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Making It Balance

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to story, "The 100-Pound Problem," compare their weight with character in story, and weigh different classroom items using nonstandard units and standard units. They experiment with different items that can make scale...
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Tox Mystery Quiz

For Students 5th - 6th
In this identifying toxic products instructional activity quiz, learners read the location where items are found and a question about the products, and choose a multiple choice answer. Students choose 27 answers.
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Cooking Up an Explanation

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students pose scientific questions about food items and research their explanations. They then create recipe cards with the answers and present their findings in a cooking show format.
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In the Home

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this sorting worksheet, students will construct a paper models of a home with four sections: kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living room. Then students will cut out and sort 10 household objects.
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Minerals in Your Home

For Students 6th - 8th
In this minerals worksheet, students use a website to find the minerals used to make specific items found in homes. They pick one item in a bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen and complete a chart with the minerals found in each...
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The Bacteria Time Bomb in your Home

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read an article that explains the dangers of household bacteria. In this instructional activity, students explore items in a home that easily hold bacteria, then complete several activities to reinforce comprehension of the...
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Ocean Exploration

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore whales. In this animal adaptation and whale instructional activity, students access prior knowledge about whales from previous lessons, then use background knowledge to predict the eating strategies of a baleen whale and...
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Graphing the Annual Food Drive

For Teachers K - 12th
Students graph the number of items contributed to the food drive. They compare daily results to other days or to an overall goal and answer questions based on the graph.
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Eating Through the Metric System

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders convert measurements in recipes to metric measurements and prepare the food items. They create a metric measurement cookbook.
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Elementary Vocabulary Games

For Teachers 1st - 5th
How do learners pick up new vocabulary words? This book offers an explanation and 30 vocabulary games to help your language learners master new words. Each game is based on a particular topic and includes three parts (memorizing,...
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Set Up Your Own Apartment

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students divide into groups and 'set up' an apartment together making lists of items to purchase from an allowance of money. They gain practice with basic equations in a real life context.
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House and Furniture

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this house and furniture worksheet, students label the furniture in the house by choosing the correct words and fill in the blanks to the text by using the furniture names. Students complete 50 problems total.
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Kitchen Calculations

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students compare eggs to other foods as a cost-effective protein source. They use formulas to determine prices in a worksheet and in local newspaper ads.
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Vocabulary and Language Development

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students discover new vocabulary words. In this language development lesson, students reach into a box of themed items and identify the object. They discuss the attributes of the object as well. 
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Slicing Up Food Fractions

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders categorize, cut, and sort food items to explore fractions.
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Summer Machines Activity: Cool Tools

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students examine and think about various tools in their surrounding environment to facilitate development of their primary observation and sorting skills. In this tool observation instructional activity, students first sort a variety of...
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Trees at Work... Just Look!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the significance of trees. They collect magazine pictures of animals that live in trees, list products that are made from trees, collect twigs and create an item using the sticks, and bring in and discuss food from...
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Exploring the Properties of Matter in the Preschool

For Teachers Pre-K
Students study the properties of the physical and natural world. In this properties of the physical and natural world lesson plan, preschool students work at discovery tables to see how simple machines work, what happens when items are...
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Snow Globes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create snow globes out of recycled coffee jars and other items.
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Classroom Composting

For Teachers K - 6th
Pupils discover the benefits of composting. They identify the steps of decomposition as well. They are read a book and discuss what items decompose.
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Open Your Eyes To Art!

For Teachers K - 4th
Students help create a colorful bulletin board for classroom art displays in this short activity for the early elementary classroom. The activity, which can use a variety of items, includes product ideas and resource links to find very...
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Minerals In Your House

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students find the answers to the ten questions that relate common household items to having types of minerals in them.
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Blakesley Hall and Inventories

For Students 7th - Higher Ed
In this Blakesley Hall worksheet students will compare the Inventory Lists from two different houses and determine which items belonged to which person based on their economic background.
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Lesson 1: Hot, Not, or Silly

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students discover burn prevention and fire safety while sorting and classifying related pictures. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify ways to prevent burns, and discuss various ways in which burns may occur. Students...

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