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Student News And Weather Channel

For Teachers 5th
Fabulous! Your 5th graders should love this project. As an ongoing lesson throughout the year students use temperature probes to record outside temperature and then document their data using spreadsheets. They use their weather data and...
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Weather the Storm

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete multi-curricular activities for weather. For this weather lesson, 4th graders complete creative writing, research, and weather data analysis activities for the lesson.
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MAISA and the REMC Association of Michigan

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students complete online research to study geography's impact on weather. In this geography and weather lesson, students research weather in their city for ten days using an online website. Students bookmark the site, enter data into a...
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Writing and Editing a Research Report

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students research report on their severe weather pattern for presentation to the class.
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Splish, Splash Poetry

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students write weather shape poems and sing weather related songs. In this creative writing instructional activity, students read the book, It's Raining, It's Pouring and list weather words they heard in the story. Students use the...
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What Are the Layers of the Rain Forest?

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students investigate the different levels of the rain forest by comparing it to an apartment.  In this ecology lesson, students practice using forest related vocabulary words and complete a vocabulary data sheet.  Students...
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Dateline: El Niño

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore El Nino and take the role of a reporter gathering the facts for a news story. Reports are presented orally, like a newscast, written or in whatever form the teacher prefers.
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Strawberry Girl: Life on the Frontier

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore geographic changes by researching the state of Florida. In this Florida history lesson, students identify the storms and disasters that have created sinkholes in portions of Florida. Learners read the book Strawberry...
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What is a Cloud

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study clouds and how they are formed. They write acrostic poems about clouds and analyze and graph temperature data collected during varying degrees of cloud cover.
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Global Warming: Writing and Editing a Research Report

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Bring environmental issues into your classroom! Practice writing and peer editing research reports on global warming and the greenhouse effect. Middle schoolers can work on their research skills, their writing skills, and how to...
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English Vocabulary Skills: AWL Sublist 1 - Exercise 3b

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills activity, high schoolers answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Building a Scale Model

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a model of the solar system. In this solar system lesson, 3rd graders create a scale model of the solar system. Working in pairs students solve mathematical problems to correctly measure the distance each planet is...
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Express Yourself

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders write to Key pals. In this description lesson, 6th graders describe a place to their key pals and the pal has to draw a pictures based off their description.  They also create a Fun Facts Worksheet about their...
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Time and Cycles - Dendrochronology

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate the lives of trees by examining ring cycles.  In this plant life lesson plan, students identify the field of study known as dendrochronology and discover its history.  Middle schoolers investigate a...