Lakeshore Learning
Story Sequencing Activity
Pollywogs, tadpoles, and frogs. Here's a sequencing exercise that combines story telling and science. Kids paste illustrations of the life cycles of frogs in order on a story sheet.
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You Got The Whole World In Your Hands: Geology, Earth's Layers, Science
Students make a model of the Earth's crust out of foam in order to better explain the make-up of the Earth's layers. They add continents and oceans.
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The Amazing and Beautiful Aurora
Students create an oil pastel painting. For this pastel painting lesson, students examine images of the aurora borealis. Students produce an original pastel painting of the aurora.
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Dream House
Students complete a collage depicting what they would like in their Dream House. They think about the home of their dreams and pretend that they can have anything and everything that they want in a house. Find pictures from magazines...
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Mud in the Water
Sixth graders investigate erosion. In this erosion instructional activity, 6th graders explore how farming changes the environment. Students construct an erosion model and research ways to protect the soil from excess mud generated by...
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Ground Zero
Don't harbor any negative feelings toward negative numbers. Scholars learn about different classifications of rational numbers, including negative integers. They also develop definitions of the opposite and the absolute value of a...
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Sports Helmets and Impact Testing of Polymers
Students examine the importance of good quality safety gear. In this investigative lesson, students will tests various polymers, collect data, and analyze the data to determine which polymer is best for safety helmets. They will design a...
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Carpentry: merit badge
In this carpentry activity, students fill out short answer questions using their workbook about carpentry in order to get a merit badge. Students complete 6 questions total.
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What Are You Doing Here?
Students draw scenes of different environments and create unexpected visitors in those environments. They reinforce their understanding of the characteristics of different environments and the animals that do or do not live in these...
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Who's Inside the Mitten?
Learners read "The Mitten", by Jan Brett. They discuss vocabulary presented in the story and sequence significant plot events. They make masks to represent several of the characters and act out the story.
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Spinner Experiment
Students collect and analyze data, then draw conclusions from the data and apply basic concepts of probability.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Communicate Effectively on Health and Nutrition Topics
Students analyze/recognize/identify basic body parts in connection to communicating productively on health and nutrition in the event that a need arises requesting medical attention.
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Observations and Inferences
Young scholars observe how to distinguish observations form inferences. In this examining inferences lesson students list observations relating to the activity and discuss the importance of them.
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Be a Weather Reporter!
Students make a weather turtle puppet and use it to respond to weather-related questions. They manipulate the turtle to show basic weather vocabulary such as: sunny, windy, rainy, snowy, etc.
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A Little Fun with Adjectives
Young scholars examine the rules for the use and formation of adjectives and play a game of tic-tac-toe to determine the correct form of the word to be used.
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Dice Freeze Tag
Young scholars are each given a dice number and then they play a tag game. When tagged, they must add/subtract the number of the person that tagged them to their number, before re-entering the game.
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ABSTRACT EX[RESSIONISM DE KOONING STYLE
Young scholars view and discuss the work of Elaine de Kooning and then the students create a painting in the Abstract Expressionist style.
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Sowing Seeds
Students observe earth science by participating in a planting activity. In this seeds lesson plan, students identify the process for seeds to transform into plants which eventually produce food. Students sow seeds in the ground and...
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Grandfather Tang's Story
Students recognize, describe, and perform transformations (rotation/turn, reflection/flip, and translation/slide) on two dimensional shapes.
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Forest Measurements
Students analyze timber and use measuring techniques to figure board feet. In this investigative lesson students learn why accurate measurements are important and how to convert standing timber to board feet.
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Piece Like a River
Learners investigate water formations by creating a puzzle. In this water properties lesson, students create a giant river puzzle by drawing on large butcher paper as a class, then dividing the image up into many pieces. ...
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The Mysterious Person
Students each create a small piece of a larger picture. When assembled the final piece match a photograph of a famous individual.
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Noodle Stop Soccer
Learners dribble their ball to the opposite goal and try to score. The two noodle stoppers attempt to stop them from scoring by hitting the dribblers ball with their noodle. If their ball is noddle stopped they have to freeze at the spot...
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Mixing Up Magic
Students explore the relationship between art and science through experimenting with color, design and recycled materials and creating their own art work.