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Lesson Plan
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Cricket Wars

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Learners investigate crickets in their habitat. In this insect lesson, students create a cricket habitat by using a glass jar with grass clippings and cloth. Learners observe how crickets interact with each other and their eating habits.
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Lesson Plan
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Boy Cricket Girl Cricket

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate crickets. In this series of cricket activities, students observe and chart crickets.  Students discuss the differences between male and female crickets, record findings in a journal, handle crickets, and read a...
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Lesson Plan
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Anthropods and Echinoderms

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine the attributes of crickets. In this arthropods lesson, students observe crickets and sketch and label their parts. Students respond to questions regarding their observations.
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Writing
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"Would You Rather?" Writing Prompts

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Would you rather eat a cricket or a worm? Have your young writers decide and write about why. Choose from 35 different writing prompts to spark interest and creativity. Even your most reluctant writers are sure to enjoy. Each prompt also...
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Lesson Plan
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Hopper Herding

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners explore biology by examining insects up close. In this grasshopper and cricket lesson, students discuss the types of insects that can jump and why it is important they are able to do so. Learners examine a grassy field with...
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Lesson Plan
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Bug's Eye View

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore biology by writing fictitious stories in class. In this insect life instructional activity, students identify many different types of insects in the animal kingdom and the classifications they fall into. Students collect...
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Worksheet
Terminix

Amazing Insect Facts

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Insects are like little aliens living all around us. Explore fun and interesting insect facts by having the class read a short informational paragraph. The paragraph focuses on how we are similar and different to insects and includes...
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PPT
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VCOP

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Ambitious vocabulary, various connectives, interesting openers, and a punctuation pyramid are provided in this colorful PowerPoint. Your pupils will be on their way to becoming fantastic VCOP detectives with the great pointers and...
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Unit Plan
California Polytechnic State University

Australian Geography Unit

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
At the heart of this resource is a beautifully detailed PowerPoint presentation (provided in PDF form) on the overall physical geography of Australia, basic facts about the country, Aboriginal history, and Australia culture and lifestyle.
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Activity
PBS

Wetland Band

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Create an animal chorus as learners explore the sights and sounds of the wetlands. Individuals begin by listening to the animal calls of local frog and toad species. They then try to replicate the variety of sounds using common items and...
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Worksheet
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Yorkshire Quiz 1

For Students 9th - 12th
In this Yorkshire learning exercise, students answer short answer questions about the history, geography, government, and more of Yorkshire. Students complete 35 questions.
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Worksheet
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Division Word Problems

For Students 3rd - 4th
How can 64 blueberries be equally divided into eight bowls? Mathematicians solve this and more word problems with division scenarios. There are seven total, and scholars choose answers from a list. Because there are an equal number of...
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Lesson Planet Article
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Beat the Heat: Meander Through These Books

For Teachers 7th - 12th
A hazy, daisy, lazy summer reading list for math (and interdisciplinary) learning.
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Lesson Plan
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You talkin' to me?: Investigations in animal behavior

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine how to develop and conduct scientific investigations of animal behavior. In this animal behavior lesson students view a video, play an interactive game and complete a lab exercise. 
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Worksheet
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Sports Verbs and Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this sport vocabulary worksheet, students determine which words in a set identify team, individual and opponent sports, match sports, equipment and sports verbs and read short passages to determine sports being played. Questions have...
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Worksheet
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ESL Advanced Level Error Correction and Editing Worksheet

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this ESL error correction and editing instructional activity, students determine which line in an essay about Kuwait contains missing words. There is an original version for teachers included.
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Lesson Plan
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"The Good, The Bad, and The Smelly."

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore insects' use of pheromones and beneficial insects versus insect pests.
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Lesson Plan
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Sense of Wonder, Part 1

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students engage in an activity by using a leading question. They increase awareness for the wonders that are part of the real world. This is based upon personal observations that students make.
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Worksheet
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Concrete Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this nouns review worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they identify all of the concrete nouns in 42 sentences.
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Interactive
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Eastern Screech Owl

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this screech owl worksheet, students complete activities to learn about screech owls after reading Screech Owl at Midnight by C. Drew Lamm. Students learn how to attract owls, investigate owls in their community, and define words...
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Worksheet
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Verbs

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this verbs worksheet, students read about verbs, then underline verbs in a set of 9 sentences and write 2 action verbs given people might do. Students then complete 2 alphabetical order activities.
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Lesson Plan
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Sport Dictation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this sport dictation worksheet, young scholars take dictation concerning various sports terms and their definitions.
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Lesson Plan
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Meadow Study

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine insects they collect in a sweep nets. They identify as many of the insects as they can.
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Lesson Plan
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A Day in the Life

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students use their research skills to investigate the behavior and characteristics of a rainforest animal. After creating a diary entry, they illustrate the habits and life cycle of the animal. They write the diary entry from the point...