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Soil Pictures and Mud Puddles: Spring is Here!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
You can take creative advantage of a season that offers soil in various forms, and inspiration for art lessons.
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Predicting the Greening of Spring With Red Emperor Tulips

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners examine seasonal changes by watching tulip plant growth across the continent utilizing the Journey North website. They develop hypotheses as to why the plants emerge and grow where they do.
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Spring Lesson Unit on Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students read about Peter Rabbit. In this activity, about reading and comprehension, students listen to the story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter. Students answer questions about the story to determine comprehension....
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Water Safety: Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Two lessons remind scholars of the importance of water safety.  In the first lesson, pupils create posters highlighting three safety rules for a pool, beach, pond, or lake. The second lesson challenges partners to roleplay water...
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Some Early Spring Flowers

For Students K - 1st
For this counting flowers worksheet, students cut out five different bouquets of flowers, count how many flowers are in each bouquet and then place each bouquet in the appropriate numbered vase.
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Water Pressure Experiments

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars perform experiments measuring water pressure. They record their observations after poking holes in plastic bottles filled with water with the lids on and then off. They discover the role gravity plays in the water flow.
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Pretty Posy Picture Holder

For Students 5th - 6th
In this art project instruction sheet instructional activity, students read the directions on how to make a picture frame holder in the shape of a flower. There are 8 steps, with a photograph included.
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Spring Math Word Problems

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Learners solve two word problems, one addition and one subtraction. They read each problem, determine what is being asked, then draw pictures to help them solve. This would work well as a warm up, concept review, or challenge for early...
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Spring Harvest

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is interested in the foods related to the season of Spring. They conduct research using a variety of resources while creating menus to match the regions of The United States. Students create food items...
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Spring Handwriting Worksheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this handwriting practice instructional activity, students look at pictures of things that represent spring, then trace the name of the item, 4 total.
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Printing Practice: "Spring is Here"

For Students K - 1st
In this printing practice activity, students practice tracing and write the phrase, "Spring is Here," then color a picture of the word spring. Page has links to additional activities.
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Law of Conservation of Momentum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A suggested sequence of events lays out five hands-on activities and four creative assessments on the conservation of momentum. Using spring scales and mail scales, junior physicists examine Newton's Third Law. After you have taught the...
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Qualitative Aspects of Rotational Dynamics

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Explanations for six different physics lab activities and five suggested assessments are contained in this resource by the National Science Teachers Association. Any combination can be used to open learners' eyes to rotational motion....
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Hooke's Law, Vibrations, Mechanical Waves, and Sound

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Dangle a spring to experiment with vibration and discover if period is dependent on amplitude. Strum a guitar and adjust the strings to compare displacement and sound. Use a Slinky® and guitar strings on a ring stand to uncover the...
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El Examen de A.P.

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Are your students preparing to take the Spanish AP test in the Spring? Use this helpful PowerPoint that outlines everything they should expect and prepare on the exam. Note: This was created in 1997; some information may be outdated....
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Easter Activity Book for Young Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Designed especially for parents, home schoolers, and kindergarten teachers, this holiday-themed activity book includes colorful templates for games, tracing and writing practice activities, flashcards of sight words, exercises using...
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Unit 1: Building Historical Background Knowledge: The Road to Revolution 1754–1776

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What were the conditions that led to the American Revolution? What are the conditions that lead to revolution in other times and places? Class members examine primary source materials and use evidence drawn from these documents to craft...
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My Antonia: Guided Imagery

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Willa Cather's novel My Antonia is full of vivid imagery. Encourage your pupils to visualize and translate images from the text into original writing with this guided imagery activity. Learners listen to an excerpt, take a moment to...
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San Francisco Symphony

Going West

For Teachers K - 2nd
Now this sounds like a fun lesson! Youngsters learn about pioneer life and the Westward Movement. First, they listen to the Copland's "Appalachian Spring," and then they discuss the elements of music found in the piece. They...
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Conservation in Small Places - Composting

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
A fabulous lesson plan introduces the art of composting to your gardeners. In it, youngsters learn about the composting process and how it actually works. They discuss the environmental benefits of composting, and use the "lasagna"...
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Second Semester's Biggest Struggle: Motivation

For Teachers 6th - 10th
How to induce teenagers to stay engaged and learning despite the arrival of spring.
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Celebrate the Beauty of Wildlife

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Take advantage pupils' spring fever by learning about trees and wildlife.
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You are the Queen

For Students 6th - 12th
A day in the life of a wasp queen is not as royal as it may sound. Pupils assume the role of the wasp queen to complete an interactive activity that simulates building a colony. They make decisions along the way and note the changes from...
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Discover and Celebrate the Chinese New Year

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Spring into Chinese New Year with a look at the history, food, and traditions associated with this holiday.

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