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One Square Foot
Students identify, describe, count, tally, and graph life found in one square foot of land.
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Sorting Lids
Young scholars practice sorting lids in different ways so that each group determines a sorting pattern. They examine how to work in groups while sharing ideas. They establish group work relationships that become apparent to the teacher...
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Day and Night
Students discuss why day and night occur after visualizing a teacher-led demonstration.
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Polymer Physics on the Playground
Students investigate what materials allow them to slide down a slide the fastest. They set up test procedures and carry out an experiment.
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A Parade Of Penguins
Second graders complete a variety of penguin-related activities. They discuss and compare different types of penguins, complete worksheets and Venn diagrams, make craft penguins and dioramas.
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What Makes Popcorn Pop?
Students experiment with making popcorn to discover what makes it pop. They cook various types to survey which brand gives the highest volume of corn.
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Grizzly Habitat
Learners find areas on playground where they would live if they were a grizzly bear, share their reasons for their choice, talk about habitat areas, and choose their sites again, based upon new information.
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Trees for Tomorrow
Young scholars examine how to plan for prudent use of trees so that we never run out of this natural resource. They determine what the oldest wooden object in their home is and draw picture of it. They observe a cross section of a tree...
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Garden Tag
Students create mini "gardens" in recycled clothing boxes. They recycle old seed and flower catalogs and "plant" cut-out flowers in their gardens.
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Rainforest Deforestation and the Water Cycle
Students create terrariums (mini rainforests). They observe and discuss the life processes that occur in their terrariums and how changes in these processes affect the plants and organisms inside. They collect and graph data and present...
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North Carolina Pottery
Pupils examine the process of evaporation. They observe how when clay dries, the water evaporates and how the weight of the object decreases. They complete a worksheet to complete the lesson.
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Learning by Sorting
Students sort Lego Duplo pieces after determining the attributes to classify them by. They work in pairs to sort a group of Duplo pieces and explain their process to others.
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Make a Cast of a Tyrannosaurus rex Fossil
Second graders examine the formation of fossils and list the different types. They make cast model of a dinosaur fossil. They write about conditions that are necessary for fossils to form and create a model of a buried fossil.
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Drink It Up!
Students investigate how the human body needs water by recording their water consumption for a day. They sing a song about drinking water, make and drink Kool-Aid and eat apple slices, and conduct an experiment to determine how much...
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Happy the Fish
Students explore the ways in which people's actions affect fish. They discuss pollutants that are in the water. Students define the terms chemicals, cooling pond, and pollutant. They create a book about Happy the Fish.
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Pyramid Play
Learners investigate the concept of the Food Pyramid. They use a game as a tool of discovery in order to classify different types of food in the pyramid. Upon completion of the game the students construct their own models of it.
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Sorting
Young scholars explore how to logically sort and store information in order to make it easy to manage and easily retrieved. They explore methods they can use to organize and manage information.
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Defining Culture
Second graders define the term culture and are exposed to a variety of cultures from around the world. They read books, play Native American games, develop a class book that examines their own culture and, after examining currencies from...
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Backyard Bird Watch
Students use the Internet, digital cameras, video cameras and other computer technology to observe and record information on local birds that visit their bird feeders. They consider factors such as weather and seed consumption.
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Measurement Web
Student discuss their prior knowledge of the concept of measurement with class. Then, making a graphic organizer students use educational software to create a web which is then printed off for each student.
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What is a Pest?
Students investigate whether rabbits should be considered pests even though they make good pets. They extend this to determine what, when, and where other organisms are considered to be pests, and examine why the concept of a pest is a...
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Recycling Bottles
Students learn how to sort #1 and #2 plastics and how to weigh and read a digital scale. The bags are then collected and weighed on a digital scale and the information is used to make bar graphs. They also write in their journal about...
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