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Columbus Discovers America
In this word search worksheet, students identify the words related to the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. Students find 20 words in the word search.
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"Fossil" of a Carbonized Plant
Students use leaves to make model of a carbonized plant and classify leaves by shape and margin type.
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Creating a School Herbarium
Learners develop working knowledge of common plants and awareness of plant diversity by starting a school herbarium.
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What Factors Contribute In Attracting Birds To Feeders?
Students develop their own research questions dealing with specific variables provided by the instructor; students conduct bird counts using two kinds of birdseed, and analyze possible effects such as abundance or diversity.
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Scale Drawings of Birds
Students create their own copies of Phoenix Birds using a grid system.
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Protocol for Backyard Bird Research Project
Students investigate a hypothesis about birds in their backyard using identification and survey skills.
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Pen Pals
Students collect bird count data at their sites, and share and compare the data collected from two different schoolyards using computer technology.
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Bird Ecology Unit
Birds, plants, and vegetation, is there anything more lovely? There is! Engage your class in the scientific process, data collection, and data analysis. They stroll their campus observing and identifying various birds and plants,...
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Become an Expert
Students are assigned a separate species of plant or bird to research. Using a worksheet, they are responsible for finding a variety of information on their assigned plant or bird. They also complete a mini-poster and give an oral...
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Creating a Family
Fifth graders make a model and write an essay of a new arthropod family using known data.
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Historical Air Photo Interpretation
Students identify and analyze land use changes over time with historical aerial photographs. They classify different land use into categories.
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Grid Frame Mapping
Young scholars map and describe small area of the schoolyard and discuss habitats.
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Ecology
Students explore, experience and experiment identifying the human impact on the environment of vegetative differences within the same biome. They assess what causes deserts, rain forests, savannahs, tundras and saguaros and how these...
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Bird Banners
Young scholars, after researching the internet for information about native bird species, create an informational banner. They follow all the directions from their copy of "Bird Banner Guidelines" and complete this task in groups of four...
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U.S. History: Civil War Flash Cards
Eighth graders create flash cards of the leading historical figures of the Civil War. Using media center resources, they laminate their selections and use them to learn their names and faces and as review materials for a test. Along with...
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Making a Sun Clock
For this clock construction lesson, students use a pencil, compass, and sun clock diagram to construct a homemade sun clock. A very interesting lesson on combining images with text.
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Alfalfa Butterfly/Caterpillar Lifecycle Investigation
Students collect and record data. They model specimens. Students identify sex of butterflies. They analyze data. Students make conclusions based on collected data. They compare and contrast the different groups of insects such as...
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Constitution/Deer Valley
Students mount plant samples of the school community. They take samples, mount and identify. Students place cardstock on a piece of cardboard. They glue label in a corner. Students position dried plants on cardstock the way they were...
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Discovery Channels
Young scholars read a New York Times article in order to explore issues about the celebration of Columbus Day. They, working in groups, research the legacy of exploration and colonization. They use the research to create a first person...
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Early North Carolina Exploration (warm-up activity)
Eighth graders focus on the European perspective of exploration and findings along the North Carolina coast.
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Spirit of Adventure
Students examine the possibilities available to them if they take a gap year after completing high school. They look at reasons for taking a gap year and the adventures in which they could participate. They look at geography, skills, and...
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Pathways to the Future
Students draw a pathway and create a movement phrase along that same path using specific movement vocabulary. The phrases are performed in class and rubrics are used for assessment. Meets State standards for the arts.
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Alaska
Students study three Alaska Native leaders who led their people using different methods in different circumstances. They explore the attributes of a good leader and apply that exploration to their own lives.
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The Great Exchange
Sixth graders examine the connection that the present has to the past and how different cultures impact each other with lasting results. They discuss European exploration in North America and West Africa by describing cultural...
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