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Pushing Through Learning Difficulties

For Teachers K - 10th
Parents might find that teaching special needs children at home can be incredibly beneficial.
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All About the Human Life Cycle

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this life cycle worksheet, students read about the butterfly life cycle and draw pictures about it. Students draw 2 pictures and answer 2 short answer questions about the life cycle.
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Green Light Eating

For Teachers 1st
First graders categorize food according to the health value. They write down their favorite foods and discuss whether or not they fit into a healthy diet. Students place their foods on a stop light, indicating which foods are best for...
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Lesson Plan on Homeless Children

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research reasons as to why children end up living on the streets. This lesson examines reasons as to what happens to parents and adult caregivers so that they are no longer able to provide basic needs for these children. ...
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Acids & Bases: What's the Solution?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students conduct an experiment called "What's the Solution? Acid, Base or Neutral." to determine the differences between these types of substance.
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Follow the Leader

For Teachers K
Students move in different directions and pathways using a variety of locomotor skills, while building on cooperative play skills used when leading or following a partner.
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Patterns and Literature

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars create their own patterns. They discuss the reasons why Easter eggs are used in Easter celebrations. They also identify the elements of literature.
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Phil's First Day 1

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this Phil's first day of school worksheet, students describe what a friend is by listing adjectives, adverbs or phrases that begin with each of the letters in friends.
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Germbusters

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students describe different safe kitchen practices. In this adult health lesson, students explain how germs spread. They discuss ways to find bacteria and food born diseases.
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Scooter Pathways

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars travel different pathways on scooters - with a partner. The partner is evaluating whether or not the person on the scooter is moving in the correct pathway.
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Handprint Angels

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students trace their hands onto white paper and cut them out. They create a holiday art piece by adding a "head" and a "body" and then decorating them to resemble an angel. (Their handprints become the wings.)
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Heredity (Mendelian Genetics)

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students observe and record observations of whether a person is a taster or nontaster. They test selected individuals from their families and peer groups and chart all findings to determine which trait (e.g. taster or non-taster) is...
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Surface Tension and Bubbles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate surface tension and bubbles. In this scientific inquiry lesson plan, students explore how the surface tension of water is able to support tiny objects that actually weigh more than the water as they collect date by...
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Growing Tomatoes from Seed

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this growing tomatoes worksheet, students experience and participate in the process of growing tomatoes over a three or four month span of time. Students follow six directives in producing tomato plants.
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Physical Differences

For Teachers K
Students role play what it would be like to have a physical disability. In this lesson on acceptance, students listen to the book A Rainbow of Friends by P.K. Hallinan. As a class, the students discuss similarities and differences in...
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Overhand Throwing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify critical components of overhand throwing and demonstrate how to throw overhand properly. In this overhand throwing lesson plan, students throw in teams.
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Battleship

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students practice passing and shooting a hockey puck with accuracy when in a game situation.
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Human Obstacle Course

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are in a group - half of them be an obstacle and half be moving around them, and then they switch. This engaging game promotes lots of movement.
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Classroom Census

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students take a classroom census. They count in sets, sortan classify groups and ascertain the value of counting.
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Good or Bad Fire?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discover that fire is useful but it can be also dangerous. They observe a good and bad picture to which they determine if it's an example of a good or bad fire; giving reasons for their answers and recording their comments...
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Shape Walk

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students take a field trip to a local park or beach to collect objects. They practice counting the objects and put them into categories according to type of shape like a cone, cylinder, etc... As an extension to the lesson students could...
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Snake Scramble

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils move safely through general space
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It's Hot

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine the effect of sunlight on the earth. Individually, they pick an article of clothing out of a bag and sort themselves based on the color of the shirt and whether it should be worn on a cold or a hot day. To end the...
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Shape Shifters

For Teachers K
Students recognize different shapes and colors. When the music stops students should move to and stand on a shape. Ask students "who is standing by a square, circle," etc., and ask what color they are standing on.