Agriculture in the Classroom
Pumpkins... Not Just For Halloween
Celebrate fall with four pumpkin themed hands-on activities! After learning about pumpkins, scholars complete two activity sheets that reinforce estimation and word problems. They then plant pumpkin seeds and bake a pie in...
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TE Activity: The Trouble with Topos
Pupils study the uses of topographical maps including the many forms that they take. They discover that the map features show its intended use such as city maps, wilderness maps, and state maps. They complete a worksheet in which they...
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Constant Net Force
For this forces worksheet, students calculate life force, acceleration, and displacement for 8 word problems. Students must label force diagram and a summation force model.
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Rosie's Walk
Learners use maps and globes to locate and describe locations, directions and scale. Using the maps, they identify man made or natural features of different environments. They practice using geographical terms to describe a specific...
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Air Pressure and Wind
Fifth graders study air pressure and learn how it can change the weather. In this air pressure lesson, 5th graders study the given diagrams and complete the experiments to learn how air pressure can change the weather. Students read...
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Give Me The C and D Canal!!!
Students estimate the distance from Baltimore to Philadelphia via the water route before the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal was built. Students study canals and how transportation and economic necessities dictate the building of a canal.
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The Geography of Aboriginal Languages in Canada
Middle schoolers study the relationship between geography and the Aboriginal language communities.
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The Appearance of a Graph
Sixth graders understand that the appearance and increment used on the x and y axis in a graph change how it looks. In this graphing activity, 6th graders work in pairs and interpret graphs using different axes. Students collect graphs...
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Wetland in a Pan
Seventh graders build a watershed from various materials. In this life science lesson plan, the students will be able to change the design of their watershed to see the changes in the way the water will drain. Each group will be able to...
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Locate and Name the bodies of water and the continents
Second graders locate the equator, bodies of water, and different continents on a globe. In this globe lesson plan, 2nd graders recall geographical information on a globe.
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This Land is Your Land - Delaware
Students determine how land was divided and marked for boundaries in the early days of settlement in Delaware. Students mark out land on the playground according to the methods used by the early settlers. Students write a description of...
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The Distance Between Us and Them: Sea Floor Spreading in the Atlantic Ocean
Young scholars examine how geologists determine rates of sea floor spreading between two tectonic plates. They apply mathematical concepts such as the calculation and use of velocities and conversion from one set of units to another.