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The Cloud in the Bottle

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners observe a demonstration of how pressure and temperature affects cloud formation.
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Elastic Forces

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders predict and experiment to discover the amount of force exerted by a stretched elastic band. They construct a spreadsheet and make a bar graph showing the results of their experiment.
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Inuit Sculpture

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Kids in grade four through eight research Inuit artists and art styles. After a critical look at Inuit sculpture, they use those forms for inspiration as they create one of their own. They practice using the subtractive method of...
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Colonial Tag

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This exercise combines learning about colonialism with playing tag. Class members are asked whether a statement involves an economic, religious, political or social factor and then run to the location with the corresponding poster. The...
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Habits of Mind

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars study tree leaves to complete the activity, In this tree leaf experiment lesson, students observe, measure, and sort tree leaves individually, in groups, and in relationship to the entire tree.
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Machinery In Society

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore technology by completing a worksheet in class. In this common machinery lesson, students define the different designs that make simple machines work such as wheels, pulleys and gears. Students utilize verbs to describe...
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Forces: Worksheet 2

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this force and motion worksheet, students answer multiple choice, true/false and fill in the blank questions about force and motion.
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Pp is for Pizza

For Students K - 2nd
For this printing worksheet, students form 11 uppercase and lowercase letter P's and write two rows of them on their own. Students also color in pictures that begin with the letter P.
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Indentured Servitude and Immigration

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students examine indentured servitude. In this Teaching Tolerance lesson, students compare indentured servitude of colonial America to the undocumented immigration of today. Students write reflections regarding how they feel about...
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Toys and Forces

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss the collection of toys and demonstrate to the class how a given toy moves. They discuss the part of this toy that could be broken or missing to cause the toy not to work. Which parts could be broken and the toy...
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Fertilizers, Pesticides and Human Health- American Lessons

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore migration and why people move. They explore the movement of native populations. Students explore the economy as an factor in migration. They discuss the exploitation of the migrant worker.
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Water and Ice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students will work in small groups, observing an ice cube and recording a description, the feel of the ice, and how it looks when put in another container. Students observe changes in the ice over 15 minute intervals, then freeze the...
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Colonization and Emigration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore emigrants deciding to leave the United States and the events that lead to their decisions.
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Sail Through History: American West and History of Medicine

For Students 5th - 6th
In these reading strategies worksheets, students learn reading hints, tips and the S.A.I.L. reading strategy. Students use the methods to learn about American history and the history of medicine.
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Sound and Hearing - Internet Research

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use a website to help them recognize that sound is generated in a variety of ways and from different sources. They determine that sounds vary in tone and loudness, and learn there are different ways to describe sound.
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Circuits and Conductors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in an online activity to explain the conductivity of different materials and the effect of changing the power source.
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Moving and Growing

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students work with a partner to brainstorm a list of as many human body parts as possible. Using that list, they circle any one of those that are bones. They are shown a model of the human skeleton and practice locating various bones. ...
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Grouping and Changing Materials

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students feel and observe different types of materials. Using the internet, they sort objects based on the materials they are made from and justify their reasons for putting it in a certain category. They identify objects that could...
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Structures with Bill Nye

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Shared ResourceIntroduce structures (tension and compression) to your students with the much-loved Bill Nye videos. Watch this 20 minute video while filling out this cloze activity. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2iPj4Cjajk)(ESL)
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Antonyms

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Familiarize linguists with antonyms as they examine examples and match up opposites. First, scholars read a short description of antonyms, writing as many antonyms for big as they can. Then, they match up pairs of words that are antonyms...
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Using Simultaneous Prompting to Teach Opening a Locker

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Make opening a locker with a key an easy task for your special needs upper grader. Here you'll find a prompting hierarchy and 15 steps to guide your learner through the process. You'll verbally prompt while physically modeling the locker...
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Bridge Building

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Bridge the gaps in your knowledge of bridges. Individuals learn about bridge types by building models. The activity introduces beam bridges, arch bridges, truss bridges, and suspension bridges.
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Verbs

For Students 1st - 2nd
Ready, set, action words! It's all about verbs as scholars examine 12 words and write down the six that are action words. They use the six words to complete six sentence frames, each accompanied by an image to assist grammarians in...
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Newton's First Law of Motion with a Glider

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine, analyze, study and memorize Newton's First Law of Motion utilizing a glider to demonstrate the process. They state, sing, draw or enact an example/illustration of Newton's First Law of Motion in front of their...

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