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Water, Water, Everywhere!
Get kids excited about environmental studies with these exciting lesson plans about water!
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Gardening with Your Students
By growing a class or school garden you can teach students about the environment, the life cycle of a plant, and healthy eating.
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Hyperstudio Solar System Review: Technology, Study Skills
Learners use Hyperstudio to review important points before taking a test at the end of a study unit on the solar system. This concept could easily be switched to many different topics.
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Aquatic Organisms
Students create a poster describing the five characteristics of a salt water organism compared to a fresh water organism.
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Exploring Place and Space
Students explore number values by completing mathematical worksheets in class. In this decimals lesson, students identify the different place values a number has and the use of decimals to represent a fraction of a number. Students...
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Water Use and Conservation
Young scholars discuss the different types of water found on Earth. They discover why not all water is used for drinking and calculate how much water they use. They create their own water conservation plan.
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Transpiration
Learners examine the part that transpiration plays in the hydrologic cycle. They observe how plants play a role in maintaining a stable environment.
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The Water Cycle
Students create an "animated" water cycle wheel that illustrates where water comes from and where it goes.
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Gravity - The Glue of the Universe
Students explore physics by conducting a class experiment. In this gravitational force instructional activity, students define several scientific terms associated with force. Students utilize a styrofoam cup and marbles to simulate a...
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Newspaper Layout
In this newspaper worksheet, learners follow the directions of this newspaper layout in order to create a newspaper. Students follow 5 sets of directions.
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Star Gazing
Third graders investigate what an astronomer is and what he studies in the solar system.
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Rubber Gardens
Students recycle discarded automobile tires and create gardening sites for limited space areas.
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Summarize This!
Learners explore how to summarize a reading passage. They read non-fiction books. Students use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the two animals they read about. They write a summary using the information in their Venn Diagram.
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Follow the Drinking Gourd: Creative Writing
Learners conduct Internet research to identify the conflicts and positions of slaves, slaveholders, and members of the Underground Railroad network in the time preceding the Civil War. Students write an essay about their findings written...