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Boy Scout Merit Badge: Archery
In this boy scout merit badge: archery activity, 8th graders research the topic using websites listed, then answer 5 detailed questions about safety, commands, local laws, equipment, scoring in archery, then select an option and perform...
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Boy Scout Merit Badge: Cycling
In this boy scout merit badge: cycling worksheet, 8th graders research the topic with the websites listed, answer 9 detailed questions about first aid, bike maintenance, safety, traffic laws, then perform a road test and 4 long...
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Sports Merit Badge Workbook
In this Sports Boy Scout merit badge worksheet, students complete 7 pages of short answer questions. They answer questions about the prevention of sports related illnesses and injuries. They diagram and describe the rules and etiquette...
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Boy Scout Merit Badge: Horsemanship
In this boy scout merit badge: horsemanship worksheet, 8th graders research the topic using the websites listed, answer 11 detailed questions about safety, anatomy, breeds, saddles, diseases, care and feeding of horses, then...
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Boy Scout Merit Badge: Golf
In this boy scout merit badge: golf worksheet, 8th graders research the rules, history, first aid, terminology, benefits, and careers of golf using the website listed, then answer 8 detailed questions as part of earning a merit badge.
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Boy Scout Merit Badge: Fly Fishing
In this boy scout merit badge: fly fishing worksheet, 8th graders research the topic using the websites listed, answer 10 detailed questions about first aid, safety, equipment, types of flies, fish habits, local laws &...
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Where In the World is the Dominican Republic?
Students begin the lesson by discussing how where they live affects how they live. As a class, they add examples to each category such as home types, clothing, jobs and food. Using those categories, they write about their life in the...
Acoustical Society of America
Musical Instruments Part I - Woodwinds
What is the connection between sound and vibration? Learners find out as they conduct a series of experiments with instruments they create. The experiment is well explained, includes modifications for visuall and hearing impaired...
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
A Classroom Solar System
Create a scaled model of our solar system in your classroom! Scholars work collaboratively to build paper mache planets and hang them in their proper position to showcase each planet's location in the solar system.
John F. Kennedy Center
Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
One, two, three. One, two, three. Invite your language learners to practice the steps for researching and presenting information. Each small group has the task of explaining one Latin dance in full detail.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
Growing Up With A Mission
New Horizons began its journey to Pluto in 2006. Ten years later, it continues its mission. In that time, scholars have surely grown, but how much more will they grow by the time New Horizons reaches its destination? Find out with an...
NOAA
How Do We Know?: Make Additional Weather Sensors; Set Up a Home Weather Station
Viewers learn about three different weather measurement tools in installment five of the 10-part Discover Your Changing World series. They build weather vanes to collect data on wind speed, barometers to determine air pressure, and...
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Water in the Atmosphere
A slide show serves as the backdrop for a lesson on the moisture in Earth's atmosphere. Through it, mini meteorologists learn about the attributes of the atmosphere and actually use data-collecting weather tools to make observations and...
We Can!
We Can! Screen Time Chart
Screens are everywhere these days, from televisions and video games to cell phones and computers. Raise awareness of excessive screen time by helping your learners track how much time they each accumulate on a daily basis looking at...
Baylor College
Servings and Choices
An important part of balancing caloric intake to energy expenditure is knowing how many Calories you are consuming. In the fifth of a seven-lesson series on food and energy, learners estimate their daily caloric intake, then use a...
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Off To a Good Start
In this physical education success worksheet, pupils create a bulletin board outlining strategies that they can use to be successful throughout the year in a physical education class. In small groups, they discuss ways to be successful...
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Basketball - Shooting
Young scholars practice dribbling a basketball. They perform activities requiring walking, running, use of left and right hand. Students explore proper posture when dribbling. They experience the art of a progressive cross over. Young...
Missouri Department of Elementary
Feeling Faces
A activity help scholars identify emotions through facial expressions. After a friendly puppet reads scholars a poem all about feelings, learners act out how they would feel when a specific action happens to them. Participants watch and...
Consortium for Ocean Science Exploration and Engagement (COSEE)
Arctic Smorgasbord
Though the walrus spends roughly one third of its time on land, it eats organisms that live on the bottom of the ocean. The first in a series of five, the lesson uses a variety of plant and animal cards to have scholars build an arctic...
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Daily Activity Duffel Bags
Students in the first and second grade classroom takes home the D.A.D. bag. They look inside the bag and there is equipment designed for use with other family members. Students look inside a first grade bag and it contains short jump...
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Switch and Rotate
Students participate in a game whose object is to stay so close to a partner that when the teacher says "Stop," the players freeze. The follower should touch the leader.
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Floor Hockey
Students practice key aspects of floor hockey: passing, playing cooperatively, moving the ball or puck with both sides of the stick and shooting. They practice drills and play a game without a goalie.
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Innovative Celebration of Enrichment
Students start at the beginning of the day and move and rotate individually or with friends. They go to as many or as few centers as they wish such as: PE, Art, Music, Media, and Computers. Students do not have to stay together. They...
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Dribble Tag
Students practice dribbling with their one hand while staying away from the designated taggers.