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Verbs: Present Time

For Students 4th - 5th
In this verb forms activity, students practice using the simple present and the present progressive forms of verbs. Students complete twelve sentences with the correct form of the verb.
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Build a battery holder

For Students 4th - 8th
In this battery holder worksheet, students follow directions on how to use a toilet paper tube, foil, wires, and more to build a battery holder. Students follow 8 sets of directions.
Interactive
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English Exercises: Conjunctions

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this online interactive English activity, learners respond to 31 fill in the blank and multiple choice questions that require them to use conjunctions appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Air Pressure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify air pressure and how it affects objects. # Show the students a bottle that has a mouth that is too small for an egg to pass through. Set a piece of paper on fire and drop it into the bottle. Place one hard boiled egg...
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Air Movement

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students observe a series of teacher-led demonstrations about air movement. They explain the existence and movement of air, then list 3 things that they have learned about air. Finally, students go outside and shoot off air cannons.
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Homeostasis

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students explore homeostasis and identify it in work in an organism. They brainstorm things that stay the same and participate in several demonstrations that illustrate homeostasis. Students predict baseline breathing and jumping jacks
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Make a Bouncy Custard Ball

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science experiment activity, students mix borax, custard powder (pudding mix?), glue and water to make a bouncy ball. Students carry out bouncing and stretching investigations.
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AIR PRESSURE

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders identify air pressure and how it affects objects. They experiment with one hard boiled egg in a bottle and the affects of air pressure on the egg.
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Biomechanics of Joints

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the range of motion of your knee, wrist and shoulder and observe that these body parts act like different types of mechanical joints.
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How Does It Move?

For Teachers K
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus. They attempt to sing the song again, but change it for a tractor. They watch the book, A Visit With Grandma, through a projector, LCD panel, or big screen television and develop their...
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Candy Quakes

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders, using a candy bar, gum, and Twizzlers, demonstrate the effects of deformational forces on the earth's crust. They examine the processes of rock and fossil formation.
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Earthquake!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study causes, probability and location of earthquakes. They complete a number of activities and look at web pages to examine the characteristics of earthquakes.
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Locate-a-quake

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Student, use seismic readings of the same earthquake from three recording stations and locate the epicenter of an earthquake on a map.
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Gross Motor Development

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a game reflecting the solar system, stars, and rockets. They simulate how space invaders move and hit stars and rockets. They discuss how scientists study the stars and planets.
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Soccer

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine and practice the proper techniques for dribbling a soccer ball around four cones. They show both speed proficiency and ball control. They complete a warm up activity before becoming active in the soccer activities....
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Respiratory Attack Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experiment with the alveoli by showing how nicotine, tar and carbon dioxide can affect the lungs. They role play being nicotine, carbon dioxide, tar, alveoli and cough.
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Plop! Plop! Fizz! Fizz!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study physical and chemical weathering. They explain how the processes of weathering and erosion change and move materials that become soil. They create a K-W-L chart to show what they know and list what else they would...
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From Bolls to Bolts

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders understand the importance of cotton in America. In this cotton lesson, 5th graders view a video on cotton from plant to market. Students examine cotton bolls and participate in other activities around the growing of cotton.
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Chinese Immigration in the Mid-19th Century

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students interpret historical evidence presented in primary and secondary resources. In this Chinese immigration lesson, students research the Chinese immigration between 1850 and 1882.
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Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan- Math

For Teachers K - 1st
Students perform locomotor movement.  In this locomotor skills lesson, students practice running, hopping, skipping, and walking then form themselves into groups based on a number called out.  Students identify if more or less...
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Immigrants to Kansas: Why Did They Come

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners explore U.S. History by researching Kansas. In this immigration lesson, students discuss the benefits of immigrating to a state like Kansas in the 1800's while writing their thoughts and research in a reporter's notebook....
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How Do You Move Along the Earth?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students determine their own walking and running velocity. In this physics lesson, students calculate velocity using distance and time information. They compare human and animal speeds.
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Happy Lesson: The Earth's Crust

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This PowerPoint provides a multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank format for reviewing vocabulary and related content following an "earth's crust" science unit. The information is concise and age-appropriate and the font and colors are...
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Magnets

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore the different types of magnets and their common uses.  In this magnets lesson plan students create their own magnets.