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Survival Kit

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discuss how a strong community can be helpful for survival during hard times. In this Survival Kit art activity, students create their own Survival Kit. Students use various items to symbolize things needed for survival in day...
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What Influences Reaction Rate?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study reaction rates, what determines how fast a reaction happens and how the chemical changes occur.  In this reactions lesson students complete a lab where they use Alka-Seltzer to observe reaction rate and create a graph...
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Making a Comet in the Classroom

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students study comets and how Halley's comet was created.  In this space lesson students create their own comets using dry ice.    
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Cockroach Slope

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students identify the slope of linear functions. In this slope lesson, students collect data and graph it. They write equations with no more than two variables and use technology to explain their data.
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A Recipe For Democracy - The Delicious Taste of Choice

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Children can conduct a mock senate after completing these Declaration of Independence and Constitution lesson plans.
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Mandala Art Lessons

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Mandala art lessons provide easy and fun ways to learn about art, math, and other cultures.
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The Pre-Raphaelite Artists

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A study of pre-Raphaelite artists can lead to an exploration of art, literature, and history.
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To Diaper or Not to

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the environmental impact of disposable diapers.  In this environmental impact lesson students discover the materials used in disposable diapers. 
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Introduction To Orbital Mechanics

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars use NASA drawings to build a model satellite for a specific mission. They design a set of drawings for their satellite showing its subsystems as well.
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Unrolling the Landscape

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create a landscape painting using traditional Chinese techniques. They review Chinese landscape paintings, paint an original landscape and write a poem to go with their picture.
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Tempera/chalk painting

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate and accurately interpret with cupporting evidence the artwork of Claude Monet. They choose what they will paint. Students draw a rough draft on paper. They produce interseting looking "brush strokes", where...
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Fractions: Mud Pie Math

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify and name fractional parts through the use of mud pie manipulatives. In this fractional manipulatives lesson, 2nd graders identify and label halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, eighths, and tenths and order them...
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ABC BINGO

For Teachers K - 1st
Students participate in a homemade ABC Bingo game to reinforce the alphabet. They write a different lower case letter in each block on their card and continue until the card is filled up.
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A Relatively Far Out Idea: Estimating

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate methods of estimating through cooperative group activities, hands-on activities, the use of tables and graphs and an interactive video.
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Salt Relief Map of Virginia

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create a salt relief map of the four regions of Virginia. They indentify land forms and bodies of water, and summarize how they made their project.
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Fraction Fun!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders play a fraction game removing a fraction of a whole as the spinner dictates.
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Beat Or No Beat

For Teachers K
Students keep a steady beat by body movement exercises, improvise, identify a beat/no beat sequence and sing a nursery rhyme from Portugal in this Kindergarten General Music lesson plan. The use of simple rhythmic instruments is required.
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MS Math Order of Operations

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create a mnemonic device which correctly represents the order of operations. They simplify expressions by correctly following the order of operations. Students use PEMDAS-parentheses, exponents, multiplication,...
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Physical Science: Bubble Prints

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a lab experiment involving soap bubbles and making bubble prints. They blow bubbles into the soap and add paint to make bubble prints. With extra time, they can play with a variety of bubble toys to see what...
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March Into Shamrock Season

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use St. Patrick's Day activities to explore symmetry and words. In this instructional activity about St. Patrick's Day, students experience the Irish culture by learning about the Irish shamrock, and learning some Irish words....
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Adjective Fun

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this grammar activity, students create sentences by using the adjectives they chose on cards from a game card grid that is provided. They get points for correct adjective use.
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Smarties Investigation

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this math worksheet, learners participate in an investigation of Smarties candy. For example, students estimate how many candies they have in each color, count the actual number, and record the information in a tally chart.
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Neutral Colors - Page 5

For Teachers K - 6th
Students explore new colors. Black, Brown, Gray, and white.
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The Spider Beside Her

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders expand their knowledge of spiders. By creating a model of a spider, 2nd graders recognize differences between spiders and insects and determine that a spider is not an insect.