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Shapes: Squares
For this learning shapes worksheet, learners practice their fine motor skills as they trace the square shape and identify square shapes.
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Shapes
In this learning shapes worksheet, students practice their fine motor skills as they trace the square, triangle, rectangle, and circle shapes.
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Burs in Your Furs
Students explore the concept of animal welfare. In this wild animal habitats lesson, students discover the work of wild animals in sustaining their habitats as they participate in a classroom simulation. Students discuss how wildlife...
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Composting Leftovers
In this composting leftovers activity, students set up an experiment with food waste and soil, observing and recording the differences for two weeks.
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Frogs
In this frogs worksheet, students read and study the 5 main characteristics that all frogs have. Students color a large picture of a frog.
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Write a Story Based on the Picture
In this creative writing learning exercise, students look at a picture and write a creative story based on what they imagine is happening.
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My Frog Book
In this frogs worksheet, students cut out, color, fold and assemble a 4 page mini book about frogs. Students write what they know, have learned, and want to know about frogs.
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List Frog Facts
In this frogs worksheet, students study and color a picture of a frog. On the blank lines below the picture, students write some of the things they have learned about frogs.
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Tracing Practice
In this writing worksheet, students trace the letter from the top dot to the bottom line. This worksheet provides room for students to try and write the letters without dots. There is a picture to color as well.
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Nitrogen Fixation, OR What a Gas!
Learners illustrate the adaptation and co-evolution of organisms. They examine set up an experiment to determine the effect of adding the Rhizobium bacteria to a group of legume seeds.
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Baga Drum
Students examine a Baga Drum in order to explore the history of the Baga people of West Africa. In this art history lesson, students recognize figures used in Baga Drum design that represent aspects of Baga culture. They also design and...
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Drawing Straight Lines
In this pre-printing practice worksheet, learners use straight lines to connect a set of dots, then color the resulting picture. Page has multiple links to additional resources.
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Dishing the Dirt Part 3
Learners collect and examine different soil samples. They test for specific types of soil elements and the pH level. They answer questions about optimum growing conditions as well.
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Predicting the Greening of Spring With Red Emperor Tulips
Learners examine seasonal changes by watching tulip plant growth across the continent utilizing the Journey North website. They develop hypotheses as to why the plants emerge and grow where they do.
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Why Is An Apple Like A Suitcase?
Students examine a variety of fruit to discover that each has seeds. Through experimentation, they discover the role that fruit and seeds play in a plant's life cycle.
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Butterfly
Students use a purchased kit to explore the characteristics and life cycles of several butterflies including the Monarch, Western Swallowtail, Red Admiral and Painted Lady. They create a plaster casting of each species for study and...
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Conservation Collage
Students identify many different ways the environment is polluted, and determine ways to prevent pollution. They create a collage of pictures describing how the earth becomes polluted.
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Let's Think About... Change
Students observe various examples of "change." They mix paint to cereate new colors, eat bread and then toasted bread, and match baby pictures with pictures of how the same people look in the present. Finally, they watch a bouquet of...
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Think Green
Students experience and practice compositing and recycling through hands-on-activities. They distinguish between which items from their trash can be recycled, composted and reused. The process for making recycled paper is also covered in...
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A GROWING MARKET
Middle schoolers reasearch and grow a plant and present findings. They are told that bedding plant is the name for young plants grown. Students choose one plant to research and they use their worksheet to create an information sheet...
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Xeriscaping In Your Community
Fourth graders participate in a service-learning project to design landscaping that maximizes water use and utilizes indigenous plant species.
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READY, SET, PLANT
Students identify the basic steps a gardener takes in planting seeds. Students identify the many uses of tomatoes. Students examine the seeds and try to identify them. Students place their plants in a sunny window and water them when...
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The Lepidoptera Project
Students are introduced to Scientific Inquiry and discover how to design an experiment that answers critical questions using butterflies as the topic. They design experiments that compare the number of species of butterflies in a vacant,...
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Weeds on the Windowsill
Students study farming and reasons to control weeds. They examine pesticides necessary for the control of weeds and the damage to the environment. Through experimentation, students plant seeds in different soils and determine if seeds...