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Pollination Parties

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students discuss the pollination of bees and butterflies.  In this pollination lesson,students complete a worksheet answering questions about an imaginary bee pollination company.   Students understand the relationship between plants,...
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From Flower to Fruit

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the parts of a flower and how pollination occurs. In this flowers and pollination lesson plan, 2nd graders examine the parts of a flower with a hand lens focusing on the pollen. They watch as a pollinator such as a...
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a play to work on seeing events from a different perspective. Some of them are reporters, some cameramen and women, and others are interviewed. They put themselves in the shoes of the people in the book...
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Do the Animal Dance!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create a dance based on animal movements. In this kinesthetic lesson plan, the students will read and imitate animals in a creative way and share their dances with the group. The lesson includes a take-home activity and a math...
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Getting to Know You

For Teachers Pre-K
Students participate in tactile and visual exploration. In this tactile and visual exploration lesson, students listen to John Archambault's, Grandmother's Garden, and sing the song, "Friends Are Like Flowers." They participate in ice...
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The Letter Bb

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students participate in a variety of activities to practice words with the Bb sound. For this Bb sound lesson, students use craft rolls to create butterflies. Students create a letter book with B words
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Camouflage

For Teachers K
Students observe first hand what it is like to be the prey and what he or she must do to blend in and make themselves less noticeable. They participate in a variety of hands-on activities which help them explain how insects hide...
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Insect Collection

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how to use several types of insect sampling and collectin equipment. They work in groups to collect insects in different areas of their schoolyard. Students are explained that quadrats are generally used to randomly...
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Insects

For Students 4th - 5th
In this insects and bugs learning exercise, students choose the multiple choice answer that answers 15 questions or facts about insects and bugs correctly.
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The Web of Life

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students construct a food web to learn how living things in an ecosystem are interconnected. In this food web simulation lesson plan, students will be assigned an animal and the teacher will represent the sun. Students and teacher...
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Past Simple English Exercises

For Students 4th - 5th
In this past simple verb tense online learning exercise, students unscramble verbs and place the past simple form in each of 20 sentences. They match 8 sentences to the clip art pictures and write the sentence number in the box. They...
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Literacy: Slowly, Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore language arts by analyzing a children's book in class. For this vocabulary lesson, students read the book Slowly, Slowly, Slowly... by Eric Carle. Students identify the characters, setting and plot of the story before...
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Very Hungry Caterpillar Play-Doh

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore the concept of retelling a story.  In this retelling lesson, students use Play-Doh to create models of the objects in Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  Students use these models to to retell the events. 
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Native Plants at School -- A Garden Landscape Project

For Students 5th - 7th
In this native plants at school -- a garden landscape project worksheet, students design the landscape for a school garden by identifying native plants, creating a presentation and creating a plot plan within the budget.  This page has...
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Alphabet Coloring Page: Letter Bb

For Students K - 1st
In this alphabet coloring worksheet, students identify the uppercase and lowercase letter Bb. Students color the image and words for the butterfly.
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The Web of Life

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars explore the interconnectedness of living things in an ecosystem. They use pictures and arrows to develop a food web, and participate in constructing a class food web with students representing various parts of the web.
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Texas Crossword Puzzle

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Texas activity, students complete a crossword puzzle, using 10 clues given at the bottom of the page. A reference web site for additional activities is given.
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My Colorful Food Chain

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore biology by participating in a dietary habit activity. In this food chain instructional activity, students discuss their own diets and the animals we feed upon daily. Students create a poster demonstrating the animals...
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Fireflies

For Students 8th Standards
A short story about a nighttime adventure at summer camp provides readers with a chance to practice their comprehension skills. 
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Revising and Polishing Our Final Products

For Teachers 5th Standards
One, two, three go!  Scholars work independently to finalize the three components of their final task. They complete a science journal entry, scientific text box, and scientific drawing. While working, learners sign up for an appointment...
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How to Say “I Ruff You”

For Students 7th Standards
Who says you need a human to be your valentine on Valentine's Day? Give your dog-loving readers an inspiring perspective on how a sister givdes her brother a valentine from the family dog. They then answer 10 questions thatd involve...
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The Little Hungry Caterpillar

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students discuss "The Little Hungry Caterpillar." In this reading comprehension lesson, students make sock caterpillars used in retelling the story so as sequence the events accurately.
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Invertebrate Classification Challenge

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders practice invertebrate classification using the organisms that are discussed in their textbooks.  In this classification lesson students work in teams to classify organisms.
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Clearly Classified

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate plants and insects.  In this science classification lesson, students create separate categories for insects and plants by characteristics.  Learners discover scientific names of insects.