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SuperShapes, Part 1; "Tri"ing Triangles

For Teachers 5th - 6th
An outstanding lesson on triangles awaits your math scholars. Learners focus on the triangle, which is the strongest of all polygons. They see the role that triangles play in the design of buildings, and learn about triangle...
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Create a Community that Promotes Academic Language

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Set your elementary, middle, and high schoolers up for success by implementing a variety of strategies to build academic language.
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CSI Rhino

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the rhinoceros and how the species has survived for so long.  In this rhino instructional activity students create graphs and research what is being done to protect the rhino.
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Bears Word Search

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this bear vocabulary words worksheet, students search for words describing such things as the bears environment, eating classification, types, habits, and names from baby to adult. Students conduct a word search for twenty-one bear...
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Gorilla Word Search

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this gorilla vocabulary words worksheet, students search for words that describe the gorilla's classification, environment, types, and other facts. Students word search sixteen gorilla vocabulary words.
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Giraffe Word Search

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this giraffe vocabulary words instructional activity, students word search words that identify the giraffe's body parts, names from baby to adult, environment, and animal classification. Students word search fourteen giraffe...
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The Giant Panda Word Search

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this panda vocabulary words worksheet, learners search for words that identify the giant panda's eating habits, environment, animal classification and descriptive words. Students word search eleven panda vocabulary words.
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Metamorphic Rock Notes

For Students 7th - 9th
In this metamorphic rock worksheet, students complete a concept map of including how metamorphic rocks are formed, the two ways they are classified and examples of metamorphic rocks.
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Survival of the Fittest -- Battling Beetles

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Young scholars experiment with traits. In this Science lesson, students test the strength of beetles using M&M candies in lieu of the insects. Young scholars use the Hardy-Weinberg Equation to calculate possible offspring traits of...
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Evolution of Stars

For Students 9th - 12th
In this stars worksheet, students classify stars by comparing their surface temperatures and absolute magnitude. Students fill in 24 blanks in a data table.
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Cloud Watching

For Teachers K - 6th
Students analyze art as a cloud pattern activity. In this cloud and art lesson, students view April Gornik's painting The Back of the Storm and make connections between science and art. Students observe cloud patterns for one week and...
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Create Your Own Animal

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students design and create their own hypothetical animal. In this biology lesson plan, students identify the factors organisms need to survive. They classify their animals according to its correct phylum.
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The Rock Cycle

For Students 10th - 11th
In this rock cycle worksheet, students study the diagram of the rock cycle and explain how minerals originally in magma could travel through the cycle. Then they identify how these minerals end up in each of three main classifications of...
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Climate Types

For Students 6th - 8th
For this weather worksheet, students identify the type of vegetation found in particular regions across the United States. Then they list the six groups of climates in the Köppen Classification System. Students also describe the...
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What is an Animal?

For Students 9th - 12th
In this animal classification instructional activity, students will review the characteristics used in classifying animals including the development of animals. Students will compare the endoderm, ectoderm, and mesoderm. This...
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Splat!

For Students 9th - 12th
What does viscosity have to do with splatter? An activity shows that the viscosity of a substance is inversely proportional to the distance of its splatter. Learners conduct the experiment by collecting data, graphing, and analyzing...
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Water: Liquid or Solid?

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate how water can be both a liquid and a solid. They weigh popsicles and observe them as they write in their science journals. They measure the liquid as the popsicle melts and refreeze them to change them back...
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Sorting 7 characteristics into venn diagrams

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this sorting worksheet, students sort African Animals into venn diagrams. Students sort 10 different animals into 2 different venn diagrams.
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Temperate Forest: Comparing Deciduous and Evergreen Trees

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students  compare deciduous and evergreen trees. For this tree lesson, students list the differences between these two species of trees.
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Would Your Cat Eat This Stuff?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Processed foods use inorganic compounds for flavoring and preservation. This take-home laboratory challenges scholars to find 20 different compounds identified on the labels of foods to list on their data collection sheet. The activity...
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Change Through Time

For Students 9th - 12th
In this evolution activity, high schoolers will complete a table by writing in the era and biological event based on 4 different time periods of Earth's history. Students will answer 8 fill in the blank questions based on the different...
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Evolution of Stars

For Students 9th - 12th
In this stars learning exercise, students review the different types of stars by filling in the blank of 14 statements. Students then find those terms in a word search.
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Igneous Rocks

For Students 7th - 9th
In this igneous rock worksheet, student fill in 25 blanks to complete sentences about types of igneous rock, classification of igneous rock, components of igneous rock and how the types of igneous rock are formed.
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Predicting/Making a Hypothesis

For Teachers 6th - 12th
As an introduction to the hypothesis and testing method of investigation, young history detectives engage in a special investigation of a family artifact. After watching a short video that demonstrates the method, they develop a...

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