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Eat Your Vegetables Challenge
In this healthy diet worksheet, students read the statements about vegetables and select the answer that best complete the 11 statements.
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Versailles: Home of the
Tour the grounds of the Versailles palace in this bright and vivid series of pictures. Intended to supplement a lecture on Louis XIV and the years preceding the French Revolution, these images will set a strong context for the enormous...
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Settlement
Early settlers in the American Midwest experienced constant struggle. This reading passage describes for young learners the hardships of homesteaders as they journeyed west and sought to start a new life. When finished, students identify...
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Genetics Practice Problems-Simple Worksheet
In this genetics practice worksheet, students answer fifteen questions about homozygous and heterozygous genotypes and simple monohybrid crosses of traits. They determine genotype and phenotype ratios by completing Punnett squares for...
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Practice Dividing By 3 or 4
In this division worksheet, students read 5 story problems in which basic division facts are used. Students write the division sentence and solve.
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A Hidden Beauty
Expose the beautiful mystery of bulbs as young botanists learn all about these fascinating plants. They glean information from a short text before observing actual bulbs (consider an onion), and comparing their findings with predictions....
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1st Grade - Act. 22: Retelling the Tiny Seed
First graders write sentences and illustrate ways seeds travel.
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Plants And Pollination
Students describe sexual reproduction in plants, including the process of pollination, how insects assist in pollination, and how pollination differs from fertilization. They also explore the importance of honey bees to Arizona agriculture.
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Genetics
In this worksheet, students will answer 4 fill in the blank statements about Mendelian inheritance and meiosis. Then students will use Punnett squares to answer three short answer questions. Students will match 8 genetics vocabulary...
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Pollination Parties
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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Catching Rays
Students investigate solar collectors. For this energy lesson, students create and demonstrate solar collectors. They will use measurement, data collecting, and analyze their findings to determine the best orientations for their solar...
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Horticulture and Gardening
In this colorful packet, students engage in a variety of activities involving plants and seeds. After answering the 50 questions in the packet, learners can go on to delve into their own projects.
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Seed Germination
Students germinate a Mung Bean seed. In this seed lesson students conduct an experiment germinating a Mung Bean. They apply three different treatments to the seeds: dry, moist, and underwater incubation.
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NGA Kids Inside Scoop Spring 2007
Young scholars become familiar with the work of Claude Monet and his garden paintings. For this Monet lesson, students compare the garden works of Claude Monet. Young scholars examine pictures for the colors in his paintings. Students...
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Mendel Pea Plants
In this Mendelian genetics learning exercise, students answer a variety of questions about Mendel's experiments and discoveries and they practice determining probability of outcomes in pea plants.
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Rock, Paper, Scissors - Dominant and Recessive Traits from Parent to Offspring
Fifth graders understand the meaning of dominant and recessive. In this dominant and recessive traits lesson, 5th graders participate in a game and record results on a chart. Students relate experiment to genes. Students describe plants...
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The Peanut Wizard
Students investigate the history of the peanut. In this social studies lesson, students read the book A Pocket Full of Goobers and examine the a peanut. Students discuss the peanut's characteristics and take notes on an article about...
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Tree Top Canopy Field Trip
Students visit the Greenheart Canopy Walkway. In this environmental instructional activity, students experience a coastal rain forest ecosystem. Students interact and explore the different layers of the rain forest.
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The Beautiful Works of Georgia O'Keefe
Students discover the art of Georgia O'Keefe. In this art history lesson, students investigate the influential power nature has on art. Students create their own works of art by observing local nature.
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Now You Have It, Now You Don't
Students compare shipping peanuts made from corn and made from Styrofoam. In this corn based peanuts lesson, students understand why to use eco-friendly materials for packing. Students participate in an experiment to compare the...
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Bees
Students design an experiment. In this bees lesson, students research pollination and work collaboratively to discover how bees aid in pollination. Students use tomato plants and create experimental designs. Lesson adaptations and...
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Next Year's Seeds
Students play a game that demonstrates variables that affect farming. They write letters requesting free seed catalogs. They discuss the saying "A penny saved is a penny earned" in relation to what they learned from playing the attached...
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PLANT LIFE CYCLES
Student learns about the life cycle of plants by watching a time-lapse video. This activity provides students with further evidence that all living things grow and change as they progress through their life cycle. Student conducts a...
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Creepy, Crawly Critters
Students study characteristics of insects by creating models from an assortment of materials. They create rubrics showing what an insect must have and create an insect, using a bag of materials. They cut out the puzzle insects included...