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Plants And Animals in the Local Environment

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars observe the various living things they can find outside their playground making sure to look both on the ground and in the air. They develop a large poster Venn digram, as a class, of plants and animals that live in the...
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Making The Geologic Time Scale Real

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students are assigned significant geologic events in Earth's history. They convert the date of the events into distances and then space themselves (on an outside playing field) away from other groups, to represent time between various...
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Pre-writing activities for improving students' connections to literature

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Pupils, while reading a novel together in class, jot in their journals any connections to their own lives they can make between the text and self, text to text or text to the world. Various themes are connected to open more doors to the...
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Critters R Us or Crime Scene Critters

For Teachers K - 12th
Students identify nocturnal animals in their local area. Using the internet, they view animal tracks to determine which ones might be in around their school. In groups, they examine outside areas and record their observations. They...
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Finding the Shape of a Web

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars examine spider webs they find as they explore outside. They make T-chart of the shapes found in two different webs and draw them on geoboard paper. Next, they measure length and width of a spider's web before checking to...
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Treasure Hunt

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners actively search a the ground outside and find several types of leaves, lichen, feathers and trash. They place items into journals, write entries, draw pictures and ask questions about the items found on their exploration.
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DON'T TREAD ON ME

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore how the habits and practices of people affect the soil and growth of plants. They are introduced to the phrase "soil compaction." Students play the Soil Particle Game in the related activities section. They go outside...
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ARE YOU A TRIANGULATEER?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore about triangles and their relationship to the worlld around them. They are able to identify triangular shapes in their environment. Students are able to communicate to one another their understanding of triangles outside...
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Cooling With Sunshades

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct research in order to find the effects of properties exposed to heat and how they change temperature. They consider the effect of sunlight upon objects that are placed outside with the help of an experiment. They also...
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Exploring the West Using Fiction

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore post Civil War development of the American West. They investigate the conflict among various groups involved in the settlement of the West and select a novel by a western writer and complete questions from the Exploring...
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Words Hurt

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Learners identify the various forms of bullying in a class discussion and to sort out the situations that can hurt outside and inside. They count the number of bullying incidents posted on the bulletin board to find which occur most...
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Octopus

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners practice listening and responding to a question with confidence. After studying the names of various fruit, students play a New Zealand game called Octopus. The game can be used for any key words or phrases. It is fast paced...
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Where in the World is Carbon Dixoide?

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students conduct experiments designed to detect the presence of CO2 by using a BTB that changes color (blue to yellow) in the presence of CO2. First, students experiment with the CO2 from combining vinegar and baking soda. In part two,...
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Hoop Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students play a modified game of tag. Given specific roles of "it" and "free-er," they try to remain outside of the hula hoops that have been placed on the gym floor. Students work cooperatively with the free-er to remain in the game.
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Tree Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Pupils compare and contrast characteristics of conifer and hardwood trees. After collecting samples of branches around the school, they classify the branch as hardwood or conifer. Groups of students identify given twigs. They go...
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Storybuilding Games

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students are encouraged to use their powers of observatios to create a tale. They play the storytelling Circle Game. Students allow the youngest player to pick out four things they can see outside the window. They start the game once...
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Unnatural Scavenger Hunt

For Students 4th - 8th
In this science observation scavenger hunt worksheet, students use 10 riddles to find items hidden in an outside area then map the locations of each item.
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Summer Word Search

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this Summer Word Search worksheet, students find 16 words related to summer. Examples of words include Boats, Outside, and Lazy.
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"Three Little Bikers Word Search Puzzle

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts learning exercise, learners study a word bank of 12 words that pertain to riding a bike outside. Students find the words in the word search puzzle. There is a missing quotation mark in the title; its meaning is not...
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Making a Paper Cube Using a One Dimensional Net

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this geometry activity, students make a paper cube by following the directions given on the paper, They cut along the outside edge of the net, fold inward along the inside lines, and glue the flaps to hold the shape of the cube.
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Simplifying Algebraic Expressions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students simplify the algebraic expressions using the order of operations. They pay special attention to the negative signs next to the outside of the parenthesis.
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Distributive Property

For Students 8th - 9th
In this distributive property instructional activity, students solve and complete 10 different problems that include applying the distributive property to solve each one. First, they follow the order of operations and calculate what is...
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Sleep 1.2a

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this sleep worksheet, learners complete a word search using 14 vocabulary words that deal with sleep for healthy kids inside and outside.
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Dinosaur Train: Drawing Birds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Kindergarten and first graders watch a video about the characteristics of birds.They then go outside, observe local birds, and discuss the characteristics. Next, they choose one to draw, and are instructed to include all of its...

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