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Creepy, Crawly Critters

For Teachers K - 4th
Students study characteristics of insects by creating models from an assortment of materials. They create rubrics showing what an insect must have and create an insect, using a bag of materials. They cut out the puzzle insects included...
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Preparing the Soil

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students read Seedfolks and discuss the characters in the story and consider their actions that led to a community garden. Students journal about their...
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CONNECTIONS

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students study the interdependence of an ecosystem that allows it to sustain itself. They examine the Western lowland gorillas for an example.
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Food Travels and Preservation

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students complete a worksheet. In this food distribution and preservation instructional activity, students learn about the transportation of agricultural projects. Students list foods that they buy at the grocery store and then identify...
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History Detective

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the effects of the Great Exchange on the Americas.
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Trait Variations for Survival

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young learners examine how different traits could give one organism an advantage over another. In groups, they view two different organisms in different environments. To end the lesson, they complete a Venn Diagram on the two organisms...
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Plants

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this science instructional activity, students investigate plants by first reading a paragraph of information. Students then choose a plant, illustrate and write about it.
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Archaeobotany

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students study pictures of seeds and the conditions in which they grow during their study of archaeobotany. They infer ancient plant use by looking at archaeobotanical samples. They determine the change of plant use by interpreting a...
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Explorit's Tasty Food Quiz

For Students 5th - 6th
For this foods worksheet, students complete a five question multiple choice online interactive worksheet about foods that we eat.
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Test for 8th Grade about Reported Speech, Verb

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this reported speech worksheet, learners fill in the blanks to sentences with verbs, choose the correct words for sentences, change commands to reported speech, and more. Students complete 5 activities.
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Using Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this adjectives review worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they identify the adjectives in 12 sentences and use the adjectives in the word bank to fill in the blanks in 5 sentences.
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Adjectives: Finding Errors in Sentences

For Students 5th
In this adjectives learning exercise, 5th graders proofread 10 sentences to find the errors. They correct the errors by putting the adjectives in the proper position in each sentence.
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Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this adjectives worksheet, students examine 10 sentences. Students find the errors in the adjective clause within the sentence and correct each error.
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Plants Vocabulary Maze

For Students 4th - 6th
In this maze learning exercise, students read the clues, spell the words in order, and navigate through the maze from start to the red letter s. Students solve 15 clues.
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This I Can Do: The Drive

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read The Garden of Happiness and discuss the importance of the common good in a community. In this common good lesson, students understand how overcoming diversity and working together for a neighborhood drive. Students create a...
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The Stories They Tell -- Graveyard Data Collection Worksheet

For Students 6th - 9th
In this folk culture research worksheet, students use the form to record data about a graveyard that they visit to show that graveyards reflect how cultures change and differ from each other.
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What Bees Eat

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study plant and animal interdependence by studying bees and pollination. In this interdependence lesson, students discuss flower parts and dissect it to show its reproductive parts. Students then use tissue and pipe cleaners to...
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The Seed Match

For Teachers K - 5th
Students study seeds and plants. In this science lesson, students explore seeds from various types of plants and complete a worksheet about seeds. Students discuss plants that are fruits and vegetables and where they grow.
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Gardening for Beauty, Food, and Enjoyment

For Teachers 1st
First graders create their own garden. In this plant lesson plan, 1st graders discover the essential elements for a plant to grow. They planted their own garden and read the amount of space needed and the sunlight preferred for each...
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Farm Products Help Me Grow

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars view a display of empty food containers (or illustrations). They select a food and decide as a class if it has an animal or plant origin. Students view a display of common farm animals that are commonly eaten (cow, pig,...
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Seed Diversity

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students explore agriculture by researching different seeds. In this seed identification lesson, students collaborate in small groups to analyze a package of different seeds. Students utilize a magnifying glass to examine each seed...
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Beginning Spelling - Summer

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling worksheet, students spell 13 Summer words correctly using the definitions that are listed to the right of the jumbled word.
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Plants Definition Activity

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this plants definition worksheet, students choose the correct definition that match a word about plants. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Plants Vocabulary Decoder Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this plant vocabulary worksheet, learners match the letter of the plant vocabulary word to the number next to the definition. Students complete this for 15 words.