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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: The Gene Connection Show [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders will discover the difference between inherited traits and learned behaviors by bringing the traits to life in a game of charades. After that, the students will demonstrate knowledge of recessive and dominant traits as they...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Super Gene [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th Standards
In this lesson, 5th graders learn about basic genetics and how genes can affect someone's behavior. They will write their own narrative about a character they create as a class in order to illustrate the effects of inherited traits and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Launch Into Learning: Catapults!

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students learn about catapults, including the science and math concepts behind them, as they prepare for the associated activity in which they design, build and test their own catapults. They learn about force, accuracy, precision and...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Learning About Bird Migration

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A activity where students get a better understanding of where birds go in winter months by learning about migration. During this activity, students will also explore life cycle of birds.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Learning About Dimensional Analysis and Stoichiometry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Help your young scholars learn the skill of dimensional analysis and the importance of mastering that skill. In this activity, students will work on their critical thinking by solving dimensional analysis problems. The lesson is...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Geo Map App Learning Activities: Rules of Contouring

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using GeoMap software, students learn how to read topographic maps, and the rules for using contour lines on a map. Detailed teacher and student handouts are provided. (GeoMap software can be downloaded at: http://www.geomapapp.org/.)
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Learn: Atmospheric Science Explorers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learning modules created by teachers for teachers to increase the "knowledge of and interest" in the atmospheric sciences. Modules include background information, hands-on activities, and assessments. Modules cover topics such as ozone,...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Under the Spell Of...spiders!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learn about their unique characteristics, how they hunt, and reproduce. Young scholars will appreciate the excellent photographs and background information. Teachers will love the series of three lesson plans about spiders, complete with...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Learning Light's Properties

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn the basic properties of light--the concepts of light absorption, transmission, reflection and refraction, as well as the behavior of light during interference. Lecture information briefly addresses the electromagnetic...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Sea Ice Extension for the Earth as a System Learning Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this lesson is for students to learn how the Earth's systems interact on a global level. They will examine global environmental data and compare this to data on the polar regions. In the process, they will develop an...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Magic Rocks [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students work in groups with each acting as a predator, prey, or family member in a particular habitat. They present their habitat performance to the class and students identify the habitat and animal relationships. Then,...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Art History Learning Stools [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders will learn about the art that documents our world via art history, genres, and master artists. They will select an era or artist that inspires them, research it, and create an artwork using collage, painting and drawing...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Monet's Magic [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
In this lesson, 4th graders will learn about the impressionistic painter, Claude Monet. Students will learn how to paint fuzzy (up and down strokes) while mixing tints, creating the illusion of water. They will also learn to do color...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Magna Carta: Rule of Law

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how the rule of law and due process, first guaranteed by Magna Carta, became an essential component in U.S. constitutional law in this video with supporting materials. [1:11]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Weather: What Is Weather?: Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn how weather is the combination of four factors -- temperature, wind, precipitation, and sunlight and clouds -- that occur at a given place and time in this lesson plan from WGBH. The mix of factors is changing all the time;...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Chinese Music & Dance: More or Less

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students learn about Chinese culture and the concept of greater than and less than. After watching a student performance of a Chinese song and dance students are taught the difference between locomotor and non-locomotor motions. Students...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Suki's Bone Lesson Plan: Molly of Denali

For Teachers K - 1st
Based on the animated story "Suki's Bone" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, this lesson introduces children to informative/explanatory and procedural texts and the purposes they serve. In the video, Molly's dog Suki uncovers a...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Exploring Habitats Through Music Composition [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan, students will learn about rondo form and practice a chant. After learning about the structure of the chant, they will work in small groups to create a chant about a habitat. The chants will then be combined with the...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Be One With the Water [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders will explore states of matter and the water cycle by bringing water to life with their bodies. By enacting the changes that water molecules experience, 4th graders will learn scientific information kinesthetically.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Acting Hot and Cold [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd
In this lesson, 3rd graders will explore heating and cooling through pantomime. By enacting the effect of sunlight on a snowman and a growing seed, students will learn scientific information kinesthetically.
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Morning Earth

Morning Earth: Thirty One Learning Activities Toward Ecological Literacy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This informative lesson plan site explains how to use art in the classroom to teach science. Thirty-one plans are provided on various ecological topics. As the art is made the students are implicitly learning the ecology principle.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: The English Guild Method of Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An extensive overview of the learning facilitated by English guilds. Includes a lesson plan.
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Other

Computer Science Education Group: Distributed Expertise Learning Modules

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Interdisciplinary learning modules that provide engaging and easy-to-use materials for teaching computer science concepts in other content courses.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Rainwater Harvesting Service Learning Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will gain an understanding of a rainwater harvesting system, learn about rainfall patterns and water use for various purposes, then design and build a rainwater collection system for their school.

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