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You Are What You Eat (The 6 Main Nutrients Found in Foods)
Pupils study how carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and water provide basic nutrients for body growth and function. They describe quality sources of the basic nutrients and the importance of water.
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Finding F
Learners complete a variety of activities as they explore the letter 'f'. Through instruction and modeling they examine the sound the letter makes, how the letter is written, etc. They recite tongue twisters and listen to 'One Fish, Two...
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Medieval Law and Order (Lower)
In this Medieval Law and Order instructional activity, students read and see visuals of the different types of punishments given to people who committed crimes. Students then answer three questions about what they read.
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Fantastic Fluency!
Learners participate in repeated readings of an assigned passage to increase their reading fluency. They are assisted in their reading by seeing the words and hearing them read while working with a partner. After practicing, they read...
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Shapes
Students discuss different shapes each day of the week. Students connect shapes they are learning to shapes they see in the real world.
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Road Runner Reading
Learners identify that fluency helps them to read faster, smoother, and with more expression. They read a book where a pet dog named Red is hungry and wants her owner to give her food. Students practice quick reading by reading until...
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Everyone is Reading
Learners study /e/ in both written and spoken words using a tongue twister and letterbox activities. They recite a tongue twisters and make words using letterboxes. Next, they read "Red Gets Fed" and find words that contain the /e/...
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CONSTRUCTION OF A HEMOGLOBIN GENE
Students use research to see how eight pairs of triplets are equivalent to part of a gene and control a part of heredity. They also understand how red blood corpuscles manufacture normal hemoglobin.
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According to Tradition
Pupils analyze a historical document. They review oral histories as a tradition of storytelling in Native cultures and listen to an excerpt from The Life and Traditions of the Red Man. They write an episode or story that has been passed...
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Spectrophotometry Lab
Students use a machine called a spectrophotometer to determine how much light is absorbed by certain substances. Students record the absorbance and the % of light transmitted for different color solutions, graph their results, and then...
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Let's Read and Read!
Students discover how to hold their mouths to form the /o/ sound and that it may be hidden in different words. They say /o/ and then repeat a tongue twister that contains many /o/ words and practice writing it on primary lined paper....
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Artificial Reef
Students conduct online research to determine how and why artificial reefs are created, and investigate how they benefit marine life and the marine ecology.
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Let's Help the E Out!
Students explore the short /e/ sound. They practice making the sound, noticing how their mouths move to make the sound. They use letterboxes to spell and write 'e' words. They listen for the /e/ sound in a story and then write their own...
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Shiny Shells on the Shore
Students investigate how: A single phoneme, which is a vocal gesture in spoken words, can be represented by more than one grapheme. Also how a digraph is the combination of two letters that make one sound (there are both vowel and...
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Farm Animals
Students participate in an activity that reinforces their counting skills and the relationships between numbers, utilizing the concepts of more and fewer. They read in their Math Storybook's about geese at a fair and how those geese are...
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Math Maven's Mysteries
In these math word problem worksheets, students help solve the mystery about 'The Colossal Circus Caper.' Students create a table to help organize the time and measurement elements from the story. Students must determine how tall Ella...
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The Art of Charity in Characterization
Students garner knowledge of characterization of the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and see that even the less savory characters must be flushed out in description of personality and physical traits.
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Fungal History
Young scholars identify different types of fungi. They discuss how mushrooms are used in American culture and research an issue about a type of fungi. They share their information with the class.
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Measurement Activity
Students line themselves up from smallest to tallest at the chalkboard with the teacher marking their heights. After recording their names on the board next to their mark, they work with a partner to measure their height using several...
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The Literature Connection
Second graders read Cucumber Soup by Vickie Leigh. They make representations for the number of each kind of bug found in the book. This lesson is a terrific way to show students how fractions, decimals and percents are related.
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Light
Here is a stellar slide show for illuminating middle schoolers' minds on the topic of light! An interactive slide allows viewers to sort light sources by whether or not they are man-made. More objects are displayed and learners discover...
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Optics
Don't worry, optics is a light topic! The presentation covers reflection, refraction, fiber optics, mirages, prisms, rainbows, dispersion, mirrors, lenses, telescopes, diffraction, the human eye, and much, much more. Presentation is...
Ocean and Coastal Interdisciplinary Science
The Dark Ocean
Is the ocean blue at all depths? Nope! Explore the science behind the light spectrum in deep, dark waters. The lesson plan recommends watching The Blue Planet: Open Ocean—The Deep, but it's not integral, or you can substitute another...