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The Water Cycle for Schools: Beginner Ages
Explore a day in the life of a water droplet. An interactive infographic helps scholars learn how water cycles work from precipitation all the way around to condensation. Learners hover over each step of the cycle to read more as they...
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Logs of Straw: Dendocronology
Students investigate the age of trees by analyzing tree rings. For this dendocronology lesson, students examine sample images of tree rings and identify their age by the amount of rings. Students complete a chart identifying the age,...
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How Old is that Cookie?
Students investigate adaptation. In this cookie age lesson, students examine changes and variations in chocolate chips in cookies in preparation for determining the age of trees using lines. Students discuss how the age of trees is...
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Wood is Everywhere!
Fifth graders diagram and label the parts of a tree. For this lesson on how trees obtain food, 5th graders diagram and label the parts of a tree, and determine the diameter, height, and age of a tree.
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My Family
In this family tree learning exercise, students fill in the blanks about the relations of the family and their occupations and answer true and false questions. Students complete 22 questions about the family tree.
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English Exercises: The Family
In this family vocabulary worksheet, students complete a 50 question online interactive exercise. Students study an illustrated family tree and identify family members. There is an audio component to this worksheet.
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Global Change- Time and Cycles
Young scholars study trees and their growth. In this investigative lesson students work in groups to reconstruct a 50 year climatic history using a simulated tree ring.
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Measuring Absolute Time
In this absolute time worksheet, students answer eleven questions about ways to measure the age of fossils. They define half-life, answer questions about radioactive dating, tree rings and varves.
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Forest Ecosystem Field Trip
Students investigate the environment by participating in a class field trip. In this botany lesson, students attend a field trip through their local park or forest while listening to a nature guide. Students practice using their 5 senses...
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Giving Cheer
Students explore kind behavior. In this values development and literacy lesson, students listen to The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, then generate a class list of ways the tree helped the boy and ways in which the boy helped the tree....
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Present Simple Exercise Review, 3rd Grade
In this nature instructional activity, students watch a nature video, answer multiple choice questions, complete word searches on trees and nature, and more. Students complete 6 activities.
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Prime Factorization Worksheet
Here's a prime factorization practice worksheet in which learners sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve six story problems.
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Meet the Plants
Are you looking for a PowerPoint that identifies and explains the job each plant part performs? Perhaps you've found it! Examples of different types of plants, as well as common household items derived from plants are included. The text...
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Maple Trees, Syrup, and Sugarbush Math
In this math word problems activity, students complete math word problems dealing with maple trees, syrup, and a sugar bush. Students complete 6 problems where they click on links and that contain growth rate, percentages, measurement,...
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An Automobile Phylogenetic Tree
High schoolers construct a phylogenetic tree for various automobiles and trucks after considering important characteristics of these "organisms". They work in small groups to construct the trees and complete a set of questions then they...
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Social Studies: Class Citizenship Tree
Third graders discuss citizenship and the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance. On poster board, the teacher draws a tree and students draw their citizenship ideas on paper or clip pictures from magazines and glue them to the tree.
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Fall Trees
Pupils create fall trees using brown paper, tissue paper, background colors, glue, markers and crayons in this Art and Science lesson about the changing of seasons. Emphasis is placed upon learning about the Fall season and creating art...
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Classroom Christmas Tree
Students practice their addition by participating in a Christmas Tree activity. In this holiday math instructional activity, students complete math problems at their desk and match their answers with ornaments on a tree. Students are...
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Tree Rings As Records of the Past
Students discover how trees preserve a record of times in the past.
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Examining the Fossil Record
Students create an evolutionary tree based on fossil morphology and their ages. In this fossil record lesson plan, students are given 23 pictures of fossil. They study their morphology and arrange the fossils by age and structures on a...
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Making Recycled Paper
Students explore paper making. In this tree conservation ecology lesson, students brainstorm ways paper is used in daily life. Students examine paper fiber using a magnifying glass. Students make paper following a step by step procedure...
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Cro-Magnon Cave Painting
For this cave painting worksheet, students make their own painting of an Ice Age beast utilizing the authentic colors of red, black and yellow.
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Our Friends the Trees
Pupils build an animal habitat. In this animal habitats lesson, students create dead-wood habitats and observe the habitat over a period of weeks.
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The Way a Tree Works
Learners explore nature by conducting botany experiments. In this plant life lesson, students define the necessary resources for a plant to thrive on our planet while defining scientific vocabulary terms. Learners utilize different plant...