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Read, Read, Read !

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students perform repeated readings of the same text to increase their reading fluency and expression. They practice reading sentences from the board aloud to practice fluency. They read "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" as a class.
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Putting out the Trash

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils explore the benefits of summarizing a piece of literature to increase comprehension. The teacher models summarizing by deleting trivial information from a reading passage. The students then practice summarizing independently by...
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Cotton and Cabbage

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students note how given traits could be achieved by selective breeding and by transgenesis. They identify different uses of GEO. Students recognize that the use of letters (Bt) before an organism's name means that the organism has had a...
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Catepillar Book

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students are to write a catepillar story that has correct spelling, grammar and creativity in a first draft and a final draft. After the first draft is completed and written on every other line, the teacher or the class evaluates the...
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Attack Theatre Movement Lesson: The Toy Shop

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students study even and uneven rhythms in music. They demonstrate slow and fast movements using various body parts and echo clap with their hands. Listening to uneven rhythms of the drum, they skip, jump and hop and simulate toys in a...
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Insects

For Teachers K
Students, through books, videos, and readings, explore characteristics of insects. In groups, they choose an insect to research. Students discover their insect's diet, how they move, and where they live. Afterwards, they use the facts...
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Adopt-An-Insect Bingo

For Students 5th - 8th
In this biology activity, students select twenty-five terms relating to insects to complete their bingo card as listed on the sheet. Then they match each name or family with its correct description.
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All About Spring Word Search

For Students 1st - 4th
In this spring word search worksheet, students find a total of 10 words related to spring in a word search puzzle. Page 2 lists links to additional web sites with activities.
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What Things Move Fast and Slow?

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this fast and slow movement worksheet, students will brainstorm things that move at fast speeds and things that move at slow speeds. Students will write these items in the correct category in this graphic organizer worksheet.
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Name Scramble: Invertebrates

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this language arts and science worksheet, students analyze 10 pictures of invertebrates with scrambled names. Students decipher the names and write them correctly under each picture.
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Butterflies Word Search

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts and science activity, students analyze 16 words in a word bank that pertain to butterflies. Students find these in a word search puzzle.
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Going Places

For Students 6th - 8th
In this going places worksheet, learners read the passages provided and answer the given questions. Students answer questions as it relates to the skeletal system, puberty, and microorganisms.
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Addition: Color by Number

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this addition practice worksheet, students solve 26 problems that require them to add 1 or 2-digit numbers to 1 or 2-digit numbers and then color the picture. No instructions are provided.
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ESL: Food Vocabulary

For Students 5th - 6th
In this ESL food vocabulary worksheet, students circle the food that is described, then translate "food words." A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Going Buggy!

For Teachers K - 4th
Students study bugs over a four week period.  In this insect collection of activities, students observe insects covering basic science concepts and skills, such as classification, observation, and responses to habitat....
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Food webs and Energy Flows

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners become familiar with food chains.  For this food chains lesson, students understand that as consumers eat other consumers energy is passed. Learners understand the vocabulary associated with food chains.
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Handprint Apricot

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create an apricot handprint. In this painting lesson, students paint their palm with peach colored paint and press to construction paper. Students paint their thumb brown and press it into the center of the palm print to...
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Milkweed and Monarch Butterfly Mania-True/False Quiz

For Students 4th - 5th
In this milkweed and monarch butterfly worksheet, students complete a 9 question true/false quiz. Students may retrieve score on line.
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Terrarium Observation

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students observe the growth of plants in their terrarium. In this social studies lesson, students measure plant growth for several weeks. They predict what happens if other organisms are added in the terrarium.
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Answering Science Questions

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students examine the ways in which scientists answer questions.  For this critical thinking and scientific process lesson students complete a worksheet of questions. 
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Animals at Night

For Students K - 2nd
For this nocturnal animals worksheet, students study a fact page with lists of mammals, insects, birds and amphibians that they may see on the school grounds at night. There are no questions to answer.
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Science Trivia

For Students 7th - 10th
This science trivia activity gives the students 66 science trivia questions and answers.  Students are to cut out the questions an fold them in half.  The question is on one side and the answer is on the other side.  This...
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National Geographic: The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Its Life Cycle

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Engage students with a retelling of Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and watch a video from "Great Migrations" to enhance scientific discovery of the life of a butterfly.
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U.s. Geological Survey: North Prairie Wildlife Research: Caterpillars of Forests

For Students 9th - 10th
Descriptions, photographs and information on the caterpillar life cycle for the different species of eastern United states caterpillars. Includes details on collecting and photographing specimens.

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