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- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students discuss the different characteristics between living and nonliving things. After discussing the classification system of the five kingdoms, invertebrates, arthropods, and plants, students determine whether objects are living or nonliving according to the characteristics they learned. Students cut out pictures of living and nonliving objects. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students sing a song to the tune of "The Grand Old Flag" about living and non-living things. As a class, they examine the characteristics of living and non-living organisms. To end the lesson, they compare the torturing of an animal to slaughtering the animal to eat or to use for research. Full Review »
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Students identify and interpret how Carolus Linnaeus devised a classification system for living things with two kingdoms, how scientists now classify the Five Kingdoms of Living Things, as well as how vertebrates and invertebrates, plants, and other living things are classified. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students utilize picture cards to classify animal and plants in a taxonomy. They summarize the classification process that was named after Carolus Linnaeus. Each student outlines the two kingdoms of living things that he pointed out in his studies. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students brainstorm a list of characteristics that make an organism living or non-living. In groups, they design their own experiments to carry out to determine if objects are living or non-living. To end the lesson, they identify the needs of living things and discuss. Full Review »
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- 1st - 4th
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Students practice reading "Little Sister Ate One Hare" as a class and in English. Together, they practice saying and doing a list of commands to discover their meaning. They also act out the same story in Spanish and review English numbers and letters. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students discuss the importance of the Everglades to the bioregion. In groups, they use the internet to research the native types of flora and fauna and describe what happens when foreign flora and fauna enters the region. To end the lesson, they examine the effect of human development on the area. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Studens identify the characteristics for a variety of reptiles. In groups, they place the reptiles in different groups based on different criteria for classifying them. To end the lesson, they complete a worksheet and review the classification of plants from the previous lesson. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students in a Latin class focus on archeology and trade from the Hellenistic period through the Middle Ages. In groups, they read various stages of a primary source documents in which they discuss and answer questions. To end the lesson, they examine objects found in the ashes of the Mt. Vesuvius. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students are introduced to the types of vertebrates living in Connecticut. After taking a field trip to the Yale Peabody Museum, they organize the animals based on their Phylum, Order and Suborder. In groups, they research specific organisms to discover their similiarities and differences to other organisms. To end the lesson, they develop a poster showing a cladogram. Full Review »
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