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Can You Swim in Chocolate Water?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discss water pollution and its affects on animals. They watch a demonstration using a plastic fish in a fish bowl in which various types of water pollution are illustrated.
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Swim to and from the Sea!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars come up with devices that would aid the salmon life cycle in passing through a dam. In this dam lesson, students learn about the salmon migration. They then come up with devices that would help the natural life cycle of...
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Learning about Giardia and Giardiasis - Research and Role Play

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Young biologists begin researching giardia and completing an epidemiologic triangle. They then portray either a parent of a sick child or a physician in a fun role play activity. 
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Summer Picture Cards

For Students K - 12th
As summer approaches, get your ASD learners ready for the hot weather and time away from school. Teach them the holidays that occur over the summer, along with clothes that are worn and activities that are done during the season.
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Action Figure Diver

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Will your next buoyancy lab rise to the occasion? Make a splash with action figure divers! Teams of young physicists explore the relationship between mass and buoyancy by adding weights or balloons to achieve a diver that neither sinks...
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Fishes

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this fish worksheet, students will use fish characteristics vocabulary words to fill in the blanks of 3 statements and a crossword puzzle.
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Reading: An Amazing Swimsuit

For Students 5th - 6th
In this inventions worksheet, students read a one page text about the new type of swimsuit used in the 2008 Beijing Olympics called the Speedo LZR Racer. Students answer 10 true or false questions about the passage.
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Feeding Frenzy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students are divided into two teams in which its members are to gather as many objects in the pool as possible gaining points for different objects.
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Phyto- v. Zoo- Plankton

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify two broad groups of plankton: phytoplankton and zoo plankton. They describe the general body adaptations which characterize each group. They discuss and write about what it would be like to be carried around by the...
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How Does Your Insect Move?: Graph

For Students 1st
In this insect behavior bar graph worksheet, students will ask their classmates how their insect moves: does it walk, swim, fly or jump? Then students will record the responses to complete the graph.
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Trumpet of the Swan

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this Trumpet of the Swan worksheet, students draw a map of Sam's campsite and the pond where the swans swim. Students also make a map key.
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Diaper Challenge

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compare the absorbency of a regular diaper and a swim diaper in fresh water and salt water. In this absorbency lesson plan, students mass the diapers and place them in water and determine the change in mass. They do the same...
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Schooling Fish

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students make fish models.  In this fish behavior lesson, students create lanternfish fishsticks, learn how a school of fish live, eat and swim together, examine the predator-prey relationship, and read the book Swimmy to facilitate...
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Second Class Rank: merit badge

For Students 5th - 12th
In this second class rank worksheet, students fill out short answer questions using their workbook about compasses, safety, protection, swimming, and more in order to get a merit badge. Students complete 13 questions total.
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Rhythm

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
One of the most fun characteristics of a poem is rhythm! Little ones will clap along as you read a poem, to determine the rhythm of the piece. The book In the Swim is used throughout the lesson; it contains fish themed poems that kids...
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Author's Voice in Passage

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore author's voice. In this literary elements and reading comprehension lesson, students listen to two poems about snakes (included) and identify adjectives and other descriptive words and phrases that help them determine...
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore everyday life in Swaziland and compare and contrast it to their own everyday life.
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Algebra I: A Draining Swimming Pool

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars analyze and develop symbolic representations to describe the amount of water left in a pool being pumped out after a given amount of time, with various pumping rates and initial quantities of water in the pool.
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Nemo's Fast Swim

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students need to be come fluent readers and in order to do that they have to read faster, smoother and more expressively. They have to read accurate and automatic. Students gain fluency through repeated readings, timed readings, and...
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Floating Oranges

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils get into groups or watch one demonstration of the game. They observe an orange floating in the pool, pretending it is a little boy/girl wearing a life jacket. Next, they watch as the orange is peeled and thrown back in, with the...
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Monitoring Energy Expenditure

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars use heart rate monitors and complete a swimming and running test. These tests allow students to obtain personal data, to manipulate the data through calculations of various parameters, and to graphically represent the data.
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Find a Pattern: Problem Solving

For Students 5th - 6th
In this finding patterns worksheet, students use the problem solving strategy of understand, plan, solve, and look back to help them find the pattern in the swimming distances numbers. Students use the pattern to help them solve the word...
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Pirates of the Carribean

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students (pirates) sit on a scooter (pirate ship). Two students are called 'Crackens' sit on their own ships. Crackens use a swim noodle (tentacle) to gently tag the pirates. Students began the game with the ROAR of the Cracken and they...
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Wipeout (Dancing Legs) Tag

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students choose to dance or do a stationary swimming movement within this lesson. They play a game of noodles and taggers. The teacher explains the rules to the game and then the game begins.

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