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Forces
Fourth graders review the meaning of Newton's 3rd Law and discuss the forces that are acting on a book setting on a table. They draw a diagram of the book on the table and use arrows to illustrate the direction the forces are acting.
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Modeling Oil and Gas Reservoirs
Students investigate energy by researching how oil reservoirs work. In this fossil fuels lesson, students conduct an experiment using a half full bottle of water, corn oil and oxygen, recording their data as the elements are mixed...
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Using Fabrics in Your Art Curriculum
Young scholars use a dicut machine to do block printing on fabric. In this fabric lesson plan, students draw, carve, and print onto blocks for this art project.
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Causal Patterns in Air Pressure Phenomena
Learners explore the concept of how air moves and reflect through working in groups about the scientific concept. This lesson is an extension to another similar lesson. Also students develop and draw their own models.
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Painting Made Easy
Students are introduced to painting. They choose a simple project, such as fish or butterfly. Students practice drawing this object until they can draw the picture large enough to fill a 12"x18" paper. They make relief outlines of the...
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Palm Use in Biology
Students view bacteria through a microscope. They draw and label the bacteria using microbiology software loaded onto their Palms.
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Table Murals
Pupils define what a mural is. They make their own murals on paper. Students vote on the following subjects: Recess, Disney Movies, Alien Planet, Cafeteria, and Big City. They draw murals in the teacher's preferred medium, pupils...
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Let's Talk About Painting
Discuss art and read Matthew's Dream. In this visual arts lesson plan, students recognize that there are different styles of art, each with its own techniques. Use simple techniques to understand art and work at stations to complete a...
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Emotion Card Games
Emotions come in all shapes and sizes, and can be difficult for young learners or students with special needs to identify. Support them in gaining the valuable social skill of recognizing emotions and understanding empathy with this...
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Constructing and Visualizing Topographic Profiles
Militaries throughout history have used topography information to plan strategies, yet many pupils today don't understand it. Scholars use Legos and a contour gauge to understand how to construct and visualize topographic profiles. This...
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Green Zone Common Ground Conversation Starter Worksheets
Finding common ground and building conversation can often prove a difficult task for many. Help learners build this important social skill using this resource, which includes a Venn diagram worksheet and sentence prompts to help students...
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Triangle Pennies
For this geometry worksheet, 10th graders arrange pennies in the form of a triangle. They then remove three pennies to rearrange the shape of the triangle and diagram it. An answer key is provided.
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Woodsies "Extraordinaire"
Allow your class to use their imaginations and create fun creatures with various wooden shapes and other embellishments. What a great way to encourage your young artists to stretch their minds!
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Woodsies “Extraordinaire”
"This looks like an owl!" Kids get a chance to create all sorts of things by arranging various shapes, painting them, and gluing them together. A great way to encourage creativity and spontaneity.
It's About Time
Effect of Lenses on Light
Optometry jokes just get cornea and cornea. Young scientists use a lens and light to create and measure focal points on both a note card and the wall. They then complete a reading passage and questions as homework.
Space Awareness
Greenhouse Effect
A greenhouse provides additional warmth and protection to the plants inside, but what if the greenhouse gets too hot? Pupils discuss and experiment with the difference between natural and anthropogenic greenhouse effect. They measure the...
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Heroes Portrait
Eighth graders investigate art appreciation and Renaissance portraits through time. They create a portrait.
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Feed Me!
When youngsters are learning about the basic needs of humans and animals, this instructional activity could come in handy. In it, pupils circle the pictures of a living thing that is eating food. There are eight pictures all in all, and...
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Go West With Columbus
Students play a board game where their tokens must move Columbus west. They choose cards which give commands to move in a coordinate direction. They practice moving west, north, east, south by playing the game.
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4-H Photography Beginning Activity Pages
Activate interest in photography with these beginning activity pages! Learners build their own pinhole cameras, fill in a crossword puzzle about camera equipment, complete a service project, and research careers. This resource is...
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Op Art Circles
Students create Optical Art, art that seems to move when you look at it, in this Art lesson for the High School classroom. Included with the lesson is a list of recommended materials and suggested resource books for lesson implementation.
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Teams-Games-Tournaments
In this lesson, students play a game in order to understand and review the Delaware civic standards. Student take turns picking cards and the student to pick the first card gets to answer the question. Students are expected to compete...
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Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly
Third graders access prior knowledge of the monarch butterfly and discuss what they would like to know. In this Monarch Butterfly lesson,students read Monarch Butterfly and discuss the life cycle of the butterfly. Students gather...
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Learning About Artists
Students explore various artists and practice creating their style of painting. In this art history lesson, students discover various artists, such as Van Gogh and Michelangelo, and painting style each utilizes. Students paint a picture...