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Grandfather Tang's Story

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students recognize, describe, and perform transformations (rotation/turn, reflection/flip, and translation/slide) on two dimensional shapes.
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We Are Family

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore art and stories that depict families in different cultures. They examine how family members help each other, create traditions, have fun and change or grow. They describe their own families and create a class family...
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Help! I Need Five Minutes

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students practice ways to better manage their time. They keep track of their current use of time. Students prioritize and schedule events and use a daily planning calendar to schedule their time.
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Around the World

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore ways people from around the world are like them. They discuss how geography affects the way people live and work and how culture affects a person's day to day life. Students give a presentation over a chosen country to...
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Classification

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore classification. In this science lesson plan, students observe various apples, contrasting them, and classifying the apples based on structure and color.
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Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore nutrition. In this science lesson plan, students identify and describe the main nutrients in our diets that are needed by the body as a source of energy.
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Open-Ended Scientific Method Lab

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students inspect a given problem and come up with a hypothesis. In this investigative lesson students come up with a hypothesis for a problem, test each hypothesis and evaluate how successful each one was. 
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Lesson 6: Natural Resources

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create a travel poster about a favorite place in Florida. In this Florida instructional activity, students research their favorite place and use desktop publishing to create a poster. They also make a brochure using Microsoft...
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Rain, Rain, Go Away

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students conduct a number of experiments involving evaporation and condensation. They view and discuss a video about the water cycle and then design posters about the rain based on the book "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs".
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Respiratory and Circulatory Research Project

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students use the Internet and books to research the respiratory and circulatory systems. They also write a report on different diseases and present to the class.
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From Above

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire and report information from a spacial perspective.
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The Strongest Shape

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students work collaboratively to design and construct a roof out of Legos for a house that was built in a previous instructional activity. The roof must be structurally sound and pass certain criteria determined by the teacher.
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Citizens For the New Zoo

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders complete Internet research to find information about an animal and its basic needs. They design a model of a zoo habitat that would accommodate their animal. They write a letter of recommendation to a Zoo board of directors...
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Look At Those Leaves!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students observe, measure, and sort tree leaves. They examine leaves individually, in groups, and in relationship to the entire tree. Pupils take a walk outside for a "Leaf Walk." Students are each given a lunch size paper bag, so that...
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What in the World..?!?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils photograph mystery images. In this observation skills lesson, students gather everyday objects and place them under a digital microscope. They magnify the image and take a photograph of it. The image is then displayed on the...
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Problem Solving Using Pattern Blocks

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students use pattern blocks to create a figure that is described to them and establish a pattern based on the description of the geometric figure. In this pattern blocks lesson plan, students fill out shape and fraction worksheets.
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A More Perfect Product

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students participate in a discussion about the basics of house design including the influence of site, materials, function, form and style. They explore these concepts by creating a floor plan and conceptual drawing of a house.
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The Strength of the Sun

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore the sun and take a "trip" to outer space.
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Shh...It's a Secret!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore codes, decode secret messages, and create codes of their own to use with their friends. They examine the use of gestures, letters, symbols and numbers in codes.
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Follow the Yellow Brick Road

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students watch a portion of "The Wizard of Oz" and discuss how a map could be useful to Dorothy. They identify key components of maps and design a map of their classroom, including a key.
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Reading Trees: Understanding Dendrochronology

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine tree-ring dating and discuss the lack of water the settlers in Jamestown faced. They create paper tree rings, simulate rain patterns, and describe the history of construction paper tree sequences.
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Telling Time to 5 Minutes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students take part in various activities ranging from creating a human clock, to small group problem solving to reinforce the concept of telling time accurately to five minutes on an analog clock.
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Welcome to New York State

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students choose one region of New York state, and create a travel brochure that includes information such as geographical features, tourist attractions, accesibility, economic features, and historical events that occured in that region.
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I've Got You Under My Skin

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students examine bark beetle galleries, discuss interdependence between insects, trees, and people, and research to determine causes of other tree damage.

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