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Insects!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore the diet of insects. In this "insects" biology lesson, students take a nature walk and collect various natural materials they think may be eaten by insects. Students sort and classify these materials into three diet...
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Disaters!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students read a fiction and nonfiction accounts about different types of disasters. The class uses iChat AV and iSight camera to interview students in a different part of the country about natural or manmade disasters in their area....
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Solids, Liquids, and Gases

For Teachers K - 4th
Students investigate and explore the three states of matter. They read and discuss the NASA article "The Engine That Does More," identify examples of each state of matter, and as a class complete a section of two worksheets. They...
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Expanding Views of Learning Through iChat AV

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students identify a science topic they would like to present in a lesson plan. They use a digital video camera to film interviews with children in a K-8 classroom about how they think regarding that specific science topic. Pupils use...
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Show Me the Money

For Teachers K
Students review the terms in the "Money Vocabulary Word Bank." They make a wallet or purse to keep their money in. Students learn the song "Show Me the Money." They participate in five centers: 1) Head or Tails Tally, 2) Piggy Bank...
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Why Do Hot Air Balloons Float?

For Students 9th - 12th
In this gases learning exercise, high schoolers read about the Kelvin scale of temperature, they answer 3 fill in the blank questions about the relationship between temperature and pressure and they plot the temperature and pressure of...
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Lesson 5: Technology: Conveniences and Consequences

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students identify positive and negative impacts of technology. In this technological advancements lesson, students consider how toxic pollution affects the Earth and its inhabitants. Students participate in 3 activities that allow them...
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Intolerable Acts

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the implications of North Korea's nuclear testing. They develop a K-W-L chart, read an article, write questions, conduct research on their self-generated questions, and create an exhibit of their findings.
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Executive Branch of the U.S. Government

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create a K-W-L chart of what they know about the executive branch of government. They access the Internet to research a specific level of government. They create a PowerPoint presentation with a minimum of eight slides.
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My Number Book

For Students K - 1st Standards
Use six pre-printed pages to help kindergartners make their own numbers workbook. For each page, they practice identifying the assigned number by circling it where ever it appears on the page. Then they practice tracing it three times...
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Transcendentalism and Epiphany in Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine the characteristics of transcendentalism. In this transcendentalism lesson, 12th graders determine what this type of writing entails before reading a passage from, Ray Bradbury's, Dandelion Wine. They cite three...
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KWL Chart and Background Article

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss an ecosystem. In this coral reef lesson, students fill in their own KWL chart and contribute ideas to a whole class KWL chart. They read an article as a class to spark ideas for facts they can add to the "K" part of the...
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The Rainforest

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn the characteristics of the rainforest.  In this rainforest lesson, students read stories about the rainforest and discuss them.  Students work in groups to brainstorm all the facts they know about the rainforest...
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Properties of Water

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study the three physical properties of water-solid, liquid and gas. They classify materials as solids, liquids, and gases. They define the terms solids, liquids and matter and explain that when materials are manipulated,...
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pH of Solutions

For Students 7th - 11th
In this pH activity, students describe the pH scale and explain the initials "pH." Students classify solutions as acidic, neutral, or basic. Students name compounds as acids or bases. This activity has 3 short answer questions and 5 fill...
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Watching Wheatstacks

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore basic shapes in Monet's paintings Wheatstacks, Snow Effect and Morning. They study about light and shadows through reading and experimenting with three-dimensional models and flashlights.
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Soapy Stress

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners investigate the three types of material stress related to rocks. They identify the three types of stress, conduct a simulation by breaking bars of soap using only their hands, and complete a worksheet.
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Rock Solid

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students investigate the three types of material stress related to rocks. They watch a PowerPoint Presentation, view an online animation of the three types of rock stress, identify the various types of rocks, answer true or false...
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Fact or Opinion (Food)

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, students read about the difference between fact and opinion. Students then read 10 statements about food and write "fact" or "opinion." Students write 3 facts about food and 3 opinions.
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Let's Outrage the Bull

For Teachers K - 8th
Students study kinetic and potential energy. In this energy lesson, students in grades K-2 understand the differences between kinetic and potential energy. Students in grades 3-5 demonstrate that kinetic and potential energy. Students in...
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Science: Motion Commotion

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars examine Newton's three laws of motion to discover what causes it and how it changes. They conduct motion experiments by building catapults and constructing balloon rockets. Finally, they conduct peer studies correlating...
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R Blends

For Teachers K - 1st
In this blends worksheet, learners complete 7 sentences by choosing from 12 words given. Students find the 7 words in a word search. Learners also unscramble 3 words.
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Rain Forest Rap

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this rain forest rap worksheet, learners read rap facts about the rain forest and then complete the rap with their own additional facts. Students fill in three lines of the rap.
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Is Your Blue Really Blue? [Metamerism]

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine color perception and how it relates to metamerism.  In this color instructional activity students complete a lab activity that shows them the three basic components of color perception. 

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