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I Watch Babies Grow

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the changes of life in different generations. In this change of life lesson, students help out families with new babies and learn about their needs. Students participate in interviews, creating timelines and writing...
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Shape Shifters- Trees and the Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars make a tree sculpture. In this trees and the environment lesson, students learn about the parts of a tree, discuss what a tree needs in order to grow, find images of trees in art and nature, use various materials to create...
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Kaleidoscope

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore energy by creating a light project in class. In this kaleidoscope lesson, students discuss the properties of light and how mirrors can reflect the energy in different directions. Students view a diagram of light...
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Harvesting the New World: Changing Land Uses and Contact Between Cultures in Colonial Times

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders differentiate the Native American and European values. In this world history lesson, 9th graders define colonialism in their own words. They study the effects of epidemics and other diseases to Native American populations.
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My Tree Observations

For Students 5th - 7th
In this tree observation worksheet, students pick a tree that they observe over the course of a school year. They make observations, they sketch the tree, they take photographs of the tree, they get a leaf sample. They estimate the tree...
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Making Paper

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students read about the history of paper production and make their own recycled paper. In this paper making lesson, students follow the directions to make paper from recycled paper. Students also learn about making paper from live plants.
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A Unique Circus

For Students 4th - 5th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students chose the word that will best fit in the sentence from the word bank.  Students will chose between, verbs and nouns to complete their worksheet.  
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Get in Touch With Trees

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this five senses activity, students complete several activities that help them improve their sense of touch and learn about their environment.
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Structures Slide Show

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate basic plant anatomy. They create an effective slide show showing the plant anatomy and life process of a plant of their choice. Students use PowerPoint to create their presentations.
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California CareerZone Student Workbook

For Students 6th - 12th
A 13-page workbook walks scholars through the California CareerZone website. Class members start by creating accounts then take an interest survey. Results from the survey are used in activities that explore lifestyle choices, budgeting,...
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Serial Forms/Material Difference

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze pop art and discuss artists' choices for materials, line, color, and scale. For this art analysis lesson, students consider artists' choices and compare works. Students make a two or three dimensional work of art using...
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Branching Art From Nature

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students construct an art piece from nature. For this visual art lesson, students use objects from the environment (petals, leaves, and stones) to create a unique art piece.
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Sharing with Others (Private/Religious)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students appreciate uniqueness and differences by comparing and contrasting fruit. In this differences lesson, students study fruits and analyze for similarities and differences. Students sort the fruit into five categories. Students...
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Fabulous Forensic Fingerprints

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students observe their fingerprints and notice how all human bodies are different. In this fingerprints lesson plan, students see the loops, whorls, and arches that make everyone's fingerprints different, and make a class graph for which...
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Gliding Glaciers

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students are introduced to the concept of glaciers. They discover how glaciers move and what types of landforms are formed by glaciers.
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Bicentennial Mural

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create a permanent artwork in celebration of Worthington's and Ohio"s Bicentennials. The 7th and 8th grade art students and staff get to work on this special and unique project. Each student chooses a person, event or symbol...
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Name Plaque

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create name plaques that are decorated in colors and designs that reveal aspects of their individual personalities.
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Bearden Art-Making Workshop

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are able to create their own collages using some of the same kinds of images and materials Bearden used. They put to use some of the Bearden techniques they observed in the reproduction/slide lecture and explore to...
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Plant Classification

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in an experiment that involves plant classification. They identify and are able to employ three methods of classifying leaves. Each student classifies leaves by each of the following methods: K-I 4.b, d, & e;...
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Making Valentine's Day Cards

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students construct Valentine's Day cards. In this holiday lesson, students use felt, construction paper, markers, and glue to create unique Valentine's Day cards.
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Cranes, Crosswalks, and Big Gulps

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students watch a video and answer questions based on wildlife jobs. For this wildlife lesson plan, students learn that biologists don't just play with animals but that there is a lot of study involved.
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Human Prehistory

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discuss the history of humans.  In this human history lesson plan, students describe how the placement of the continents changed and where the humans began and traveled to. They discuss interaction with Neanderthals and...
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Letter Writing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate different types of animals in a unique way. They use a variety of resources to find information. Students read a story about an iguana and then write their own letters using a character of an animal found in the...
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Conversation Completions

For Students 4th - 5th
In this conversation completions worksheet, students fill in the blank with the letter of the phrase that logically completes each conversation about world travel.