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What Is It?

For Teachers 3rd
Play the game of Tag and differentiate between plants and animals. Explore the characteristics of plants. Identify the major parts of plants (e.g., seeds, stem, pistil) and describe their basic functions. Compare the requirements of some...
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Life And Death

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students participate in an interactive game to review how living things are classified.
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Understanding Community Environment

For Students 7th - 8th
In this understanding community environment activity, students, after exploring 5 parts of a study unit (link provided), choose a project (make a video, book, game, plan a garden or nature map, collect data, write a rap or crossword...
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Leap Frog Learning

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders participate in a game of leap frog to help them learn a specific math skill. They are divided into groups and help each other in this activity.
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USA State Tag / Mississippi River Shuffle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are given the opportunity to play a tag game while studing geographical sites in the U.S.A. (relative to the Mississippi River or to other geographic features you may choose).
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Outdoor Seed Sowing

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify vegetables and flowers that can be grown from seed.  In this seed sowing lesson plan, student learn the correct spacing and planting of various types of seeds. Students label plants. 
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Constructing and Visualizing Topographic Profiles

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Militaries throughout history have used topography information to plan strategies, yet many pupils today don't understand it. Scholars use Legos and a contour gauge to understand how to construct and visualize topographic profiles. This...
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Greenhouse Gas Guzzlers

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Teams of six to eight players imagine that they are driving in a vehicle and collect balls that represent carbon dioxide emissions based on their different activities. "Greenhouse Gas Guzzler" cards tell teams how many balls to collect...
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Creature Jeopardy!

For Teachers 5th Standards
After conducting research on a given scientific animal name, group members take a walk around their school and look for the specified animals in that classification. Then, they come back to their worksheets and create five creative clues...
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X-Circuit Fitness

For Students 5th - 8th
Get the class fit and have them participate in x-circuit fitness with six stations. Groups move from station to station in the correct directional path in two minutes completing each desired activity. Choose activities that are...
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Summer Activities: The Wonders of Nature!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students examine the world of nature. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop observation skills as they bird-watch and make rainbows, experimentation skills as they explore seeds and carrots, prediction skills as they...
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Color Your World with Changes --- the Camouflage Game

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders, after predicting dominant colors foud in their habitat or garden, visit heir area on a monthly basis. They search for colored toothpicks, then graph the results, determining the dominant color for the month.
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Plover Survival: A Simulation Game

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders engage in a simulation that explains the feeding behavior of the piping plover and the things that disturb the feeding and nesting of this species.
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Predators and Prey

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explain how the food chain works. They contrast predators with prey and describe their function in nature. Students discuss how the food chain aids in keeping nature balanced. In small groups, they play a game that simulates the...
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Pass-It-Back Relays: Children are aces at creating their own races.

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Children participate in several relay games in small groups.  In this creating outdoor relay races instructional activity, students develop motor skills and engage in activities that encourage teamwork and creative thinking....
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Technology that Makes Phonics Fun

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discover the Internet by participating in on-line educational activities.  In this educational technology lesson, students utilize interactive story books, podcasts, and games to help expand an understanding of phonics....
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Frogs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter f, play with plastic toys, and more to do with frogs. In this frogs lesson plan, students also play a game of leap frog.
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Toxic River

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners explore environmental safety by participating in a class game. In this toxic chemicals lesson plan, students discuss the effect chemicals have on our environment and how to best protect against their dangers. Learners...
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Invading the enemy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a physical outdoor activity in order to develop individual and group trust. In this interpersonal relationship lesson, students play attempt to find hidden objects in the dark. Students must trust their...
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Helping Hands Tag

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students work as teams to help others and develop cardio-respiratory endurance. They play a game of tag using noodles.
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Maple Syrup Production

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine the steps of maple sugar production and the labor and effort involved from the tree to the final product. They participate in a taste test game, and if they have access to maple trees, make their own syrup and sugar.
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Fitness Disc Golf

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a disc golf game. They throw the flying disc to each hole/cone on the course, completing various fitness tasks and monitoring their heart rate on a heart rate monitor.
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Touchdown Tag

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students broken into teams try to score a touchdown having to get through another team first. They have flags and change positions many times throughout the game.
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Street Art And Hopscotch

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils use a grid to help them draw outdoor paintings on the street of Keith Haring's work with haring people. In this painting lesson plan, students can also play a hopscotch games on their painting.

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