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Have Fun With Paint

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore different painting techniques. In this visual arts lesson plan, students use various materials to create different textures in their paintings. Students use wax paper and foam boards to create unique art pieces.
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Create, Design, and Invent with Plastic

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore creative ways to reuse materials. In this ecology/art lesson, students create artwork using trash. Students view examples of folk art from around the world that used waste products as a main component.
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Create a Garden Goddess

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students construct a Garden Goddess. In this gardening lesson plan, students recall why farmers used scarecrows and discover the history of a Garden Goddess. Students construct their own Garden Goddess from old clothes, paint, and...
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Tin Relief

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create a sun tin relief sculpture. In this Mexican art lesson, students incorporate line and form into a relief sculpture that they create of the sun.
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Use Your Melon

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore bicycle safety. In this service learning lesson, students build a bicycle safety course to be used by children in their community.
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Sharing with Others (Private/Religious)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars appreciate uniqueness and differences by comparing and contrasting fruit. In this differences activity, students study fruits and analyze for similarities and differences. Young scholars sort the fruit into five...
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Mysteries of Egypt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners investigate the Egyptian civilization. In this cultural lesson, students watch the film Mysteries of Egypt and create a replica of an ancient Egyptian artifact.
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Telling Our Story

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars develop a presentation. In this service instructional activity, students respond to how they felt participating in a service project and brainstorm ways they can continue to serve. Young scholars create a class...
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Making Media for Democratic Citizenship

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine global development issues. In this media awareness lesson, students analyze current event issues and create video podcasts based on their research.
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The History of Maple Syrup

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the process of harvesting maple syrup. In this science and history lesson plan, students make their own maple syrup and create a picture book that shows the Native American and American pioneer methods of making the syrup.
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Recycling: Creative Uses for Items

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders list creative uses for old objects. In this recycling lesson, 3rd graders work in groups to brainstorm creative, new uses for old, everyday items. This is the first lesson in a unit on recycling.
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Build a Forest

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars discuss various types of trees. In this forest structure lesson, students cut out pictures of a wide variety of trees and paste the pictures onto index cards. Young scholars identify each tree and present information about...
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The Water Cycle

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars develop a better understanding of the need to conserve our renewable resources.  In this water cycle lesson students take notes, complete a guide sheet and illustrate the water cycle. 
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Dinosaurs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study the lives of dinosaurs. In this dinosaur lesson, students create dinosaur dioramas that depict how and where the creatures lived. Students also discuss extinction with their teacher.
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It Counts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore one to one number correspondence. In this early math instructional activity, students make observations about and classify plants in order to gain an understanding of using numbers to describe their world.
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Weather Station

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners create their own barometer, precipitation, rain gauge, anemometer, and more with their weather stations. For this weather station lesson plan, students access on line websites on how to make their own weather tools.
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I Went to the Crossroads: The Faust Theme in Music, Film and Literature

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students analyze song lyrics and discuss Faust theme in musical history. In this thematic lesson, students view a film clip and create a song lyric, poem or short story developed around the Faust theme. Students perform or present their...
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Get to Know: Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete a research activity in a schoolyard or park to learn about plants. In this plant lesson, students learn the name of the one of more plants. Students describe or draw the plant, pointing our features that distinguish the...
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Walking the Talk

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students research production, consumptions, and disposal of everyday items and their ecological impacts. In this sustainable economics instructional activity, students discuss clothing and various items used everyday in groups. Students...
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The Economics of Horticultural Production

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils examine how government programs and sustainable practices can affect farm profitability.  In this agriculture lesson students complete several activities that include the prices of food and designing their own ecolabel. 
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Science Show

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils create a physics science show. For this science show activity, students research, design, and complete a physics activity to share during a science show for younger pupils.
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Emotion or Reason?

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students use persuasive devices to construct oral or written arguments. For this arguments lesson, students discuss the types of persuasive devices used in arguments and form groups to select a topic to research. Students create a...
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Genetic Jewels: Building the DNA Model

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students construct segments of DNA to create a piece of jewelry.  In this genetics lesson students create a DNA sequence that they turn into something to wear. 
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Life's Lessons: Survival of the Fittest

For Teachers 8th
Students analyze Jack London's use of anthropomorphism to identify the importance of adaptability in life. In this literature lesson, students use the novel The Call of the Wild to identify key elements in survival. Students complete...

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