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The Touch N Feel Box
Students discover the characteristics of living and non living objects without the use of sight. In this sense of touch lesson, students touch items put in a shoe box and must identify whether the item was once living or not by...
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Buying New Stuff
Young spenders take a look at the best ways to save and spend money. This type of financial education is lacking in schools, so implementing this lesson would be of great value to your students. Things like bank checking account fees,...
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A Whale of Importance to the Arctic People
The bowhead whale of the Arctic region is of great importance to the people that live there. Your class will brainstorm all they know about this wonderful whale and create an informational video, which they will share with the children...
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The Living Environment
Students use a spoon, clothespin, scissors, and toothpicks to simulate how animals get food in their environment. In this environment lesson plan, students learn about the adaptations animals make in order to survive.
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Survivor!
Students, in groups, create a project to display examples and non-examples of basic needs. They answer what is needed for basic survival of all living things.
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What Does Life Look Like Under a Microscope?
Learners discover cells make up all living things. In this life science lesson plan, students investigate living organisms and the cells that create them. Finally the learners create a testable question, conduct an investigation, and...
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Everything in Its Place: Science Classification
Students investigate the system of classification for living things through the sixteen lessons of this unit. The five kingdoms of monerans, protists, fungi, plants, and animals form the basis of several experiments as the similarities...
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Breaking the Food Chain
Students investigate the food chain. They brainstorm questions about the human food chain and explain what would happen to living things in the food chain if organisms or resources were removed. They role-play situations in which the...
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Ecosystems: What Are They and How Do They Work?
Students explore the characteristics of major ecosystems, the interactions of the organisms within the systems, and the effects of humans on the system. Both living and non-living components are examined in this five lesson unit.
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Dead Trees Alive! Nature Notebook
In this tree worksheet, students find a dead tree or rotting log, describe it and look for signs of living things near it and all animals they find below it.
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Beach Exploration
Little ones will absolutely love this instructional activity. It's all about the beach and what they can find while sifting through the sand. A large bucket of sand filled with hidden items is brought into the classroom. Learners will...
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Flower Power: Kansas Quarter Reverse
Young scholars examine the Kansas quarter reverse and explore the basic needs and life processes of plants. They take a nature walk around the school and draw living and non-living things. In the classroom the sort the specimens...
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Where is DNA found?
In this DNA learning exercise, 3rd graders think about where DNA is found by looking at three possible examples. Student write a short answer to explain where DNA is found.
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Carbon - The Short and the Long
For this complex game about the carbon cycle, the playing field is divided into air, living, and earth zones. Children are assigned to be either plants or animals, and collect carbon tokens as they proceed from zone to zone. While the...
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Island Fox Outreach
Off the coast of California lives a wild animal called the Island Fox. Experts discuss the importance of the Island Fox to the Channel Islands and the balance the fox creates within its ecosystem. The lesson concludes with a reading of...
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Wastewater
High schoolers discuss what happens to their wastewater. They read about the wastewater treatment process. Students are asked what types of things get flushed down toilets or goes down drains in sinks and showers. They are taught what...
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Dissolved Oxygen and Temperature
Young scholars are shown how temperature affects dissolved oxygen and they create a graph showing this relationship. They think about the adaptations of animals to live in different water temperatures. Students test four different water...
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What If There's No Light?
students discuss the importance of light and the consequences of living without it. Using a plant as a demonstration, students predict and observe what happens to a plant when it does not receive enough light. In groups, they experiment...
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Water Quality with Samples
Students recognize whether one wants to drink water, swim in it, or for the health of the organisms living in it. They prepare different water samples to observe and collect samples regarding the water quality.
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Smallest Thing
Students compare characteristics of myobacteria and viruses to determine which is the smallest life form. They read and discuss an article that presents different viewpoints on the definition of life to determine their own viewpoint.
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What Makes Up Rocks and Soils?
For this rocks and soils worksheet, students will complete a Venn diagram comparing the specific characteristics of rocks and soils.
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America's Civil Rights Movement, Activity Six
Pupils explore non-violence and investigate the difference between passive and active voice.
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Conserving Natural Resources
Trying to plan an engaging elementary science unit on natural resources? Conserve your energy! This five-part series of lessons and hands-on activities has exactly what you need to teach young scholars about the importance of conservation.
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Turtle Talk
Students watch a Powerpoint Presentation about turtles. They explain that there are 3 types of turtles and where each type lives. They describe a turtle's body and state some things that turtles eat.
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