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Positive Weather Reports

For Students 4th - 6th
In this weather report worksheet, learners complete a weather report on their favorite season in a group. Students observe and evaluate, complete a table for the report, and present it in a group.
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Designing a Solar Concentrator

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students design and build a solar concentrator. In this physics instructional activity, students evaluate their design and convince everyone why theirs is the best. They create a presentation and share it with the class.
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What's Your Favorite Color?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils investigate the psychology behind color choices using two sites on the Internet. They complete a worksheet and construct an Inspiration file with the data from the charts. Then they form a hypothesis and test it using the...
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Using the Internet: Punnett Squares

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders discuss their own genetic traits. Using computers, they research the creation of Punnett Squares. They preform online experiments with peas, predicting the appearances of the offspring. They determine how genetic traits...
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Energy in a Clean Environment

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the efficiency of each alternative energy source as well as what limitations exist in terms of extracting the usable energy. They determine which energy source is most effective to the economy and the environment in the...
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Fossil Fuels vs. Alternative Fueling Systems

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders brainstorm the differences between the fossil fuels that people use in their transportation now and what they could use to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. They use a variety of techniques from webquests to writing...
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Showing the Difference between Erosion and Weathering

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore the concepts of weathering and erosion. After viewing pictures of both erosion and weathering, young scholars work in pairs to conduct an experiment with sugar cubes, water, sand, and a straw. They write their...
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The Hall of Physicist

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students study the history and scientific contributions of Albert Einstein. In this Albert Einstein lesson plan, students learn his history, research his scientific contributions, create a timeline of him and his work, and create a...
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The Beat of Your Heart

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students explore different applications involving their own heart.  In this illumination lesson students measure their fists and relate it to the dimensions of their hearts. 
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Oxidation and Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study oxidation and define vocabulary pertinent to it.  In this oxidation lesson students make predictions and create experiments
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Sock Walk (Seed Dispersal)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners collect seeds from field plants as part of understanding seed dispersal.
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ARTQUARIUM

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify different underwater creatures, explain the importance of recycling in the community, plan preliminary sketches on paper, and construct and sculpt with chosen materials to create creature in paper mache.
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Inquiring Minds Want To Know

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders conduct a scientific experiment that help them explain the concept of nature versus nurture.
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Alien Behaviors

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify human characteristics and classify them as inherited traits or learned traits.
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Water, Water Everywhere

For Teachers 1st
First graders study water-its properties, its 3 states, and the way we rely on it for everyday living. They read Water, Water Everywhere, draw murals of where they have seen water and the ways they use it and eat/drink snacks that are...
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What's Happening in My World?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students look for examples of chemical and physical changes in the world around them and complete "What's Happening in My World" worksheet.
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POP! Goes the Popcorn!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students complete a variety of activities based on examining corn and popcorn as one of the major crops of Kansas. They journal the results of the multidisciplinary activities in this unit.
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Igneous Rocks

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine igneous rocks in this lesson. They discuss the rock cycle and how rocks form. They also explore volcanic activities and build their own volcano.
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Clouds: an Internet Based Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students watch a teacher demonstration of cloud formation. They research cloud formation on the Internet to write reports that summarize the process of cloud formation.
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John Muir in California

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders listen to key events in John Muir's life and plot locations on a California map. They discover that John Muir was an immigrant to California who encountered environmental problems and found solutions.
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Air Quality

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate what is known as the Greenhouse Effect. They begin to explore what some scientist think is the nature and fundamental causes of this problem. Students are able to give suggestions for alternative causes of global...
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Four Questions Strategy Lesson

For Students 8th - 10th
In this experimental design worksheet, students use four questions to brainstorm about an experiment. The questions include the materials, the hypothesis and the independent and dependent variables.
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Cleaning Up

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students demonstrate how to be a philanthropist. In this philanthropy lesson plan, students read the story The Wartville Wizard and discuss ways to become a philanthropist. Students participate in a good deed by volunteering to clean up...
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Talking Trees

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate the ecosystem. In this environmental lesson, students read the book The Tree by Dana Lyons and list ways to save the trees. Students create a poster about saving the trees.

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