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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduce Vocabulary: Into the A, B, Sea (Rose)

For Teachers K - 3rd
As budding readers learn about the ocean, they'll get practice with the alphabet and new vocabulary words (cling, nab, prey, slumber, and thrive) in context. Read Deborah Rose's book Into the A, B, Sea, which includes a glossary in the...
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Rainforest Alliance

How Do Jaguars and Howler Monkeys in Belize Depend on Us?

For Teachers 1st Standards
How does weather play a role in the lives of land and sea creatures? Find out with a lesson focused on habitats and the ways animals from different homes are connected. Here, learners explore how the life of a jaguar and howler monkey...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Digital Video Lesson Plan: Brine Shrimp

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in classroom experiment to gain better understanding of type of environment brine shrimp can best survive. Students then explore effects of common saltwater pollutants on survival of animals in sea.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduce Vocabulary: Into the A, B, Sea

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore language arts by reading a classic book in class. In this story vocabulary lesson plan, students read the book Into the A, B, Sea and identify the use of specific vocabulary words. Students define the story vocabulary...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Brine Date

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Have you been wondering what to do with that aquarium full of brine shrimp? This activity has teens sea monkeying around with measurement, observations, and hypothesizing about the mating behaviors of these little critters. If you do not...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Brine Shrimp Life Cycle

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine brine shrimp through "A Sea Monkey's Life" story. They study the living environments and life cycle of brine shrimp. They look at brine shrimp and cysts through a microscope, identifying new vocabulary that was...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Have You Ever Seen a Sea Monkey?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe brine shrimp over several days. They create drawings showing the growth and development of the shrimp. They research web sites to find out where brine shrimp fit on the food chain and what makes the shrimp unique.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

LD50 of NaCl to Gammarus spp.

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students learn the meaning of LD50 through lecture and discussion. Through experiment, students graph and calculate the LD50 of salt on fresh water amphipods. Students compare results of the experiment with pesticides and pollutants.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Hot is Too Hot?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use the scientific method to conduct experiments on the temperature effects on organisms. In this temperature effects on organisms lesson plan, 5th graders observe and record the hatching or the developing of organisms into...
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Utah Education Network (UEN)

Multiples of Patterns

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Elementary mathematicians identify and share patterns found in multiplication. Through memorization drills and games, they identify the increments in which numbers increase when multiplying. Using a multiplication chart, learners...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What am I?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this animal related worksheet, students read and analyze each clue card to figure out what animal is being described and check their answers against the answer key.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Science Puzzlers, Twisters, and Teasers: The History of Life on Earth

For Students 6th - 8th
A somewhat amusing assignment, this activity lists statements that an ancient organism may have made and asks learners to determine what geologic era that each may have lived in. It uses witty word puzzles and fill-in-the-blank-style...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Kindergarten children

For Students K - 2nd
In this animals worksheet, students choose where the animals live and the names of the animals. Students complete 2 activities.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Going to the Zoo

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this zoo worksheet, students fill in the blanks to a song about going to the zoo and then answer multiple choice questions about it. Students fill in 12 words to the song and answer 8 questions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Letter from San Diego - Proofreading for Missing Commas and Capital Letters

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this language arts worksheet, students read a letter that is missing commas and capital letters. They write in the missing commas, and circle all of the letters that should be capitalized. They see graphics on the page that...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Animals and Their Terrain

For Students 5th - 10th
In this animals and their terrain crossword puzzle, students use the 4 sentence clues to correctly complete the word puzzle that pertains to animals and their terrain.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

For Creative Minds: What Makes an Animal a Mammal?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students read about categories of mammals and their features. Students then construct a marine animal, using given print outs in the lesson. Students then create adaptations for their mammal, using a web site reference for guidance.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Stating Reasons and Giving Examples

For Students 8th - 11th
For this paragraph construction worksheet, students read a model paragraph regarding Costa Rica. Students respond to 10 questions regarding the structure of the paragraph.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Movie Magic Square

For Students 8th - 10th
In this magic square worksheet, students solve equations to determine the numbers to be placed in grids.  This one-page worksheet contains 25 problems.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

It's not just pretty - it's a survival method!

For Teachers 1st
First graders write explanations for why certain animals can only live in certain environments. In this animal survival lesson plan, 1st graders take pictures of animals and place them into the right environment after a lesson on the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Collective Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this collective nouns instructional activity, students complete fifteen sentences by placing in each one the correct collective noun from the noun bank provided.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Weather Vocabulary Exercise

For Students 5th - 10th
For this English vocabulary skills worksheet, learners answer 12 multiple choice and 10 fill in the blank questions regarding weather-related terms.
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Handout
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Nobel eMuseum allows you to read about the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, Derek Walcott. This website is organized into the following sections: "Press Release," "Presentation Speech," "Biography," "Nobel...
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Website
ibiblio

Ibiblio: 1492: An Ongoing Vogage: Inventing America

For Students 9th - 10th
Archived exhibition reveals how European writers and mapmakers thought about America during the Age of Discovery. Describes the allegorical images Europeans sometimes used to portray America and features the Gutierrez map, drawn in 1562,...