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Lesson Plan
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Look At Those Leaves!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore botany by researching plants in class. In this tree identification lesson, students examine a group of leaves and list the different characteristics before guessing what types of trees they came from. Students read about...
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Lesson Plan
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Tree Identification

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Young scholars 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....
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Lesson Plan
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Identifying Trees Using Their Leaves in the Summer

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students discover how to identify trees.  For this research lesson students use dendrology to decipher what a trees classification is and explore each trees traits. 
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Worksheet
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Christmas Tree Angles

For Students 5th - 8th
In this angles worksheet, learners measure angles to make triangles and cut them out to make a Christmas tree. Students draw and cut 5 triangles to make their tree.
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Lesson Plan
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Creating Family Trees

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Pupils make presentations about families. They make family trees and present orally to the class.
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Lesson Plan
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The Bee Tree

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students engage in a variety of activities arranged around the reading of the book "The Bee Tree". This book will help students to understand the purpose of how an ecosystem can work together and that organisms influence each other for...
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Lesson Plan
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Classroom Christmas Tree

For Teachers K
Students practice their addition by participating in a Christmas Tree activity.  In this holiday math lesson, students complete math problems at their desk and match their answers with ornaments on a tree.  Students are given an ornament...
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Worksheet
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The Tree that Would Not Die Lesson 10 Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts worksheet, students learn 45 new vocabulary words from The Tree that Would Not Die. Words are arranged according to phonograms. There are no questions to answer; this is a vocabulary list.
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Worksheet
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The Tree that Would Not Die Lesson 7

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts learning exercise, students learn 45 new vocabulary words taken from the book The Tree that Would Not Die. The words are arranged in a list according to their phonograms. There are no questions to answer; this is...
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Worksheet
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The Tree That Would Not Die Lesson 9 Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts worksheet, students learn 45 vocabulary words from Lesson 9 in The Tree that Would Not Die. Words are arranged by phonograms. There are no questions on the page; this is a vocabulary list.
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The Tree that Would Not Die Lesson 3

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts instructional activity, students learn 45 vocabulary words from Chapter 3 of The Tree that Would Not Die. The words in this vocabulary list are arranged according to phonograms. There are no questions on the page;...
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Worksheet
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The Tree that Would Not Die Lesson 4

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts activity, students learn 45 new vocabulary words from the book The Tree that Would Not Die. The words are arranged by phonograms. There are no questions on the page; this is a word list.
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Worksheet
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The Tree That Would Not Die Lesson 8

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts activity, students learn 45 new vocabulary words from Chapter 8 of The Tree that Would Not Die. Words are arranged by phonograms. There are no questions on the page.
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Basic Counting Principle

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students find the number of possible arrangements of several objects by using the Basic Counting Principle. In this math lesson, students divide into groups and determine the number of possible sandwiches which can be made given certain...
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Worksheet
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Totally Trees

For Students 5th - 8th
In this exploration of leaves worksheet, students go on a scavenger hunt to find leaves with certain characteristics such as palmate veination. They look for 14 leaf types.
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PPT
Curated OER

Biomes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Arranged as an interactive lesson, this presentation focuses on the six world biomes. Upcoming biologists click on a specific biome and a slide lists its location, description, native plants, and animals. A quiz provides learners with...
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Leaf ID and Leaf Bingo

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the parts of a leaf and use a dichotomy key to identify leaves. In this biology lesson, learners study characteristics of various leaves and play a game of bingo to identify leaves by their traits. Students find and...
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Probabilities for Number Cubes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of probability.  In this probability lesson, students roll a six-sided number cube and record the frequency of each outcome.  Middle schoolers graph their data using a frequency chart and keep tally...
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Worksheet
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Data Management and Probability: Applications

For Students 7th
For this data management and probability applications worksheet, 7th graders solve 13 different types of problems that include finding the mean, median, mode, and range of each set of values, as well as, solving a number of word...
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Measuring and Identifying Trees with the Help of Technology

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers arrange themselves into small groups. Each group chooses a distance to measure ( the distance between the slide and the swings, for instance). Person #1 walks the distance, counting the number of his or her steps. ...
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Activity
Exploring Nature Educational Resources

Building A Classroom Food Web

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
From bears and owls to chipmunks and trees, all life depends on the sun for the energy to survive. Young biologists develop an understanding of this big idea as they arrange this series of plant and animal picture cards into food webs...
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Cinnamon Ornaments

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students create keepsake cinnamon ornaments to hang on the family Christmas tree or in a window. They mix ingredients to form dough, create an ornament and write a message to accompany the ornament.
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Lesson Plan
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History's Thermometers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Ancient coral beds give scientists clues to past ocean temperatures in much the same way that tree rings indicate historical weather conditions. High school scientists examine coral oxygen isotope ratios and plot the data as a function...
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eBook
Rice University

Calculus Volume 3

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
See calculus to the end. The eBook is the last of a three-volume series covering college-level calculus topics. Scholars begin with parametric equations and polar coordinates before moving to vectors, finally ending with multi-variable...