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3-D Cubes

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate cubes. For this geometric solids lesson, students review geometric concepts previously taught, then logon to a computer game in which they find cube figures and identify the shadow of hidden cubes.
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The Case of Regulation in Cells

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
After your biologists have learned about transcription, translation, and gene regulation, they work in a small group to create a poster of a system that serves as an analogy of the gene regulation process. They share their creations with...
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What Would You Do If?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the concept of how nature needs to be conserved. They examine how man has had a positive and negative impact. Students work in teams to make up scenarios with problems and then propose environmental solutions.
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Froggy Fun

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students are introduced to the concept of life cycles. They discover how many species go through their lives in a series of stages from birth or hatching to adulthood. Such stages make up the life cycle. Students investigate the life...
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Froggy Fun

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use downloadable pages to sort the stages of the frog life cycle into the correct, labelled sequence.
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Movie Books- Children's Stories

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create movie books that make their stories come alive. They share these movie books with non-readers in an attempt to inspire them.
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Spiral Symmetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Taking the notion of symmetry to the next level, this looks at combining rotation and translation symmetry to build spiral symmetry in three dimensions. Using the Zome modeling system and an instructor’s guidance, geometers try to build...
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Digital Kids Club-Painted Faces

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students use technology to blend a photo of something they like with a picture of their face. Students work with layers, saturation, selecting tools, filters, and affects. Students use Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 in order to create...
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Beetle Rearing

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students investigate plants and the effects beetles have on the plants. In small groups, they collect plants and observe the beetles as they interact with the plants. They record the conditions including temperature, cloudiness, length...
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How the Kangaroo Got Its Pouch

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students perform a play based on a legend. In this performing arts lesson, students read the legend Kangaroo Gets a Pouch and brainstorm ways to turn the story into a play. Students prepare for a short play, including costumes and...
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Making Weather-Tracking Tools

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners build tools to help track the weather. In this weather lesson, students follow directions to build a rain gauge, barometer and hair hygrometer.
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Lines of Symmetry - Mirror Dance

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders analyze how to divide space or shape into mirror sections to create lines of symmetry. In this lines of symmetry lesson, 5th graders discuss symmetry in dance, math, and living. Students participate in a dance warm-up and...
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A Walk Around the School: Mapping Places Near and Far

For Teachers K - 1st
After reading Pat Hutchins’ Rosie’s Walk, have your young cartographers create a map of Rosie’s walk. Then lead them on a walk around the school. When you return class members sequence the walk by making a list of how the class got from...
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Introduce /a/

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Start your alphabet study strong using these strategies combining pronunciation, recognition, letter sound, and word examples focused on the letter a. Scholars examine the letter shape and listen to you pronounce the /aaa/ sound. As you...
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Reintroduce /a/

For Teachers Pre-K - K
What does the letter a sound like? Scholars practice with letter sound correspondence by honing their pronunciation of the /aaa/ sound. Use these helpful tips to explain how to make this sound if needed. Then, they brainstorm...
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The Weight of Primates

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice their problem solving skills. In this addition and subtraction skills activity, 2nd graders solve word problems that require them to find differences and sums. This activity features the use of a video titled...
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Living Together as One

For Teachers 7th - 12th
The ultra-glamorous Muppet, Miss Piggy, launches a study of discrimination and ways to develop a more inclusive community.  A series of videos and activities raise awareness of discrimination and journal prompts asks participants to...
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Roadkill Museum

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students use roadside kill to use taxidermy skills, become comfortable working with animals and dissecting.
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Food Chain: what's for dinner?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify where foods came from and sequence a food chain.  In this food chain instructional activity, 4th graders define vocabulary related to food chains and order a food chain. Students follow the energy of a food...
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Classification Practice-Animals

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students use pictures of animals to make a classification system. For this classification lesson plan, students are given pictures of different animals. They create a classification system for the animals and identify what they have in...
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Putting Toxicogenomics To The Test

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students evaluate the pros and cons of a new approach to food, chemical, and drug testing. They read and discuss the Times article, 'DNA Chip May Help Usher In a New Era of Product Testing.'
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Beginning with Bosch

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore surrealism through the artwork of Hieronymus Bosch. In this surrealism lesson plan, students understand the characteristics of the art of Bosch and create an original artwork and poem to go with it.
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A Day in the Life

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars inquire about the politics and culture of Ancient Rome. In this Ancient Rome project/unit, students research life during ancient Roman times and create a newspaper with articles on politics, sports, culture, and economics.
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A is for Area, B is for Billion

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students interact with math terminology in preparation for standardized assessment. In this math terminology and online storybook lesson plan, students create their own booklets of math terms based on each letter of the alphabet. Over...

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