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Paper Mache Animal Sculptures

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders choose and construct farm animal paper mache sculptures. They paint their sculptures using primary colors and mixing colors, and explore various textures and forms.
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Finger Painting and Feather Painting with Nature

For Teachers K
Students explore finger painting and painting with feathers and recreate the look of objects in nature. They read the book, 'It Looked Like Spilt Milk,' create a shaving cream print, paint with feathers, and construct a mirror image on...
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Health and Body Care

For Students 4th - 5th
In these health care and grammar worksheets, students complete several activities that teach them about spa treatments, fitness center activities, doctor visits, conjunction usage, paragraph format, and word usage.
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Temperature

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore hot, warm, and cold. In this temperature instructional activity, students use thermometers to find specific temperatures. Students also consider how colored items absorb heat as they participate in a demonstration.
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Adaptations-What a Concept

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Pupils study the pink river dolphin and how it has adapted to its environment.  In this adaptations lesson students construct a map that represents certain relationships. 
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The Shadow Knows - Creating Shadows

For Teachers K - 1st
Young learners recognize a shadow and witness how shadows occur when light is blocked. They access streamed video, standard video, and websites in order to engage in their study of how light is naturally blocked to create shadows. An...
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Poetry: The Most Compact Form of Literature

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Introducing or need to review literary devices and terms for a study of poetry? Though text heavy, the explanations and examples of key poetic devices will provide learners with the vocabulary they need to discuss and craft poems.
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Discovering Dinosaurs

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate the physical characteristics of dinosaurs. They participate in a puppet show, take a field trip to a dinosaur museum, and compare/contrast dinosaur characteristics at the museum.
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Animal Coverings

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students compare and contrast the types of coverings found on animals. They identify a wide variety of animals in a museum room. They classify animals based on their coverings as well.
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Identifying Minerals

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students compare and constrast a wide variety of minerals and rocks. They test them for streak, luster, color and other characteristics. They view an exhibit and compare their answers to them.
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Math Prefixes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students use a dictionary to gather appropriate information for writing simple definitions. They recognize prefixes that relate to numbers, such as mono-, bi-, and tri-. Pupils use their creative abilities to extrapolate new words to...
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Reading Examples

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young writers read excerpts from Gary Paulsen's memoir to identify figurative and literal language that contain sensory details. They determine which selections are examples of sensory language and fi the language is used literally or...
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Identifying Matter by Sound and Feel

For Students 4th - 6th
In this identifying matter by sound and feel worksheet, learners participate in an experiment to identify a wide variety of different types of matter in film containers supplied by each student.
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Chemical Wonders

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners read about and discuss how chemical engineers use different states of matter to create substances. In this chemical engineering lesson plan, students also give examples of the 3 kinds of matter.
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Coordination

For Students 9th - 12th
Multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, and matching questions are all here in a multi-page worksheet or quiz. While the formatting leaves a little to be desired, it would take just a few minutes to change the handout into a...
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Using Descriptive Language

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the use of adjectives in a product review, then write their own descriptive review. In this writing and word usage lesson plan, students first analyze the choice of adjectives in a New York Times article about the...
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What's That Tree?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify trees along a nature trail. Using a dichotomous key, 5th graders answer questions to aid in their identification of trees along a specified nature trail. Observations are recorded in their science journals. Sample...
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Talking Duck

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners visit a local wetland or WWT centre and record their observations by writing or drawing on the downloadable pupil activity sheet.
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Fourth Grade Reading

For Teachers 4th
In this reading worksheet, 4th graders answer multiple choice questions by reading 1/2 page passages and answering comprehension questions. Students complete 25 questions.
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Oceans-A Fact Haiku

For Teachers K - 4th
Students create haiku poems. In this poetry lesson, students listen to the sound of the ocean from an audio file and write a haiku poem about oceans.
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Being There: Exploring China And Japan

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students discover the culture, society, geography, and history of Asia through games, food, art, and literature in this multi-day activity about China and Japan. An exciting activity for upper-elementary or lower-middle school classrooms.
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Reptiles

For Students 9th - 10th
In this reptiles instructional activity, students identify and label the different parts of reptiles. They complete 10 short answer questions after reading the information provided in the instructional activity.
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Quick Concept Demonstrations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers research the nervous system. Demonstrations on how to pick up keyed information in text is shown daily and weekly. Reviewed for content is Nerve Impulse, Polarization and Depolarization and perception. A spreadsheet will...
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Mix-Up

For Students 3rd
For this number sentence worksheet, 3rd graders look at 2 game boards and find as many number sentences as they can that are hidden in each one. Students put their answers on the lines provided.

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