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Day and Night

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders view a classroom simulation that demonstrates how the Earth's rotation creates day and night.
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How Do You Define Spring?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners 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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Life of a Logger

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Pupils are introduced to the work and lives of 19th century lumberjacks through a living history slide show presentation. They compare and contrast life 150 years ago with the present. Students describe the history of logging in...
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Fire, Rock and Water Volcanoes!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a demonstration that helps them visualize mudflows and how they move.  In this exploratory lesson students simulate a mudflow and create an avalanche.
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The Way a Tree Works

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils explore nature by conducting botany experiments. In this plant life lesson, students define the necessary resources for a plant to thrive on our planet while defining scientific vocabulary terms. Pupils utilize different plant...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Safety and Security

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, with the help of a vocabulary list of terms involving safety and security procedures, analyze pictures of recreational activities found in magazines/dictionaries and in groups review all the safety and security procedures...
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Tracking Sunrise and Sunset

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils collect, record, and graph the sunrise and sunset times. They explain how the relationship between the tilt of Earth's axis and its yearly orbit around the sun produces the seasons.
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Orientation of the Earth in Space

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students hypothesize the location of the sun in the sky at diferent times of day and at different latitudes. They perform several experiments to provide evidence for their hypothesis. Experiments including observing the sun's position at...
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Winterizing the School Forest

For Teachers K - 8th
Students wood chip and water trees.
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Tick-Tock: Biological Clock

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students complete several activities that stimulate their assessment of time. They consider the term 'biological clock' and how animals in the wild depend on their own internal clocks for survival.
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War, Peace and Judaism 1

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars describe the conflict discussed in class, identify the groups involved in the conflict and their various interests, and define the term ethics. They analyze a current news story from an ethical point of view.
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Exploring the Sun's Role in Living Systems

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create graphic organizer webs that illustrate their thinking about seasonal physical and biological changes caused by changes in sunlight. They identify the central role of sunlight in living systems.
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Egg Carton Coral

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use egg cartons to construct models of coral colonies showing many aspects of the coral's natural history - including the structure of coral polyps and the coral colony's colonial life style.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Tf Hours of Daylight 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In order to determine how effective solar panels would be at various times of the year, it is important to know the amount of daylight at a given location. Young scholars are asked to find an appropriate function that serves as a...
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Youngzine

Youngzine: Week of 11 05 12: An Hour More of Zzzz's..yay!

For Students 3rd - 8th
On Sunday, November 4 at 2 a.m, clocks in U.S were set back by an hour as Daylight Savings came to an end. What is DST? Who first proposed the idea? Is it practiced around the world? Let's take a look in this video. [0:37]
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Time and Date: Daylight Saving Time Dst

For Students 9th - 10th
Daylight Saving Time is a way of making better use of the daylight in the evenings by setting the clocks forward one hour during the longer days of summer, and back again in the fall. To remember which way the clock goes, keep in mind...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Holidays for Kids: Daylight Saving Day

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about Daylight Saving Day. The history and facts about this day when we change the clocks by one hour.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Sun, Earth, and Moon: Calendar of Events

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
During this instructional activity students are going to take a look at moon phases and sunrise-sunset times in order to learn about daylight hours. Students discover that we do not always have the same amount of daylight each day. This...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Light Side of Trigonometry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use the TI InterActive! software to develop a model that determines the time of sunrise and sunset and the number of daylight hours in Melbourne on any day of the year. They also determine how the position on...

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