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ABC Big Book
Students create a book with each page representing a letter in the alphabet.
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Rainforest Animals – Camouflage and Coloring for Protection
Students explain why animals need to blend in with their surrounding. In this environmental science lesson, students create moth paper models to simulate animals hidden in the rainforests. They make a bulletin board display about what...
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Indiana Ice Investigations
Fourth graders create a model of the formation of Indiana by glaciers. Working in groups with appropriate materials, they create a model documenting how glaciers moved through the land and formed the geological structure and land masses...
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Chemistry: Plastic Milk
Young scholars observe a basic chemical reaction as vinegar is mixed with skim milk and microwaved. First, they listen to the teacher read, "Little Miss Muffet," and discover the meaning of curds and whey. While the experiment have an...
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Vocabulary Building - Brainstorming
Students learn new vocabulary words in ways that are fun and enriching. They brainstorm lists of words to be used in sentences, stories, or conversations.
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Molecules
Students combine movement with science in this fun integrated lesson plan. When students are "liquid" they can "melt" or "ooze" at the end and when they are are "solids" they can "freeze" in a shape.
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Million Dollar Gift
Third graders create a box big enough to hold a million dollars. This is a project fun to do near the winter holidays with inexpensive gifts included in the boxes. This hands-on lesson very effectively demonstrates the concept of volume.
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Easter Eggs
Students create Easter eggs. In this Easter lesson, students cut out an egg shape from a paper towel. They color on the towel with washable markers and then paint it with water to let the colors run together.
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Scat the Cat
Students cut colored paper and an envelope in the shape of a cat. In this art lesson, students put the different pieces of colored paper in the envelope and say a cute rhyme after which students take a color out of the...
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Family Life Cycle - Children's Lab
Young scholars review how their nutritional needs change over time. In groups, they design their own menu in which they get all the nutrients they need. To end the lesson plan, they share their foods with the class and complete a...
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Share Package
Students put unwanted, but in good shape, toys in a box. In this art lesson, students write a tag that shows they enjoy brightening up someone's day and give the toys t someone who needs them.
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Clouds
Second graders explore how to identify cloud types by observing clouds. They record data and have fun by applying newly acquired knowledge throughout the curriculum.
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A Day Full of Popcorn
Students use the "tool" popcorn with activities in Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, P.E., Music, Art, Science and EATING.
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Dimensional Flower Garden
Students relate the colors in a garden to those in a rainbow by creating a multicolored three-dimensional garden portrait. They read, "Planting a Rainbow" by Lois Ehlert, then construct their garden with colored paper on white cardstock.
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Student Baseball Cards
Students develop baseball cards with information about their classmates. They interview each other and take a picture for the cards. They share their cards with others in the room.
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Jumbo Butterfly
Young scholars duplicate butterfly designs. They use jumbo sizes to develop an awareness of designs found in nature. Students construct a butterfly house to share with their classmates.
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BUGS-INSECTS
Students participate in a theme study while teaching primary students basic skills according to Individual Education Plan (IEP) goals in Reading, Math, and Writing. The lesson is concerned primarily with the concept of insects.
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New to School Student Booklets
Students create a book about their school experience entitled, "(Student's name) Goes to School." They identify who their friends are and discuss and list them as one page in their booklets. Students also listen to a story read by the...
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Mummies Made in Egypt
Students use maps to locate information on Egypt, then create their own maps to display knowledge gained from the lesson and Web sites. They recognize, create, and describe the pyramid's geometric shape in three-dimensional forms.
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Life Lessons: Imagination
Students look at clouds and find some that are shaped like various items. They also pretend they are animals and make movements and sounds to resemble the animals.
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Building Your Bridge Building Basics
In this technology instructional activity, students examine the basic principles of bridge building design in order to answer the nine questions with the help of the web links on page 2.
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Cracking the Code
Second graders explore patterns with colors, shapes, and numbers by completing a fun quiz, watching a video, creating their own secret patterns/codes and completing an online patterning game.
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Tide Tote
Students make their own tote bag. In this art lesson, students take a large box of Tide and wet the wallpaper samples to put on the box decorating the box.
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Eggs'ceptional Experiments
Students see evidence of chemical reaction and follow the scientific method to hypothesize, observe, and reach conclusions. They conduct a series of egg based experiments such as forming crystals and complete journal activities as a...