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Find the Birds
In this types of birds worksheet, students find and circle/highlight six different types of birds (robin, cardinal, woodpecker, wren, duck and sparrow) in a word search puzzle.
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Respiration Crossword
In this respiration worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle by figuring out the vocabulary words associated with the 16 clues given.
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"Our Lakes" Crossword
In this lakes learning exercise, students complete a crossword puzzle by figuring out the vocabulary words associated with the 15 clues given.
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Dna in the Garden - Where It All Began
In this DNA worksheet, students read about Gregor Mendel and his experiments with plants and DNA. Students complete a crossword puzzle using 10 vocabulary words from the selection.
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Astronomy
In this astronomy worksheet, students complete a word search puzzle by finding 53 astronomy terms such as planets, lunar eclipse, and galaxy.
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Communities and Biomes
In this communities and biomes activity, students are given twenty terms such as taiga, tundra and permafrost to find in a word search puzzle.
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Population Biology
In this population activity, students complete a word search puzzle by finding the 17 terms associated with population biology.
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What Is A Fossil?
In this fossils learning exercise, students read 13 clues pertaining to fossils. Students fit their answers in a crossword puzzle. There is no word bank.
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Weather Crossword
In this weather learning exercise, 7th graders study words associated with land and weather. Students complete a crossword with 7 questions and fill in the blanks going both across and down in the puzzle.
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Laetoli Trackway Puzzle
Students try to reach a "best explanation" after viewing diagrams. In this trackway lesson students complete several worksheets, make observations and hypothesize.
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Exploration of a Problem: Making Sense of the Elements
When given too much data to simply memorize, it helps to sort it into manageable groups. The second lesson in the six-part series of Cosmic Chemistry challenges groups of pupils to take a large amount of data and figure out how to best...
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Designing Experiments - Procedures for Teachers
Students evaluate a hypothetical experimental design and attempt to improve upon it. In this scientific method lesson plan, students are presented with an experiment and are instructed to determine its flaws. They conduct their own...
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Cross Out Secondhand Smoke
After reading a public health article, high schoolers identify groups that are at risk from secondhand smoke and what benefits have come from reduction of smoking in public places. The article isn't accessible via the link, but can...
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Animal Anagrams
For this animal anagrams worksheet, 1st graders will name the animal in the picture by unscrambling the anagram next to the picture. Then students will color the animals.
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Volcano
In this volcano activity, learners use the riddle key to decode the answer to a question about the largest volcano. Students write the letters in the blank and read the answer.
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Earth Day
For this crossword puzzle worksheet, students identify the words that relate to Earth Day by reading the 14 clues. Students complete the crossword puzzle with the clues.