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To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study pictures of space vehicles and make their own space vehicle. For this space vehicle lesson, students study pictures of the vehicles and compare and contrast the pictures. Students classify the space crafts and then create...
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Garbage Pizza

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the concept of waste management. In this recycling lesson, 4th graders identify materials that must be landfilled as well as items that may be recycled or reused.
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Sun and Moon Poetry Baskets

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students write Sun and Moon poetry. In this poetry lesson, students research the sun and the moon.  They write poetry and create two class baskets for descriptive words about each.
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Windowsill Gardening: Food From Sunlight

For Students 4th - 5th
In this windowsill gardening food from sunlight worksheet, students research photosynthesis, write about it, observe and record sunlight at home as it relates to the needs of a plant.
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Botany: How does the rice plant grow in water?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read about how rice grows in water and make a rainstick when they are done. In this rice lesson plan, 2nd graders make a rain stick out of rice, posterboard, scissors, glue, and a cardboard tube.
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Experiments with Photovoltaic Cells

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain how sunlight is converted to electricity. In this series of physics lesson, students study how varying the characteristics of the light source affect photovoltaic cells. They research their different uses in other...
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Let There Be Light

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore electricity. In this electricity lesson, 5th graders experiment with open and closed circuits. Students determine how to properly connect a battery and bulb to illuminate the bulb.
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Science Test B-Grade 4

For Students 4th
In this grade 4 science test activity, 4th graders complete a 30 question multiple choice quiz covering a variety of grade 4 concepts. 
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Build a Pizza Box Solar Oven

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students build a solar oven. In this solar energy lesson, students follow directions that show them how to build a solar oven made from a pizza box that can heat up food.
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Electrolysis of Water

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the electrolysis of water by completing an experiment.  In this water lesson students will explain how hydrogen can be extracted from water and how energy flows through an electrolysis system. 
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Chemosynthesis in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students observe the development of chemosynthesis in bacterial communities.  In this bacteria lesson students explore that chemosynthesis is and how it is relevant to biological communities.
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Dive In

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers study how buoyancy, pressure, and light can effect the work of underwater scientists.  In this marine science instructional activity students complete a lab that allows them to better understand how pressure varies...
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Moldy Jell-O

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students design an experiment to determine the best conditions for molds growth. In this biology lesson, students collect data for a week and analyze their findings. They create a presentation and share them with the class.
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Metal Magic Journals

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Create beautiful Metal Magic Journals with this lesson plan. They are great for keepsakes and gifts! It is also a fun way to learn about wax and metal.
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Electricity

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders experiment to find out how to light a bulb with simple materials. They make predictions if a light bulb set-up could work and gain knowledge to tell the difference between an open and closed circuit. They also figure out...
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Rainsticks

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create a rainstick decorated with repeated patterns of shape and color, out of paper towel tubes.
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Create a Pathway

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders build and experiment with electric circuits using easily available materials. They hypothesize what may happen if a part is changed.
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What is a Watershed, Anyway?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students constrct a watershed and write about their observations. Students use maps to locate their area in relation to the watershed and inquire about what is applied to the ground above.
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Float My Boat

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, in groups, experiment with density and the displacement of water by creating and designing their own boats and seeing which boat holds the most centimeter cubes without sinking..
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Cherries Still Positive, Lemons Still Negative

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore positive and negative integers. This follows a lesson entitled, Cherries Are Positive, Lemons Are Negative and uses Cherry heads and Lemon heads.
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Designing and Floating Boats

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in an experiment to determine if a toy boat will sink or float. They make the boats out of different materials and determine its carrying capacity by adding pennies. They graph their findings on a classroom graph.
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Heat from Light

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore solar energy. For this science lesson, 2nd graders use hand lenses to see that light energy can be converted to heat energy.
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Solid Waste/Recycling

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students see that when we throw away garbage, it usually ends up in a landfill. Landfill space is getting increasingly scarce, and every time we throw something away we throw with it the energy, the money, and the raw materials it took...
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Needs Math in Life at All?

For Teachers K - 12th
Students think and talk about the ways in which they use math throughout the day. They add each way to a "math in real life" bulletin board and reflect in writing on the ways they use math.

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