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Solid Waste Recycling
Pupils plan a "no garbage" lunch and hold a classroom contest to sort grabage into what can and what can't be recycled. They assess the importance of reducing the amount of garbage in the environment and set up a book recycling program.
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Plan a Meal Fun
Discuss helping with the family grocery shopping. View a teacher drawn map of a grocery store and discuss where the breads, meats, and dairy products are located. Practice categorizing foods as breads and cereals, fruits, vegetables,...
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Investigation - Distribution
Students match match one notice with one child for all children in their group. They will determine the correct number of notices needed by for the children in their group. Through activities, students discover one-to-one correspondence...
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Nutrition in Me!
Third graders explain the basic healthy eating and physical activity concepts. In this healthy lifestyles lesson, 3rd graders describe two main components of a healthy lifestyle, demonstrate two different types of physical activity, and...
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The Solar System
Students examine effects of the sun on the planets in our solar system.
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Advanced Dialogues- "I'm Hungry"
In this ESL conversation activity, students collaborate with another classmate to read a dialogue about being hungry. Students then answer 8 multiple choice questions about the dialogue.
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Field Trip to the Watsonville Wetlands
Students explore the differences between food webs and food chains. In this wetland lesson students play a food web game and go on a scavenger hunt.
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Selfless Sam- The Drive
Students discuss how to address poverty in society. In this philanthropy lesson, students read the book Sam and the Lucky Money and discuss how they would handle hunger. Students role play situations and demonstrate philanthropic acts.
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Part 2: The Mangrove Walk, Tidal Pool, Sand Bar
Students study the roles of mangroves and their importance to niches. They identify at least two stages of one type of mangrove plant and at least two animals in the mangrove area.
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States of Matter
Students explore the states of water. In this physical science lesson, students use ice and dry ice to observe the changes in the state of matter. Students record the results.
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Chucky Chickadee
Students create an original project dealing with birds. For this bird lesson, students take a virtual field trip to bird feeders around the nation. Students replicate the coloring of winter birds.
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Trades People
Students discuss the names of the people who work on various stuctures. They examine the many different roles people in construction can have. They match tools with the correct job and sing songs about workers.
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Matheson Hammock Mangroves
Students research a natural hammock ecological niche and how it differs from other niches. They investigate what plans and animals are native to the hammock. They explore the importance of the hammock and its connection to other niches.