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How Trees Contribute to the Water Cycle

For Teachers 3rd
In this water cycle instructional activity, 3rd graders conduct an experiment where they observe and calculate how water transpires in different types of trees.  Students engage in a class discussion and use Venn Diagrams to compare...
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What is a Tree?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify and define types of trees. In this tree identification lesson plan, students complete a KWL chart on trees and read the book ABCedar: An Alphabet of Trees. Students complete a tree word scramble.
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Mapping The Ocean Floor

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars explore and analyze the bottom structure of underwater habitats. They describe and explain what can't see through the collection and correlation of accurate data. Learners assess that technology is utilized as a tool for...
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Friction in Our Lives

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore force and friction. In this force and friction lesson, students discover everyday examples of how  friction helps and hinders things we do. Students create a ramp to test the speed of their car. Students use...
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Can You Measure Up!

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate standards of measurement and metric units using a game to show the importance of standards of measurements. For this measuring lesson plan, 7th graders are grouped together and each group represents a foreign...
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It's Goin' Down; The Rain Forest

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover the global problem of deforestation. In this environmental lesson plan, students identify organizations on the quest to stop deforestation. Students also discover what they can do to solve this global dilemma.
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Are You an Ant?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners investigate different insects in their backyard. In this insect lesson, students read the book Are You and Ant? and apply the reading to their backyards. Learners create a list of animals that begin with the the letter A an make...
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Deep Sea Coral Biodiversity

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research life forms of both tropical coral reefs and deep-sea coral reefs to discover the biodiversity of the ecosystems. They compare and contrast the diversity and adaptations of the two eco-systems, and draw a picture showing...
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Health-Nervous System Review

For Students 7th - 9th
In this nervous system worksheet, students are given seventeen clues about structures of the nervous system and they put their answers in a crossword puzzle.
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Weave an Aquatic Food Web

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars explore organisms that are part of interconnected food webs.  In this food web lesson, students choose an animal and research what the animal eats.  Young scholars begin with the food chain and branch out into...
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Scientific Method

For Students 4th - 5th
In this scientific method instructional activity, students read and discuss a 2 page article on the scientific method, match 3 founders of the scientific method with what they found or produced, answer 4 statements as true or false, list...
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The Urinary System

For Students 5th - 12th
For this urinary system worksheet, students review the role the kidneys and nephrons play in the formation of urine. Students order the steps of the filtration of blood. This worksheet has 3 short answer and 10 fill in the blank questions.
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Primate Evolution

For Students 9th - 12th
In this evolution learning exercise, high schoolers review 9 terms associated with the evolution of primates. Students place 6 terms into a crossword puzzle and 3 terms into fill in the blank statements.
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Nutrition in Space

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners compare and contrast the process of dehydration with the processes of freezing and canning. They predict energy sources that may be accessible in the future in different environments such as the moon and planets, most notably Mars.
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Organizing Life

For Students 7th - 12th
In this classification worksheet, students will review vocabulary words associated with the organization of living things which includes kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. This worksheet has 5 fill in the blank...
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Classification

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
For this classification worksheet, students will look at how biological classification began and how scientific names are used in biology. Students will use a table showing the classification of four organisms to answer 10 short answer...
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Organisms and Their Environment

For Students 5th - 12th
In this organisms and their environment worksheet, students will review concepts relating to ecological studies, levels of organization in ecology, and relationships between organisms in ecosystems. This worksheet has 10 fill in the...
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Grand Canyon History Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the history of the Grand Canyon. In this Grand Canyon activity, students read "Grand Canyon National Park" by David Peterson and respond to questions regarding the piece. Students also create their own fossil models that...
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Plants

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this plants learning exercise, students review the alternation of generations in plants and the function of seeds and flowers for plants. This learning exercise has 11 short answer questions and 4 fill in the blank questions.
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Honey Bees!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research and complete two assignments about honeybees. Students draw and color a picture of a flower with a honeybee inside of it. Students write a letter to the executives at Ridit Pest Control persuading them to stop the...
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Tree Identification

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students are introduced to the characteristics of trees and different techniques to identify them. They distinguish between a deciduous and a coniferous tree. Students describe at least four characteristics used to identify trees. They...
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Beaver Ecology

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students explore the lives of bgeahvers. They identify the physical and behavioral adaptations that help beavers survive in their environment. Students compare and contrast how beavers influence the ecology of both forest and aquatic...
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Naming Alkanes

For Students 10th - 11th
In this chemistry worksheet, learners name each of the branched alkanes presented on the sheet. Then they draw the structural formulas for the molecules.
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Tree Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students compare and contrast characteristics of conifer and hardwood trees. After collecting samples of branches around the school, they classify the branch as hardwood or conifer. Groups of students identify given twigs. They go...