Curated OER
Creating a Shelter
First graders create a small usable shelter for a small animal or an insect. For this shelter lesson plan, 1st graders use popsicle sticks, tree twigs, bottles, and more to build a shelter in groups.
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Second Grade English/Language Arts Quiz
In this language worksheet, 2nd graders complete multiple choice questions about sentence structure, parts of speech, dictionary work, and more. Students complete 15 questions.
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The Very Busy Spider Art Project
Young scholars listen to the story The Very Busy Spider and participate in an art activity related to the book. In this story inspired art lesson, students use a Very Busy Spider printable and cut out the spider's body and connect the...
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Build a Space Shuttle
Pupils explore the concept of space. In this space lesson plan, students pretend to be aerospace engineers. Pupils build space ships out of cardboard tubes. Students discuss what aerospace engineers do. Pupils model their space ships...
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The One in the Middle
Learners review and reinforce the concepts of mean, median, and mode based on the number of siblings the students have. They use Post-it notes to organize and re-organize the data.
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Hibernating Hoopla
Young scholars simulate hibernation with their stuffed animals. They predict the length of time of hibernation and type their math journal entries about sorting, graphing and draw pictures. They read bear hibernation stories.
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Bridges
Ninth graders use model-building to help comprehend the forces and phenomena at work in the world around them. They describe gravity as a universal force that pulls everything toward the center of the earth. Students distinguish between...
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What Can I Do?
Students identify ways to handle conflict. In this conflict resolution lesson, students brainstorm times when they had a conflict with a friend. Students develop a strategy to deal with conflicts in the future, such as talking it through...
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The Food Pyramid
Third graders investigate the concept of The Food Pyramid and its importance as a foundation for good health. They use the computer lab as a class to construct projects using the Kidpix software to make their own imitations of The Food...
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Innovation of Our Generation
Students brainstorm on the different innovation in their lives today. In this technology instructional activity, students research one innovation and prepare a speech to convince their classmate to name it the "Innovation of our...
Science Made Simple
Science Made Simple: Science Made Simple
This website houses kids science projects and experiments, science fair projects and science articles.
Science Made Simple
Science Made Simple: Why Is the Sky Blue?
This website has three different projects from which to choose on the topic of why the sky is blue. Also, you can scroll up to learn more about why the sky is blue.
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Science Made Simple: Conversions for Length Measurement
This site allows you to type in various lengths you want to covert. For example, if you want to find out how many feet there are in 10 meters, you can submit that information and get the answer.
Science Made Simple
Science Made Simple: Area Measurement Conversions
This site allows you to type in an area of measurement you want to be converted. The site converts it for you!
Science Made Simple
Science Made Simple: Static Electricity
This website has three different projects from which to choose on the topic of static electricity. Scroll up to learn more about static electricity.
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Science Made Simple: Temperature Conversions
Science Made Simple allows you to type in temperatures you want converted from one measurement scale to another.
Science Made Simple
Science Made Simple: How Do Animals Spend the Winter?
Use this site to learn how animals use hibernation, adaptation, and migration to overcome the difficulties of winter.
Science Made Simple
Science Made Simple: Online Metric Converter
Practice converting English units of measurement to metric units using this tool.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Physics/electricity & Magnetism
Exploratorium Science Snacks are miniature science exhibits and experiments that can be made with common, inexpensive, easily available materials. These electricity snacks represent a set of devices that you can build and experiment with...
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Science Made Simple: Area Conversions
This site, which is provided for by Science Made Simple, allows you to enter an amount into an area conversion calculator.
Creative Science Centre
Creative Science Centre: 6 Generators
Apart from the piezo generator, all of these generators are based on the same simple design, where magnets are rotated near to coils of wire (Faraday Induction). There is no coil switching so these are AC generators. On magnet movement,...
Creative Science Centre
Creative Science Centre: Perhaps the Simplest Homemade Generator in the World
This very simple, but effective generator shows in a wonderfully engaging way the fundamentals of electricity generation. The generator is made from a coil of wire wound around the outside of a plastic 35mm-film can. The two coil ends...
Creative Science Centre
Creative Science Centre: Experiments With Homemade Batteries
Simple homemade batteries are described that can be made from items found in the home or school lab. These experiments help students understand how to wire them up, the origin of current, voltage and power, as well as the chemistry that...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Craters and Meteorites
Have you ever heard that the moon is made of cheese? Even though the craters on the surface of the moon resemble holes in Swiss cheese, we know that this common myth is not true. Find out how craters are formed and why they are different...