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Melts in Your Bag, Not in Your Hands
Learners study how the sun transfers heat to the earth through radiation. They examine how animals absorb energy from the sun to warm their bodies by experiment with chocolate melting. They examine sun safety.
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Tall as a Mountain, Flat as a Plain
Students examine pictures of various landforms before placing them on a chart under the appropriate label.They sing songs about landforms to the tune of "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain." Next, they use non-edible baker's dough to...
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Determining Hours of Daylight
In this daylight hours activity, students will study illustrations showing the length of day at every 10-degrees of latitude for the winter and summer solstices. Students will complete 4 short answer questions based on the illustrations.
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Plate Patterns
Students review the patterns they discovered from a previous activity. In this investigative lesson students plot data as a class and color a map.
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Homeschooling Lesson: Sea Turtles
Students write down the names of common turtles and observe pictures of various types. In this sea turtles lesson, students review names and features of these animals, label and draw a picture. Students research habitat, migration,...
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Human Coordinate Plane
Eighth graders form a human coordinate grid to develop knowledge of the placement and meaning of coordinates on a grid. They experience the placements of the x and y coordinates in an ordered pair.
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Polar Caps: Image Processing Tutorial
Students utilize computer image processing techniques to measure the size of Earth's polar ice caps and analyze various phenomena visible on planetary images.
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Creating NEW Human Rights
Young scholars decide on what human rights should exist at a new hypothetical planet after watching clips of three videos. They complete journal entries which tell about factors that influence new human rights.
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Alien Visitor's Rewrite
Learners role play the role of an alien who analyzes how the media represents the different social groups. In groups, they write their own story in which they add or revise a character to make it non-stereotypical. They share their...
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Ocean Market
Students research how: The ocean is the source of many materials, from ores mined from its depths to relaxing mineral salts for a bath. Exquisite mother-of-pearl inlay, decorative shells, and pearl jewelry are found in gift shops...
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Alien Behaviors
Second graders identify human characteristics and classify them as inherited traits or learned traits.
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Specializing in Space
In this literature book review activity, students read a nonfiction book about space or space exploration before choosing a topic to explore further. They choose from 7 activities such as designing a model, writing a letter, write about...
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Coordinates
In this coordinates learning exercise, 6th graders solve ten multiple choice questions by using their knowledge of coordinates on a grid. This is an interactive learning exercise.
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Globe Lesson 3 - Cardinal Directions - Grade 6+
In this cardinal directions worksheet, middle schoolers read a 2-page review of cardinal directions and use a globe to respond to 5 questions.
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Class Flow: Name the Continents
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will allow students to label the continents and the oceans on a world map.
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Class Flow: Can You Read a Spine Label?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a library skills lesson on how to read a call number on the spine label for fiction and everybody books (5th graders also studied biography spine labels). Followed by small group evaluation,...
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Class Flow: Naming the Bones
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows the student to label diagrams by utilizing drag and drop. Drag the corner of the diagram to reveal a labeled diagram beneath to check your answers.
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Class Flow: The Parts of a Flower
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart illustrates the parts of a flower. Students have opportunities to label and answer content questions about flowers.
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Class Flow: The Heart
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart shows the parts of the human heart with labels and includes a blank, unlabeled heart for assessment purposes.
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Class Flow: Labeling United States
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows the students to use a 50 states map to move the states into their correct position on the map and identify states by their abbreviations. The flipchart is designed to help students...
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Lonely Planet: France
This Lonely Planet map of France shows the rivers and mountain ranges as well as major cities. Clicking on a site labeled in color brings the reader to information about that site. Includes Corsica.
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Class Flow: Subject Verb Identification
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will identify subject and verb in various sentences and label the sentence correctly.
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Class Flow: Frog Dissection Diagrams
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using diagrams of a dissection, students learn how to dissect and label the anatomy of a frog.
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Class Flow: Water Cycle
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an activity flipchart that asks students to label the various phases of the water cycle.