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Butterfly Metamorphosis Booklet

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students study the four different stages of butterfly metamorphosis, In this butterfly life cycle activity, students construct a metamorphosis booklet by recording and illustrating the butterfly life cycles in the booklet. Vocabulary and...
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Lesson Plan Ideas for Preschoolers

For Teachers Pre-K
Students complete different activities throughout the day in a structured preschool setting. In this preschool day lesson plan, students complete circle time, academic learning, free play, and gross motor time.
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Ants

For Teachers K
Students listen to the story Ant Cities by Arthur Dorros, and discuss the ways that ants are similar to people. They create a butcher paper mural of an ant colony that includes hills, tunnels, rooms, grass and sky.
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Pollination Partners

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, middle schoolers look for the causes and effects of pollination through doing some arts and crafts projects that includes a collage.
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Protists

For Students 9th - 12th
For this protists worksheet, learners will read about the different kinds of protists including protozoans, algae, and molds. Students will then complete 2 short answer questions and 1 true or false question.
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Welcome to the Sahara Desert

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore their artistic skills. In this Sahara Desert lesson, students use the Internet to research the Sahara and paint a watercolor picture depicting the desert.
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Open Your Eyes Wide-Shut

For Teachers Pre-K
Students improve their language skills through 11 activities. In this language skills lesson, students listen to picture books, answer questions about elements of a story, enhance their vocabulary and grammar skills, use 5 W questions,...
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My Pet Rock

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students learn about and create a pet rock.  In this creative expression activity, students pick a rock to make into their "pet".  Students use various art materials to create their pets and write a personal profile which includes...
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Is There A Fungus Among Us?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders classify fungus into two different groups. In this fungus lesson, 6th graders collect as many pieces of fungus as possible. Students then classify these pieces of fungus as saprophytic or parasitic. 
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The Long and Short of It - Geometry

For Teachers 1st
First graders use appropriate vocabulary to compare the measurement of the animal he/she is drawing.
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Biodiversity

For Teachers K
Students are challenged to examine the diversity of their own forest and make comparisons to a tropical rainforest. By exploring and grouping tree and insect types in their local forest, students will develop an understanding of diversity.
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Class Bear Book

For Teachers K
Students discover writing their own name with the help of "Brown Bear, Brown Bear. What Do You See?" to create context for the lesson. They create a page for a class book with the help of the teacher. The dialogue for the new book is...
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Make an Edible Coral Reef

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Pupils create an edible coral reef out of food and candy. In this Science instructional activity, students explore what a coral reef is and the coral reef's importance to the ecosystem.  Additionally, pupils discover the different parts...
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Wind Distribution of Weed Seeds

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate how many seasons it would take for wind to disperse seeds one mile downwind from an initial growth of one spotted knapweed plant. They construct and use a wind tunnel as part of their experiment and graph their results.
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Mesozoic Sea Life Diorama

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create a diorama depicting Mesozoic sea life. They color a template and add shells and pebbles to the diorama to depict the ocean floor.
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Learning About Bears

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars receive instruction about the different types of bears: Brown bears, Polar bears, and Panda bears. They then work on a worksheet independently to show how well they comprehended the instruction.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Animals See in the Dark?

For Students 9th - 10th
To human eyes, the world at night is a formless canvas of grey. Many nocturnal animals, on the other hand, experience a rich and varied world, bursting with details, shapes, and colors.Anna Stockl uncovers the science behind night...
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Kinderweb: Educational Children's Games

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this site to practice identifying shapes, colors, and animals with these interactive games.
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Science Kids: Science Images: Nudibranch

For Students 9th - 10th
A yellow and black nudibranch on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland, Australia. Nudibranch are known for their amazing range of colors and shapes.
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Sen Teacher: Game Dice

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Use this worksheet generator to print out templates for creating large dice with symbols like coins, dots, digits, shapes, colors, animals, vowels, mathematical operators, and fractions.