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Student Exploration: Eclipse

For Students 4th - 7th
In this earthquake exploration worksheet, students complete 3 prior knowledge questions, then use "Eclipse Gizmo" to conduct several activities, completing short answer questions when finished.
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Student Exploration: Forest Ecosystem

For Students 4th - 6th
In this ecosystem exploration worksheet, students complete 2 prior knowledge questions, then use "Forest Ecosystem Gizmo" to conduct several activities, completing short answer questions when finished.
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Lesson on 'The Chimney Boy's Story' by Wes Magee

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Wes Magee's poem "The Chimney Boy's Story" about chimney sweeps/climbing boys is used as an introduction to a activity that asks groups to research child labor in Victorian Britain. 
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Human Effect

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate changes in air quality. In this science instructional activity, students compare data to determine the air quality. Students explore how humans affect the air quality.
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Tracking Ocean Ecology

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students look at the data maps given to them about how chlorophyll affects the algae blooms and make predictions about the harm they will cause. For this data maps lesson plan, students manipulate data sets from the website.
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Introduction to Victorian London and A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Immerse your class in Dickens's London and classic story of A Christmas Carol. Here, a SMARTboard presentation and WebQuest build background of the setting for the novel (or the play A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley.) Learning about...
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Weather In The World

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students investigate the weather in different places in the world. In this algebra lesson, students use technology to gain an understanding of how to study integers. They add and subtract integers on a number line.
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How To Grow Red Seaweed

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore ocean biology by participating in a plant growing activity. In this seaweed lesson, students identify the importance and uses of seaweed in the ocean and examine different seaweed samples. Students utilize an aquarium,...
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Make a Windmill

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore Earth science by conducting an energy experiment in class. In this windmill lesson, students identify how wind has been used to pump water throughout history and the latest developments wind energy has produced. Students...
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The End of the War: WWII

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Enhance your student's reading with this presentation on the end of WWII. This series of slides contains information,  focus questions to guide student reading, and a video entitled, The Impact of World War II. Note: To view the...
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Which Fish Where?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Here is a activity outline that prompts elementary students to graph and analyze data regarding fish caught along the Hudson River. They will review vocabulary and complete 2 worksheets which can be accessed by clicking on the provided...
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Monster: Compare and Contrast

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Helpful for a unit on Walter Dean Myers' Monster, or any novel that you are teaching, a graphic organizer prompts learners to compare and contrast different character traits. The first box has one set of lines to jot down what two...
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You Are What You Eat: Chemical Residues and Consumers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine how evidence gained from a simulated test for the presence of pesticide residues can be used to determine risk. They use peas to simulate pesticide residue testing.
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How to Think Like a Scientist

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study the scientific method and understand how to apply it.  In this "thinking like a scientist" lesson students complete several activities.
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A Tooth for a Tooth

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners classify mammals as carnivores or herbivores. They look at a set of pictures of animal skulls, observing the shape and size of the teeth, and identify herbivores and carnivores.
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College Survival Vocabulary Bingo

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
COA? EFC? FAFSA? These terms and more are part of a list of terminology essential for college survival used in a Bingo game. The Bingo template is provided, as is an extensive of terms and their definitions.
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Osmosis Demonstration Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Even though they were written for upper-level high schoolers or college pupils, the labs herein are possible to use even in middle school. In the activity, kids observe osmosis in both potatoes and elodea plants, then record and graph...
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Scientific Problem Solving

For Students 5th - 12th
In this problem solving worksheet, students will conduct an experiment to answer this question: "How does watching too much television affect us?" Students will form a hypothesis, collect data, analyze their data, and draw a conclusion....
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Applying Proportionality in Scale Drawings

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine a blue print and discuss the reasoning behind using blue prints. In this proportionality lesson,  students collaborate with their teammates to create a scale drawing. Once that is complete, 6th graders write a...
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Respect--The Data: A Closer Look

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the steps in the scientific method process. In this science lesson plan, students identify warning signs that someone is in an abusive dating relationship. They evaluate the credibility of information sources.
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Backyard Critters

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the characteristics of invertebrates in their backyards. They observe, describe, and classify specimens. They conclude with a "snail race."
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Oil and its Everyday Uses

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Explore the properties of oil through an experiment. They use the scientific process to investigate oil, participate in experiments, watch videos,and use information from the internet to determine how oil has changed our...
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Sound Waves

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore sound. In this "sound" science lesson plan, students define sound and explain how sound travels. Students experiment with paper cups and string to conclude how sound travels. Students research a chosen aspect of sound...
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Solve a Mystery

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use text clues to solve mysteries. In this text clue/mystery solving lesson, 4th graders access a teacher assigned web site, Cyberkids.com, where they solve a mystery. They read chapters of, Encyclopedia Brown, and work...

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