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Living or Non-Living

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine living and non-living things. In this life science activity, students are given a group of objects and discuss if they are living or non-living. Students identify and list characteristics of living things.
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What's Wild?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders define domesticated animal and wildlife. In this animal activity, 3rd graders cut pictures out of magazines of both types of animals and make two collages with the pictures.
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Busting More Myths Using the Scientific Method

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Use the Mythbusters model to jazz up your scientific method lessons!
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A Fish Tale

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate the lives of fish. In this biology lesson plan, students demonstrate how fish cells respond to fresh and salty water, determine the age of a fish and if temperature effects the movement of a fish's operculum (gill...
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A Fish Tale

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars conduct an experiment. In this fish activity, students discover how fish cells respond to fresh and salty water and if temperature effect the movement of a fish's gills. Young scholars also identify the characteristics of...
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A House for Me- Ocean Environments

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore ocean environments. In this ocean environment instructional activity, students identify the things ocean animals need for survival. Students use KWL charts and search the Internet collecting information about ocean...
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Let's Just Dialogue

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders listen to the story, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish" and complete a cartoon drawing containing dialogue that shows an understanding of conventions used in dialogue by using the bubble form.
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Something's Fishy

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners study fish habits and traits. In this marine life lesson, students complete four learning centers of a fish memory game, a fish habitat study, draw and glue fish craft activity, and a fish read-a-thon. Learners complete their...
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Gone Fishin'

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students experiment with population management in this hands-on lesson.  In this biology lesson, students collect data on overuse of a resource and how to manage for sustainability. Students fish for m&m's using straws and try to...
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Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students prepare for school and relieve anxiety they might be experiencing in regards to beginning school. For this Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten lesson plan, students develop listening skills, produce rhyming words, and...
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the Whale Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students listen to whale stories and answer addition and subtraction problems in the stories.  In this addition and subtraction lesson, students receive 20 goldfish.  Based on the story they eat the goldfish. Students write number...
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Population Density In Fish

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate how a population of fish multiplies in an ecosystem and the kinds of things that must be done to maintain a healthy population balance with other organisms that live there. They conduct an experiment to test the...
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Healthy Snacks. Healthy Packaging

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research how to select the most cost-effective snacks. In this consumer practices lesson, 4th graders compare packaging labels and come to conclusions on how cost effective the product is. Students discuss their findings.
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Urban Biology: Can Fish Detect Odors

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Young scholars investigate how fish use their sense of smell. In this scientific method lesson plan, students design and perform an experiment to investigate how fish use their sense of smell. This lesson plan includes statistical...
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The Five Senses - Observation, Experimentation, Prediction, and Categorization.

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in this creative and well-designed lesson. They rotate through five learning stations, each devoted to one of the senses. They practice observation, experimentation, prediction, and categorization.
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Matching Game: Fish and Turtles

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars participate in a matching game.  In this memory lesson, students conduct a memory experiment by playing a matching game with pictures of fish and turtles.  Young scholars sing songs about the animals during their activity.
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Measuring Mass

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders engage in a instructional activity that is concerned with the estimate and approximation of different masses. They weigh different objects and compare the different measurements and then use a balance to compare them....
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Model Penguin Project

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students research and build model penguins. In this penguin lesson, students examine the anatomy of penguins by creating models and completing coloring pages.
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Beginning Addition

For Teachers K
Students examine the concept of addition by adding two one-digit numbers whose sum is less than ten. They count and add goldfish crackers together, chorally repeating each problem.
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What is Life?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate the characteristics of living things. In this life science lesson, students examine several living and non-living specimens. Students determine which things are living and non-living.
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Food Label Realities

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify nutritional information on food labels. In this nutrition lesson, 2nd graders bring in food labels from home and practice reading them. Students discuss the nutritional content, such as caloric content. Students...
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How to Catch a Fish

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils conduct an experiment to demonstrate the effects of different fishing methods.  In this commercial fishing lesson students create posters and public announcements to share their information.
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Mealtime for Corals

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore how coral polyps feed. In this science lesson, students participate in an interactive game to demonstrate how polyps within a coral colony feed. Students become coral polyps and demonstrate how they feed in this lesson.
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Classification Introduction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students simulate classifying rocks using different colored skittles. In this earth science activity, students create a Venn diagram according to their compiled information. They share this diagram in the class.