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Summer Machines Activity: Cool Tools

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners examine and think about various tools in their surrounding environment to facilitate development of their primary observation and sorting skills. In this tool observation lesson, students first sort a variety of tools any way...
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Water Quality Survey

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the differences in the water quality of a stream and complete water testing.  In this water quality lesson students collect aquatic insects and identify them. 
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Good Bug Survey

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this bug survey worksheet, students fill in squares on a graphic organizer with information about flowers currently blooming, hiding places for "good bugs," and any bugs they have seen that are helpful for pollination, as food for...
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The Ogre Bully

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the story The Ogre Bully and complete language arts activities connected to the story. In this language arts lesson plan, 2nd graders complete activities including discussion, reading, writing, sequencing, analyzing,...
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Salty Sea Water

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars conduct an experiment to find out if there is salt in the ocean. In this scientific inquiry lesson plan, students pour a cup of salt water onto an aluminum plate and observe the changes over a few days. Young scholars...
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Moving Objects

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners discover the history of the United States by examining the Great Migration.  In this U.S. History lesson, students research the immigration movement on the Internet and complete a worksheet about the large population shift. ...
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Forest Ecosystem Field Trip

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students investigate the environment by participating in a class field trip. In this botany instructional activity, students attend a field trip through their local park or forest while listening to a nature guide. Students practice...
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Decomposers- Nurse Logs

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners investigate temperate forest ecosystems. In this environmental instructional activity, students discover different forms of decomposition and its effect on the environment.
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Applied Science - Science and Math Pre Lab

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore human senses. In this applied Science lesson, students utilize their senses to distinguish various objects. Students explain their descriptions.
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Optics - The Study of Light

For Students 9th - 12th
In this optics worksheet, students read about how light can reflect or refract and how lenses and mirrors work. Then students complete 13 matching, 27 fill in the blank, and 8 word problems.
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Optics- The Study of Light

For Students 9th - 12th
In this optics worksheet, high schoolers read about refraction and reflection, lenses and mirrors, and objects and images. They answer 13 matching questions about light rays, light behavior and types of lenses. They also answer 9...
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Microscope Online

For Students 7th - 10th
In this microscope activity, students use an on line site to answer questions about the history of the microscope, they view objects and identify what each is, they explore different magnifications of the microscope and they answer...
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Microscopes and Telescopes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars analyze a microscope and study what they do.  In this investigative lesson students study how microscopes were first invented, and how ray diagrams are used in conjunction. 
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Looking into Space

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explain how telescopes work and how they can contribute to our knowledge of the universe.
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Dirty Worms

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the functions of earthworms and their effect on soil. They conduct an earthworm dissection lab, and complete a checklist.
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Observing and Classifying Rocks

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine various types of rocks and record their properties. They collect rocks at home and bring them to school where they are mixed and distributed to groups of students. After writing their observations on...
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Lenses and Mirrors

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students investigate lenses and mirrors showing how they bend and reflect light waves.
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Rice (Gohan) Observations

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate rice or gohan as it's called in Japan in a couple of experiments. They tally the results.
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A CLOSER LOOK

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students group objects by their physical characteristics and various compositions using literature to stimulate recall.
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Biophilia Space

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students observe what is happening around and within them. They observe a natural environment which is free of conversation, pedestrians or traffic. Afterward, they journal their observation and experience.
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Lighthouse Diamond Thief Web Quest Worksheet

For Students 6th - 9th
For this chemical properties worksheet, students perform 4 chemical tests on 6 different household powders recording their observations for each test. Then they complete 2 short answer questions.
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Eye Safety

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders become aware of the need for eye safety in the classroom through three mini labs.
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Particulate Sampler

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students estimate the extent of particulate air pollution present in their neighborhoods.
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Brine Shrimp

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students gain a sense of the delicacy and complexity of a living organism and the rather narrow range of conditions under which it can live.