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Home: the Story of Maine "A Love for the Land": Where Are You? Who Are You?
Students investigate their neighborhood both as it is now and as it was 100 years ago. They take a walk around their neighborhood and fill out a worksheet before completing a worksheet.
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Cafeteria Compost
Pupils gather information on composting. They create their own compost pile using proper materials from the lunchroom. They work together to record observations.
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Making a Solar Eclipse Book: The Sun and Moon During a Solar Eclipse
Students make book covers displaying the Sun during a solar eclipse and a labeled illustration of the Sun.
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What's Dancing in the Water?
Students learn about watershed, as well as the different forms and uses of water. In this water forms lesson, students brainstorm water sources and uses. Students read the book Water Dance and discuss water examples. Students complete a...
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Recycle and Respect!
Students explore how they can be a philanthropist. For this recycling lesson, students learn what it means to recycle and discuss why items need to be recycled. Students review the term philanthropy and practice this by picking up the...
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A Multicultural Study: Chinese New Year
Learners study the customs and beliefs of the Chinese people as they experience Chinese New Year; students become aware that they live on one planet but their festivals and holidays vary.
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Space Travel Brochure
Young scholars discover information about the planets and the solar system. They work together to research a specific planet. They develop a brochure for the planet and share with the class.
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Large Numbers Reasoning Questions
In this large number reasoning worksheet, students answer 5 questions that require them to use large numbers such as 1,000,000. They answer multiple choice questions and explain their reasoning.
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Why Should I Care About Global Warming?
Learners examine global warming, and the greenhouse effect. They determine the changes that happen and the adaptations that need to be made because of these occurrences. They look at the occurrence and effect of these phenomena in the past.
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Large Numbers- Reasoning Worksheet
In this large number reasoning worksheet, 5th graders use numbers in the hundred thousands and millions as the reason the answers to 5 problems. They explain their work and describe how they made decisions when finding answers.
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Learning About Maps
Learners investigate the many uses and features of maps and globes and locate where they live on both. In this map activity, student play a travel game and create their own maps to explore states, continents, countries, and islands.
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A Penguin is a Bird
Learners compare and contrast the ways that penguins are different to flying birds.
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Seasons
Students listen to stories about the seasons, and discuss the kinds of clothing people wear for each season. They take a walk, collecting items to go with each season, then draw pictures to match the season.
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How Do You Define Spring?
Students conduct surveys to determine when spring occurs in the minds of people in their area. They organize and interpret their data.
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The Wedding of a Mountain
Students examine the differences between weathering, erosion, and deposition as it pertains to mountains.
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Walk into the Desert, A Line and Wash Landscape
Learners discuss a landscape art print and its composition. They create a landscape underdrawing with foreground, middleground and background as well as repeated elements for rhythm. They add a watercolor wash and lights/darks for...
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Fronts
Fourth graders define cold and warm fronts, explain how they are formed and they ways that they affect the weather.
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Seasons
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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This Building is Tall
Students calculate the perimeter of shapes. In this geometry lesson, students relate properties of polygons to the real world. They find length, midpoint and slope.
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Dreaming of Gardens
Young scholars demonstrate ways to be an environmental philanthropist. In this philanthropy lesson, students read The Gardener and Just a Dream and compare the two books. Young scholars discuss ways the characters demonstrated...
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Vertebrate History in Rocks
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read the noted section in their science textbooks and respond to 4 short answer and 3 fill in the blank questions regarding fossils embedded in rock formations.
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If I Were A Raindrop!
Students review the water cycle. In this water cycle lesson, students review the different stages of the water cycle. Students use the computer program Kid Pix Weather to help demonstrate understanding.
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Sunshine and Shadows
Students measure their shadows early in the morning, record direction of shadow, make marks in ground with chalk or tape, measure with ruler, and record results. Students repeat process at noon, and then later in afternoon. Students...
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Mining Reclamation and Cookies
Ninth graders are introduced to the process of mining. In groups, they use the internet to research the effect of mining on the environment. They work together to create their own make believe mining company and discover the process of...