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Explorit's Garden Quiz: How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Students 5th - 6th
In this plants worksheet, students complete a 6 question multiple choice quiz about gardening, plants and agriculture. This is an online interactive worksheet.
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Mini pinatas loot bags

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create mini pinata loot bags. In this pinata lesson, students take three balloons and cover them with flour, water, and tissue paper. They cut off the bottom to fill them and cover the opening. 
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Changing Matter

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate the changing states of water.
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Science: Water States

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate the various forms of water. They discuss the properties of water. They discover examples of water's various states and locate other solids, liquids, and gases in their homes.
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Condensation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explain how water changes from vapor to liquid with a change in temperature by engaging in this experiment. They use a worksheet imbedded in this instructional activity to guide their inquiry.
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Fruit Dessert

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders complete a fruit lab applying the preparation guidelines in preserving the nutrients, color, flavor and texture of the apples and preventing them from oxidizing.
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The Awful 8: The Play

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students become aware of the cause and effects of different air pollutants. They present a play about the different pollutants.
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Cavern Life

For Teachers K - 12th
Students describe elements and conditions that effect cavern life. They explain the three cavern zones and the differences of each zone. They perform various activities based on grade level.
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Create a Cloud in a Bottle

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students observe an experiment showing the formation of a cloud. They write a paragraph summarizing the condition that are necessary for a cloud to form and explain the weather situations cause cloud formation.
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Extraction of DNA from Onion

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students experiment with DNA by isolating it from plant tissue. They investigate whole onions to prepare DNA. They complete the experiment to examine the structural characteristics of DNA.
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Making a Food Web and Learning About Ecosystems

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine the difference between a food web and food chain. They also examine the importance of the sun in a food web and food chain. Students understand what happens when you remove parts of the chain.
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Spur of the Moment Act

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils perform a skit using creativity. In this role playing lesson, students are given a skit to perform in the "spur of the moment." Pupils use creativity to have the audience correctly guess the situation they are role-playing.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Fly Away Home

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore English by reading a children's book in class. In this story vocabulary lesson plan, students read the book Fly Away Home and identify the use of specific vocabulary words. Students define the selected vocabulary words...
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Beginning Analogies 9

For Students 4th - 5th
In this analogies activity, students read the word pairs and choose the answer that best expresses a relationship similar to the original pair.
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Success Link

Success Link: Dry Ice Lab/demonstration How Cool It Is!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan using dry ice to show the four states of matter. Included are inquiry-based questions to use as part of the demonstration.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Dry Ice vs. Liquid Nitrogen Explore the Differences

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the differences between dry ice and liquid nitrogen, what each is used for, and safety recommendations.
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Science Bob Pflugfelder

Science Bob: The Giant Dry Ice Bubble Sphere

For Students 3rd - 8th
Science Bob presents instructions for making a giant dry ice bubble sphere using common supplies.
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Cold jet.com: What Is Dry Ice Blasting?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about a new, innovated method of cleaning off oils, stripping paints, and other general cleaning applications.
Activity
University of Maryland

Univ. Of Maryland: Sublimation of Dry Ice Projection

For Students 9th - 10th
A short page from the University of Maryland Physics Lecture Demonstration Facility. Provides directions for a teacher demonstration on sublimation. Shows apparatus and set-up; provides suggestions. Easily adaptable as a student project...
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Ice Stories: Dry Valleys

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn about the work and research done in Antarctica's most arid regions know as the Dry Valleys.
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Changing State Melting

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the phase change that occurs when ice is melting.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Why Do Soccer Balls Get Flat Science Fair Project

For Teachers 2nd
Discover what happens to the circumference of a balloon when it is placed in dry ice, kept at room temperature, and when it is warmed by a hairdryer.
Activity
California Institute of Technology

Growing Your Own Snow Crystals

For Students 3rd - 8th
No two snowflakes are the same! Find out if that statement is true by "growing" your own snow flakes and comparing them. You need a coke bottle, dry ice and a Styrofoam cup.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Bubble Suspension

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the principles of buoyancy and semipermeability in this activity by using bubbles and dry ice.

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