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The Gift of Life - Day 2: "Cell & Organelle Time to Tell" and "World in Color" (Chapters 2-4)

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students complete a cell biology lesson and a color lesson based on The Giver. In this biology and reading comprehension lesson set, students examine cells using microscopes. They look at the organelles and listen to How Much is a...
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Language Acquisition: How Babies Learn a Language

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a book for small children. In this literary instructional activity, students examine the qualities in children's literature that capture the attention of the child. They then work in small groups to create a book to share...
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Diversity/Journalism - Book Making

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore Canadian culture by creating a book. In this community analysis lesson, 3rd graders identify the First Nations people of Canada and discuss the culture, language and diversity. Students create a book discussing...
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Extreme Weather and Mapping

For Students 5th - 8th
In this environment instructional activity, students read an article about extreme weather conditions and mapping it out. They respond to 10 multiple choice questions about what they read. Then, students explain how droughts can occur...
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Airplanes and Airports: How To Take Off Without Ever Leaving the Ground

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students plan an airport visit. In this Airplanes and Airports activity, students observe the people, activity, and machinery at airports. Then students compare the characteristics of their observations at the airport. Students make...
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Phil's Garden of Good

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read "The Rainbow Fish" and discuss how the fish benefited by giving others. In this sharing lesson, students prepare plants and letters for senior citizens. Students present their letters and plants at a visit to a senior...
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Turtle Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students identify ways that they can help protect turtles. In this wildlife awareness instructional activity, students read the story Turtle World and construct a T-chart on the board. Students create a list of problems facing turtles...
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Email Riddles

For Teachers K
Students compose riddles that are shared in a chat session conducted on their local school network. Students create clues that describe a specific animal or object. They watch as their words are typed onto the chat screen and sent to the...
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Rain Forest Rap

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this rain forest rap worksheet, students read rap facts about the rain forest and then complete the rap with their own additional facts. Students fill in three lines of the rap.
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Water: The Neutral Substance

For Students 9th - 12th
For this water worksheet, students read about hydrogen bonds in water and the differences in electronegativity between the oxygen atom and the two hydrogen atoms in water. Students answer four questions about the structure of water and...
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Writing Lewis Structures

For Students 9th - 12th
In this Lewis structures worksheet, students read about drawing Lewis structures and how to identify valence electrons. They draw Lewis structures for eight given compounds.
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Calculating Joules

For Students 9th - 12th
In this calculating joules worksheet, students read about the relationship between mass, temperature change, specific heat and energy. They find the number of joules needed to heat water in five different problems using the given...
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Analyzing Oxidation-Reduction Reactions

For Students 9th - 12th
In this oxidation-reduction reactions worksheet, students read about reactions where elements gain and lose electrons. When elements gain electrons they are reduced and when the lose electrons the elements are oxidized. They are given...
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Your Land, My Land, Woody's Land Too

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars become familiar with the song writer Woody Guthrie and his song, This Land Is Your Land. In this getting to know our land lesson, students understand the vocabulary of the song and some biographical information about Woody...
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Energy Agents in Action

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students share information about energy use and conservation. In this energy use instructional activity, students work as a production team to make an instructional video about basic energy information. They develop a short survey about...
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Introduction to Trees and Wood

For Teachers K
Students examine samples from various types of trees. In this trees and wood lesson, students review The Giving Tree and complete a KWL chart on trees.  Students brainstorm what we get from trees and view wood samples with hand...
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Endangered Species: Not Only Animals

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students research endangered animals and plants.  In this biology lesson, students are read Will We Miss Them? Endangered Species by Alexandra Wright before they begin searching for information to complete an endangered species...
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Bat Quest

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research bats. In this bat lesson, students read the story of Sellaluna to spark interest in bats. Students use graphic organizers to collect information from the story. Students scan and post their notes on a...
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Breaking News: Shopping Carts Covered in Bacteria (5th March, 2011)

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars explore current events by completing several worksheet activities. In this bacteria infections lesson, students read a current news story of the germs associated with shopping carts and how people should protect...
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Measuring Rainfall and Relationships Between pH, Alkalinity and Suspended Solids in the Pago River

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders test the pH and alkalinity of Pago River. In this ecology lesson, 11th graders collect data and use spreadsheet to graph results. They analyze and share their findings with the class.
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Bonding

For Students 7th - 12th
In this bonding instructional activity, students read about the two different types of chemical bonding: ionic and covalent bonds. Students review ion notation and oxidation numbers. This instructional activity has 24 fill in the blank,...
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Amazing Arthropods

For Students 4th - 6th
In this amazing arthropods worksheet, students read for information and assess comprehension. In this true and false, fill in the bank, multiple choice and short answer worksheet, students write answers to ten questions.
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Bonding

For Students 9th - 12th
In this bonding learning exercise, high schoolers read about the octet rule in bonding, ion notation, ionic bonds, covalent bonds and oxidation numbers. Students write 2 ion notations, they determine if 8 sets of ions will make...
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Bats and Boas Abound

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners investigate Puerto Rican boa constrictors and bats. In this animal science lesson, students read an article about the bats and snakes found in Puerto Rico. Learners use various art supplies to create a diorama of the habitat of...