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Vocabulary: Matching Exercise VII

For Students 8th - 12th
In this online interactive vocabulary instructional activity, students respond to 15 matching questions regarding vocabulary words. Students may check their answers immediately.
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Compound Sentence

For Students 6th - 10th
In this sentence structure worksheet, students review a definition and examples of compound sentences prior to responding to 10 questions that require them to label the parts of compound sentences.
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A Lucky Break

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students complete activities where they identify and decipher common phrases that are related to poultry and then cook drumsticks as a class. In this poultry lesson plan, students also read the history of the chicken and create idioms.
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Hominid Diet

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students listen to an interview with Lucinda Backwell regarding fossil evidence that early hominids included termites in their diets. They participate in a discussion to investigate the significance of these findings.
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Fossils

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars act as paleontologists to discover who a mystery guest to the classroom was. They do not know the identity of the guest but infer the identity from items left behind in the classroom. They make inferences from dinosaur...
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Dinosaur Trek

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate dinosaurs. They explore various websites, submit questions to a paleontologist online, construct cut and paste model dinosaur skeletons, develop a graph to compare dinosaurs, and label pictures from online...
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Amphibians-Frog Dissection

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils compare the anatomy of a fish to an amphibian and that of an amphibian (frog) to a human. They complete a virtual frog dissection to gain some experience prior to the real dissection.
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What We Know About Dinosaurs?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders determine what can and cannot be learned from fossils. In this fossils lesson, 3rd graders discuss what can and cannot be learned from fossils, then students create and observe their fossils.
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Health: Basic Minerals

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine minerals as food nutrients and discover their importance as food sources in the diet. Among the learning options are completing worksheets, creating recipes, making billboards, and actually preparing some recipes rich...
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Discovering Owls

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students are introduced to different types of owls and owl pellets. They list several adaptations that benefit the owls. Students identify the various species of owl that live in Wisconsin. Students discuss owl pellets and identify the...
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Barn Owl Pellet Lab

For Students 9th - 12th
In this lab worksheet, students dissect a barn owl pellet then identify the different small animals found in the owl pellet. Using class data they calculate percentage present as well as complete 8 post lab questions.
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Connecting School Meals to Classroom Learning

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine the impact of dairy nutrients. In this nutrition activity, students participate in interactive activities that require them to consider how much calcium their bodies need. Students also visit the school cafeteria and...
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A Tale of Two Field Trips

For Students 4th - 6th
In this museum worksheet, students read about visiting a museum and a virtual museum and answer multiple choice questions about them. Students complete 3 questions.
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Digging Into Science: Final Analysis

For Students 5th - 8th
In this archeological excavation worksheet, students complete 9 short answer questions based on a simulated archeological activity they performed in a small group.
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Out and About: King Arthur

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Young scholars explore the legend of King Arthur. In this folklore lesson, students visit King Arthur's Great Halls, King Arthur's Labyrinth, and Glastonbury Abbey online or in person to discover details about the...
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Jumpy Dolls

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are challenged to design and construct a jointed figure that moves in a motion something like jumping jacks when a string is pulled.
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'Dinosaur Day'

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students view a concrete example of the size of assorted dinosaurs.
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Can You Find...on the "Progression of Life" Poster?

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students examine and analyze a poster that presents various types of animals throughout the ages. They determine biological classification with fossils and earth history in a game.
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Body Percussion: Hambone

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore body percussion. They practice playing quarter notes and eighth notes separately, then quarter and eighth notes at the same time by different groups. They practice this exercise at different tempos.
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One of These Things is Not Like the Other

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine sets of four or five organisms and determine which organism in each set doesn't "belong", and determine a variety of characteristics that explain why it doesn't belong.
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Who? Who? Whoooooooo?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read Poppy by Avi and then dissect an owl pellet. They complete a KWL chart and play vocabulary games to prepare for the dissection. They examine what the pellet can tell us about the owl's life.
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It's Raining Idioms!

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders analyze idioms and find examples from literature. They choose one idiom and finds pictures or draws pictures to show what it would mean if taken literally and what is it generally thought to mean.
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Owls and Raptors

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars dissect an owl pellet and identify its contents, after watching the teacher demonstrate the dissection process. Students record their findings on a graph.
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Owl Pellets

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students utilize owl pellets to explain part of the natural food chain, and the skeletal system. They construct a rodent skeleton from the skeletal parts foundin the pellet.

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