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When Things Start Heating Up

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students develop a clearer understanding of how and why heat is produced from things that give off light, from machines, or when one thing is rubbed against another.
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The Web of Life

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students demonstrate the interrelationships of animals and plants. In this ecology lesson, students discuss the things plants and animals need for survival and study the glacier food chain. Students simulate the web of life by using a...
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Hot Stuff

For Students K - 2nd
Very young scientists who are learning about solids, liquids, melting, and freezing will use this worksheet to identify things that would melt if put in a warm place. There are eight objects altogether, and learners place a check mark...
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Sense of Place

For Teachers K
Explore the five senses with a kindergarten lesson on gardening. After taking a walk through the class garden, kids note what they see, hear, feel, taste, and smell, and then decide what is living in the garden versus what is not living....
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The Concept of Diversity in World Literature Lesson 5: The Tragic Hero

For Teachers 10th - 11th Standards
Should identifying a tragic hero be based on a universal definition or a definition based on the morals and values of a specific culture? As part of a study of Things Fall Apart, class members read Sylvia Plath's "Colossus" and then...
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Metaphors: Identifying Comparisons

For Students 2nd - 6th
My mother is a flower. John is a cheetah. Introduce kids to metaphors with a series of sentences that asks them to identify the two things that are being compared.
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What is a Living Thing, and How Does a Living Thing Respond to Its Environment?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate how living things interact with their environment. In this living things lesson, students complete lessons for science investigations on what living things have in common. Students study cells, complete...
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It's a Noun Thing!--Names of Things

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this names of things worksheet, students participate in a hunt for things as nouns. Students look over a list of 12 words and place an N on the line next to each noun and an X next to each word that is not a noun. Students list 3 of...
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Organizer
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Science – How Living Things are Grouped

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this classification of living things worksheet, learners respond to 7 short answer, 10 true or false, 4 multiple choice, and 4 graphic organizer questions regarding how living things are grouped.
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Where the Wild Things Shouldn't Be

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students compare and contrast wild and domestic animal needs. In this animal welfare lesson plan, students read the poem Where the Wild Things Shouldn't Be and create a list of wild and domestic animals. Students create a short play or...
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Things to do in a city at night

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students read about things to do in a city at night and answer short questions about it. In this reading lesson plan, students also discuss what to wear, how to be safe, and how to act at a party.
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"Wheels, Wings and Other Things"

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners participate in various reading and writing activities related to the book "Wheels, Wings and Other Things" by Monica Hughes and Barbara Hunter. They participate in a shared reading activity, and write a new page for a book...
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Making Comparisons of Living Things

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this comparing living things worksheet, students examine pairs of pictures that show living organisms such as a snail, a cat, a butterfly, a giraffe, and a rabbit. They look at pairs of pictures and orally answer questions using...
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ESL Vocabulary: Useful Things

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students match a set of words naming "useful things" with their pictures, then answer a set of 5 related questions.
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What Do We Mean by "Living Things"?

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students discuss the characteristics of life.  In this living things lesson students complete a lab while working in groups.  Students examine different organisms and create a poster to present to the class.
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The Funniest Thing I Ever Saw -- Story Starter

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this writing worksheet, young scholars recall the funniest thing they have ever seen. Students read the story starter and finish the story.
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Word Search: Living Things

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this word search worksheet, students finds a set of  21 names of living things. An answer is included on page 2 and a reference website for additional resources is given.
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Draw an Alien in Natural Habitat

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students apply prior knowledge of living things, structures of living things and how living things sense and respond to their environment. In this habitat lesson, students review the basic needs of organisms to survive. Students create...
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Terrariums: A Look at the Living and Nonliving World

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine life in a terrarium and relate it to life in a larger environment. In this terrarium lesson plan, 3rd graders examine how living and non-living things work together by examining the changes in a terrarium. They make...
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The Martian and the Car

For Students 5th - 8th
In this living things activity, students determine 5 things about a car that makes it seem like its a living thing and 5 things that prove it is not a living thing. This activity has 10 short answer questions.
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Living or Non-Living

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine living and non-living things. In this life science instructional activity, students are given a group of objects and discuss if they are living or non-living. Students identify and list characteristics of living things.
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Classification

For Students 6th - 12th
In this classification worksheet, students use information describing the ways biologists compare living things to complete 4 matching questions.
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Life And Death

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students participate in an interactive game to review how living things are classified.
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It's Alive! Or is it...?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students apply their knowledge of the characteristics of living things to unknown creatures to determine whether they can be considered "alive." They watch a Star Trek episode, then describe the characteristics of life.

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