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Twisters
Students build a tornado in a bottle and do various readings to explore tornadoes.
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What Kind of Insect is That?
Fifth graders characterize insects and classify insects according to the Linnaean system. They use hand lenses or microscopes to examine insect body parts.
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What Is In The Cup?
High schoolers investigate the mixtures of solutions. They utilize cups filled with bases and acids. Students test and determine the pH of each cup. The multiple cups are compared to each other in order to chart acids and bases according...
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Bug Village
Students create small "villages" of rock bugs in this cute Art instructional activity using blocks of wood, glue guns, rocks, acorns, and sticks. The instructional activity includes resource links and pictures of the finished product in...
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Activity #8 U Are So Dense!
Middle schoolers watch as the teacher demonstrates: if a single liquid is placed in a U-shaped tube, the level of liquid on both sides are the same. When the mass is greater on one side than the other, liquid is pushed from one side to...
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Touchy Feely Bags
Students reach into the bag and grab an object. They should try to identify the object without looking in the bag or pulling the object out of the bag.
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Sneaker Slap
Students develop agility while moving from the "ready position." students change directions efficiently in a game-like situation.
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Paper or Plastic
Students practice throwing and catching skills with plastic grocery bags.
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Synthesizing Pigment and Dyeing Cloth
Students create a synthetic dye and oxidize the dye and record the effects.
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The Analemma
Middle schoolers describe the relationship between the tilt of Earth's axis and its yearly orbit around the sun, by learning about analemmas. They determine what they can do to show that the sun's position doesn't change, and they find...
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Halloween Stations
Students rotate through Halloween named stations in the gym using their throwing and striking skills.
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Careers and Weather
Pupils explore how weather affects a variety of jobs. Through a series of activity sheets, they determine what occupations create more or less activity because of weather conditions.
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Insects: Listen and Learn
Fourth graders use their listening skills to make observations of their environment. They study various insects within a natural setting. They, along with their identification of the insect, create a sketch of the insect.
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Value: Non-Violence - Friendship With Animals
Students discuss the importance of respecting animals and properly providing for their needs. In a class setting, students read a story about animals and identify kind and caring actions toward the animals. After a class sing-a-long,...
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Maintain Air Quality
Students are engaged in discussing air quality through hands-on demonstrations using balloons, sealed jars, and toy cars. Students conduct a home radon test to measure their air quality.
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Volleying (Setting)
Young scholars demonstrate basic volleying skills. They perform the forward backward stride and discuss its benefits. Students portray flexed knees and elbows, as well as positioning of hands in preparation of a set pass. They...
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Water Hardness- Causes and Testing
Eighth graders examine what materials cause water hardness and the relative measure of water hardness in a two part lab activity. In part one, 8th graders add an assigned soap test solution to eleven different test tube solutions in...
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Aquatic Exercise - Object Retrieval
Students are introduced to a variety of exercises to do in the water. In groups, they swim in the deep part of the pool to retrieve objects at the bottom. To end the activity, they practice techniques to help them breathe and grab the...
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Make Sense of Nature
Learners participate in this program that heightens their awareness and curiosity of nature as well as their sense of adventure and exploring new surroundings. They identify and choose an object from nature after exploring it with other...
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Plane Mirrors
Students investigate the law of reflection by using mirrors. For this physics lesson, students operate a robot using IR controllers. They explain the path of light as it reflects through a surface.
University of Washington
Neuroscience for Kids: Eye Safety
Heed the following warning, "Your eyes are the windows to your brain- Protect Them!" Use this website to learn several eye safety tips.
NASA
Nasa: Eye Safety During Solar Eclipses
This resource, which is provided for by NASA, gives great information on protecting your eyes during solar eclipses. Your eyes are very difficult to replace. Even when 99% of the Sun's surface is obscured during the partial phases of a...
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Open Your Eyes
This webpage is a great resource for elementary teachers who are looking for activities, lessons, facts, and experiments pertaining to the eye.