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Label Your Body

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students assimilate the names of the parts of the body. They practice spelling body part words using a worksheet. They trace the outline of their bodies, add features and label the body parts from the vocabulary list.
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Daily Language Exercises - Seasons

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students examine how to edit sentences daily as well as answer questions in complete sentences about the topic; in this case, seasons using the sheet provided. They practice editing skills to help them become better writers.
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Seasons

For Teachers K
Students explore the four seasons. In this seasons lesson, students create a class tree. Students make leaves for the tree for each of the seasons. Students mark their paper into fourths and draw a picture of the seasons.
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Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Cold

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are explained that thermophiles are organisms that have optimal growth temperatures above 50oC. They investigate the temperature ranges for the growth of common bacteria. Students answer the question of do either of these...
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Newton's Third Law of Motion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners move through five stations demonstrating Newton's Third Law of Motion. In this Newtonian physics instructional activity, students watch as the instructor uses a firecracker to demonstrate action and reaction. The learners travel...
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Experiments with Levers

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate levers. In this simple machine lesson, students study levers and  the mechanical advantage of using levers. They will collect data and illustrate their systems for eight different tests.
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Challenger's Lost Lessons - The Lost Simple Machines Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate the characteristics of simple machines. In this simple machine lesson plan, students investigate work as a product of applying constant force. They answer questions about what happens on Earth and what may have...
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Comparing Current Chemical Water Quality Measurements with Past Measurements at a Stream Site

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders compare water quality measurements from the past to present.  In this water quality instructional activity students complete a lab activity that includes stream samples. 
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What's the Rub? It's All About Friction!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine the coefficient of friction for different surfaces. In this physics lesson, students identify the factors that affect friction. They collect data and write a formal lab report.
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Determining the Amount of Transpiration from a Schoolyard Tree

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students calculate the amount of water transpired by a single leaf and estimate that transpired by an entire rainforest.
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Plant Propagation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students successfully start a new plant by any means of vegetative propagation. They select a propagation method which is appropriate for the plant and keep a laboratory journal of the treatment and progress of the new plant.
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Chinese New Year

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils identify and participate in three traditional activities used during Chinese New Year celebrations.
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Earth Day

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars participate in activities to make them aware of Earth Day and its significance, and how they can make a difference in saving the environment.
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Famous Person: Benjamin Banneker

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners explain the main events in Benjamin Banneker's life and his contributions to society. They gain an appreciation for Benjamin Banneker's inventive ability to reproduce a clock as well as his determination in teaching himself...
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Who's Coming to Lunch: A Study of Mold Growth

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students participate in an experiment to determine where fungi and molds are formed, and create graphs documenting fungal growth.
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Graphing Climate Information

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders plot the data for the average monthly precipitation for three cities. They make a graph using a spreadsheet.
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Pop-A-Top Math Game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play pop-a-top math game to practice solving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems.
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Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students analyze the Japanese strategy for the Pacific and compare it to the Allied strategy. They identify on a map the sites that were important the early war in the Pacific, and identify key military engagements.
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Reasons for Seasons

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students track photoperiod (daylight hours) over time and predict how daylight change during different seasons. This helps build their understanding that ever-changing daylight is the driving force for migrations and all other seasonal...
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Sensational Seasons

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore how seasonal weather patterns affect temperature and their lives.
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Pulley Power

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders engage in a manipulative experiment in the mechanical advantage of simple machines. It graphically demonstrates the change in magnitude of applied force when using simple machines. Great for ESL to discover the ratio...
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How Does Your Magma Grow?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students identify the three types of plate boundaries and the Earth's tectonic plates system. They examine how the Galapagos Islands were formed and hydrothermal vents.
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Blooming Thermometers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study phenology, or the study of climate change. They research the Japanese springtime festival of Hanami and plot and interpret average cherry blossom bloom date data from the past 1100 years.
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Prejudice and the Navaho Indian Long Walk

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners read Scott O'Dell's book, Sing Down the Moon, and answer questions about the forced migration of the Navahos from Arizona to Fort Sumter, New Mexico. They conduct research and describe a tenebrae service and its importance.

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