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NASA

Eclipse Activity Guide

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Ever made solar s'mores? Or recreated the solar system using peanuts? Astronomers young and old investigate all things solar using a variety of activities. Explore how the sun works, types of light it emits, and methods of charting the...
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Using the Four Main Directions in the Classroom

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use the four main directions to locate features in the classroom. In this direction lesson, students review the 4 main directions using a world map. Students use a magnetic compass to locate the north wall in their classroom and...
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Chesterfield Township Elementary School

Gifted and Talented Enrichment Curriculum

For Teachers K - 6th
Looking to start or support a Gifted and Talented program? An 80-page packet outlines grade-leveled lessons in all subject areas as school district's Gifted and Talented enrichment curriculum.
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Mother's Day Gift Ideas

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students develop their fine motor skills as they make a craft for Mother's Day. In this crafts activity, students make a craft including bookmarks, coupon books, cards, bath salts, and magnets.
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Tortoise and Hare Races

For Teachers K
Students listen to the fable, The Tortoise and the Hare, and participate in various map skill activities. They manipulate magnetic tortoises and hares on metal cookie sheets to practice direction, and construct racing tortoises out of...
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Pocket Partner

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students create pocket partners. In this visual arts lesson, students use old jeans pockets to make magnetic pocket holders. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.
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Go Fish!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students practice their reading comprehension by participating in a fictional fishing exercise.  For this children's literature lesson, students read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss, and discuss the characteristics...
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Plush Paint Pail Pals

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students make their own magnets out of old paint containers. They make familiar characters like Elmo and the Grouch from Sesame Street. They watch a demonstration and then make their own.
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Water and Ice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine the relationship between water and ice. In this physics lesson, students read the book Amazing Water and participate in an experiment where they freeze water into ice cubes. Students observe the changes in the water when...
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Making a Sun Clock

For Teachers K - 2nd
In this clock construction lesson, students use a pencil, compass, and sun clock diagram to construct a homemade sun clock. A very interesting lesson on combining images with text.
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Catch of the Day: Electric Eel

For Teachers K
Students identify and work to eliminate electrical safety hazards in the home. They identify items that use electricity. Students use a fishing game that allows students to cut pictures of items from magazine; glue the items on the 3" x...
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Amazing Birds

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
What's so amazing about birds? Find out just how amazing birds are with a physics of animal behavior unit created by Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Have learners explore and tap into their observational skills and notice how birds fly, what...
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Woodsies "Extraordinaire"

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Allow your class to use their imaginations and create fun creatures with various wooden shapes and other embellishments. What a great way to encourage your young artists to stretch their minds!
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Tortoise and Hare Races

For Teachers K
Practice basic map skills with the story of The Tortoise and the Hare. After listening to the story, class members create a map that indicates the starting line, the path the animals took, where they stopped to rest, and the finish line....
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Rain Bird Corporation

Rain Forest Teaching Curriculum

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Take young naturalists on an exploration of the world's tropical rainforests with this extensive collection of lessons and activities. Whether its creating leaf and flower prints or investigating the absorption spectrum of chlorophyl,...
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Queen of Heaven School

Computer Curriculum

For Teachers K - 8th
Need some extra resources to get your class computer savvy? How about several years' worth? Show pupils in K-8 a progression of proficiency in a series of computer lessons. Learners master the basics, then work with the Microsoft Office...
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George Watts Montessori

Primary Lessons for Classroom and Garden

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Gardens are packed with science concepts for young scientists to explore. A thorough unit with 16 lessons and multiple activities in each provides many learning opportunities by examining a garden space. Learners study weather, growth,...
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Picture Frame Craft

For Teachers K
Use craft sticks to make a picture frame for parents. A great activity that can be themed for many occasions.
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11 - The Heat Is On

For Teachers K
Students observe physical change of melting by observing substance in original state, melting substance, allowing substance to return to original temperature, determining if substance retained its original properties, and recording results.
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Remembering Waiting

For Teachers K - 2nd
After a close study of the pastel drawing Waiting by Edgar Degas have the class imagine the story Degas may be telling through the body language and clothing of the people in the work of art. Your young writers then create a drawing...
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Stackers Game for Word Fluency

For Teachers K - 2nd
Explore words by building and decoding three-letter words. Real or nonsense words can be formed with the alphabet tiles. Practice fluency and blending sounds with CVC patterns.
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Down with Dairy and the Food Pyramid

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss food pyramid, name parts of pyramid, discuss dairy products and how they are beneficial to people, and participate in dairy taste testing.
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Going Fishing

For Teachers K
Students constructaA fishing game that reinforces number recognition,and some basic addition.They use foam sheets to make fish cutouts of different colors and with a addition problem on the bigger one's and the answers on the smaller one.
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Applied Science - Physics (K) Post Lab

For Teachers K
Students are introduced to electricity. In this electricity lesson plan, students listen to the book Switch on, Switch off  by Melvin Berger and discuss the use of electricity in light switches. They create a picture of an atom using pom...

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