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Owl Pellets

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students dissect owl pellets, and compare, identify and record rodent skeletal parts. They compare rodent skeletal diagrams to human skeletal diagrams.
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Food Labels in the Classroom

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students study the nutritional information on food labels and become familiar with the basic dietary needs of the human body. They write letters to food companies.
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Crashed on the Moon

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars compare and contrast the environments of the moon and the earth. They discover how the differences might change one's daily activities.
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Transpiration

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils explain the function of the hydrologic cycle and demonstrate how transpiration rates can be experimentally changed.
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Using Imagery To Introduce the Endocrine System

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners listen with closed eyes to a story that starts in a relaxed tone and ends in a scream. They list the body reactions they experience: fast heart rate, shaking, etc. and hypothesize the reason for the reactions. They explore the...
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Our Environment

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine the world's environmental dilemmas and create project depicting how to improve the environment. They study ten endangered species.
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Flying Objects

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners make a flying wheel and measure its flight.
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Everybody Needs a Rock

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students describe and classify rocks that they have chosen. They estimate and find the mass of their rocks.
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Matter and Heat

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils examine how heating causes substances to expand, and cooling cause it to contract. They investigate the states of matter.
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Bubble-ology

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students observe the visible spectrum while observing light hitting the surface of bubbles. They blow large bubbles and observe how the colors change.
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St. Patrick's Day Snack

For Teachers 1st
First graders decide on and prepare a nutritious snack that is green.
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Bringing the Solar System to Life

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students make models of the planets and use the models to show revolution of the planets around the sun. They explain the rotation of the planets after demonstrating with balloons.
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Color Mixing

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students experiment with primary colored water to mix new colors. They record new colors on a simple data sheet and share opinions on their work.
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Mixtures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe that movement of a solute in the solvent increases the rate of dissolution. They demonstrate that when the solute is broken into smaller pieces it dissolves faster.
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Color My World

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders experiment mixing primary colors to form other colors using frosting.
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Environmental Fair

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars find a piece of trash and make a useful item out of it. They show awareness of the environmental concerns of the earth.
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Animals

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students become familiar with the need for categorizing scientific information, in this case, animals. They categorize the 5 groups of animals in a collage and answer questions about each.
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Structure of Matter

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, in groups, distinguish between mixtures, solutions and suspensions.
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Crystal Growing

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Students grow crystals and document their observations by recording timeing and growth. Additional characteristics of crystals are observed under a black light, by growing under different conditions and mineral content is determined.
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Animals

For Teachers K
Pupils demonstrate and understanding of animal coverings and types of movement through drawings, making of booklets and categorization activities.
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All About Me: My Senses

For Teachers K
Students describe the basic senses and then use their senses to describe what they learned.
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Introduction of Restrictions on Freedom of Speech

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the limits of the Bill of Rights. The student and teacher roll play a situation where speech is limited.
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Political Polls

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore politcical polling by conducting a poll of student body elections. They prepare a survey, distribute forms, and tabulate data.
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Entrepreneur

For Teachers 10th - 12th
The students, in groups of four, establish a profitable business in the community. They complete research and conduct presentations.

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