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Space Awareness

What is a Constellation

For Students 1st - 5th
Why do some stars in a constellation appear brighter than others? Using a get-up-and-move astronomy activity, scholars explore perspective and the appearance of constellations in the sky while developing an understanding of the...
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Curated OER

Applied Science: Exploring Shapes in Nature

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Explore geometry with your young mathematicians! First, have them color in different two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes. Then take them on a walk around the classroom. Can they identify different shapes using the target...
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Painted Chairs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars evaluate visual arts by creating furniture designs. In this three dimensional art instructional activity, students utilize the web to examine different artist renderings of furniture, sculpture and architecture. Young...
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Comparing Measurements

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore measurements by completing worksheets in class. For this geometry lesson, students identify the basic measurement units in both the English and metric systems. Students analyze 2 and 3 dimensional objects and identify...
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Curated OER

Comedia dell' Arte Paper Masks

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create masks from the Italian Renaisance theatre and use them in one-act plays they write. they analyze the role and development of theatre in world cultures.
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Present Hunt

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this game students move around a game board by spinning a spinner and moving to the next place on the board whose shape matches the one they spun.