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Lesson Plan
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Natural Cleaners

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore natural cleaners. In this science lesson plan, students gain an understanding of the effects that commercial cleaners have on the environment and teach them to make their own cleaners out of less hazardous materials.
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Worksheet
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Pioneer Kitchen

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this pioneer learning exercise, students read a short passage about different ways of pioneer cooking. Students then find 12 given words in the word search provided.
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Interactive
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Intermediate Sentence Completion: 37

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students complete the sentence with one word. Students answer 10 multiple choice questions.
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Lesson 12 - Landfills, Leaks and Spills

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students define spill, leaks and landfills and identify the environmental problems caused by them. They complete worksheets and a quiz.
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Lesson Plan
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Frieze Patterns And Tiles

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate geometry with the use of a creative project. They review relevant vocabulary that includes turn, flip, side, and angles. Students also practice conducting transformations used as inspiration for the project. Then...
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Worksheet
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Vocabulary Review

For Students 4th - 6th
In this vocabulary review worksheet, students determine synonyms in sentences. Students answer ten multiple choice sentences.
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Bowl of Love Lesson 6

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the concept of having a fundraiser to benefit a local soup kitchen. For this fundraising service project lesson, students participate in different activities that explain the history and making of clay pottery, service...
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The Ogre Bully

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete activities with the story The Ogre Bully. In this literature lesson, 1st graders discuss opposite words and then read the story. They answer questions for comprehension and complete phonics activities and worksheets. 
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Worksheet
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Very/Too - Practice 1, 2 and 3

For Students 6th - 8th
In this grammar worksheet, students complete the sentences by filling in the blanks with either "very" or "too". There are 18 sentences to complete.
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Interactive
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ESL-Household Appliances

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this ESL household appliance activity, students read descriptions of 11 household appliances and tell what they are, clicking on an answer button to check for accuracy.
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Worksheet
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Vocabulary Review: Talking About the Present Worksheet 12

For Students 4th - 5th
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students circle the letter of the word or phrase that means the same as the word in bold in 10 sentences.
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Literacy: The Puerto Rican Papers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students in an ESL classroom are introduced to new vocabulary before reading a story in their native language. In groups, they discuss how the tradition of writing stories down became a tradition and answer comprehension questions. To...
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Opposites Practice #1

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this online interactive opposites worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions that require them to identify antonyms of the bold-faced words in 12 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.  
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Germs and How to Fight Them

For Teachers K - 5th
Students learn how important it is to stay healthy. In this germ lesson plan, student learn what germs are and the effect they have on healthy bodies and explore how important it is to keep their bodies healthy through a classroom...
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Periodic Table of the Elements

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students experiment with transition metals.  In this transition metals lesson plan students find the common properties of transition metals and conduct an experiment using one of them.  Students then answer questions regarding what they...
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Lesson Plan
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Ocean in a Bottle

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create an enclosed ocean in a bottle and add different pollutants to explore the effects of pollution on the environment.
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Worksheet
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Earth Day

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, learners identify the words that relate to Earth Day by reading the 14 clues. Students complete the crossword puzzle with the clues.
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Cheeto Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice motor skills while playing this variation of tag. They learn the importance of hand washing in the activity.
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The Rock Cycle

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, in groups, examine soil samples with magnifying glasses. They discuss the living and non-living things they find in their soild samples.
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Activity
Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Water Filter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A challenge for students to build a water filter that can clean dirty water. Site includes challenge, a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Let's Get Dirty

For Teachers 4th - 8th
In a very hands-on activity, students observe and feel the differences between two cleaning methods, with and without hand soap, using coffee grounds to represent "dirt."Most of the dirt and bacteria on our hands is encased in a thin...
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Article
Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: Cleaning Clothes Dirties Oceans

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes research into the pollution caused by plastics that are hidden in the fibers of synthetic clothing, and eventually end up in the ocean after laundering. Cites other research that discovered plastic pellets found throughout the...