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As the Earth Turns
First graders explore why the sun and moon seems to disappear and reappear creating day and night.
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Snuggle Up To Pattern Blocks
Students view and discuss a video about the use of pattern block shapes to form pictures. They, in groups, form garden and quilt designs using pattern blocks and then decorate the room with their art.
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Musical Genre Pie Charts
In this pie chart worksheet, students transpose musical genre data to the charts and then answer questions about the results.
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Recycling of Plastics
Students separate plastics according to their densities, develop a method for separation and identify variables in an experiment and a fair test, changing only one variable at a time for a fair comparison. After testing, they develop a...
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Wheels for Jack and Jill
Students design, make and appraise a model wheeled vehicle that is capable of carrying a small load. This activity is part of the unit `Wheels in motion'.
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Traveling aroud Our Town
Students are asked to describe to a partner how he or she walks to school or the bus stop. They are shown on the overhead an one-inch grid paper, and at the intersection of two lines on the grid paper, students are shown a house and...
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Soak It Up
Students role play where they assume the role of business executives who must decide which of three prototypes of paper towels would be the best buy for consumers. Students compare three products to determine the best value by using...
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Shadow Games
Students create different shapes by putting light on different objects. They change the distance from the object, the light source and angles to make the shadows different. They are to describe the relationship between the light, object...
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Magician Squares
Elementary school learners investigate the attributes of a square. They discover that squares are polygons and examine squares found in everyday life. They concentrate on connecting the word, square, with the shape. As an...
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Balloon Rocket
Students observe a balloon rocket and how it relates to Newton's Third Law of Motion. In this balloon rocket lesson plan, students make a balloon rocket out of balloons, clothespins, straw, fishing line, and duct tape.
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Plant Systems
Students examine plant systems. In this life science lesson, students explore leaf and root systems on paper in a terrarium that they design and construct.
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Shake, Rattle & Roll
Students examine soil. In this science lesson, students examine the layers of soil. Students collect soil from various locations and separate the layers. Students record and chart their findings.
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The Strongest Shape
Students work collaboratively to design and construct a roof out of Legos for a house that was built in a previous lesson. The roof must be structurally sound and pass certain criteria determined by the teacher.
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Water
Young scholars complete activities to examine the properties of water. In this water science lesson, students read a book about water's forms and study a map or globe of the Earth to investigate water. Young scholars discuss living...
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Shadows
First graders measure how a shadow changes over the course of a day. They write about what they would do if they lost their shadow, and make silhouettes of themselves. Students make up a shadow dance and read stories about shadows.
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Growing Plants
Students grow plants and track their growth over time. In this growing plants lesson plan, students plant seedlings and chart their growth in a data analysis activity.
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Fall is All Around Us
Students develop and create a production company and produce a fall event that demonstrates what they have learned in various subject areas. STudents create stories, complete a venn diagram comparing fall and summer, graph and measure...
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Guessing Jar
In this guessing jar activity, 1st graders write down their guess for how many marbles are in the jar, then count and record the answer, and complete 3 sentences about the numbers.
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Estimate the Number of Cherries
In this estimating worksheet, students observe groups of five cherries and estimate the total amount. Students choose one multiple choice answer.
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Estimating Butterflies
For this estimation worksheet, students estimate how many butterflies are in the picture and have 25 or 55 to choose from. Students estimate and eventually count 25 butterflies.
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Estimating Practice
In this number sense worksheet, students examine the picture and estimate the number of ants in the picture.
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Estimate Amount
In this estimating the total amount learning exercise, students observe a page of apples in groups of two and estimate whether there are twenty-five or eighty apples. Students choose one multiple choice answer.
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Embrace Space
Learners use the internet to gather informatino about the solar system and space. In groups, they create a slideshow in which they use illustrations from the internet and include their own text. They complete the lesson by going on a...