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Let's Clean Up Our Act and the Earth!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students complete activities that help clean up the Earth and protect the environment. In this Earth protection lesson plan, students go outside and listen to the environment. Students discuss their observations and their role in...
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Home Living / Daily Living: Personal Hygiene—Use of Napkin

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Staying clean is a big part of staying healthy and looking good in the community. Personal hygiene and napkin use are the focus of this activity. Your class will eat a messy food, look in a mirror to see if their face is messy, then...
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Science Matters

That’s An Otter Story

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scientists discover how sea otters' habitats have changed due to human impact. Through conversation, video observation, and story reading, scholars identify how human interactions change a specific ecosystem in both positive and...
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The Three R's: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners understand conservation terms. In this three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle) lesson, students understand the importance of preserving a clean world and reducing waste. Learners sing a song which show importance of 3R's.
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Trash...it really piles up!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate a contemporary "midden" by analyzing trash collected from various sources and determining life-style choices people make. They see that reducing the amount of waste we generate is helpful to the the environment.
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Every Day is Earth Day

For Students K - 2nd
For this environment worksheet, students read a poem called "Every Day is Earth Day." Students also write about how they can help on Earth Day.
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Food and Kitchen Safety Lab

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars review kitchen management, safety, and sanitation rules, and practice applying safety and sanitation rules in kitchen lab by preparing chicken stir-fry over rice while maintaining safe working environment. Students then...
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Environmental Helpers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students strengthen leg muscles while learning about the environment. For this environmental lesson, students use scooters to pick up poly spots from the floor. The poly spots are metaphors for trash.
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Succession in the Classroom

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate their environment by growing plants in class.  In this botany lesson, students discuss the lifespan of plants and animals and how they must be cared for continuously over time.  Students grow a plant in...
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Plan For The Discuss

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how to hold, rotate, and throw a discuss using the correct teaching progression for discuss. This lesson plan describes how to set up a safe environment for athletes to learn proper grip/realease techniques.
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Race To Win Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop proper work and personal skills that will enable them to become competent and confident adults. Students analyze basic nutritional habits. Students evaluate sport/athletic food patterns.
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Parts Per Million

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students perform serial dilution of food coloring experiment with partner, examine concentration levels, and differentiate parts per million (PPM) and parts per billion (PPB). Students complete pre-lab and post-lab questions and data table.
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Because of Winn-Dixie

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students make connections with the book Because of Winn-Dixie through writing.  In this writing lesson plan, students pretend to be the main character and write a letter to her mother, using very descriptive language.  Students...