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Sky 4: The Moon

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students will draw the moon's shape for each evening on a calendar and then determine the pattern in the shapes over several weeks. Students' understandings should be confined to observations, descriptions, and finding patterns.
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Water 1: Water and Ice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore forms that water can take. In this science instructional activity, students participate in hands-on activities that require them to change water to a solid and back to a liquid again.
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Heating Up: Direct and Indirect Sunlight

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, by conducting simulations, explore the effects of direct and indirect sunlight on heating of the Earth.
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The Many Phases of the Moon

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the phases of the moon as it relates to the calendar.
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Solar Oven

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students construct a solar oven using cardboard, duct tape, aluminum foil and other materials. They use the solar oven to cook something and keep a journal of their project.
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Moon Phases

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers engage in a study looking for the differences found during the cycle of one lunar month. They conduct research using a variety of resources. Then the information is used to construct a lunar calendar to observe daily...
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Planets

For Students 6th - 10th
In this planets instructional activity, students read about Mercury, Venus, and Earth and then complete 21 multiple choice, 2 true or false, and 1 short answer question.
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Moon Observations

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a model of the moon and use a flashlight to illustrate the various stages of the moon.
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Curious? Will You Be Eclipsed?

For Students 4th
In this "Curious?  Will you be eclipsed?" worksheet, 4th graders answer 4 questions interactively about eclipses, then check answers online.
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Trigonometry Multiple Choice

For Students 9th - 10th
In this geometry activity, students solve word problems. They find the height and distance of triangular measurements. They identify missing angles using triangular properties. There are 10 questions.
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Eclipses

For Students 6th - 9th
In this eclipses worksheet, students read about solar and lunar eclipses to complete 8 short answer questions comparing the two types of eclipses.
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Keeping Warm

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners participate in an online activity to determine how objects heat and cool. They determine what objects best serve as thermal insulators.
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Pushes and Pulls

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students recognize different types of movement and causes that my affect the movement. They know that pushes and pulls are types of forces.
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Habitats

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in an online lesson to determine that different plants and animals are found in different habitats. They use food chains to show feeding relationships in a habitat, and see that nearly all food chains start with a...
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Solids and liquids

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners investigate melting and cooling in a range of materials.
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Plants and Animals in the Local Environment

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students recognize the different types of plants and animals living in a local environment. They determine how they require different habitats to live, and relate simple life processes to plants and animals found in local environments.
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Using Electricity

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students name appliances that use electricity. They construct a simple electrical circuit. They predict whether a circuit work. They name components of an electrical circuit.
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Keeping Healthy

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students exercise their muscles to explore concept of heart rate and to explain how blood supplies muscles with oxygen.
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Magnets and Springs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students participate in an online lesson making and recording observations of magnets. They determine that magnets attract some metals but not others and that other materials are not attracted to magnets.
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Interdependence and Adaptation

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students construct a food web to identify producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore and predator. They complete an online activity collecting plants and animals and arranging them in the web. They describe the interdependence between...
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Forces and Movement

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine types of forces and movements. They identify different causes that can affect movement and speed. They create their own predictions about they believe to be the outcome of an experiment.
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What Would Monet Do With a Digital Camera?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use a Photoshop Elements program to edit digital pictures in the style of Impressionist art. They are are introduced to paintings by Claude Monet and identify the key characteristics of the Impressionist period. Students create,...
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Celebrate The Four Seasons

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate cause and effect and compare and contrast how recurring cycles are evident in multiple aspects of their education. They answer questions in the chosen field. Students model each aspect by interpreting, perceiving and...
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To See or Not to See: The Colors of Light

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders describe and conduct an experiment that identifies the physical properties of light. They explore sources of visible light and an electromagnetic spectrum. Students explain the conversion of one form of energy to another.

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