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Butterfly Life Cycle

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Focused little scientists will flitter their arms back and forth across the room with excitement as they learn the life cycle of a butterfly and how living things grow and change over time.
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Hand Sensitivity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experiment with the sense of touch. In this tactile instructional activity, students determine the most sensitive area of the hand. Students experiment by describing objects through touch only. Students compare the amount of...
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Body Parts

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this body parts worksheet, students identify the correct body parts by watching a video and choosing the correct part according to the pictures. Students complete 18 questions.
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Nerve Racking

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study the components and function of the nervous system. They investigate how engineers design biomedical equipment to assist the nervous system and explain how the five senses are affected during spaceflight.
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Outer Body Parts

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this biology worksheet, students locate 32 words that name body parts in a word search puzzle. They find the words that are listed in a word bank at the bottom of the page.
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Earthworm Nervous System

For Teachers K - 5th
Investigate the nervous system of an earthworm! Your class gets into pairs to test, record, and draw conclusions about the reaction earthworms have to different stimuli (sound, light, and smell).
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Test your spelling skills: body part 2

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this spelling worksheet, students unmix words that contain mixed up letters to represent parts of the body. Students unmix 20 words.
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Body Exercises: Galaxy 3

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this animal body parts instructional activity, learners label the animals, complete sentences, complete a word search, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
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Parts of the Body

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this parts of the body worksheet, students complete a word search, choose the correct name, unscramble words, and more. Students complete 3 activities.
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Body Organs: Matching

For Students 5th - 12th
In this body organs worksheet, students match body organs with their functions. Students complete 19 matches total on this body organs worksheet.
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Types of Behavior

For Students 5th - 6th
In this science instructional activity, students analyze specific animal and human behaviors and classify them as innate or learned. Students answer 20 questions, identifying behaviors and explaining how they are helpful to the animal....
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Seeing is Believing - Or Is It?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Here is a great science instructional activity. It extends the concept of vision into the area of optical illusions, perspective, and tessellation. This well-designed plan has tons of great activities, utilizes interesting video, and...
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Hairy Heredity

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Young scholars learn that heredity comes down to the flip of a coin with this cross-curricular math and science lesson. Using smiley faces as a model, students toss coins to determine which dominant or recessive traits will be passed on...
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Collecting Electromagnetic Radiation

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Astronomy is literally over your head, but this lesson will explain how we study it. Young scientists make telescopes, calculate and compare the light gathering power of lenses, and simulate detection of infared radiation. Materials...
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Catch a Wave. . .

For Students 4th - 8th
Part of a larger online space science website, this page has a brief explanation of electromagnetic radiation and a chart of wavelengths as compared to common objects. There are four questions to answer about the information. This can be...
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Sorting

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how to sort and manage information.  In this organization lesson students complete an activity on sorting.
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Light

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore light.  In this light wave physics lesson, students construct periscopes, kaleidoscopes, color wheels, and pinhole cameras.  Students observe and record characteristics of light demonstrated through the use of these tools.
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Water Sources in Cape Verde and West Africa

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young explorers study the scarcity and importance of a continuous supply of fresh water in Cape Verde. They research the five main ways that fresh water is obtained in these countries. Each research group prepares a presentation, and...
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Listening Devices

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students design and construct a listening device that will allow them to listen to the sound generated by specific object inside a box.
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SeaWorld

Sharks

For Teachers K - 3rd
Youngsters explore their sense of smell by working in pairs. One child is blindfolded, while the other holds things for him to smell. They switch after a while. All of this leads up to learning about the amazing ability sharks have to...
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The Many Faces of Ants

For Students 4th - 7th
Though they be but little, they are fierce! Young biologists read about eight different species of ants, and discover how the anatomy of their heads can explain the way they live and what they eat.
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Space Travel Guide

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Scholars showcase their narrative writing skills with a science fiction writing assignment. Six pages present writers with a question to answer accompanied by a detailed picture to draw. All together, pages create a space-travel guide.
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Pet Perspective

For Teachers K - 12th
Discuss point of view through a familiar medium: your pet! Learners write a story from the perspective of their own or the class pet. Prompts such as "My Family" (or "My Class"), "My Day," and "A Day in the Life of a _________" help...
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Volcanoes: Windows Into The Earth

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate the concepts related to volcanoes and focus upon Mt. St. Helens. They define the difference between an active and dormant volcano. They conduct research using a variety of resources. The information is used in order...

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