Michigan Sea Grant
Water Quality
Learners observe water samples and measure the samples' water quality. Students develop their own criteria for measuring water quality and test for temperature, acidity, oxygen levels, turbidity, conductance, sediment and hardness.
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What is Happening to Our Water?
Students compare and contrast Wisconsin's water resources to that of Puerto Rico. They research books about islands, particularly the Puerto Rican islands. Student view illustrations of island ecology. They discuss the illustrations and...
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Indiana
In this Indiana instructional activity, students read a two page text about the history of the state of Indiana. Students answer 10 true and false questions.
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Water Cycle Adventure
Students take an imaginary journey through the water cycle. For this water cycle lesson, students identify the various parts of the water cycle, listen while their teacher leads them on an imaginary journey through the water cycle, and...
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Pond Ecosystem Field Trip
Young scholars investigate the environment by participating in a class trip. In this pond ecosystem lesson, students define a list of vocabulary terms associated with ponds such as invertebrate and metamorphosis. Young scholars attend a...
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Glacial Climbing
Young scholars plot the current distribution of glaciers around the Earth and see if there any major trends where glaciers appear to be either growing or shrinking at abnormally high rates.
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Glacier Climbing
Learners discover where glaciers exist and how they move. In this glacier lesson, students work in groups to create a glacier in a replica valley and observe its properties.
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Heritage: Famous People of the West
Fourth graders investigate the impact of Brigham Young and Jim Bridger on westward expansion. They conduct research, develop a class information chart, and create a cartoon strip depicting what happened when Jim Bridger and Brigham Young...
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Wetland Adaptation
Fourth graders study the impact of the wetland environment on the migration of birds. They make a list of the important reasons on a large piece of paper to be posted in the classroom and point out the biggest wetland in the state (The...
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What You Can Learn From a Map
Students discover how to interpret maps. In this geography skills lesson, students explore geographic themes as they complete worksheet activities regarding road maps, shaded relief maps, and topographic maps.
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Travlin' Through the Basin: Guided Imagery
Students listen to a story. For this imagery lesson, students listen to nature sounds of the Everglades, water and forest. Students listen to a reading of the Tangipahoa River guided imagery passage. Students share their feelings...
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What's Holding Up the Water?
Young scholars read about the history and locate dams in Arizona. In this Arizona dams lesson plan, students write a summary about what they read focusing on word choice, ideas, conventions, and geography content.
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Invertebrate Jobs
In this invertebrate instructional activity, students draw an example of invertebrates that have the following ecosystem jobs: scraper, predator, shredder, or collector. Then students draw lines to connect the invertebrates with the...
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Water Quality
In this water quality worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by understanding pH, temperature, oxygen, and turbidity as it relates to ideal water conditions.
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Which Word Doesn’t Belong?
In this classifying words worksheet, students examine 9 sets of 4 words each and identify the words in each group that do not belong. An example is provided.
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Asia Crossword
In this geography activity, students complete a crossword puzzle about Asia. The twenty-one questions are about capitals, countries, and terrain.
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Interconnected Food Web
In this fish worksheet, students make connections between fish and it food and enemies to create a food web. Students label the connections.
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Bodies of Water
In this writing descriptive sentences worksheet, students describe 13 different bodies of water using the words small, large, fresh, salt, deep, shallow, protected, still, and flowing. Students should include 2 adjectives per sentence.
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Salinity in Mill Creek
Fifth graders use water samples collected at three different locations of Utah's Mill Creek to test salinity of water, hypothesize about salinity levels at each location, record results, and discuss their findings with classmates. ...
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Everglades
In this wetlands instructional activity, students will research and answer 11 questions about the Florida Everglades. Students will create a report.
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Caddis Identification
In this caddis fly worksheet, students examine the caddis fly at its larva, pupa, and adult stages. Students draw each stage. Students identify what materials were used to build their cases from drawings. This worksheet has 3 drawings, 3...
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Insect Comparison
In this insect worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by researching the 10 different insect orders. Students draw a picture and then write examples and physical descriptions of each of the orders.
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There Is / Are / Some / Any
In this there is, are, some, and any activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences and label pictures with there is, some, are, and any. Students complete 2 activities.
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Past Tense Questions “Did”
In this past tense questions learning exercise, students read groups of sentences starting with did and ending with regular and irregular endings. Students read 2 groups of sentences.