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Needs and Wants

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students demonstrate responsible consumer choices. In this social studies lesson, students read The Lorax and discuss wants and needs. Students discuss how to save natural resources by making informed consumer choices.
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Water, Water Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore water. In this water cycle lesson, students conduct a scientific investigation that requires build a terrarium models of the earth. Students record their observations of the changes regarding water in the terrarium.
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Strange States of Matter

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore objects that do not fit into the categories given by three states of matter. They explore why an object doesn't fit perfectly into one of the three categories. Students observe the properties of Oobleck. They...
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Matter

For Teachers 1st
First graders study and define matter. They observe and identify states of matter along with common attributes and study how matter can change form or change its state depending on temperature.
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Plasma

For Students 6th - 8th
In this matter worksheet, students review the states of matter, including plasma. Students read about where plasma is found and then complete 3 short answer questions.
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There Is No Away

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify how trash is disposed of. In this environmental instructional activity, students read and discuss the poem "Sarah Sylvia Stout" by Shel Silverstein and discuss the ways people treated the items in the poem. Students...
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What Is the Freezing Point?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students remove heat energy and determine how it causes a phase change.
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Ecology

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify and describe three states of water. They predict how water will change states.
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Math - "Solid Shapes" - Comparing 3-D Objects

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this geometry worksheet, learners learn about 3-D objects and how to describe them. They then answer 10 questions using the information they learned. The answers are on the last page.
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Elements In Chemistry: Solids, Liquids and Gases

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the kinetic-molecular theory. In this state of matter lesson, students consider the differences of melting glaciers, melting icebergs and investigate on what happens when submerged water melts.
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Determine Volume of Solids Using Water Displacement

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore math functions by completing math equation worksheets. In this inequality instructional activity, students define a list of math terms and discuss the difference between an equation and inequality. Young scholars...
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Water Into Gas

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners investigate how temperature and pressure cause a material to change phase. They heat water to reclaim a gas. They demonstrate that different liquids evaporate at different temperatures.
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Matter

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate the nature of matter and of the scientific processes associated with them in this series of lessons.
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Discovering the Problem of Solid Waste

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners catagorize the types of garbage from going through a trash can provided by their teacher. They then chart the items on a graph and propose a solution to reduce the amount of garbage.
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Phases of Matter

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders practice using correct vocabulary and apply content knowledge related to phases of matter when answering questions about situations or observations from everyday life.
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Making Ice Cream

For Teachers K
Student examine the physical changes of matter and are able to describe them. They make ice cream in plastic bags to observe the changes in matter. They describe and record the changes in the ice cream mixture as it freezes.
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Properties of Matter

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore forms of matter through reading, hands-on science activities, and research using the Internet. Students create a booklet, directions given, that they title and decorate, to later serve as a review visualization...
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The States of Matter

For Teachers K - 12th
Students apply an inquiry based approach to classic experiments to foster their knowledge and appreciation for the properities of matter. At the conclusion of the instructional activity, they gain knowledge about the properities of...
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Measuring Liquid Volume & Reading Thermometers

For Students 7th - 9th
In this liquid volume worksheet, students first practice measuring liquid volume by determining what volume is indicated on each of the graduated cylinders in milliliters for the first nine problems. Then they determine the temperature...
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How Does Matter Change State?

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this states of matter worksheet, students will write 2 things that cause matter to change state. Then, students will write in the effect that cause has on the state of matter.
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Molecules in Motion

For Students 9th - 12th
In this molecules worksheet, students review how temperature and pressure affects molecule density. Students compare the volume of a balloon as temperature changes. This worksheet has 9 fill in the blank, 8 true or false, 1 short answer,...
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5th Foss M&s Word Search Puzzle

For Students 7th - 9th
In this properties and characteristics of substance activity, students review and study six key terms associated with matter and then locate those six terms in a word search puzzle.
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Chapter 16 Review- General Science

For Students 5th - 8th
For this review of general science worksheet, students classify examples of matter as mixtures or substances, homogeneous or heterogeneous mixtures, or elements or compounds. Students also convert several examples using the standard...
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Sunny Sam Activity Sheet

For Students 3rd - 5th
In these recycling worksheets, students connect the dots and color the 2 pictures for the recycling bins. Students circle items that would be placed in each bin with blue and yellow crayons. Students complete a maze and find 10 things in...

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