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Tree-mendous Trees

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students become aware of the importance of trees in the natural world. Students are shown 2 filmstrips - Special Things About Trees and Tree Magic. Students plants seeds. They, students predict the growing chart of tree growth. Students...
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Exploring Play Dough

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students learn to prepare a play dough recipe in order to enhance their measurement, reading, and creative-thinking skills. In this lesson plan on making play dough, students measure and add the different ingredients, while...
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Weather Report Chart

For Teachers K - 4th
Students complete a weather report chart after studying weather patterns for a period of time. In this weather report lesson, students measure temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, wind speed, and wind direction for a month. Students...
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Introducing Temperature Measurement

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read a thermometer, associate weather conditions and seasons with temperature changes and keep a record of daily temperature.
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Do Different Colors Absorb Heat Better?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils work together to test how the color of a material affects how much heat it absorbs. They make predictions and take notes on their observations. They discover how engineers use this type of information.
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Ice Cream Lesson Plan for Kindergarten

For Teachers K
Students explore how ice cream is made in a factory and at home. They help make ice cream in the classroom. They measure out the ingredients. Students share the ice cream when it is done.
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Introducing Models to Elementary School Students

For Teachers K - 8th
Students explore the concept of models. In this model activity, students examine 3-dimensional models of various objects and body parts to better understand the natural world.
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Tornadoes

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Young scholars research tornadoes. For this weather instructional activity, students construct a KWL chart on tornadoes and view the video National Geographic-Tornadoes. Young scholars discuss the facts they learned from the film and...
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Vegetable Creatures

For Teachers K - 5th
Students use different foods to enhance academic skills in all area contents.  In this food activity activity, students use food, such as "bugs on a log" (raisins on peanut butter celery) to estimate and practice...
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Units and Measurement

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss the word weight, how much they weigh and the conccept of heavy and light. They hear the story of measurement and the metric system. They work in groups and measure and record items found in the classroom and use a...
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Ramps 2: Ramp Builder

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students plan, build, and test a ramp that allows objects to roll far. After each group has tested out their ramps, allow them to test their design against the record previously established by the prototype ramp.
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Putting It All Together

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students experience the design of different structures. create, design, and evaluate different structures. They use Lego blocks to create several different designs. They evaluate the various steps involved in creating their structures.
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Clean Water vs. Dirty Water

For Teachers K
Students study the importance of clean water to the survival of organisms and what activiities and material pollute water. They measure the temperature of water samples and create a class graph.
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The Great Winged Adventure

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify characteristics of birds, name several species, and explain how birds fly. They make nests and give bird presentations.
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Fall is All Around Us

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils 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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Introduction to Time

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the concept of time. Through discussion and artistic projects, they define time in their own words and tell how it is used to represent the seasons. Students draw a picture to portray time as it elapses during the...
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Classifying Fruits and Vegetables

For Students K - 1st
In this classification worksheet, students cut out the 8 pictures of fruits and vegetables. Students then paste the pictures in the fruit box or vegetable box.
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Look At Those Leaves!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students sort tree leaves. In this plant biology instructional activity, students collect leaves and group them according to size, shape, and color. Students discuss their observations.
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Graphing Conversation Hearts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students collect data and create a graph. In this mathematics activity, students separate paper hearts by color and create a graph showing the number of hearts of each color present. Students receive a handful of candy hearts that...
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Designing a Safe City Like a Civil Engineer

For Teachers K
Students study civil engineering, safety apparatuses in their city, and design their own city. In this civil engineering instructional activity, students discuss their towns safety apparatuses and define civil engineers. Students then...
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Measuring Wind Speed

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars study wind speed and collect wind speed data. In this wind speed lesson, students visit a website to learn about the local wind speed forecast for their week. Young scholars discuss wind and wind speed. Students collect...
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NOVA Online/Einstein Revealed

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Welcome to the companion Web site to the NOVA program "Einstein Revealed," originally broadcast in October, 1996. This two-hour special presents a penetrating profile of Albert Einstein, who contributed more than any other scientist to...
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Estimation and Measurement

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use unconventional units of measure to estimate and measure.
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Maple Syrup Production

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine the steps of maple sugar production and the labor and effort involved from the tree to the final product. They participate in a taste test game, and if they have access to maple trees, make their own syrup and sugar.

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