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Happy New Year

For Teachers K - 5th
Students play a game sing poly spots, balloons, beach balls, volleyball trainers, foam balls, and music that requires them to develop locomotor movement skills.
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Wammi Ball

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice volleyball skills and communication while in a small game-like situation.
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How Sedimentary Rocks are Formed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars investigate the stripes in sedimentary rocks, using a structure at Petra, Jordan, as an example, and then do a hands-on activity using mixed nuts to illustrate the layering of sedimentary rocks.
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Reading Comprehension

For Teachers 3rd
After listening to a story learners engage in a kinesthetic activity to answer comprehension and critical thinking questions. Finally, the students identify three main facts about the story. Extensions include a fact and opinion...
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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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Homophones Crossword Puzzle

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this crossword puzzle learning exercise, students solve a crossword puzzle by choosing the correct homophone. For example, "Mark threw/through the ball to his friend."
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Properties of Air Activity

For Students 7th - 10th
In this properties of air learning exercise, students experiment with a jar, a plastic bag and rubber bands to simulate that air takes up space and exerts pressure. They make observations and answer questions about their experiment.
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Physical Science: Gravity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the properties of force and gravity and their effects on everyday life. In groups, they test various balls by bouncing them on different surfaces and observe the properties. In another activity, they test marbles and...
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Letter Pronunciation - "b" sound

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this letter pronunciation /b/ sound learning exercise, students use pictures to identify b words and create sentences. Students complete seven activities.
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Making Sense Of A Round World On A Flat Surface

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the development of geography skills. They take part in a number of activities that center around finding and traveling to different locations. The lesson has resource links that can be...
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It's About Time

Why Air Bags?

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
If a heavy steel car can't protect you from injury, how can a bag filled with air? The lesson answers this question and many others as young scientists experiment with the impulse and forces related to air bags in automobiles. 
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Chicago Botanic Garden

Weather or Not

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
What is the difference between weather and climate? This is the focus question of a lesson that takes a deeper look at how weather data helps determine climate in a region. Using weather and climate cards, students decide if a statement...
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NOAA

Graphing Temperatures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Battle of the hemispheres? In the fourth installment of a five-part series, young oceanographers use the NOAA website to collect temperature data from drifters (buoys), one in the Northern Hemisphere and one in the Southern Hemisphere....
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Addition Workbook

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this addition worksheet, students complete addition facts with numbers 1 through 9, use a hundreds chart, complete word problems, and more. Students complete activities on 20 pages.
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ESL Kid Stuff

Seasons

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
English language learners celebrate the seasons with games, songs, and readings. 
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Volleyball Bonkers

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice aiming with the underhand hit in striking with short-handled implements to introduce them to a underhand hit in volleyball. They encounter the manipulatives of tape, hula hoops and a variety of balls to assist them with...
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Foot Volleyball

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers work together as a team and promote ball control with the feet. The game also reinforces basic volleyball rules.
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Character Traits

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the story elements in stories. In this story element lesson, 1st graders read The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter and they identify the characters, character traits, setting, problem, and solution. They...
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A Little Alliteration

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration in poetry by completing various activities. In this language arts lesson, 2nd graders practice recognizing alliteration and then create their own poem using alliteration.
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A Relatively Far Out Idea: Estimating

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate methods of estimating through cooperative group activities, hands-on activities, the use of tables and graphs and an interactive video.
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Volleyball Lesson

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore their physical abilities by participating in a sport. In this volleyball lesson, students discover the different techniques and skills needed to play volleyball by moving from different stations with small groups....
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There, Their, and They're

For Students 6th - 7th
In this word usage instructional activity, students review example sentences for the correct usage of there/their/they're. Students complete 3 activities to help them identify the correct word usage.
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Vocabulary Exercise

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students fill in the blanks, group items into categories, match objects to definitions, and more. Students complete 5 activities total.
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NASA

Write the Book on Weather Metrics

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
It's not easy to measure the weather. Pupils learn about what all weather has in common—the atmosphere. Scholars discover how a meteorologists must be able to measure aspects of the atmosphere and decipher the data. They then create a...