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Gators at the Gate!

For Students 5th - 8th
In this endangered species learning exercise, students will read 10 statements about alligators and determine if the statement is a fact or an opinion. Then students answer 1 short answer question.
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What's Shaking?

For Students 6th - 8th
For this Earth movements worksheet, students compare and contrast earthquakes and volcanoes. Students write a short essay about the similarities and differences and then complete 4 matching questions.
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Landforms

For Students 7th - 9th
In this landforms activity, students answer 2 questions about the major land forms and types of mountains. They match 10 landforms and types of mountains with their definitions.
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Measuring Solar Energy

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students study solar energy and how to measure it.  In this energy sources lesson students complete a lab, obtain data and use that to convert surface temperature to energy. 
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You’re Tugging at Me!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the sliding and rolling friction.  In this forces instructional activity students divide into groups and use a cart to examine the amount of force that is used to move objects. 
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Fertilizers: Friend or Foe?

For Students 8th - 10th
In this fertilizer worksheet, learners read about natural and manufactured fertilizers. They answer four critical thinking questions about fertilizers and their use.
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The Sun

For Students 7th - 9th
For this sun worksheet, students are given a diagram of 8 structures of the sun and they label each structure with a given term. They also fill in 8 blanks to complete sentences about the sun, its characteristics and the layers of its...
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T's Alive! Or Is It?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explore data on the bone, muscle, and skin of living systems and then create a list of characteristics of these systems and relate these characteristics to bone, muscle, and skin.
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Insect Monitoring

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students practice the scientific method in the classroom, either in preparation or as a substitution for real-world field experience. They examine a simulated biodiversity research situation, using a "mini-plot" or sampling square...
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Improving Your Study Habits

For Students 7th - 9th
In this study habits learning exercise, students observe two pictures and compare the study habits of two students. They answer questions about improving their study habits.
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Chemical Interactions

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students perform scientific investigations to observe chemical reactions.  In this chemical reaction lesson students read a passage and identify the cause and effect. 
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Laboratory Procedures Poster and Rubric

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine what aseptic techniques and laboratory procedures should be followed in the classroom in the form of a laboratory poster. They identify what the best and worst practices a student might utilize in a classroom in the form...
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Skin Temperature

For Students 9th - 12th
In this skin temperature worksheet, students read about the temperature of the core and the skin of the human body. They answer four critical thinking questions about regulating body temperature.
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NEURONS, BRAIN CHEMISTRY, AND NEUROTRANSMISSION

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine the hierarchical organization of the brain, neuron, and synapse; explain the sequence of events involved in communication at the synapse; and that synaptic transmission involves neurotransmitters.
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Individual Responses Can Be Different

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the variation among responses of seeds to the same dose of the same chemical. In reviewing their seed investigation, students note that sometimes not all seeds in the same bag responded in the same way.
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Recycling Plastics

For Students 5th - 8th
For this plastics worksheet, students read about how important it is to recycle plastics and why sorting the recycle materials is important. Students then complete 4 short answer questions.
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We Are a Fact Family! Integration Is the Key!

For Teachers 1st
Students practice addition and subtraction. In this fact families unit, students practice finding sums and differences for fact families. This unit includes ten lessons with science and social studies integration.
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Arthropods

For Students 7th - 12th
In this arthropods worksheet, students will identify 3 different arthropods and compare these organisms' breathing structures: gills, book lungs, and tracheal tubes. This worksheet has 3 fill in the blank and 6 short answer questions.
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Respiration, Circulation, and Excretion

For Students 5th - 12th
In this body systems worksheet, students place 11 vocabulary words into a word puzzle by matching the terms with their definition. The vocabulary words are review of the respiratory, circulatory, and urinary body systems.
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Sand & Water: Arctic in the Sun

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students chill out on a hot day with this outdoor activity. For this early childhood physical education lesson, students have fun experimenting through play with ice and toy animals in water.
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Summer Activities: The Wonders of Nature!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students examine the world of nature. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop observation skills as they bird-watch and make rainbows, experimentation skills as they explore seeds and carrots, prediction skills as they...
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Land Use and Soil Loss

For Students 7th - 9th
In this land use and soil loss instructional activity, students match 5 types of land use with their description and write true or false to 5 statements about the effects of land use and soil loss. The correct false statements to make...
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Theory of Plate Tectonics

For Students 7th - 9th
In this plate tectonics worksheet, student answer 15 multiple choice questions about plate movement, types of boundaries, collision of plates, continental plates, and the lithosphere.
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Ocean Water

For Students 7th - 9th
In this ocean water worksheet, learners use 6 given terms related to ocean water, early Earth and ocean components to complete the sentences. They also answer 4 questions about seawater, the effects of volcanoes on oceans and ocean life.