur is being described. There are 6 questions to answer on this worksheet.
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"Hey Polliwog!" - The Life Cycle of the Frog

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this life cycle of the frog activity, learners read and assess comprehension. In this fill in the blank and sequencing activity, students write answers to sixteen questions.
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Dinosaur Quiz

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this dinosaur quiz learning exercise, students answer four multiple choice questions based on their knowledge of dinosaurs. This quiz is interactive.
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Acids, Bases, Acid-Base Reactions

For Students 11th - 12th
In this chemistry worksheet, students read and study the chapter to answer 110 problem solving and short answer questions related to acids and bases.
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Who Eats Who?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students recognize that some animals eat plants, some eat meat and some both.  In this who eats who lesson, students chart animals in a food chain.  Students research information from reading articles.  Students chart what animals eat on...

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