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Sugar and carbohydrates, protein, fat and water - that's what little plants are made of!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify photosynthesis as the mechanism by which plants convert sunlight energy into a usable energy source for plant processes. They identify photosynthesis as the mechanism by which plants create a molecule that can be used...
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The Sugar Cane Curtain/ Defining Political and Social Struggles Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explore historical events that created conflict between Dominican Republic and Haiti, examine how need for cheap source of labor has led to exploitation of Haitian workers, and discuss how topography of island of...
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Texture Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students play a guessing game. In this performing art lesson, students guess what each ingredient is by touching each while being blind folded.
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Grains, Fats, and Sugars in Healthy Proportions - Skill

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate dietary guidelines and the food guide pyramid. They prepare various versions of pasta and muffins, and compare the taste, calories, fat, and cholesterol content.
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Life Does Not Live By Bread Alone

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the relationship between micronutrients and proper metabolic function. The lesson should serve as an introduction to the subject. The subject of the function includes the study of plants, animals, and humans. They...
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Who Took Jerell's iPod?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars investigate various substances to determine the perpetrator of a crime. In this biology lesson, students test for the presence of organic compounds in various samples. They identify an unknown substance based on its...
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Using Dissolving to Identify an Unknown

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
There is a solvent called aqua regis that can dissolve gold! After observing a solubility demonstration, groups receive four known crystals and one unknown. Based on the demo, they design an experiment to determine the identity of the...
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AP: Chapter 45: Chemical Regulation & Communication - Hormones and the Endocrine System

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
Infuse your AP biologists with the details of the endocrine system. This six-page worksheet queries learners thoroughly about gland structure and hormone function. Ms. Foglia, the author, has not left anything out of this resource,...
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Endocrine System: Hormones

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The many images and labeled diagrams in this PowerPoint will help learners understand different areas of the endocrine system. The slide show starts with information about the absorption of lipid and protein based hormones, and then...
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Fabricating Glass and Candy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What factors affect the creation of glass? Youngsters work with sugar crystals as a simulation of glass-making. First, they melt some crystals, then they add water and stirring action as a modifier, they melt sugar in water without...
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Plant Science Introduction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A unique PowerPoint explains the basics of plant science. It motivates viewers to study plant science and then lists different food products, biofuels, fibers, timber, and ornamental uses of plants. It concludes with lists of careers...
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Kids in the Kitchen

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young chefs choose from a variety of ingredients to prepare a snack. Using soft peeled fruit, juice, crushed ice, sugar, dried fruit, dry ceral and nuts, learners experiment and make their own concoctions. This lesson plan would be...
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How Do Cells Reproduce?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Beginning biologists prepare a sugar solution for yeast cells to live in, and divide it into two different jars. Samples from each jar are viewed with a microscope, and then one jar is placed in a warm environment and the other a cold...
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Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students examine the potential impact of climate change to agriculture, coastal areas, forests, water, and human health. They hypothesize what might happen to a sugar maple forest and hold a debate about global warming.
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Consumers Get Energy From Other Living Things

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
How do plants and animals get their food? Learn about where energy comes from, how animals store energy, and aerobic respiration, in a lesson that allows scholars to diagram energy flows. 
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Wahta (Maple) Language Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will review orally the sounds used in the Oneida, review orally sugar camp vocabulary and phrases, attend sugar camp and identify equipment/objects in the language teach vocabulary/commands to younger students, while walking...
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Wahta (Maple) Project

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars increase their knowledge base of the maple syrup process and increase their skills of organization, technology, research, teamwork-cooperation, and oral presentation. Students use a team approach to choose a topic...
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Rock Cycle

For Teachers 7th - 10th
In this rock cycle worksheet, students simulate the changes that occur during the rock cycle using a sugar cube. They use the sugar cube to represent a rock and perform changes on the sugar cube that represent the stages of the rock cycle.
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Weathering and Wind

For Teachers 6th - 9th
In this weathering and wind worksheet, students simulate the effects of weathering by wind using 2 canisters, 2 types of sandpaper and 2 sugar cubes. Students swirl the sugar cubes inside the canisters lined with fine and course...
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Rock Candy

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe and demonstrate the physical change of dissolving sugar in water and evaporating the water to examine the physical change that has occurred. They discuss physical changes and solutions, and make rock candy,...
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Modeling the Rock Cycle

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this modeling the rock cycle worksheet, students use a sugar cube to show the phases and changes in the rock cycle as represented by the changes in the sugar cube. For each step of the experiment students indicate the part of the rock...
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What Makes a Habitable Planet?

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students list conditions necessary for humans to survive. They then mix yeast with a nutrient broth consisting of warm water and table sugar in a plastic bottle, capping it with a party balloon and compare the factors within the bottle...
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Cereals

For Teachers K - 6th
Students watch television commercials, then analyze the nutritional value of the cereals. In this health and nutrition lesson, the teacher shows students several cereal commercials, then the students describe the cereals. Students read...
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Earth's Age: The Dating Game

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct a simulation to determine radioactive decay and half-life. Using pennies, dice or sugar cubes as isotopes placed in shoe boxes simulating rocks, they hold five trials representing 1000 years each to find the theoretical...

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