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Exploratorium

Seeing Your Retina

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Using a dimmed flashlight, life science learners can see the network of blood vessels that line the back of their eye. Darken the room and let them try this activity as part of your unit on the eyeball. Also consider some of the other...
Activity
Exploratorium

Seeing Your Blind Spot

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Viewers use a small, dimmed flashlight to identify the blind spot for both the right and left eye. It is a simple activity to incorporate into your activities during a lesson on vision and the structure and function of the eyeball.
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Rainforest Alliance

A Rainforest Taste Test

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Take a taste test and chart pupils' favorites with a delicious fruit salad made up of fruit found in the rainforest. Still hungry? Snack on the rainforest inspired trail mix using a recipe of dried fruit and nuts. 
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Terry Kawas

One Hundred Shoes

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Practice counting and patterns in one fun activity! After discussing the word cent and what it means, kids count the number of body parts on the centimeter and add two legs to each. They then determine if there is a faster way to...
Activity
Macmillan Education

Happy 40th Birthday Brown Bear

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
What do you see? Wish a happy birthday to Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle's Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? The lesson includes six extension activities for the books and its companion stories, including a maze and...
Lesson Plan
University of Minnesota

Motor Learning and Memory

For Teachers 4th - 12th
What do our brains have to do with reaction timing? Everything! In a hands-on learning activity, young scientists participate in four card activities that measure reaction timing. Each activity gets progressively more complex, and...
Handout
Nosapo

Writing about a Meal

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
You don't need to be a food critic to describe your meal accurately! A series of activities introduce learners to vivid adjectives when writing about the taste, smell, and feel of food. After working with word choice, parts of a...
Worksheet
Curated OER

A-Mazing Facts

For Students 3rd
In this skip-counting by sevens worksheet, 3rd graders help a mouse find its way through a maze. Students utilize multiplication to find a path where the product is a multiple of seven.
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Curated OER

Mental Addition and Subtraction

For Teachers 5th
Students play the online game ArithmAttack to practice mental math skills. They play the game to as many additions or subtractions as possible in sixty seconds. Afterward, they complete a paper based follow up exercise.
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Investigating Our Place in the World

For Teachers K
Students study the concept of geography in a year long unit. In this geography unit, students participate in different activities that explain the spatial sense of the world, the physical landmasses and bodies of water, geographic...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Working With Words: Configuration Station

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this words activity, students complete a variety of worksheets dealing with words and including a configuration station, missing words, sentence sense, words word search, rhyme time and putting words in alphabetical order. Students...
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Curated OER

Working With Words

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this words worksheet, students complete a variety of worksheets involving configuring 11 words, completing sentences with 10 words, writing 4 words in complete sentences and locate and circle 14 words in a word search puzzle. Students...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Hidden Sums

For Students 1st
In this finding the sums 7 and 8 worksheet, 1st graders look over two boxes of numbers, find the sums of 7 and 8 in each one and circle pairs of numbers that make each sum.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Mountain Math Worksheet

For Students 5th
In this number sense worksheet, 5th graders solve 37 problems based on a given number. Students are asked to round the number, identify the number as even or odd and add 100 to the number.
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Curated OER

Writing Numbers With Song

For Teachers K
Students study the numerals from one through five. In this number sense lesson, students sing a number song and practice drawing the numerals on the chalkboard. Students use their bodies to make the shapes of the numbers.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Compare Numbers to 100,000 (E)

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this comparing five-digit numbers worksheet, students observe pairs of numbers to one hundred thousand, compare them, and write the symbols for greater than, less than, or equal to. Students solve 45 problems.
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Curated OER

Compare Numbers to 100,000 (C)

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this comparing five-digit numbers worksheet, students observe pairs of numbers to one hundred thousand, compare them, and write the symbols for greater than, less than, or equal to. Students solve 45 problems.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Compare Numbers to 100,000 (G)

For Students 4th - 5th
In this comparing five-digit numbers worksheet, students observe pairs of numbers to one hundred thousand, compare them, and write the symbols for greater than, less than, or equal to. Students solve 45 problems.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Physics of Sound: How We Produce Sounds

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars are introduced to how they produce sounds. In groups, they participate in experiments in which they measure sound and identify their five senses. Individually, they make their own musical instruments using different...
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Curated OER

Look Up!

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students investigate the sky.  In this weather and clouds lesson, students observe the sky and write journal entries using their five senses to describe what they see.  Students observe, identify, and write about the different...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dolphins

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore sea life. In this cross curriculum fine arts, science, and P.E. "dolphins" lesson, students sing songs and play games about dolphins, perform water experiments, create mosaics, and use their five senses to explore sand...
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Curated OER

Hidden Objects

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders feel objects hidden in paper bag, and describe how they feel, smell, sound and/or taste.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Feel Your Way!

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners investigate the sense of touch as they examine the texture of items in the classroom and from their homes. They watch a computer based video about the senses and draw items that are rough, smooth, soft, and hard.
Organizer
Curated OER

Reacting to the Environment

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this environment worksheet, students read 3 statements about animals and plants sensing something in their surroundings. Students write in how the plant or animal reacts to what it senses. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.

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