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Where Are All the Fish?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify the problems that marine life is facing today. In this marine science lesson, students explain how Marine Protected Areas can help the ocean and the fish. They brainstorm ways to help in the conservation effort.
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The Naked Truth?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this the naked truth activity, students, with a partner, complete eleven sentences with words from a word band associated with being naked, match up four nudity jokes with their appropriate punchlines and have a conversation over nine...
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Weather and Oceans: Uneven Heating of the Earth

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate what causes the heat on Earth.  In this Earth heating lesson plan, students experiment with different heat sources and determine where the Earth gathers the most heat.  Students explore vocabulary words...
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The Nature of Haiku Poetry

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students brainstorm elements of nature art prints and photos. They identify the syllable count of Haiku and take a nature walk. They write Haiku poems while practicing the use of simile, alliteration, metaphor, and analogy to describe...
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The Future Continuous Form

For Students 5th - 6th
In this future continuous worksheet, students fill in blanks with given verbs, using the future continuous tense. Students then write their own examples. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Guess and Test/Make a Table

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore problem solving strategies.  In this middle school mathematics lesson, students investigate the guess and test and make a table problem solving strategies.  Students work in pairs to apply the problem solving...
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The Future Continuous

For Students 6th - 8th
In this verb tenses activity, learners read the statements and fill in the missing words with a verb in future continuous tense. Students complete 15 exercises.
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You Be the Judge

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore nonfiction writing by completing a worksheet in class. In this research questions lesson, students read several stories about the Wild West icons Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok. Students answer study questions about the...
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Creatures From the Black Lagoon

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders make observations at a beach zone, bayou, pond, lake or drainage ditch, or other wetland.
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Weather and the D-Day Invasion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the weather that occurred during the invasion of Normandy. They research using the Internet to locate information about the invasion and the meteorologists who helped during the war effort. They
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I'm Good vs. I'm Well

For Students 5th - 10th
How are you? Good? Well? Help your class figure out how to answer that question using proper grammar with the activity included here. You will need to teach a brief lesson before sending your pupils off to fill in each blank with either...
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Fish Communities in the Hudson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use tables of fish collection data to draw conclusions about where fish live in the Hudson Estuary. Given available data they interpret organized observations and measurements and recognize simple patterns, sequences, and...
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Story Quilts

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars listen to Tar Beach, by Faith Ringgold, and create story quilts.
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Quiz--Conditional #4

For Students 4th - 5th
For this completing sentences worksheet, students complete 17 sentences by filling in 26 blanks with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses.
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Visions of Pigs

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine the importance of silent reading before practicing the technique of visualization. They listen while the teacher leads they through a visualization exercise in which they imagine they are at the beach. Next, they...
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Launching Rockets

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss experiences of watching a rocket launch either on television or in person before making paper rockets. They make and color rockets which they attempt to launch using a strong breath blown through a straw at the...
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The Oil Spill Quiz

For Students 4th - 8th
In this oil spill quiz learning exercise, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions in order to examine their knowledge of oil spills and their effects.
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Can You See It?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice visualizing elements from a story. While reading the poem "One Inch Tall" aloud, the instructor models what they see as they read the passage. Students draw a picture of a scene from the story "Everything on a...
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How Balanced Are You?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Help young learners look at energy in and energy out. Discuss how different activities may require different amounts of energy in. Use the included worksheet to have them write or draw pictures of what they ate in one day and what...
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Beach Life: Clam Dissection

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate clams. In this clam life lesson, students conduct an experiment where they dissect clams. Students compare anatomies of humans and clams. 
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Seasons--Winter

For Students 3rd - 4th
This well-designed seasons worksheet has students look at 33 words, circle the words that are associated with winter, and complete 8 sentences by circling the multiple choice words that completes each sentence correctly. Students...
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Health Education: An Integrated Approach

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders advocate to others the dangers associated with excessive sun exposure. In this health lesson plan, 2nd graders participate in an experiment in order to identify methods for protecting themselves from the sun.
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Dell House Dig

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students experience an archaeological dig exploring off the shore of Black Hawk Island and Wisconsin River. They study in the same place where the infamous Dell House once stood. Dell House and its historical significance is reviewed...
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Fortunately....Unfortunately

For Students 4th - 8th
For this essay worksheet, students write an essay about a situation that happened where they can use the phrases fortunately and unfortunately. Students write a 1 page essay.