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Heartfelt/Handmade Activities: Genre Painting

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars examine genre painting. They explore the Illinois State Museum website, identify how genre paintings were composed, analyze the activities of an Illinois farm in the 1850s, and create a genre painting of current everyday...
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EVOLUTION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create a project using a provided "Evolution of Biotechnology Timeline". Students may pick from many different ideas in order to find a project that interests them. They examine how the use of biotechnology has increased with...
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Australian Mammals: Evolultionary Development as a Result of Geographic Isolation

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners examine the differences between monotremes, marsupials, and placental mammals and are able to contrast these organisms with other mammals. They learn about unique variation and the diversity of mammals located in Australia.
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Hudson River Salt Front Activity

For Students 6th - 8th
In this Hudson River worksheet, students read a passage about the Hudson and salinity, they complete graph interpretation and questions and activities.
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Ocean Creature Classification

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners develop their own system for classifying a group of objects or organisms using observed similarities and differences. They investigate the process of scientific classification, and explain how marine organisms are classified by...
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Where Are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study dinosaurs by completing two activities and group discussion. In this dinosaur lesson, students discuss dinosaurs and extinction as a class. Students make dinosaur dioramas, a hatchable dinosaur egg after watching a video...
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Inferences I: Post Test

For Students 5th - 8th
In this inferences worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions about inferences after they read passages. Students answer 6 questions total.
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Temperature School

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars observ the cooling and warming of room temperature, hot, and ice cold cans of water by measuring the change in temperature over time. They then attempt to develop explanations for the observations made and apply their...
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Balls and Ramp

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students role several balls of different weights down a ramp and into a paper cup and record how far each ball made the paper cup move. They then answer questions that help them analyze their results and reinforce the idea that energy...
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Observing Objects

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners observe the motion of both a pendulum and a spring pendulum . They then explain the differences and the similarities between the two types of motions.
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Simplifying sentences

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars read through several articles as a class and identify key words in sentences. Students work as a class to reduce the length of the article by shortening the sentences but ensuring that they still make sense.
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Fish Haunts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine some of the different ecosystems that fish live in. While doing this they identify the species of fish and the ecological conditions needed for survival. Students use research resources to make fish cards that have...
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Seasons

For Teachers K
Students explore the four seasons. Through observation activities, they explore and discuss the weather changes that occur during each season. Students create a graph of the clothing that is worn during each season.
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Seasons of a Lake

For Students 5th - 8th
In this lake worksheet, students access a website to read about how the conditions in a lake change during the seasons. Students write these changes in a graphic organizer.
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Fall vs. Spring

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students learn about fall and spring by engaging in hands-on activities in order to fulfill science and language arts standards. In this instructional activity on seasons, students first listen to a story about fall, discuss the...
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Fun with Flowers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students make observations of flowers. In this life science instructional activity, students look at flowers, then draw and color their favorite flowers. Lesson includes extension activities.
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Air Quality and Transportation in the Tulsa Area

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students investigate the effects of air pollution. In this environmental lesson, students discuss the causes of air pollution and identify how transportation has an effect on the air quality. Students identify other alternatives to driving.
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The Roanoke Mystery

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders hypothesize about what happened on the island of Roanoke. In this South Carolina history lesson, 4th graders use primary documents to draw conclusions about what happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke. This mini-unit...
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Fossil Evidence for Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students draw maps of counties that were important to the discovery of plate tectonic theory.  In this plate tectonics lesson students excavate constructed fossil sites from matching coastlines and discuss the possible explanations...
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Fourth Grade Science

For Students 4th
For this science worksheet, 4th graders complete multiple choice questions about day lengths, light and dark, food, recycling, and more. Students complete 25 questions.
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Alien Invasion

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students research how alien species can change an ecosystem. In this coral reef lesson plan, students describe invasive species and site evidence how these species came to be invasive and what control measures are possible.
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A Healthy Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners market healthy environments. In this healthy environment lesson, students participate in an activity that requires them to examine the food web. Learners then research healthy and unhealthy environments and use their findings to...
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Mammals

For Students 5th - 10th
In this mammals activity, students click on the links in the questions about mammals to find the answers to the questions and then come back and answer the questions. Students answer 8 questions total.
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Bird Buffet

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study traits of different bird beaks. For this bird lesson, 5th graders explore the function and usefulness of different inherited traits of birds.

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