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Heating the Atmosphere

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students construct a thermograph for maximum and minimum temperatures for the 2-week period. They illustrate how the earth's atmosphere is heated by convection and conduction currents and evaporation of water.
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Classification of Clouds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view progressive slides of cloud formations and identify which type of cloud is shown as it forms. They estimate the cloud's height while viewing each image.
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Fairly Simple Mineral Identification Exercise

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students perform simple field tests on a variety of minerals and use their results and a given data chart to determine which mineral each specimen is.
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Fearlesness

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore overcoming fear. As a class, students share experiences of being afraid. After students read a story about being fearful, students compare events in their lives to the character in the story. They sing songs about not...
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Coke Mentos

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students hypothesize on what the outcome will be of an experiment, they then observe the experiment and write their observations down.  In this experimental lesson students hypothesize, observe then discuss what happens in an experiment...
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Picturing People

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students look at the varied ways the human body is portrayed in contemporary media. They discuss what a character is and how it plays a role in telling stories. Students look at examples of objects like dolls, puppets and toys that...
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Sea Turtle Savvy

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore sea turtles. They create paper plate sea turtles and brainstorm other organisms that live in the sea turtle's habitat. They role-play scenes from a nonfiction book, A Baby Sea Turtle's Journey. They play a game...
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Down, Dung and Dirty

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students investigate the stages of succession in animal dung communities. They create a dung culture using fresh cow, goat or horse dung then record data on the fungal species that appear over a two week period.
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Help! Help! Save the Earth!

For Teachers 1st
First graders analyze ways to save our natural resources and preserve the environment. In this environmental protection lesson, 1st graders complete four activities to analyze the importance of our natural resources and what trash does...
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Superstitions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the various superstitions they encounter in our culture. Working in groups, they create a vocabulary list of words related to superstitions. Working in teams, they play Pictionary in order to aid in the create of...
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Dino Babies

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students distinguish between dinosaurs and fossils. They escribe what paleontologists do and how they reconstruct the lives of dinosaurs from the fossil record. In addition, they state that dinosaurs hatched from eggs.
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Stories from the Thousand and One Nights

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students hold a Thousand and One Nights storytelling festival with each one memorizing a story to relate to classmates. While examining provided resource links, they select and practice a story they would like to retell. As a dress...
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Bill Nye- The Atmosphere

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students look for the words that fill the blanks to cover the concept of the atmosphere. The activity is meant to be a review.
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Special Senses

For Teachers 9th
In this special senses worksheet, 9th graders briefly describe the structure of a taste bud and the pathway a signal takes to the brain. Then they list the five basic taste sensations and homeostatic values of taste. Students also...
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Tell Me About It: What is Design?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create and present an original design. In this visual arts lesson plan, students watch a video about design and learn the elements of design. Then students work in groups to construct and present an original design.
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Comparing Plant and Animal Cells

For Students 5th - 8th
For this comparing plant cells and animal cells worksheet, students view cells from their cheeks and cells from elodea. A Venn diagram reveals similarities and differences between the cells.
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Mineral Identification

For Students 7th - 9th
In this mineral identification worksheet, students match 10 terms to their definitions. Terms include types of minerals, tests and characteristics of minerals. They write down the tests used to identify an unknown mineral and they fill...
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Planting the Seeds

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students read the story Seedfolks and consider working for the common good. Middle schoolers also watch "Whose Walls and Whose Rules" in order to take...
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National Anthems of Selected Countries

For Students 5th - 6th
In these national anthems worksheets, students read the general information and the anthems for the countries of the United States, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Zambia, Great Britain, Chile, Ethiopia, Korea, New Zealand, Greece, Taiwan,...
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Loggerhead Turtle Fun Facts

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars study loggerhead turtles and learn facts about reptiles. In this turtles lesson plan, students read information about loggerhead turtles and study their various sections and characteristics. Young scholars then make their...
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Vocab Quiz: Grade One Vocabulary List One

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students read 15 words in a list and draw lines to match them to the definitions in another column. Words are common sight words.
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Observing First Impressions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore their own personal qualities. For this social awareness lesson, students explore their identities as results of genetics and environments. Students also discuss first impressions and their reliability.
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Cloud Haiku

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils listen as a haiku is read by the teacher, determining what season is being portrayed in the poem. Students work together as a class and create a model haiku, then complete a worksheet, completing their own poem. Pupils will use a...
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Creative Glass Casting

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students carve clay and create glass art. In this glass casting lesson plan, students use a kiln to fire up clay and make glass into the clay sculpture they created.

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