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Determining the Age of Fossils

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the concept of radioactive dating. In this radioactive dating lesson, students investigate how to determine the ages of fossils and rocks as they learn about half-life radioactive decay.
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Pre-K Appetizer

For Teachers Pre-K
Students understand there are healthy and not healthy food choices. In this food pyramid lesson, students learn to make healthy choices by playing a traffic light game. Students recognize raw foods from the farm may not be ready for...
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Super K Buffet: Lesson for Kindergarten

For Teachers K
Students determine healthy food choices. In this healthy food choice lesson, students study food vocabulary and complete a worksheet about making good choices. They put together a dinner plate that shows a complete meal using a foam...
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Three Reasons

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify healthy foods in each group of the food pyramid. In this nutrition lesson, 3rd graders take notes on the food pyramid by visiting the website, www.mypyramid.gov. Students design a healthy menu for an imaginary bistro.
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First Place Foods

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify healthy foods. In this nutrition lesson plan, 1st graders create a Venn diagram to compare and contrast healthy foods. Students place foods in the proper circle.
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Now We Teach Six Rs

For Teachers K - 4th
Pupils explore recycling.  In this ecology instructional activity, students sort classroom garbage into items that can be reused, reduced, or recycled.  Pupils brainstorm ideas for reusing items and discuss ways to celebrate...
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Cranes, Crosswalks, and Big Gulps

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students watch a video and answer questions based on wildlife jobs. In this wildlife lesson plan, students learn that biologists don't just play with animals but that there is a lot of study involved.
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Tuesday Tours: Communication

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore communication skills. In this career traits instructional activity, students are introduced to Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis Model of Communication. Students discuss the impact of verbal and nonverbal communication...
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Gandhi's Autobiography and the Study of Memoir

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the life of Gandhi using his autobiography and memoir. In this Gandhi exploration instructional activity, 7th graders analyze Gandhi's literary voice by reading his autobiography. Students identify literary...
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Ancient Greece Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore ancient Greece. In this ancient civilizations activity, students use their Big 6 research skills to complete a Web-Quest about famous people of ancient Greece. Students use their findings to create PowerPoint...
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Internet against Insomnia

For Students 4th - 8th
In this internet against insomnia worksheet, learners read a passage about the internet, answer true and false questions, and find vocabulary words. Students complete 22 problems total.
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Who Eats Whom in the Open Ocean?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners examine how organisms interact with one another in the ocean. In this science activity, students discuss predators and prey in the ocean. Learners discuss food webs and how organisms interact with each other.
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Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the components of a balanced diet and practice making healthy diet choices. They discuss health-enhancing choices. Students investigate the food pyramid and how to use it to make educated menu decisions. They...
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The 3 Bees

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars review what the three bees are: respect, responsibility and safety. Individually, they use the internet to complete a webquest to examine how to be respectful to others and be responsible for their actions. To end the...
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Birds of Wisconsin

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the job done by ornithologists. They role play identifying the characteristics that make a bird a bird. They discuss what makes each bird species unique. Students are introduced to Wisconsin's most common and rare...
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Teaching the Perfectionist

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Understanding the perfectionist can help teachers and students work together successfully.
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Saturday Fun Machine

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine and discuss what they like to do in their leisure time. They identify various activities, compare them to other students' activities, and draw a picture of their favorite things to do on a Saturday.
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More About Me

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore what they like to do, their interests, and their aptitudes.
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We're All O.K.

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders analyze how people are different.
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Pledge of Excellence

For Teachers 1st
First graders discuss their prior knowledge of The Golden Rule and compare it to their school's Pledge of Excellence. They discuss the five parts to the pledge and discuss how to be a caring friend, how to do their personal best, how to...
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Autobiography: Storytelling

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate using computers to write an autobiography over an extended period of time. They use the Kidpix computer software to practice the writing process. As an extension to the instructional activity students can take...
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Take Five

For Teachers K - 5th
Students transition from one activity to the other in a quiet and sequential manner. students should have a clear understanding of what the freeze/stop/halt signal means.
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Dolphin Brains

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students listen to an interview with Lori Marino regarding the development of dolphin brains and read a summarizing text. They conduct further research and participate in class discussion.
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Whodunit?

For Teachers 1st
First graders choose a community member, show how to resolve a conflict, and trade writing with a classmate. They match symbols that might represent the community members they have chosen.

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