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How Does Your Plant Grow?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students measure and record their height in centimeters on a graph. By integrating math and science, students collect data and apply graphing skills to the experiences they are having growing plants. Finally, students identify how to...
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Getting a Handle on Your Bee

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students observe dried bees, carefully glue them to toothpicks, and use them for cross pollinating their Brassica plants. They also describe reasons why two similar investigations can produce different results. Finally, students...
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Looking at Flowers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners use their bee sticks to cross-pollinate their Fast Plants and also focus in on the anatomy of flowers. They analyze how the parts of a system go together, and how these parts depend on each other. Finally, students describe...
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Oxygen

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars explore oxygen and its physical and chemical propeties.  In this investigative lesson students complete several experiments using oxygen.
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Is Your Water Clean?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners compare water quality of different sources. They test water samples for odor, phosphates, pH, bacteria, and dissolved solids. they fill out a data table and answer questions about their findings.
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Transportation Through Time

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders measure the speed at which they can walk in order to understand speed and distance traveled. They then research the history of transportation and express data in a class timeline.
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Where The Blue Fern Grows

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students discuss ancient plants and their adaption in the world. Students review forms of plant propagation. Given proper supplies and directions, students apply a variety of fern spores to peat pellets, monitor the growth, and...
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Rollie-Pollie - - Ceramic Art

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars are introduced to a variety of sculpting techniques: rolling, pinching and scoring. They practice utilizing additive and subtractive processes in making simple sculptural forms to depict bugs. Each student also interprets...
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Help Wanted: A Lighting Engineer For Popular Rock Group

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners are assigned to groups, and determine each member's role in the group. They will design an experiment to determine a way to produce the three primary and five secondary colors. Students discuss color and mood. They listen to a...
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COMPARE SOILS BY GROWING PLANTS

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The student will identify the difference in the rate of plant growth in three soils that vary in organic matter.1. Obtain three to four flowerpots, different types of soil, a record chart, three to five beans for each pot, and water....
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Making Plastic

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars experiment to create a plastic solution. In this science lesson plan, students use sodium borax and polyvinyl alcohol to create their solution, then identify, discuss, and chart observations on the end product.
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Identifying Wyoming Trees

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify trees based from their leaves. In this leaf lesson plan, students use The Rocky Mountain Tree Finder by Tom Watts in order to identify tree leaves. They look for leaf shapes, veins, and structure.
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Tree Hunt

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students identify the common trees of Iowa and make observations while creating a key. In this tree hunt lesson, students write a letter to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to receive a pamphlet of Common Trees of Iowa. Students...
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Volcanoes

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore the formation of volcanoes. In this earth science lesson plan, students build their own volcanoes in the lab using different materials. They identify the different types of volcanoes.
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A Solution for Precipitation

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners predict the product of chemical reaction using the solubility rules. In this chemistry lesson, students balance ionic equation. They perform a lab to check if their predicted products are correct.
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Water Hardness- Causes and Testing

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine what materials cause water hardness and the relative measure of water hardness in a two part lab activity. In part one, 8th graders add an assigned soap test solution to eleven different test tube solutions in...
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Plant Growth & Development

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students share what they know about plants and discuss what else they would like to know. The teacher evaluates students' prior knowledge of plants to inform future instruction. Students practice observation and prediction skills.
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Planting the Seed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers plant their seeds and collect and organize their own materials for planting. They also set up their planters with wicks, fertilizer, potting mix, and seeds. Finally, students write their names on planter markers with a...
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Observing the Growth Spurt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils notice a growth spurt in their Brassica plants and closely monitor this growth by measuring their plants and predicting the next day's growth based on the pattern of their data. They also read and highlight the objectives in each...
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Harvesting and Threshing the Seed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers harvest and thresh the seeds. They count the seeds and compare that number with the original number of seeds planted (8) to determine their profit or loss. Finally, students think about additional questions they have...
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Finding and Measuring What You Can't See

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine how scientists measure pollutants in food and the environment. Students discover how scientists remove one material based on its physical properties. Students figure out how much of a pollutant is present after...
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Cavern Geology: Speleothem Construction

For Teachers K - 12th
Students discover how underground rock formations grow. They perform various activities based on grade level.
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Is Dilution the Solution to Pollution?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the different types of pollution. they conduct experiments using dye mixed with tap water to measure the levels of dilution. They discuss at what point the dye (pollution) would be diluted enough to be safe to drink.
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Gridding a Site

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners make observations of effigy mounds and record them in a notebook. In groups, they must determine the scale of measurement and create their own grid to scale part of the Effigy Mounds National Monument. They also practice using...

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