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Oceanic Heat Budget Activities
Students map and research imaginary islands located in different parts of the world. They describe the weather and climate of their island and show how local currents, water temperatures and waves may influence the weather patterns.
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Creek Detectives WISE On-line Research Community
Learners investigate ways people cause harm to the environment. In this environmental lesson, students explore a case study on the Internet. Learners explore all of the online activities and collect data for a presentation.
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Just Look at Our Shoes
Students complete cross-curricular activities using a shoe theme. In this cross-curricular lesson, students explore various systems, examine open and closed systems, and examine product life cycles.
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Classroom Science Fair Project
Students explore the skills and information needed to complete a science fair project. They follow guidelines to create an document their science fair project.
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Volcanic Activity in the U.S.
Students locate and map ten volcanoes in United States, create chart comparing volcanoes by last eruption, type of volcano, location, and interesting fact, and create Powerpoint slide show describing basic
information about volcanoes and...
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Parachute Drop
Learners will have fun creating a parachute to collect data with. They will construct the parachute in small groups, measure the materials, and create an observation sheet. Then they drop the parachute and make predictions about how long...
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A Fishy Tale
Eighth graders do a research project on a particular species of Atlantic seafood and record and graph information pertaining to commercial landings of that species of seafood. They use a website and an Appleworks spreadsheet.
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Don't Slip!
Pupils measure, record, and graph the force of moving a block of wood along sand paper. In this friction lesson plan, students read a spring scale, collect data, construct a graph, and propose a model to explain how fiction works.
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Comparing Temperatures and Latitudes
Eighth graders collect weather data from a variety of cities at the same latitudes, but on different continents. They organize data using spreadsheet program, generate graphs, and incorporate into a word processing document. Students...
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Presenting Painless Breast Cancer Detection!
Students depict a tumor inside a healthy body using a graph in Microsoft Excel. in this breast cancer lesson plan, students also design a brochure that advertises a new form of painless breast cancer treatment.
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Recycling-Taking it Easy on the Environment
Students review the garbage/landfill graphs included with the lesson. They discuss the information on the graphs and discuss which garbage products come from their homes. Students collect examples of over packaging to share with class...
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Everybody Needs a Little Sunshine
Three activities introduce upper elementary ecologists to photosynthesis and food webs. In the first, an experiment is set up to determine how plants respond to different types of light. In the second, they connect organism cards with...
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The Hat
Honing reading and communication skills through the theme of farm animals is the focus of this lesson. Students read a book about Scandinavian farm animals and complete prediction journal activities. They complete a worksheet about the...
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Weather "Whys"
Students complete activities to explore fall weather. For this weather lesson, students use the given links to examine weather forecasts. Students complete a weather graph activity and watch Internet field trips. Students complete fall...
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Health of Aquatic Life a Real Problem
Learners explore the health of aquatic life in this science lesson They measure and track the oxygen level in the water to determine the health of the aquatic life. They collect this data using the TI explorer to graph and analyze their...
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A Recipe for Air
Young scholars create a pie graph using M&Ms to demonstrate the composition of air. They label each section of the graph, and list the fractions from largest to smallest.
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Interpreting Medical Data
Students explore human anatomy by graphing scientific data. In this vision lesson plan, students discuss how ophthalmology works and take their own eye assessment test using the Snellen chart. Students collect vision data from all of...
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What Is It? Tommy Tastes
Students complete multi-curricular to learn about senses and sensory words. In this sensory words lesson, students discuss the five senses and the anatomy of a tongue. Students complete a food tasting activity and find descriptive words...
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Bright Ideas #6
Students complete activities as extra time, learning stations, or homework activities. In this extra time lesson plan, students may complete the activities for visual arts, language skills, and social sciences. Students participate in...
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A Healthy Heart
Sixth graders create a spreadsheet using specific data. A speaker comes to discuss the heart, and the difference between anaerobic and aerobic activity. They make posters to encourage a healthy heart lifestyle.
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Halloween Graphitti
Pupils complete multi-curricular activities in a Halloween themed lesson. In this Halloween lesson, students examine newspaper ads to find prices of pumpkins and use them to complete a stem and leaf plot. Pupils find the diameter,...
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Under the Sea - Ocean Mammals/Fish
Students explore the similarities and differences between ocean mammals and fish. The characteristics of the life forms observed are placed onto a graph. The classroom becomes the botom of the sea and is explored to gain the required data.
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A Planet Full of Animals
Students study animals and practice classifying them through observation activities. In this animal classification lesson, students complete a KWL chart about animals. Students then sort pictures of animals into chart categories based on...
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You Need How Much Food When? Where?
Ninth graders explore how human activities shape the earth's surface. In this awareness lesson, 9th graders create pictographs showing the relations of food, people, land, and resources. Students complete worksheet.