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Make a Comet Model and Eat It!

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students create models of comets. They develop a comet model in a team and exchange samples with other teams. They use their senses to demonstrate the filters on a spectrometer and record their data. They discuss the contents of their...
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The Path of Pollution

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students conduct a brainstorming exercise that asks them to list all the ideas about air pollution that can be recalled. The ideas are recorded on a chart that the teacher has prepared. The lesson contains sufficient background...
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Plants and Air Purity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how green plants help improve air quality. They read an article and discuss the importance of air quality and its effects on the human body. They investigate by connecting hose to the top of a Bell jar and to a funnel....
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Air Pollution: Visible And Invisible

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe air pollution that is visible and invisible with experimentation. During the experiment the students collect data that needs analysis. The observations are recorded in the lab journal. The data also is represented...
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Miners

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students complete various activities related to mining and mining safety. They write an energy sentence, complete a word puzzle, cut and glue safety equipment on a mining character, solve a math code word puzzle, and complete a maze...
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"Eddie the Excited Elephant"

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize each letter in the alphabet and the phoneme it makes. They recognize phonemes in spoken words and their corresponding letters or spelling maps and distinguish phonemes in their oral contexts.
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Smoke Alarms

For Teachers K - 1st
Students research smoke alarms in this instructional activity. They identify the purposes of smoke alarms. They also identify where smoke alarms should be installed. They review the steps needed to keep smoking alarms in good working...
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Is It Lunar or Lunacy?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders are introduced to the moon and its phases. Individually, they draw a sketch of each phase of the moon and read a short article about Galileo. To end the activity, they examine the difference between refracting and...
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Create Your Own Fog

For Teachers 6th
Students describe weather conditions and climates. They describe patterns of changing weather and how they are measured. Students explain and predict general weather patterns and storms. Students form fog in a jug.
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Great River Bend Adventure

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use their imagination. They discuss the 4 C's of teamwork: Concentration, Communications, Coomperation, and Consideration. Students discuss the safety guidelines of the project. They complete a rope maze. The group walks...
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Mount Pinatubo

For Students 9th - 11th
In this geology worksheet, students locate 26 terms in this worksheet about volcanoes. Answers to the worksheet are available in various formats.
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What is a Solution?

For Students 9th - 12th
In this solutions worksheet, students read about how people first learned to use metals and to combine metals to form alloys. Students write an essay telling the story of how ancient people first learned to cause physical changes in metal.
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Trace Evidence

For Students 6th - 8th
In this trace evidence learning exercise, students use the websites on the forensic science page of the kid zone at http://sciencespot.net/ to complete the fill in the blank questions on the learning exercise.
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Streamlining Your Writing

For Students 5th - 6th
In this writing skills learning exercise, learners improve their writing by completing the three exercises. Students improve wordy phrases, add possessive nouns, and then write a description of a dramatic weather event.
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Using Different Types of Sentences

For Students 4th - 5th
In this types of sentences worksheet, students use a variety of sentences to make their writing interesting. Students complete three activities to help them with different sentences.
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Digging in the Classroom

For Teachers 1st
First graders "excavate" a story. In this creative earth science instructional activity, 1st graders become archaeologists and dig through a box of dirt or other material to find pictures from a picture book. It is their job to then put...
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Comets

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this space science worksheet, students learn 3 facts about comets and then read a short informational passage about comets.
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The Planet Saturn

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this worksheet on the planet Saturn, students look at a picture of the planet and read accompanying facts, along with a brief paragraph.
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Compound Nouns 2

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this compound nouns worksheet, students choose the correct words to complete each of the compound nouns. Students use the clues for help to complete the 25 exercises.
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The Wind Poem

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this poetry worksheet, learners read the poem The Wind and improve their rhyming skills. Students also improve their writing skills with the activity.
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Colors and Trouble

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss what it would be like if there weren't enough resources by reading " The Land of Many Colors." In this tolerance lesson, students identify the differences between tolerant and intolerant behavior. Student volunteers try...
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Solar System Fun Facts

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students read facts about the Solar System. In this solar system lesson plan, students read facts on the dimensions, planets, and workings of the solar system. There is a big emphasis on Saturn.
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Factors, Divisibility, and Relatively Prime

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the concept of divisibility. In this divisibility lesson, 7th graders use divisibility rules to find factors of numbers. Students create foldables to illustrate divisibility rules.
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Motion and Gravity

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders make parachutes to learn about gravity and the science process. In this gravity lesson, 3rd graders create parachutes and observe their flight in air. Students discuss wind and gravity for the activity.

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