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Hermit Crabs Lifecycle & Stages

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students review the life cycle of land hermit crabs by viewing a poster or transparency. They identify the different body parts of a hermit crab and what each part is used for.
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LD50 of NaCl to Gammarus spp.

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students learn the meaning of LD50 through lecture and discussion. Through experiment, students graph and calculate the LD50 of salt on fresh water amphipods. Students compare results of the experiment with pesticides and pollutants.
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Climbing the Pyramid

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine the Food Pyramid to discover the foods they need to eat to have a healthy body. Using food brought to class, they must place the food in the correct category in the pyramid. In groups, they test food samples for fat...
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Mammals

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine the characteristics of mammals through video clips, and slide shows. Lesson includes clips of fastest land animal, biggest mammal, loudest mammal and tallest animal.
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Vegetarianism

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students classify ways to stick on a vegetarian diet. Students survey the reasons why others make it or fail on these types of diets. Students aim to improve their understanding of vegetarianism.
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Penguins

For Teachers K
Students are immersed in the experience of finding facts and experiences surrounding the concept of penguins. They Go to Banners homepage to read about penguins and then use Kidspiration to conduct a KWL web. Then students complete an...
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Macroinvertebrate Mix and Match

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners are introduced to macroinvertebrates (primarily insects), the major segments of aquatic insects (the head, thorax and abdomen) and also differentiate between larval, nymph and adult stages. They investigate the head, thorax and...
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Population Density In Fish

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate how a population of fish multiplies in an ecosystem and the kinds of things that must be done to maintain a healthy population balance with other organisms that live there. They conduct an experiment to test the...
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Fishes

For Students 9th - 12th
In this fish worksheet, students will review the characteristics of fish by comparing the jaws, skeleton, and fertilization of each fish class. Then students will use a phylogenetic tree to compare the groups of fish to ancestral...
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Sentence Fragments Worksheet 1

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students identify which sentences are fragments and then rewrite each fragment they find into a complete sentence below the fragment.
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Article Worksheet

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this articles worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 14 sentences with an article a, an or the. If no article is needed, students mark the space with an X.
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Duck

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this ducks worksheet, students read information paragraphs about the habitat, reproduction, feeding and adaptation of ducks. Students study the photograph of the bird. There are no questions to answer here.
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Irregular Plural Nouns

For Students 6th - 7th
In this irregular plural nouns worksheet, learners identify the irregular plural noun in each of eleven sentences. They write the singular forms following each sentence.
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Using Your Senses

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this using your senses worksheet, students read a 1 page article on senses and then connect 6 body parts to their actual senses by drawing a line from one to the other.
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Past Time: Vocabulary Practice Worksheet 3

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this vocabulary practice worksheet, students choose the best word from 2 possible choices to complete each of 12 sentences. Despite the title, the sentences have little to do with past time.
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School Yard Park/Ecosystem

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders observe and categorize different sections of a park and it's ecosystem. For this categorizing lesson plan, 5th graders collect different facets of nature from a nearby park (without disturbing the ecosystem). They map,...
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Grandpa's Farm (Online Interactive)

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this reading comprehension instructional activity, students read an easy text about life on Grandpa's farm. Students answer "yes" or "no" after reading 7 sentences. This is an online interactive instructional activity.
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CVC Cloze: Middle e

For Students K - 2nd
In this CVC cloze activity worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 10 sentences with CVC words that have the short e sound. Students also list as many other CVC words with the short e sound as possible.
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Singular Nouns

For Students 2nd
In this singular nouns worksheet, 2nd graders put nouns into a chart and insert either "a" or "an" before each noun. Students write 11 nouns.
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Biology Trivia

For Students 9th - 10th
In this biology trivia worksheet, students write short answers to 101 questions about animal classification, human anatomy, animal facts, and attributes of organisms.
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Vocabulary Practice: Past Time

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions that require them to select the appropriate words to complete the sentences that express past time.
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Farm Vocabulary Cross Out Worksheet

For Students 4th - 5th
In this farm vocabulary worksheet, students read ten clues pertaining to the farm. Students analyze the word answer and cross out all the letters that do not belong. Students write the correct word on the line.
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Farm Spiral Puzzle Worksheet

For Students 4th - 5th
In this farm words instructional activity, students read ten clues about agriculture and farm science. Students use their answers to fill in a spiral word puzzle. There is no word bank.
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Eat A Rainbow!

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars demonstrate the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. In this nutrition instructional activity, students identify and sort different fruits and vegetables by colors. Young scholars list reasons why eating fruits and...