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Pond Theme Unit
For this pond theme worksheet students research facts on pond life. Students complete comprehension questions, crosswords, word search, and math puzzles. Students write a short report.
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Is Global Warming Happening?
Students investigate the probability of global warming and the effects of global warming on the environment. They conduct Internet research and collect data, transfer the data onto an Excel spreadsheet, and create a presentation that...
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Collect Data Using a Transect Line
Middle schoolers learn about transect lines through a study of marine debris. In this marine debris lesson, students calculate the items on a transect line and graph them. Middle schoolers complete a category worksheet.
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Wow! It's A Cow!
Students use the Internet to visit a dairy farm and watch the ins and outs of the every day life of a dairy cow. They survey products that are consumed that come from a cow. The students determine in what states cows would most likely...
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What did I find?
Students excavate an artifact. In this archaeology lesson plan, students get a bucket filled with dirt and a broken up artifact. They work in groups to take it out and to find what its purpose was.
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Wages, Earning Power, Profit, and Responsibility: International Lessons
Students participate in an interactive activity to determine where their clothers were made. They examine the lives of children from Latin America who harvest crops in the fields or manufacture apparel in factories.
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Which Day of the Week Do You Like Best?-- Class Graph
In this math activity, students participate as a class to complete a bar graph. Students indicate which day of the week they like best, and the class plots the data on the bar graph.
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Civic Engagement: Community and Social Action
Explain that today's project is that young scholars will get groups create a survey to poll their classmates on what they do to stay healthy. The results will then be shown on a bar graph.Students brainstorm ways of keeping healthy and...
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Earthquakes: Kindergarten Lesson Plans and Activities
Beginning with a pre-lab, kindergarteners trace the letters in the word earthquake and discuss what happens in an earthquake. The lab portion allows young scientists realize that earthquakes trigger shaking of different intensities...
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Inference Makes the Difference
Students explore how archaeologists make inferences from artifacts to explore what life was like in the past. In this archaeology lesson, students work in groups and make inferences about an imaginary household based on modern day...
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Little Hands Help the Homeless
Students explore, analyze and study the concept of the homeless. They cover a wide range of classroom, community and career activities that define, develop, encourage, support and defend the homeless as well as what we can do as...
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Data Analysis and Interpretation
For this data analysis and interpretation worksheet, learners use charts, graphs, statistics to solve 42 pages of problems with answer key included.
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Primary Sources and Archaeology in the Study of Ancient Mediterranean Trade
Tenth graders begin the lesson by plotting trade routes, major empires and items traded. Using primary sources, they examine their own values regarding trading items for royality. They participate in a role-play exercise in which they...
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Is There a Stone in My Soup?
Students plan a service project. In this service learning lesson, students demonstrate their understanding of philanthropy as they plan a stone soup party.
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Best Practices of Technology Integration
Students study how a type of product is advertised. In this product advertisement lesson, students research a specific product and its advertisement. Students create a market research survey based on their peers preferences. Students...
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Busy Fingers
Students describe their favorite hobbies and pastimes and investigate those of others. They survey the range of hobbies and share them with a partner school abroad. They make a poster or website about hobbies and pastimes.
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Butterflies
Students will explore the life cycle of the Painted Lady butterfly by raising their own. They will incorporate math, science, and language arts as they graph, pattern, journal, observe, and artistically create.
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Single Step Operations
In this single step operations worksheet, students solve word problems. In his short answer worksheet, students write answers to eight problems.
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Design Team Challenge
Students work in groups to build a robot. In this robotics lesson, students create an electronic robot and program it to follow directions. They create an obstacle course for the robot to follow and test its performance.
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Greek Vase Patterns
In this patterns worksheet, learners complete 4 Ancient Greek patterns on the lines provided. They then decorate the blank vase on the page and write about what is happening in their picture.
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Issues, Issues, Everywhere
Students identify different opinions related to an issue as well as the things that influence those opinions. They analyze how engineers use an opinion spectrum to identify the differences of opinions in a large group to investigate how...
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The Seasonal Round and The Cycle of Life
Fourth graders are introduced to the concept of the seasonal round and how folklife traditions vary from season to season. They begin charting dates of personal interest on seasonal round calendars by starting with birthdays. Students...
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A Day at the Beach-Why Did We Do It?
Learners investigate pollution at the beach. In this environmental lesson plan, students participate in a beach clean-up and calculate the weight of the debris collected. Learners write a reflection in their journal about their beach...
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Ape Genius
Learners watch a video and discuss the research on the intelligence of apes. In this primate lesson plan, students view a NOVA video about ape intelligence. They work in groups to take notes on the observations and conclusions of...