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How Fast Is that Rocket?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders calculate the speed of a falling object using measurements from a falling rocket. They report data from their data sheet to the teacher to record on the board or on the overhead transparency and discuss the results with...
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What's the Mean?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify mean using concrete objects.
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Jin Soo Kim

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine and discuss a sculpture by the artist Jin Soo Kim. They explore and identify basic sculpture techniques, and create a sculpture using found objects, plaster, and cardboard.
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How Dense Are You?

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students examine how density is a value that describes what type of a material an object is made of regardless of its shape or size.
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Tech Number Patterns

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, using concrete objects or drawings, explain the difference between odd and even numbers.
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How Tall in the Fall?

For Teachers 1st
First graders use nonstandard measurement to measure. After reading Inch by Inch, 1st graders pair measure leaves that they have collected. They glue their leaves onto tag board to make a display.
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Do You See What I See?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students observe and describe different objects seen under a microscope and compare the individual perspectives of what was seen.
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Let's Build

For Teachers K - 1st
Students listen as the teacher differentiates between natural and people-made items. They go outside and make lists of natural and people-made things they see. Students complete the linked worksheet by cutting and pasting as suggested by...
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Switch and Rotate

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a game whose object is to stay so close to a partner that when the teacher says "Stop," the players freeze. The follower should touch the leader.
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Grocery Bag Fun

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students improve their ability to catch and control an object with a plastic grocery sack.
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Peace Pie

For Teachers 1st
First graders review peacemaking strategies by identifying their capacity of creating and promoting peace within their classroom, home, community, and world. Fractions are introduced through the making of a "peace pie."
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Mine Is! Is Yours?

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in a lesson which teaches the concept of symmetry through the use of letters in the student's name. They use a piece of yarn to see if they can make symmetrical pieces out of their own names.
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Diagonal Lengths

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students collect, organize, and analyze data while studying the Pythagorean Theorem, measure length and width of several rectangular objects, and compare the measured results to the calculated results.
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Oscar's Garbage Can

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are arranged in a circle with two students inside the circle. They try to clean out Oscar's garbage can while the ones outside the circle try to throw the objects back in.
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Alphabet, Vegetable, and Chicken Noodle Parachute Soup

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students throw in their letter or vegetable when the said object or letter is said by the teacher. They also explore how to make a parachute ripple and make waves.
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House of H

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners identify the letter H and the sound it make through drawing. After identifying the letter H, students brainstorm words that begin with the letter H. In the computer lab, they use computer drawing software to create a house and...
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Wind

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders watch an experiment that demonstrates the causes of wind. They design and make an original weather craft.
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Toad Tag

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners who are chosen as taggers move throughout the area tagging others using a locomotor pattern of choice like walking, hopping, skipping, etc. When tagged, a spell has been cast upon them, turning them into a toad or frog.
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Snacks 'R Us

For Teachers 1st
First graders experiment with fat content by analyzing snack foods. They learn what makes up a nutritious snack.
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One-Difference Classification Train

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice their classification skills through hands-on practice. Working in groups, students identify various ways in which similar items can be classified. Given a kit of similar items, students classify objects in multiples...
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Recycling Relay

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students improve their locomotor skills and their knowledge of recycling. They participate in a relay as they recycle different objects into their proper containers.
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Our Solar System: Its Planets and Their Satellites

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create a replica of our solar system. Each group arranges the balls in the proper order for our solar system by gluing them to the construction paper. Under each of the balls, the name of the object should be clearly printed.
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Noun Fill In

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this noun usage activity, learners review the definition of a noun and some examples. Students then complete the sentences with one of the nouns from the list of choices.
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Noun Fill in 2

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this noun usage learning exercise, students review the definition and examples for nouns. Students then complete the sentences with one of the nouns from the choices available.