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Swinging on a String

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore how pendulums work and why they are useful in everyday applications. In a hands-on activity, they experiment with string length, pendulum weight and angle of release.
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Perfection on Ice!: Math, Geometry, Fibonacci Numbers, Olympics

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Pupils use the human body as a foundation for gaining practice in measuring angles and calculating ratios and proportions.
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Nature of Game Balls

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders see how, when balls are dropped from the same height, mass and size affects the motion of the balls.
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Birds of Wisconsin

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the job done by ornithologists. They role play identifying the characteristics that make a bird a bird. They discuss what makes each bird species unique. Students are introduced to Wisconsin's most common and rare...
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Back to School - School - What a Wonderful World This Would Be

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this back to school worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle by identifying the school subjects that are shown in clip art pictures. They enter and check their answers online.
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Exercise Stations

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in station activities in P.E. In this physical education lesson, students do station activities. Students start out with a warm up exercise then make their way to dance, bowling, scooters, jump rope,...
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Picture Perfect Parts of Speech

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students demonstrate the eight parts of speech with personal photographs. In this parts of speech lesson, students take photographs and label them with the appropriate concrete example of each part of speech. 
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Gardening in Containers

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students plant a garden. In this gardening instructional activity, students use containers to plant a garden. This instructional activity provides a good source of information for teachers who wish to begin their class's own container...
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Breathing Easier

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils explore asthma, and then write proposals outlining how teachers, coaches, administrators and school support staff can be better prepared to treat students with asthma.
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Cultural Comparison

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners choose from a group of entries about the culture of Peru. In this Peruvian culture lesson, students understand the definition of culture. Learners describe the culture of Peru researched in the entry and complete a worksheet.
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Problem Solving

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils use hockey sticks to pick up bean bags and put them into hoops which they get money for in the end. In this movement and math lesson plan, students get fake money and add up how much they earned in the end based on how many beans...
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Line Dance is a Pattern!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders apply the pattern of a line dance to different music tempos.
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Sars

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the Sars outbreak in 2003. In this biology lesson, students research the effect of the outbreak to the world. They create a public announcement about the topic.
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Trivia Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students, as chasers, on teachers signal, move throughout a space trying to tag others with their free hand. When a tag is made, both players stop; chaser reads question from card to student who was tagged. If answer is correct, person...
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Aerodynamic Design

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research aerodynamic design. In this aerodynamic design lesson, students investigate wind resistance on a car. Students explore the reasons necessary for aerodynamic design.
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Sing Along with the Muscles Song

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students review the muscles of the body. They perform the functions of the muscles of the body to the tune of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer".
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Arranging the Elements

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Pupils describe how elements are arranged in the periodic table. They compare metals, nonmetals, and metalloids based on their properties and on their location in the periodic table. Finally, students identify and describe the...
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Couch Potato or Inertia Victim?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders how primary research is carried out. They design a simple survey questionnaire to interview people about their week average television watching time. They analyze the results and write a report based on the information.
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Discover the Similarites

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students research a choosen career on the internet. They gather pertinent and interesting information about their choosen career and construct a display for the career along with a written report which is displayed in class.
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Olympic Training Center

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils decide on an activity like running, swimming or skating for a performance analysis. They have friends or family members videotape them as they exercise, then review the video to see how they can improve their performance.
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Animals

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss the term "endangered". They identify the reasons some animals are in danger of being wiped out. They discover ways humans can help the species survive.
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Immune System Function

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students study the different facets of the Human immune system, including the functions of all the different organs in the immune system.
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English Vocabulary Skills: AWL Sublist 3 - Exercise 6c

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills activity, high schoolers answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Diving, Flying, & Climbing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore Boyle's Law. In this Boyle's Law lesson plan, students complete problems involving Boyle's Law. They examine the effects of Boyle's Law upon the human body. Students use the Internet to complete a lab activity.