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Warm/Cool Leaves

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine the difference between warm and cool colors. They discuss the basic color wheel, reviewing primary, secondary and complimentary colors. An activity allows students to discover how to mix the warm and cool colors.
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Season Tiles: Ceramics Lesson

For Teachers K - 3rd
Each color holds its own feeling and these feelings are used to describe the four seasons. Youngsters create a color palate based on the four seasons, assigning various colors to each season. They each create four clay tiles, painting...
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Hot, Hot, Hot, Cold

For Teachers 2nd
Learners dance the image of falling snow. They move, swing, fall, and rise to music working to depict snow falling, the sun, and high/low movements. This is a well-thought out lesson that aids them in seeing movement as a form of...
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Snow Paintings

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils work with water and food coloring as their medium to paint snow. They mix primary colors to make new colors while they decide on appropriate for their snow paintings as they relate to the curriculum.
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Stacking Water

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners experiment with different salinities of water using straws and different colors of water. They collect and interpret data from the experiment.
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Thanksgiving Turkey Napkins

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore painting.  In this Thanksgiving art lesson, students trace their hands on 4 cloth napkins sent from home and use fabric paint to decorate them as hand print turkeys.
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Bears

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study polar bears and their characteristics.  In this bears instructional activity students divide into groups and design a model that shows the effectiveness of their layers that keep them warm. 
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Temperature

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars explore hot, warm, and cold. In this temperature lesson, students use thermometers to find specific temperatures. Young scholars also consider how colored items absorb heat as they participate in a demonstration.
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Interactive
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Curious Science

For Students 6th - 8th
In this online interactive science quiz learning exercise, students respond to 4 multiple choice questions about anthocyanins in leaves.
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Weather Symbols

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study weather symbols. In this weather symbols instructional activity, students review the symbols for cold, warm, and stationary fronts. Students use a weather map to study the weather symbols, complete a weather illustration...
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Center Science Education

Hurricanes and Climate

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Feeling under the weather? This lesson on hurricanes can whip things up! With professionally designed maps and handouts, teach your future weathermen (or women) where, when, and how hurricanes occur. They identify hurricane regions and...
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Worksheet
K5 Learning

All About Bears

For Students 1st Standards
Want to know all about bears? Read a passage about the way they look, how they live, and their lifestyles. The reading passage is followed by questions that ask what baby bears are called and in what ways some bears are different, to...
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Handout
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

Adaptations – Designs for Survival

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
What's the difference between behavioral adaptations and physical adaptations? Learn about the various ways that organisms adapt to their environment with a worksheet about the creatures of the Hudson River.
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PPT
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Tic Tac KNOW: Heat and Light

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This is a very developed interactive tic-tac-toe game, with 29 separate game slides.  To place a mark on the grid, learners must answer a question correctly.  When the grid place is selected the energy, heat and light questions appear on...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Context Clues: The Meaning Is There!

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Learning how to use context clues is helpful for both reading comprehension skills and to determine the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary words. As they read ten sentences with underlined words, learners choose the most...
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Unit Plan
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You Can Be A Woman Meteorologist

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students complete four activities that are about meteorology. The first activity is for them to explore weather maps. The second activity is for students to discover high-pressure and low-pressure air. The third activity is for them to...
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What are Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore the attributes of dinosaurs. In this dinosaur lesson plan, students read books and watch videos featuring dinosaurs. Students also research dinosaur traits using Internet sources.
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Diffusion of Molecules

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students conduct a series of experiments to observe factors that impact molecular movement. In this molecular chemistry lesson, students drop food coloring in water with different properties (hot, with ice, with alcohol) and observe how...
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Educating K-12 Students about Glacier Dynamics in a Changing Climate

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars determine which of the following parameters, slope, ice, temperature or basal condition affects the glacier speed the most. They create their own experiment to test what influences glacier speed and temperature of the ice.
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Worksheet
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The Geography of Russia

For Students 5th - 8th
In this geography of Russia worksheet, students read a 4 page article about the geography of Russia and complete short answer questions and assignments based on the article. Students complete 6 assignments.
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Autumn Arrays

For Teachers K - 6th
Autumn is a time for nature to get ready for the upcoming winter. After listening to the book Time to Sleep about the changes of deciduous trees in the fall, learners monitor a tree on a daily basis and view photos of fall foliage online.
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Ziplock Chemistry

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners investigate various chemical reactions when creating mixtures in ziplock baggies. In this chemistry lesson plan, students will recognize various chemical reactions and cite evidence. Safety and assessment strategies are included...
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Explosive Knowledge

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine China's suspected theft of American nuclear secrets, as a springboard for the creation of a research-based, multi-tiered timeline that traces the development, regulation, and use of nuclear weapons from the 1940's to today.
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Worksheet
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Journal Prompts for November

For Students 4th - 5th
In this journal prompts for November worksheet, learners cut the cards (there are three on a page) then use one for each day in November as a prompt for journal writing.