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Sleep

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine sleeping habits.  In this sleep instructional activity, students examine their sleeping patterns and create a log.  Students illustrate their dreams and create a plan to improve sleep patterns.
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Shadow Trackers: From Photography to Writing

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore the rotation of the earth. In this science lesson, students view photos of various places around the world. Students conduct an experiment in which they can see how the earth's rotation creates shadows on the earth.
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States of Consciousness

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students investigate sleep. In this psychology lesson, students discuss five environmental factors leading to stress related to sleep.
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Open Your Eyes Wide-Shut!

For Teachers K
Students, using the book, Good Night, Gorilla, show how a speech pathologist uses children�s literature during whole class time to teach articulation, receptive, expressive, and written language skills.
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Water Works Wonders

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine where water is found in the world, how we use it, and the various forms it takes. They observe the refraction of light through a prism, record the day and night sky over a week's time, and create a topographic model of...
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Letter Recognition A-E

For Teachers K
Students study and analyze letter recognition of A-E. They are involved in drawing letters with hands and arms, sign language, phonics puzzles, computer lab practice on letters and the making of a small sound/letter book to be reinforced...
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Xeriscaping In Your Community

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a service-learning project. They design landscaping that maximizes water use and utilizes indigenous plant species. Afterward, they advertise and present their xeriscape garden at a school function such as...
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Moon Journal

For Students 5th - 9th
In this astronomy worksheet, students draw the shape of the moon as it appears in the sky each night for three weeks. With their drawings they include the moon phase and any unusual characteristics they observe.
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I'm Warm Now

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders graph how much water is wasted while waiting for it to get warm in the spigot in the sink. In this graphing lesson plan, student first predict how much water is wasted. That night they test it out at home and the next day...
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Chemical Composition of American Coins

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the chemical composition of pennies dated 1983 or later. In this chemical composition of American coins lesson plan, students scratch the surface of the penny to expose the zinc core. They put the penny in...
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Solution Shapes

For Students 7th - 9th
In this solutions activity, students soak a pipe cleaner in hot water and a supersaturated solution of 20 Mule Team Borax. Students leave their pipe cleaner in the solution for 30 minutes and then observe. They put it back in over night...
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Wrap It Up for Chanukah!

For Teachers K - 6th
Prepare gifts for the eight nights of Hanukkah with a fun and artistic instructional activity. Learners use various materials to make an array of unique gifts, including splatter paintings, decorated flowerpots, and stained glass...
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My Family - Bookmaking for Social Studies

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create family histories. In this book making lesson, students take digital cameras home for the night and take family members' photographs. Students use the photographs and text they write about their families to create a family...
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Online Reading Logs

For Teachers Pre-K - 7th
Students record book reading and practice spelling and vocabulary on this free online reading-log site.  In this instructional activity, students work online to complete reading logs. Students are assigned 30 minutes a...
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Labeled Diagrams

For Teachers K Standards
Let's learn about bats! Those flying creatures of the night inspire a instructional activity about non-fiction books. They start by charting characteristics commonly found in informational texts, specifically charts, diagrams, and...
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Agriculture is a Cycle

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars explore cycles in nature. In this cross curriculum agriculture lesson, students define "cycle" and research weather and planting folklore. Young scholars make a bracelet in which individual colored beads represent the many...
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Hot Air

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers conduct an experiment to determine how hot air affect the path of laser. In this physics lesson plan, students explain why stars appear to twinkle at night. They discuss how light travels from space to Earth.
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Sky Stories

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students are introduced to the branch of science known as astronomy. They discuss stars and constellations and then view the night sky using a portable digital planetarium projector. They identify a variety of constellations and...
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Star Quest

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners review the concepts of the branch of science known as astronomy. They discuss stars and constellations and then view the night sky using a portable digital planetarium projector. They identify a variety of constellations using a...
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Nasonia Genetics-A Jewel of a Wasp

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the inheritance pattern of eye color in Nasonia wasps. In this genetics and inheritance lesson plan, students read about the life cycle of Nasonia wasps and hypothesize about the possibilities of eye color inherited...
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Constellations

For Students 9th - 11th
In this stars learning exercise, students complete a word search by finding 48 words associated with the various constellations found in the night sky.
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Soil Permeability

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars discuss how soil permeability is affected by permafrost. In this soil lesson plan, students freeze soil over night, and discuss how the environmental conditions of freezing affect soil and further affect vegetation.
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Autism Speaks School Community Toolkit

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Guide members of the educational community in understanding and supporting autistic learners. A kit from Autism Speaks includes an array of tools designed for parents, teachers, and community members. 
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Parent/Guardian Information and Preference Form

For Teachers K - 12th
Some parent/guardian contact forms are just better than others. This one is great. Respectful, informative, complete, this communication form even includes an assurance that the information will not be shared.

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