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Exploring Probability
Fourth graders participate in a lesson that explores probability. They use candy and model cubes to experiment with different outcomes that can be charted if the students can proceed to the objective of the lesson. They discover how...
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Hoppy's Busy Day
For this reading comprehension worksheet, students read an Easter story titled Hoppy's Busy Day.Students then answer 4 reading comprehension questions.
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Sandpaper Drawings
Students examine sand art pictures from different cultures. They create their own examples of sand art.
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Reading Art
Students compare and contrast different works of Asian sculptural forms and use visual clues to analyze those works. Evaluation for this lesson plan is done on the second class day with each student creating a drawing of an American...
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Geography of the English Settlements
Third graders locate several important American colonial cities on a map and research how their proximity to water and nearby arable land affected the rate and success of settlement.
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Units 'R Us
Second graders, using one inch grid paper, create a foot long and a yard measuring tool.
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Once In a Blue Moon
Students review the characteristics of the planets and their moons. Using the internet, they research the relationship between the Earth and its moons. They take a template of the moon and draw craters of different colors to present to...
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Explorit's Garden Quiz: How Does Your Garden Grow?
In this plants worksheet, students complete a 6 question multiple choice quiz about gardening, plants and agriculture. This is an online interactive worksheet.
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Survival of the Fittest
Learners explore plant needs and growth. In this plant science lesson, students use a cereal box to complete a plant growth graph activity.
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Where is Triangle?
Students listen to songs to discover different shapes. They tape the shapes to their fingers and when they sing about that shape they are to show the shapes to each other.
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Ecology - Ecosystem
Third graders research ecosystems, the work of ecologists, John Muir's contribution to the environment and an endangered species of their choice. They read books, participate in discussions, and write reports.
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Field Trip to San Bruno
Students contrast a weedy annual grassland of introduced species with an undisturbed, ancient plant community of native bunchgrasses and wildflowers.
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A Difference of Mind
Students discover the individual variance in brain response to its four main functions. They perform activities related to each function at four stations set up in the classroom. They discuss their responses as a class.
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Pecan Fingerprints
Students investigate the traits that make them individuals. They study that natural items have traits that make them unique by looking at pecans. They make fingerprint animals which they use to design fingerprint cards.
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Exploring Probability
Fifth graders work in small groups of five or six to conduct a series of investigations. While recording the results using pencils on individual tally worksheets rotating to different stations and comparing results with the other...
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Sammy's Wish
In this reading response worksheet, students read a story about a boy's wish. Students give their opinion about the end of the story and have the opportunity to continue writing about the boy's adventures.
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Elodea Lab
Students observe the changes between elodea leaves placed in darkness and light. In this life science instructional activity, students experiment to find evidence of photosynthesis in elodea leaves. Students use indicators to...
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Making a Globe
Learners examine the mercator projection or nautical chart and observe how global maps do not have the same distance as flat maps. They design handmade globes using the meridians and equator as guides to draw in the land. They paint and...
Project Britain
Primary Homework Help: Color Investigation Puzzle
Try making words on the screen disappear by changing the background color of this page. Add or subtract red, green, or blue, and see how light is made up of many different colors.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Colored Animal Game for Kids
How did this zebra turn green? Do the other zebras like him still? Young writers click on the animal button and the color button until they find a combination they want to write about. Then they write a story about the animal including...
University of Virginia Library
Prism: "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Mark Twain's "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It." Neutral phrases are blue while non southern phrases are red and southern phrases are...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Chinese Jade: An Introduction
What is jade? The English term "jade" is used to translate the Chinese word yu, refers to a number of minerals including nephrite, jadeite, serpentine and bowenite, while jade refers only to nephrite and jadeite. Chemically nephrite is a...
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Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Rainbow Math Activity Plan
Red apples, orange candles, yellow stars, green frogs, and blue, indigo, and violet flowers-they all add up to Rainbow Math fun! During this adventure children learn the colors of the rainbow as they practice counting, adding and...