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Absolute Location

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the geographic concept of absolute location. Using a variety of resources, they create a life-size classroom grid and locate the coordinates of a point, identify latitude and longitude of different locations, and...
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Kindergarten Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers K
Students participate in a scavenger hunt. In this icebreaker lesson plan, students are given Scavenger Hunt Sheets and search their new classroom for the objects.
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Gender Role Development

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students look in newspapers and magazines and discuss gender role development and stereotypes. For this gender lesson plan, students bring in their favorite objects that have no gender stereotype linked to it.
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Mock Investigation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore detective investigations. In this introduction to mysteries lesson, students role play eye witnesses and investigators related to a "crime" committed in their classroom. Students collect evidence and record information,...
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Fear Factors

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners explore their own childhood fears. Then, by reversing the scenario and considering how the objects of their fears might in turn also be afraid of them, students confront these fears and create a student books that help younger...
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Where Will The Couch Fit?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students name the area formula and describe how it works. They use area formula to calculate the surface area of various objects. They use the area formula to design a floor plan of an apartment.
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Bending Light

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders read Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, discuss refraction, identify example of it from novel, and perform classroom experiments demonstrating refraction and reflection.
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Lewis and clark...and Jodie, Freddi, and Samantha

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students practice descriptive language when one student describes an object to another student who cannot see it. They guess what the object is and relate the experience to that of the Lewis and Clark expeditionary journals.
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Introduction to Magnetism and Electronics

For Teachers K - 1st
Students are introduced to the concepts of magnetism and electronics. As a class, they walk through the steps of the scientific method and define new vocabulary. In groups, they are given a bag of objects and they are to separate them...
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Penny Panda's Sticker Store

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice counting money using nickels, dimes, and quarters. They review the value of nickels, dimes and quarters. They explore Penny Panda's Sticker Store, and talk a little about what the object of the activity is (save...
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Cartoon Laws of Physics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are introduced to Newton's Laws. They are shown excerpts from Road Runner, and students are asked to write new laws of their own, and then constrast them to the behavior of real world objects in motion, and to Newton's...
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A View Of Home From The Front Door and From Space

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover how distance can change how our view of an object. Students build a representative model of where their home is located from different distances. They create three drawn models of their home from various elevations as...
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School Sleuths Treasure Map

For Teachers K - 5th
Students are explained how a grid and compass work. They are also explained that archaeologists use grids as a record of the exact location of artifacts. Students define the term datum as a point of reference on grids from which all...
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Playground Measurement

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders find a rectangular or square object in the classroom to measure. They measure to the nearest centimeter and apply that knowledge to measuring perimeter. They recognize, describe, and determine surface area and volume of...
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Flights of Fancy?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students reflect on the dynamics of human flight and how objects fall through the air and how science principles are used in flight. They create a How-It-Works poster diagramming the science behind one method of flying. In addition,...
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Motion Problems

For Students 11th - 12th
In this motion problem worksheet, students read story problems, write equations, and determine the speed, distance or time objects travel. They determine when two objects, traveling in opposite directions, meet, This three-page...
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Measurement Concepts

For Students 4th - 6th
In this measurement worksheet, students solve 7 word problems and 1 multiple choice test-prep question. Students use non-standard classroom items to estimate and measure objects in order to solve the problems.
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Rocks and Minerals

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students bring rocks and minerals from home to investigate in the classroom. In this rocks and minerals lesson plan, students observe all the rocks and minerals brought into the class and answer 7 questions about the features of the...
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Race the Track! Super Slope (Lesson One)

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders utilize basic physics concepts to calculate speed of an object set in motion from various heights. In this basic physics lesson plan, 5th graders make observations, calculations, record data, and conclusions throughout...
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Microscope Online

For Students 7th - 10th
In this microscope worksheet, students use an on line site to answer questions about the history of the microscope, they view objects and identify what each is, they explore different magnifications of the microscope and they answer...
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Rocks and Soil Changes lesson plan

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students recognize objects around their school made of rocky materials. In this changes in rocks and soil activity, students use a website for a virtual experiment of rocks.  Students group rocks based on their properties. Students...
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Drawing Movement

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students analyze visual arts by creating drawings in their classroom. In this art analysis lesson, students identify the paintings of Keith Haring by researching the web. Students utilize paper and oil pastels to create paintings based...
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TRB 5:2 - Activity 3: Earthquakes

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students watch a classroom demonstration, and experiment to discover the five ways that Earth's crust shifts along a fault.
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Measurement Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students review estimation, measurement, fractions, decimals while familiarizing themselves with a new classroom at the beginning of the year.

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