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The Touch N Feel Box

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discover the characteristics of living and non living objects without the use of sight.  In this sense of touch lesson, students touch items put in a shoe box and must identify whether the item was once living or not by...
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"Board" Games

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders practice using adjectives in writing. In this grammar lesson, 6th graders take pictures of items they can describe. Students write sentences with adjectives to describe the item in the photo.
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My Favorite Things

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify "masterpieces" and mass-produced objects. They explain why they value a given object and determine what physical materials were used to create the objects. They create a class book featuring objects that they value.
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Speaking and Listening

For Students 11th - 12th
In this speaking and listening learning exercise, students give a two-minute talk about a picture or object. Students read a list of questions that help them get started.
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Magnify That

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils observe many different objects using a magnifying lens. In this magnification lesson plan, students learn that scientists use different tools, and they use the tool to magnify objects in the classroom to see objects in better detail.
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Blow and Go

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover how air can move things by using their breath. For this physics lesson, students hypothesize then attempt to move a pencil 1 meter using nothing but their breath. Students record data from their experiment including...
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Getting Started With Java-Background

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study the history of computers including hardware and software, binary representation of data and examine the beginnings of programming languages. They investigate the development of software and the fundamentals of...
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Incomplete Plans

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students practice constructing a building utilizing snap cubes and an incomplete building plan and draw the missing view. They identify and compare relationships in two and three-dimensional representations/objects. Each student explains...
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The Toilet Paper Solar System

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students classify the planets in the solar system, study planetary objects, and measure the relative distance between planets. In this solar system lesson, students use toilet paper to complete a scale model of the distance between the...
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Guess My Shape

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars describe shapes to other students who have to guess that shape. In this shape lesson plan, young scholars describe shape attributes to other students. Then those other young scholars have to guess the shape that is being...
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Right Angles

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this math worksheet, students learn to recognize a right angle. Students study the picture of the right angle and are asked to draw 3 examples. Students then find and draw 9 examples of right angles in objects around them.
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And Then What Happened?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students analyze paintings by using verbs, adjectives, and nouns. In this visual arts activity, students view a painting of a storm and a calm sky. Students use various verbs and adjectives to discuss the characteristics of each...
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Making Pictures from Smaller Shapes

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate shapes. In this dimension and orientation of shapes instructional activity, students identify and color shapes, use shape stamps to form animals, glue shapes together to make other objects and describe how...
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Touch N' Feel Box

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars are encouraged to use senses other than sight to record observations. They explore scientific questioning, observations and human senses (touch, hearing and sight). Students describe objects using their sense of touch and...
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It Counts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars explore how numbers can identify objects. In this math instructional activity, students determine how numbers are used to describe objects used in quantitative data collection.
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Color the Trucks

For Teachers K - 1st
Students become familiar with the jobs of different types of trucks.  In this color of trucks lesson, students decorate trucks with decorations based on the job of the truck.  Students describe the trucks they've colored.
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Investigating the Types of Energy in Different Objects

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate forms of energy. In this physical science energy lesson, students work with a partner classifying household items according to the type of energy they have. Students complete a related worksheet.
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Slides, Flips. Turns......It's All On A Memory Book Page

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use tangram sets to investigate the congruence of shapes. They use congruent shapes to demonstrate the properties of slides, flips, and turns. They complete a math journal entry that describes and illustrates each concept.
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Spanish Superlatives

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Write sentences containing superlatives in Spanish about objects in the classroom. Read aloud the sentence, then post it on the object for everyone in the classroom to see.
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Objects Vibrate

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students strike a tuning fork and dip it in water. They sprinkle cereal flakes on a drum, than tap the top of the drum. Students stretch a rubber band between two fingers and pluck it; stretch the elastic farther and pluck it again. Then...
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Hidden Objects

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders feel objects hidden in paper bag, and describe how they feel, smell, sound and/or taste.
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Describe Comoon Objects and Actions in both General and Specific Language

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are told that they are going to describe the noun and verb in a simple sentence to make the sentence more detailed. They are told that a noun is a person, place or thing. Students are taught that a verb is an action word. They...
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Chemical Composition of Everyday Objects

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers relate chemistry to an object they use everyday. They research information related to chemistry and create their own webpage. They are to keep their page up to date as new observations are taken.
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Adjectives

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this adjectives ESL worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that compare 2 different objects. One of the objects has an arrow pointing to it. Students match the picture with the adjective that best describes the indicated object.