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Skyscrapers: Engineering Up!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars build their own newspaper skyscrapers with limited materials and time. They identify several different structural engineering principles relating to skyscrapers. They explain how their towers resisted the wind load.
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Weather Words

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners brainstorm and define five terms for precipitation, discuss reasons why English language includes various terms for wet weather, and create word games such as jumbles, word searches, or crossword puzzles with weather terms.
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Natural Disasters

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners create an expressive painting documenting their experience of a storm. They create a slide show presentation comparing and contrasting the impact and the response to a natural disaster in the 19th century with the impact...
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Seasons and Weather

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students, in an open forum with the teacher, discuss the four seasons and all the activities they do during each season. They tie in all the different types of weather that is experienced during each season. In conclusion, the students...
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Propaganda & Persuasive Techniques: Do You Buy It?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate the basic persuasive techniques employed in advertising. They identify three examples of propaganda/persuasive techniques, complete an observation chart, take an advertising quiz, complete a spreadsheet that...
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Let the Music Play

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create auditory presentations on festivals and celebrations around the world. They begin by reading about how the New Orleans high school marching bands have overcome many obstacles to keep their music traditions alive. Then...
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Science Videos

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students plan, practice, and act in a 2-3 minute videotaped production about a specific topic. Students from a local high school give presentations pertaining to seasons, earth rotation, and moon phases. Students analyze the...
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Causes and Effects of ENSO

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze monthly sea surface temperature data from the Pacific Ocean to determine if the period is an El Nino or a normal year. They recognize signs to see if there are any patterns that signal either occurrence. Satellite images...
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Forecast the Weather

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students analyze different weather conditions before creating their very own first-person report from the eye of a storm. They use maps to analyze different weather conditions, record an online weather script and write a first-person...
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The True Cost of Coffee

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the economic, health, and environmental risks of a one-crop economy in the developing world. They explain how or why it can be challenging for people of one culture to understand the lifestyle of a different society.
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Clara Barton Biography Reading Comprehension

For Students 4th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, 4th graders will read a 3 page expository passage about Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross. They will then answer 10 questions based on the passage.
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Suffix City

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, students create new words with the appointed suffixes and filling in the new one with magnetic or written letters.
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Communicating Data

For Students 6th - 7th
In this data worksheet, students match information with the best type of graph to display it. Students also make a chart and graph to display information in a given paragraph.
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Scrambled Sentences

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts learning exercise, learners analyze 14 sentences where the words have been scrambled. Students unscramble the sentences and put the punctuation marks where they belong.
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What's In The Wind?

For Students 7th - 10th
In this what's in the wind worksheet, students, with a partner, complete four activities involving different types of wind, different types of phrases involving wind and conversation questions regarding homeland weather conditions.
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Sentence Combining Exercise

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students combine seventeen sets of basic sentences into compound and complex sentences using commas where needed.
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Sentence Structure & Punctuation

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this identifying sentence structure and punctuation worksheet, students write questions which correspond to the answers given, Jeopardy style. Students write and punctuate ten interrogative answers.
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Vivid Words: A Letter to the Editor

For Students 7th - 9th
In this vocabulary and word study learning exercise, students explore the use of vivid words as they complete 11 fill in the blank questions. Students may also complete the challenge question at the bottom of the sheet.
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The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students discover small updrafts by making wind spirals.
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Why We Count

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners visualize census data on a map and use a map key to read a population map. In this census lesson, students use a map of the Virgin Islands and corresponding worksheets to gain an understanding of population density.
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Doppler Weather Radar

For Students 8th - 10th
In this Doppler weather radar worksheet, learners read about radar and Doppler weather radar and answer three questions about how they work and the Doppler effect.
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Getting Thirsty?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the concept of drought and its significance as a natural hazard. In this drought lesson plan, students complete 13 questions on an "Introduction to Drought as an Ecosystem Stressor" worksheet and discuss the...
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Craters are a Blast!

For Students 9th - 11th
In this craters worksheet, students solve 3 problems including converting units of Joules into a number equivalent to a one-megaton nuclear bomb, finding the diameters of craters in a given picture and determining the energy needed to...
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Air Pollution:What's the Solution?-Weather's Role

For Students 7th - 9th
In this air pollution and weather worksheet, students collect data using an online animation to determine the air quality at given times along with the wind speed and temperature in a particular city. Students make 3 bar graphs using the...

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