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Animal Life Span Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study and compare the life span of farm animals with their own. They research a farm animal, complete a table and answer comparative questions. They work in jigsaw format groups.
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Reptile Crossword

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this science and language arts worksheet, students complete a 38 word crossword puzzle about reptiles. There is no word bank for this puzzle which has colorful graphics.
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Order, Order All Electrons

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students read the periodic table and apply their knowledge of the construction of atoms. They demonstrate reading the electron configuration of an element on the periodic file.
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Are you an Energy Saver STAR?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students examine how to use energy more efficiently in their own home. They collect data from their home, complete a chart, read a power meter, interpret the data from an electric and gas bill, and create a poster demonstrating how to...
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Temperature in The Atmosphere

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students find the answers to the five questions and they fill in the graphic organizer for the temperatures found in different heights of the atmosphere.
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Farming 2: Packaging and Transport

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars explore the special packaging and transport that many foods require to stay fresh during their journey from the farm to people's dinner tables.
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What Color is Your Air Today?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars investigate air quality. They analyze Air Quality Index data tables, interpret the graphs, complete a worksheet, and discuss trends in air quality.
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Heating Ice: The temperature of ice and water when heated

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders read and follow the instructions on the worksheet. They make a table of their results. Students use about 100 cm^3 of water and ice mixture. They heat the water/ice with a Bunsen burner. Temperature is recorded every 30...
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Wilson Bentley and Snowflake Crystals

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read the book, 'Snowflake Bentley' by Jacqueline Briggs Martin. They gather and make a list of information about snowflakes and crystals. Then they make their own real crystal snowflake creation and observe the crystals...
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The Atom Board-Making Atoms

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
For this making atoms science worksheet, students read about the atomic number of protons, finding the number of neurons, and how electrons function before they complete the atom board graphic organizer and respond to 4 short answer...
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Connection to Language Arts-The Structure of Medical Terminology

For Students 8th - 10th
In this structure of medical terminology worksheet, learners read about Latin and Greek roots and match nine medical terms to their definitions using a table of defined prefixes, roots and suffixes.
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Matter and Energy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a small group read aloud of the short story, "Cerium" by Primo Levi. They answer several questions about the story and then relate the reading to a lecture on Kinetic theory. After the lecture they apply the...
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Butterflies

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students will explore the life cycle of the Painted Lady butterfly by raising their own. They will incorporate math, science, and language arts as they graph, pattern, journal, observe, and artistically create.
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Clustering

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to the concept of clustering. In groups, they use their new science vocabulary words to put into a web or cluster. To end the lesson, they read a book related to electricity and write the definitions of any...
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Unknown Element Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work with a partner to determine the identity of an unknown element based on given descriptions. Groups use classroom textbooks, encyclopedias, and science internet sites to identify their unknown element then write a report as...
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Understanding Bernoulli's Principle

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explain why we fly. In this space science lesson, 5th graders discuss Bernoulli's prinicple and its relation to flight.
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Forensic Entomology: What the Blowfly Saw

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students read a paragraph describing various insects and decomposition rates, then fill in the table indicating when the three insects arrived or left the body. They write paragraphs explaining when the person died, and how they know.
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Take the One-Tonne Challenge!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore about the One-Tonne Challenge, and work out how they could reduce their greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) by one tonne, through individual actions and by influencing other people. Students use a GHG emission table to...
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Mapping River Statistics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research different statistics to do with the Mississippi River. They answer questions about finding data and collect it by conducting research. The research is used to construct a data table. Then students use the table to...
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The Origins and Maintenance of Earth's Atmosphere

For Students 7th - 12th
For this atmosphere learning exercise, students read a data table showing the percentages of carbon dioxide, oxygen, and nitrogen in the atmosphere over the last 4500 million years. They then create a graph comparing these gases over...
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Evaluating Data

For Students 6th - 10th
In this data worksheet, students learn how to organize the data collected during an experiment and practice finding patterns. Students graph a table of experimental data and complete 1 short answer question.
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Rising Tensions Over The Nile River Basin

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars analyze the concept of global commons dilemma.  In this investigative instructional activity students read an article on the Middle East Media Research Institute and answer questions accordingly. 
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Pump It Up

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars study the anatomy and functions of a heart. For this heart study lesson, students read a book about the heart and study a plaster heart model. Young scholars take their own pulse in various stages of rest as well as active...
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Solar System: The Four Inner Planets and Earth's Moon and Astronauts

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read THe Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System. In this language arts and science lesson, 2nd graders explore the four inner planets. Students view the inner planets using Google Earth.