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Teaching Science with a Smile

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students study science concepts as they are presented in poetic form. They write and present their own science poems to parents during Open House.
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Imagination Express

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create an artistic response to the book, The Polar Express. For this creative writing lesson, students read the book and visualize an imaginary journey they would like to go on. Students create a train car from construction...
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The Main Man

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore visualizing stories by completing a graphic organizer. In this reading strategy activity, students read the story Pecos Bill by Steven Kellog and identify the setting, main characters and their interpretations. Students...
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Writing a poem

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students imagine themselves someplace -- the beach, a mountain top, a city street -- anywhere.
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Our Poetic Planet : Writing Poems about the Earth

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Young scholars share their thoughts regarding nature. In this poetry lesson plan, students compose poems in different formats that feature weather and clouds.
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Agreeing on Terms

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students observe and describe the wind, analyze their descriptions for clarity, and compare them both with Jonas Ramoth's descriptions and with the Beaufort Wind Scale. observations.
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The Nervous System

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this online interactive nervous system worksheet, students respond to 11 multiple choice and fill in the blank questions regarding the information included in the provided paragraphs.
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Describing Words Lesson (Lesson 2)

For Teachers 1st
First graders create a computer slide show. They select pictures from the gallery, write descriptive words or phrases about the pictures, and develop a three slide presentation.
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Air: You Can't See It, But It's There!

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate that air occupies space by performing experiments that show this principle. Students are provided with a lunch bag. Students open the lunch bag and look inside. Students determine if there is anything in their...
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Don't Say "Said," Say . . .

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this word choice activity, learners read the various alternatives for the word 'said.' Students then brainstorm alternatives for another over-used word.
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Read Aloud Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Learners listen as the novel "On My Honor" is read to them. They identify similes and the characters differences in the novel.
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Free Verse

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students write free verse poems. In this poetry lesson, students use a three-step method to create a free verse poem. Students brainstorm ideas, let their ideas "incubate," and write a free verse poem.
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Library Main Hall: Using Primary Sources in the Classroom

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars choose a historical photograph or film and try to predict what happened after the photo or film in question.
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Bio Ed Online: Our Sense of Smell

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How does our sense of smell work? In this instructional activity students use four different flavors of dry soft drink mix to investigate the sense of smell, and learn that the nose can detect very small particles in air, and transmit...
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NBC

Nbc Learn: Common Scents: Chemistry of Smell

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this video/lesson series we will explore the sense of smell. We profile 21st Century Chemist Nate Lewis, who's working to develop an artificial "nose" that can help detect odors, including hazardous gases and chemicals. A story on the...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How to Master Your Sense of Smell

For Students 9th - 10th
Some perfumers can distinguish individual odors in a fragrance made of hundreds of scents; tea-experts have been known to sniff out the exact location of a particular tea; and the NYC Transit Authority once had a employee responsible...
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Your Sense of Smell

For Students 3rd - 8th
Dinner is cooking and boy does it smell good. Understand how our sense of smell works at this Exploratorium site.
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University of Washington

University of Washington: Neuroscience for Kids: Smell Experiments

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Describes experiments students can do to investigate the sense of smell. The experiments target either grades K-6 and 3-12.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Science Projects and Experiments: Sense of Smell

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn by experimenting with science. Project about the sense of smell.
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The Franklin Institute

In Quiry Almanack: Smelling

For Students 9th - 10th
Site provides fun activities for kids to do in the classroom to help them better understand the sense of smell.
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McGraw Hill

The Mc Graw Hill Companies, Inc.: Sense of Smell

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative site provides information on the olfactory receptors, olfactory epithelium, and olfactory bulb. Detailed drawing supplement the text along with an animation that depicts the movement of molecules through the nose.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Dog Scents: The Super Nose of Man's Best Friend

For Students 3rd - 8th
Everyone thinks their dog's the best, but in the case of smelling ability, all dogs possess super powers. In fact, a dog's nose can be over a 1,000 times more sensitive than a human's. In this project, learn about smell from a dog's...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Taste and Smell

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Imagine you open a gallon of milk, and you suddenly smell a foul odor. Your sense of smell has informed you that the milk has spoiled. So you pour the spoiled milk...
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National Institutes of Health

Nidcd: Smell Disorders

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses the sense of smell and disorders associated with smell. The site provides information on what makes our sense of smell work, what smell disorders are, what causes these disorders, and whether these disorders may be...

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