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Painting - Architecture Study
Students study architectural elements, then develop a strong composition from an interior photographs. They explore color planning by developing a painting with a variety of values.
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Can You See It?
Fourth graders practice visualizing elements from a story. While reading the poem "One Inch Tall" aloud, the instructor models what they see as they read the passage. Students draw a picture of a scene from the story "Everything on a...
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What is Climate?
Students explore the differences between climate and weather. In this introductory lesson of a climate unit, students discuss the vocabulary and concepts associated with weather and climate. They build their information base for the...
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Air Pressure and Wind
Fifth graders study air pressure and learn how it can change the weather. In this air pressure lesson plan, 5th graders study the given diagrams and complete the experiments to learn how air pressure can change the weather. Students read...
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Volcanoes
Learners study volcanoes. In this volcanoes lesson, students read several volcano paragraphs and study the pictures or diagrams. Learners then make an erupting volcano, complete website research about volcanoes, and answer several...
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International Festival: Japan
Students create representative Sakura trees. For this multi-cultural appreciation lesson, students listen to their teacher talk about Japan before students create Sakura trees out of cotton balls and popsicle sticks.
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Marine Poetry
Students identify characteristics of good poetry and compose their own. For this marine poetry lesson, students are introduced to several different types of poetry with a marine theme. After discussing the elements...
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The Roman Empire-Map Activity
In this Roman Empire learning exercise, students complete a map activity in which they label and color civilizations, countries and physical features as instructed. There are no maps included.
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Earth System Science
Students explore the Earth and its ability to support life. They discuss the geosphere and the water cycle and complete the Water Wonders activity. After completing the activity, they respond in their journals and reflect upon the...
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Winter and Summer Storms Scenarios
Fourth graders analyze how summer and winter storms are different. In this weather lesson, 4th graders construct a winter storm simulation box and a summer storm bottle and record the temperature and barometer readings. The directions to...
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Knowledge Quiz: Bacteria
In this bacteria quiz activity, students complete a set of 10 multiple choice questions covering a variety of concepts related to bacteria. A reference web site is included for additional resources.
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World Geography Quiz
For this world geography worksheet, students answer several questions based on world geography and landmarks. Students answer 10 multiple choice questions.
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Sea Urchins - Diadema Antillarum
Young scholars investigate oceanography by painting sea life. In this crustacean lesson, students identify sea urchins in our ocean environments and describe the functionality of their spherical-shaped bodies. Young scholars design their...
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Egg Carton Stories
Pupils create stories with better structure when they are able to focus on its characters, setting, and plot. Teacher creates settings, character, and problem cartons with information written on strips of paper.
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Science Quiz-General Knowledge
In this science quiz instructional activity, students complete a set of 20 true or false questions covering a variety of general science topics. An answer key is included.
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All That Glitters...
Students study that white light (visible light) is comprised of all colors of the spectrum. They study that the quantity of light decreases with increasing depth in the ocean. They study that the quality of light changes with increasing...
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The Hunt for Red October
Ninth graders identify and apply some of the vocabulary used in Science concerning the Sea Perch project. They view a video of The Hunt for Red October, and students make a comparative study of the translation of the printed work onto...
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The Sound of Calm
Students examine the relationships that exist between ocean currents, wind and climate. Using those relationships, they discuss how they affect the oceans. They create their own music to represent the sounds of the ocean and share them...
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Super Scientists Bingo
In this science worksheet, middle schoolers select twenty-five scientists from the list to fill in their bingo card. Then they match each of the scientists listed to their correct description strip.
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Introduction to Ecology
Eighth graders identify the living and nonliving components of an ecosystem. In this ecology lesson, 8th graders explain the role each organism plays. They participate in class discussion and answer a quiz at the end of the lesson.
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Build A Model of the Water Cycle
Students identify and describe the steps in the water cycle. They discover the sun as the source of the cycle. They work together to create their own water cycle model.
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The Layered Earth
Students role play plate tectonics by creating a "plate statue" made up of students. For this earth science lesson, students describe how Earth's movement cause earthquakes and volcanoes. They draw and name the different layers of the...
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Earth History Part II
Eighth graders hypothesize what caused the break up of continents. In this earth science lesson, 8th graders study about the events that took place during Mesozoic and Cenozoic Era. They reconstruct a supercontinent and report their...
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Lesson 5: The Journey Becomes Larger Than Life!
Many muralists throughout history have focused on using their art to represent aspects of their culture or community. After thoroughly researching several muralists, budding artists will create a larger than life mural that contains...