Cowden-Herrick Schools
Six Steps for Substitute Success
Here's a switch--a lesson plan designed for prepare class members for a substitute! The plan highlights six behaviors that demonstrate respect and responsibility.
Washington Education Association
Preparing a More Useful Sub Plan for Your Substitute Teacher
Make your substitute's life easier by using the prompts on a one-page resource to a craft a profile of your classes and your daily routines. A great-first page for a substitute teacher folder.
Transforming Education
Self-Efficacy Toolkit
A PowerPoint presentation prepares instructors for teaching learners about self-efficacy, a key competency of social-emotional learning. The 29-page presentation is designed to give administrators and teachers a deeper understanding of...
American Psychological Association
A Silent National Crisis: Violence Against Teachers
School violence is becoming an epidemic in America. How can schools protect their teachers—and teach them how to protect their students? Read an important brochure about how violence affects teachers personally, emotionally, financially,...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Minnesota Tree Leaves
For this biology field exercise, learners will collect leaves, describe differences seen in casual and detailed observation and give reasons for the importance of trees. Students will use their five senses to take a closer look at leaves...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Leaves: October Leaf Collection
In this activity, students use observational skills to compare and discuss the changes in leaves from September to October. *Adaptations will also be described for special education students.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Leaves: October Leaf Collection
In this activity, learners use observational skills to compare and discuss the changes in leaves from September to October.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Kindergarten Inquiry: Investigating Leaves
Students will investigate leaves by using their five senses and journaling their findings in this lesson. Journal will record information in a matrix to enable students to see the how things are related.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Leaf Walk: Observing and Investigating Leaves
Using trees around school, students will collect and observe leaves so they can compare them in their science notebook.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Leaves
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Examine the structure and function of leaves and identify the changes they experience as the seasons shift.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Airplanes and Airports: How to Take Off Without Ever Leaving the Ground
Smithsonian Education presents "Airplanes and Airports: How to Take Off Without Ever Leaving the Ground." Teachers can download this teaching package that discusses airplanes and airports. Included in the discussion are the forces of...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Measure Photosynthesis With Floating Leaves
In this activity, you will be able to observe the oxygen production in leaves by doing a floating leaf disk experiment. You can also find out how quickly plants produce oxygen, and what variables affect photosynthesis.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Leaves
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses different types of leaves and seasonal changes in leaves.
Science Made Simple
Science Made Simple: Why Leaves Change Color
This is a site that offers answers to some often hard to answer questions such as why do leaves change colors. Provides an easy to understand answer to the question along with a section that students can read on their own, a puzzle,...
Other
Backyard Nature: Leaves
Why do plants have leaves? Are there leafless plants? Why do leaves fall in the Fall? Discover the answers to these questions and many more as you peruse this site.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Wisconsin Dept. Of Natural Res.: Leaves Changing Color
Scroll below the Fall Color Report on this site for information from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources that easily explains why and how leaves change color and why they fall. There are colorful illustrations and appropriate...
US Department of Agriculture
The Science of Color in Autumn Leaves
Coupled with a beautiful photo gallery, the National Arboretum sets out to explain the science behind why leaves of deciduous trees change their color in the autumn months. While temperature effects the colors, learn here what happens in...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Observing Leaves and Descriptive Writing
In this activity, students will be introduced to different types of leaves by going on a leaf walk. They will bring back a select few to the classroom, draw and write about one of their leaves, and then share with a partner and then the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Exploring Plant Leaves
During this instructional activity, first-grade young scholars become plant explorers. They explore the Internet and take a nature walk to learn the similarities and differences in plants and leaves.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Graphing Fall Leaves
Students use leaf classifications they created to graph the properties of leaves they collected on their playground.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Why Roots, Stems, and Leaves Are Important
This lesson plan emphasizes the importance of roots, stems, and leaves to plants. Learners will explore Internet sites and do a hands-on experiment to learn facts about these parts of plants.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: What Color Are the Leaves Really Turning?
Everyone loves the beautiful colors of fall, but where they come from and how they change color is a mystery. In this project, you will uncover the hidden colors of fall by separating plant pigments with paper chromatography.
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University of South Carolina: Leaves of Grass
This University of South Carolina site, presented by the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, chronicles the publication history of Whitman's many revisions of "Leaves of Grass." Includes photographs of rare copies of early...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Leaves and Light
Leaves use sunlight to make food for the plant. Sunlight contains all of the colors of the rainbow, but are all of those colors used by the leaf? Can you find out if some colors of light are more important than others?
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