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Marine & Aquatic Habitats Activities - Estuaries Are for the Birds!
Young scholars recognize that birds act as indicators of pollution because of their sensitivity to environmental change, and role play the manner in which marine debris can be hazardous to waterfowl.
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Number Subsets: Winning the Number Game
Eighth graders review their examineing about numbers and number systems through playing the Number Game. They create a list of numbers and based upon the characteristics and properties of the numbers they earn points.
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Mixing Primary and Secondary Colors
Students use Play Doh to make a color wheel. In this color wheel lesson plan, students use primary and secondary colors of Play Doh to make a color wheel.
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A Deeper Shade of Purple
Third graders explore the color purple. In this visual arts lesson, 3rd graders sort purple objects in various ways and create the color purple by mixing paint. Students create a purple portrait of a character from the play, Lost and Found.
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Geometric Designs in the Game of "Life"
Learners play a game to discover simple patterns. In this geometric designs lesson, students use a game board and counters to represent survivals, deaths, and births. They explore simple patterns for several generations.
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Bb is for Bike
Learners learn to print the upper and lower case Zaner-Bloser letter Bb in this language arts worksheet. Learners trace and then print their letters in unlined boxes.
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Bb is for Bike
In this printing practice worksheet, students learn to print both upper and lower case letter Bb. Students trace several examples before forming their letters in the unlined boxes.
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Blue Genes: Affect Your Life!
Young scholars, in groups, research, analyze and synthesize information on genetic diseases. After watching a video on genetics, groups perform research on a variety of genetic diseases and present their findings to the class.
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Fly on the Ceiling
Fourth graders complete activities to increase their understanding of coordinates. They listen to Julie Glass' book, The Fly on the Ceiling, before playing fly tic-tac-toe and Swat the Flies, in which they use ordered pairs to state the...
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Colors of the Rainbow
Students explore primary and secondary colors through the use of colors represented in the rainbow. They read and discuss the book, 'What a Wonderful World,' mix paint colors and paint rainbows, and create scratchboard paintings.
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Music of the Estuary
Students explore the sounds of the estuary. In this wetlands instructional activity, students discuss how to simulate the sounds of nature. Students write and record a musical score featuring the sounds of the wetlands.
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Act 3: New York Introduction 1924-1925, Louis Armstrong
Learners listen to and examine jazz recordings and listen for features (breaks and obbligato) that are typical of jazz music. In groups, they make up a short blues song of their own.
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Process of Mitosis
Young scholars discover through whole-class role play, the process of mitosis. They will all become a chromosome and demonstrate how they line up 23 to 23.
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Introducing Integers and Their Operations
There's nothing negative about this mini-unit on integers! Engaging young mathematicians in a series of hands-on activities and collaborative learning opportunities, this resource offers an excellent way to introduce your class...
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Probability of Chance Events - Independent Practice Worksheet
What are the chances of pulling out a green from a box of pencils? Now you can find out after sharpening your probability skill set with this resource. Practice different types of experimental probability and use the additional...
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In the Desert
Students explore earth science by completing several environment activities. In this desert instructional activity, students identify where the U.S. deserts are and what types of wild life inhabit them. Students utilize arts and crafts...
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Stain My Days Blue
Learners read several poems related to the life and culture of the Appalachia region. They are introduced to the poetic forms of simile, alliteration and onomatopoeia and respond to the poems through journal entries and poetry of their own.
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The History of Rock and Roll: Parts 1, 6, 8, and 10 Roots of Rock & Roll
Students examine the musical influences on the emergence of Rock and Roll.
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Complete the Story
In this story worksheet, students fill in the blanks to a story about the sky with words from a word bank. Students fill in 9 blanks total.
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Follow the Directions: June
In this following directions worksheet, 1st graders will either read or listen to five month of June related directions to complete a picture of a boy at the beach.
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Regulating the Harvest
Learners study the effect of trapping in the Illinois Territory in 1805 and compare it to trapping today. They participate in a role playing activity in which they discover how practices in early Illinois Territory led to wildlife...
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The Ups and Downs of It: Wind
Students explore the ways in which wind is formed and how it affects our weather.
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Find the Minerals
Students read "A Minerals Story" while circling the words in the story that represent minerals. They find the words amber, gold, Feldspar, Galena, Copper, tin, gold, silver, iron, Quartz.
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Tam Tam at the Park
In this dialogue worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the appropriate words. Students fill in the blanks for 15 dialogue sentences.