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Earthquake Science Project
Students simulate the Earth's plates moving like an earthquake by using newspaper and soil. In this earthquake lesson plan, students push and pull the newspaper together that has soil on top and observe what happens.
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Writing in Math Class
Students brainstorm and discuss ways math is all around them, explain in writing how they solve math problems, describe mathematical ideas in writing, and create original story problems.
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Nutrients for Plants and People: Gardening for Good Health
In this food pyramid worksheet, students read about each food group in the food pyramid, and then write examples for each one. Students write 6 groups and 6 examples.
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It's Sugar Time!
Fifth graders examine how good health depends upon many things, including heredity, lifestyle, personality traits, mental health, attitudes, and the environment.
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What is Sound?
Second graders discuss sound and describe them. In this investigative lesson plan students observe sound through their eyes, bodies and ears.
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Eggs-tra Special Sounds
Students explore different sounds. In this sound instructional activity, students participate in an egg hunt. The eggs are filled with different materials and hid around the room. Students find the eggs and chart the different sounds...
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Organize Your Favorites (Food)
In this healthy foods worksheet, students organize the names nutrient-rich foods into categories. Students also read passages about nutrition and respond to three short-answer questions.
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Science Quiz: Plants
In this science quiz: plants worksheet, students answer 10 questions about botany trivia, then scroll down to check their answers.
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Teach With Picture Books: One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale
Author provides a summary, discussion questions, background information, pre-reading and after-reading questions, as well as extension ideas for math and language arts for the folk tale from India, One Grain of Rice.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: One Grain of Rice
A lesson plan to use with the book One Grain of Rice by Demi including an activity sheet to help young scholars work the math Rani used to trick the raja into giving rice to the village.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: One Grain of Rice Mathematical Project
This is the mathematical tale about Raja, one grain of rice, and how quickly it grows. It includes a mathematical project using a spreadsheet to examine exponential growth and a calculus-based extension that explores area under a curve.
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Rice Romp: Place Value Lesson Plan
Take a look at the mathematics involved in the story "One Grain of Rice". Included is a lesson plan, geared toward 2nd-grade math learners, about place value. A link to a quiz on the story is included.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Find a Pattern Using Children's Literature
Students use the problem-solving strategy of "find a pattern" to predict the number of grains of rice Rani (from the book, One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale by Demi) will receive after 30 days. Students use a spreadsheet to...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Sissa's Reward
On this one page website use a table to help you solve this problem about the chess board and grains of rice. The solution is available right on the website.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Food for Thought: Bread, Cereal, Rice, and Pasta
In addition to explaining the nutritional value of foods in the "Bread, cereal, rice, and pasta," group, this website includes information on serving size and book resources on foods in the bread group. Also included is a recipe for...
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Grain of Rice Abstract Painting Lynne Frehm
Contains a definition of Abstract Expressionism, some of the artists involved in the movement, and what they were trying to achieve.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Nyakyusa and Ngonde
The Nyakyusa of southwestern Tanzania are known from missionary and traveler's records since the beginning of European contact with the East African interior in the 1870s. The Nyakyusa are especially noted for their system of "age...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Hausa
The Hausa constitute the largest ethnic group in West Africa. The term "Hausa" actually refers to the language and, by extension, to its native speakers, of whom there are about 25 million. Agriculture is the main economic activity....
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Science Kids: Science Images: Rice Plant Diagram
This rice plant diagram illustrates the important parts of the plant Oryza sativa. Rice is the seed of this plant and is a very important grain that has high levels of worldwide production.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Plants of Asia, 1906
A pictorial map from 1906 illustrating the principle plants found in various regions of Asia. The map shows tea in the east and southeast of Asia and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), rice in the wet lands of the southeast, cotton, wheat, millet, and...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: South China, 1971
"South China comprises the drainage basins of the middle and lower Yangtze River, the basin of the His Chiang (West River) in Kwangtung and Kwangsi; and the mountainous coastal provinces of Fukien and Chekiang. The division between the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Vegetation in Europe, 1898
A map showing Vegetation in Europe as of 1898. "The great agricultural regions are (1) the northern lowland from the Atlantic eastward through southern Russia, and (2) the broad fertile valleys of the Danube, the Po, the Rhone, and the...