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Baylor College

About Air

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Give your class a colorful and tasty representation of the components of the mixture that we call air. Pop a few batches of popcorn in four different colors, one to represent each gas: nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide. The...
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Carnegie Mellon University

Bathtub Model

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Using a colorful infographic handout and a guide sheet, hold a class discussion about how a bathtub can serve as a model for the greenhouse effect created by Earth's atmosphere. Participants will understand that as energy or matter is...
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Docs for School: Viewing and Teaching Guide

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Teaching documentary in your class? Inform your instruction with a guide meant to support teachers as they begin with documentary. The resource includes information on what a documentary is as well as documentary modes, elements, and...
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Peaceful Playgrounds, Inc.

10 Rainy and Snow Day Activities for Indoor Recess and PE

For Teachers K - 6th
Don't let the rain and snow put a damper on your PE lessons. This collection of indoor activities is a perfect way to keep students active regardless of the weather outside.
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Lesson 5: Technology: Conveniences and Consequences

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students identify positive and negative impacts of technology. In this technological advancements instructional activity, students consider how toxic pollution affects the Earth and its inhabitants. Students participate in 3 activities...
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The Impact of Disease on Our Lives

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students write a report about infectious diseases where they demonstrate their understanding of new terminology. In this writing instructional activity, students analyze the effect of disease in their lives and and make scientific...
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Teenage Stress

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students fill out a stress questionnaire. Students assess their stress levels over the last 12 months. Students explain how it occurs and ways to dealing with it on a spreadsheet.
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Disease and Epidemics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch a video to introduce the study of historical outbreaks of infectious diseases and epidemics. They create charts of diseases after reading an article and share their information as a class.
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Hazardous Chemicals in Your Neighborhood

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the effect of hazardous chemicals on humans. They discover how the chemicals are cleaned up and the facilities in their neighborhood. They identify federal and local agencies that oversee environmental hazards
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Cross-Cultural Dialogue Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students view situations from more than their own point of view. They use the incidents in the author's story to explore the concept of crossing cultures and reflect on what it is like to feel like an outsider (in the way that the author...
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International Literacy Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this International Literacy Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, correct word choosing, multiple choice, sequencing, unscramble the sentences, write questions,...
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Interactive
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English Exercises: Reading Exercises - Snakebite Initiative

For Students Pre-K - 6th
For this reading comprehension interactive worksheet, students read a news article entitled, "The Global Snakebite Initiative Is Working to Improve Treatment for Victims." They answer 5 multiple choice questions based on the reading....
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Mr. Bones

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play CD-ROM game My Amazing Human Body, and participate in relay game in Phys. Ed. where they put together skeleton on which body parts are labeled.
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Taking Apart Owl Pellets

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners dissect an owl pellet. In this rodent and bone structure activity, students work in groups to take apart an owl pellet. Learners separate all the tiny bones from the fur and use the bones to reconstruct the rodent on a tag...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Breaking News English: Coca Cola

For Students 5th - 10th
In this Coca Cola activity, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and more...
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Now You're In Trouble

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study how actions in the schoolyard and home can affect water quality. They discuss how rainwater can clean plants and sidewalks on its way to storm sewers. They draw an example of a simple maze that represents the maze...
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Mosquito Bytes

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students investigate mosquitoes. In this mosquito bytes lesson, students consider reasons why mosquitoes transfer disease and ways to combat them. Students read an article, discuss, and complete a quiz.
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The Talking Goat Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze the meanings and patterns of a folk tale. They respond in their reading journals to the following prompts: How do you feel about the way "The Talking Goat" ended? Why? Which did you like better: your group's predicted...
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Plants and Animals, Partners in Pollination

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students participate in multiple hands-on activities to explore reproduction and pollination. In groups, using a cotton swab and powder, students simulate being pollinators and plants. They name the parts of the flowers and the function...
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Viruses: Tiny But Deadly

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this viruses worksheet, students read given information about the effect of viruses on people throughout history. Students create a bar graph comparing the viruses and answer seven questions based on the information they have learned.
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The Westward Movement

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Students study the westward movement through examining stamps. In this westward movement lesson plan, students draw conclusions, determine cause and effect relationships and examine the westward movement of the United States by...
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Epidemiology 1: What's My Hypothesis?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students demonstrate how descriptive epidemiological clues can be used to make educated guesses as to what might be the cause of a disease.
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Why Does Evolution Matter Now?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how natural selection creates antibiotic-resistant bacteria, recognize applications of evolutionary principles for medicine, agriculture, and conservation, and discuss how science contributes to decisions in context of...
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Coral Reefs

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students research an inhabitant of a Caribbean coral reef using a list of common organisms that live on or near it. Students then write a description of their organism and draw a picture or a 3-D model of it. Eventually they all work...

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