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Watercolor Landscapes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students watch a demonstration of wet on wet, dry on wet and dry on dry watercolor painting. They create an underdrawing, fill in washes of color and create a foreground, middleground and background once the washes dry. They add final...
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Germ Busters

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discuss importance of cleanliness, specifically hand-washing, in fighting germs and illness. They create cultures of their hands before washing, and then practice proper hand-washing technique.
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Scales, Scutes, and Skins

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students identify the various adaptations of reptiles and amphibians. After distinguishing between reptiles and amphibians, students discuss the ways in which their adaptations aid in their survival. They participate in a hands on...
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"Leaf" Your Mark

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students put their hands in paint and put their hand-print on trees that were drawn. In this hand painting lesson plan, students make their mark on the trees that look like leaves.
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Handwashing and Sanitation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners apply Glo-Germ to their hands to see the amount of germs on their skin. As a class, they watch a demonstration on how to properly watch their hands to prevent the spread of disease. To end the lesson, they are introduced to the...
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Handwashing

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Students experiment in order to determine proper ways to disinfect hands to prevent the spread of infection.
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An Egg-cellent Osmosis Experiment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the problem of osmosis by conducting an experiment. They use eggs with the shells dissolved to tell whether fluid can move across the membranes. The experiment provides high interest for all kinds of students to keep...
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Rhyming With Ramon

For Teachers K
Students study the importance of being clean and healthy while working with rhyming words. They waddle like penguins when the hear rhyming words in sequences, and tap their feet and clap their hands in tune to a rap about being healthy....
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Black Hawk Island Hike

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students explore Wisconsin's natural and cultural history through hands-on exploration of Upham Woods. They are shown the basic paddling skills and they work in teams to paddle across the river on barge. Students describe cultural...
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Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and Big Hungry Bear Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners create a fruit salad using pieces of fruit cut in halves. In this early childhood lesson plan, students discover the concept of half and whole. Learners experience this concept in a hands-on activity in which they cut fruit...
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Water Pollution Experiments

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders conduct experiments in simulated water pollution using a box of items to hold "pollutants"and an aquarium, representing a waterway. They observe how "rain" from a watering can poured into the box washes the pollutants into...
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover the differences between: reduce, reuse, and recycle by performing hands on examinations. They list what would happen to the soil if we allowed the earth to wash away and briefly discuss the meaning of erosion.
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The Impact of the Physical Environment on Stream Macroinvertebrates

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore the relationship between leaf packs in streams and macroinvertebrate populations. They experiment with hand exposure to stream macroinvertebrates in natural leaf packs and then make leaf packs of their own. The...
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Ocean Pollution & its Effect on Aquatic Animals

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students consider the concept of ocean pollution. In this ocean instructional activity, students participate in a hands-on demonstration in order to replicate an oil spill and its effects on marine life.
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Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Words: Art, Art History, Language Arts, Creative Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write a story inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and then try their hand at their own rendition of this famous piece of art. In a twist, students incorporate the stories into their paintings.
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Oil Spill Experiment

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners participate in a hands-on experiment to help them explain the difficulties involved in oil spill cleanups.
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Kids for Conservation: Water Conservation Winter

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students rotate through various hands on and critical thinking activites designed to show the amount of water actually used by various people, companies, etc..., and helpful ways of conseving water.
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Protection

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create dolls in a variety of skin tones to help reinact different community helpers. They make a helping hands mural on butcher block paper. They adopt a doll and demonstrate how to treat others gently. They discuss along...
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Touch-Drawings

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils explore an object without seeing it then draw what s/he felt.  In this touch-drawings lesson, students partner and place objects in a paper bag so the other person cannot see it.  Then pupils use their hands and imagination to...
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Germs: Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Infection prevention is the focus of two lessons. In lesson one, scholars take a brief quiz, survey peers, and discuss prevention techniques to stay healthy. Lesson two examines how germs work—transmission, symptoms, treatments, and...
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Hygiene

For Students Pre-K - K
In this hygiene instructional activity, learners color in a picture of a student washing his hands. Students also write their names in agreement of washing their hands.
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Hygiene

For Students Pre-K - K
In this hygiene worksheet, students color in a picture of a student washing his hands. Students also write their names in agreement of washing their hands.
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Hygiene

For Students Pre-K - K
In this letters and numbers worksheet, students connect letters and numbers to create a picture of a person washing their hands. Letters go from A-Q and numbers from 1-18. Students are given the directions in Spanish.
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Jr. Chef Club

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students review proper hand washing techniques and make a recipe. In this cooking lesson plan, students explore how to wash their hands properly before cooking and how to make a few edible treats.

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