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The Gingerbread Man

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students tour their school meeting all of the staff members and taking their pictures. They use the pictures to make cut outs that describe the person's job and other facts about them. They listen the Gingerbread Man, and retell the...
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Biodiversity in Our Watershed

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create a database of animals and birds in the area in which they live. They use molded prints to make a cast of an imprint from a specific animal. They identify and research animals and prepare an outline for an oral...
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Discovering Insects

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify insects and name nine commonly known insects.
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Introduction To Data Analysis

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate the concept of looking at the data put in a variety of ways that could include graphs or data sets. They analyze data critically in order to formulate some sound conclusions based on real data. Students graph...
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Exploring the Sun's Role in Living Systems

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create graphic organizer webs that illustrate their thinking about seasonal physical and biological changes caused by changes in sunlight. They identify the central role of sunlight in living systems.
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MANAGING THE SCHOOL FOREST

For Teachers K - 8th
Students study how to plant a seedling, how to mulch the trees into the nursery bed, transplant seedlings to another site or school, and determine why we need to water and mulch trees.
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Rainsticks

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create a rainstick decorated with repeated patterns of shape and color, out of paper towel tubes.
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And Now for Something Completely Different...

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students identify organisms that are typical a part of a hydrothermal vent. They examine why hydrothermal vents are short-lived.
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Where Did They Come From?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain hydrothermal vents and the process in which species and the hydrothermal vents become isolated.
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Technology and Geography

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders, working in pairs, use a multimedia world atlas, Encarta Multimedia Encyclopedia and the Internet (as well as any text materials found in the library) to research information about a specific region of the world.
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Groundwater Concepts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use a digital atlas and other electronic resources to explore freshwater reservoirs in Idaho. They discover the importance of groundwater and discuss the agricultural, industrial and domestic uses of underground reservoirs....
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The Cycle of Restoration

For Teachers K - 6th
Pupils describe what is meant by restoration cycle. In groups, they create a poster to show the cycle of restoration work. After presenting their poster, they discuss the actions that can be done for each season. To end the lesson, they...
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QUILT SHARING

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students share in the family histories of their peers as told through the quilt stories, and apply math skills by using invented strategies to determine the (approximate) age of the quilt from the information given about the date it was...
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You Belong in the Zoo Project - Using HyperStudio

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the diversity of living organisms. They research an animal found in the zoo and plans a 10-card HyperStudio project about his/her organism.
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How Do Waves Change a Beach?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils conduct an experiment on beach erosion. In this earth science lesson, students create a beach model and use tongue depressor to produce waves. They write a journal about their observations.
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Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes

For Teachers K
Students, through observation of crickets, recognize and use proper names for human and insect body parts. They compare and contrast parts of human and insect body parts.
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Think Safe! Be Safe!

For Teachers K
Students predict, observe, and explain how pillbugs, grasshoppers, stink bugs, and humans stay safe and protect themselves.
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Boy Cricket Girl Cricket

For Teachers 1st
First graders differentiate between (adult) male and female crickets through observations, counts, and drawings of crickets.
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Arthropods at

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students observe, discuss, and record the requirements of a healthy environment for both arthropods and people by designing and maintaining an artificial habitat for an arthropod.
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Being Safe While Growing Up

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify ways that both insects and humans protect themselves from physical and biological hazards in their environment. They rear moths from egg to adult and consider the importance of trusting their own instincts.
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Latin America and the Caribbean in the Classroom: The Economy and Trade

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students use the internet to gather information on daily exchange rates. They calculate the exchange rates between two countries by role playing they are going on vacation to these destinations.
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The Water Dance

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students act like the changes in the four seasons by moving like water in each season.
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The Mystery Constellation

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students decipher two teacher chosen mystery constellations a month. They listen to stories, explain what they know about constellations and name the mystery constellation.
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BOOK REVIEW

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students review a book by choosing one word to describe each element and then combining it into one sentence.