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Thinking Spelling

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
An etymology resource is packed with suggestions for activities designed to build phonological, visual, morphemic, and etymological spelling skills.
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Regarding the Fountain: Questioning Strategy—Cubing

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Look deeper into the text with a reading strategy based on asking critical thinking questions. While reading Reading the Fountain by Kate Klise, learners think of questions that help them describe, compare, associate, analyze, apply, and...
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Gallery Walk Questions about Energy and Material Cycles

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students state the physical, chemical or biological processes associated with these environments: Pelagic ocean zone, California coat Cave, Indiana Barrier island beach, North Carolina Sand dune, Dunes National Park, Colorado Wetland and...
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Digital Leaf collections

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders collect and classify leaves.  In this digital leaf collection instructional activity, 7th graders photograph approximately 20 leaves.  Students use their leaves in a multimedia presentation and create hyperlinks to...
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Milk and Monarch Butterfly Mania Journal Entry

For Students 7th - 8th
In this milk and monarch butterfly mania journal entry learning exercise, students write a scientific journal entry about the milkweed plant, using the information from another linked website.  This learning exercise includes many links...
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Using Primary Sources in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students draw their own conclusions by studying documents created in the past.
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Classify Machines that Fly!

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore flight and the dichotomous key. In this flight lesson, 8th graders gain understanding of the dichotomous key and create one of their own. Students then use their dichotomous key to classify types of aircraft.
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Trees, Trees, Trees! - Adopt A Tree

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students adopt a tree, take a bark rubbing from that tree, and conduct research about that type of tree. They write an original piece about their tree using three facts and in a genre of their choice.
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Animal Trading Cards

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use a computer program to research an animal and practice taking notes. In this animal research lesson plan, students use PebbleGo database to research their animal and take notes. Students then make an animal trading card using...
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INSECTS

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders select, collect, and classify various insects by constructing an apparatus from materials that aid in the capture and containment of the insect.
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WHAT, IF ANYTHING, IS A ZEBRA?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students read the essay, "What, If Anything, Is a Zebra?" following a teacher made reading guide. They investigate cladistics, shared derived characteristics, with further online research to enhance their study of evolution and...
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Everything's Under Control

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders prepare for a "Mad Scientists Fair" by creating a controlled study and by conducting experiments. They make and record observations and classify specimens according to characteristics. They compare results to their original...
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Studying Species By Examining the Evolution of the Canidae Family

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students read an article on the characteristics of wolves and dogs then complete a phylogenetic tree of the canid family. They then write an essay justifying why or why not wolves and dogs should be classified as different species.
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An Automobile Phylogenetic Tree

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students construct a phylogenetic tree for various automobiles and trucks after considering important characteristics of these "organisms". They work in small groups to construct the trees and complete a set of questions then they...
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Classifying Life

For Students 9th - 12th
In this classifying life worksheet, students review the 5 kingdoms of organisms by completing 10 matching and 7 fill in the blank questions.
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Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students sort objects by shape, size and color. In this math and literacy sorting lesson plan, students listen to the book Freddy the Fish and the Squash that Goes Squish by Duke Christoffersen. Students work in small groups to sort...
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Shell Sort; Serving up Seafood

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students complete various small group activities to classify items and determine the types of combinations that can be made with these items. In the second lesson, students create menus for a restaurant to help them gain money sense and...
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All Wrapped Up

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars explore packaging. In this cross-curriculum lesson, students bring in samples of food packaging and identify the packaging as natural or manufactured.
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Sampling Rocks

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine how to take a sample by looking at rocks in the schoolyard. In this sampling lesson, students discuss ways to classify rocks by color, size, and weight. They think about how many rocks would make a good sample of...
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Circles, Rectangles, Squares, Triangles

For Teachers K
Students identify, compare and classify the various shapes. In this shapes activity, students listen to descriptions of shapes with words such as sides, angles, congruent, and parallel. Students then give the teacher examples of shapes...
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Scalene Triangles

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify and classify scalene, equilateral, and isosceles triangles. In this triangle lesson, 5th graders define the different attributes of 3 types of triangles and sort them by descriptions and comparisons. Students...
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Tic Tac Know Kingdoms

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this PowerPoint, students participate in a variation of tic tac toe in which questions about the animal and plant kingdom are presented and students move to various locations on the game board.
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Weights in Pounds

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders define "pound," estimate and compare weights, and classify objects as weighing more or less than a pound.
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What Kind Of Mammal Is It?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners describe the characteristics of a mammal. They also differentiate between a companion and a wild animal. The lesson has an assessment included in it. They have a discussion to tap prior knowledge about what a mammal is.