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Chemical Reaction Rates

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers observe demonstrations to show factors that affect rates of chemical reactions. In this rates of chemical reactions lesson, students investigate how catalysts, reactant concentrations, temperature and surface area affect...
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High Frequency Words--Long A

For Students 2nd
In this word recognition worksheet, 2nd graders read and write the fourteen given words on the provided lines. Students also complete six fill-in sentences by choosing the appropriate word.
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Stormy Weather

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers conduct experiments. In this weather activity, students review what they know about weather elements such as cloud formation and storms. Middle schoolers conduct demonstrations and learn how lightning strikes.
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Activity #7 Special Properties: A Discussion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify special properties of matter (absorbency, hardness, brittleness, malleability, and elasticity). They define the term matter. Pupils investigate some of the special properties of matter to aid in classifying matter.
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Learning Lesson: Sweatin' to the Coldies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students participate in a demonstration to show the change of water vapor to a liquid. They discuss the three states of matter. They examine flash flood safety to end the lesson.
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Making Layered Hail Stones

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore how hail forms in the atmosphere, why hailstones are layered, and what accretion is. They also learn what supercooled liquids are.
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Outdoor Survival

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars are introduced to basic outdoor survival concepts. They identify the seven basic needs for survival. Students describe the symptoms and treatment for frostbite and hypothermia. They compare and contrast the value of...
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It Came from Outer Space! The AA Meteorite Connection

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students discover why Antarctica is the most fruitful place on earth for locating meteorites. They work in groups. Students are given a Museum or University Name for each group. They are explained that each group is allowed to comb...
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Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Cold

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are explained that thermophiles are organisms that have optimal growth temperatures above 50oC. They investigate the temperature ranges for the growth of common bacteria. Students answer the question of do either of these...
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Photosynthetically Available Radiation (PAR) Measurements

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students calculate the amount of solar radiation hitting the ground at their school compared to the solar constant. They also repeat the experiment at a water testing site and utilize a light probe to measure the light being reflected...
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Winter Vocabulary

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students match vocabulary to definitions of words representing winter. Students complete 20 matches total.
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Worksheet #4 Questions - The Great Plains

For Students 7th - 8th
In this historical quiz worksheet, students test their knowledge about the Great Plains and the Plains Indians in these ten fill in the blank questions.
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Subsistence Calendar

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students create a subsistence calendar for seasonal activities in their community. In this seasonal activities lesson plan, students research the four seasons in their community and write down the activities to do in that season.
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Measuring Water Vapor: The Microwave Water Radiometer (MWR)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate water vapor. They view and analyze photos, conduct Internet research, and analyze the total water vapor/total liquid water data plot.
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Recombinant DNA to Protect Crops

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read an article about manipulation of plant DNA. After reading the short article, they work in small groups to respond to the provided discussion questions and explain their answer to the class.
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Create a Cloud in a Jar (Hands-on Version)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the conditions necessary for cloud formation.  For this clouds lesson students complete an activity that shows them atmospheric pressure.
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Celsius Tells Temperature, Too

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders become aware that thermometer liquids expand or contract as temperature affects them.
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The Awful 8: A Play

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students perform a play that presents the causes and effects on people and the environment of the eight major air pollutants.
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From the Heights to the Depths

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students create a relief map of Asia and Australia. They work in small groups on sections of the map to make one complete map of the continents.
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Food Guide Pyramid

For Students 6th - 8th
In this health worksheet, students read and compare the different food groups and analyze the number of servings recommended for each.
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There Is No Place Like Home

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, students read the story about the beaver and then answer the seven questions for reading comprehension.
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Worksheet #5 Questions - Tribes of the Southwest

For Students 8th - 9th
In this Tribes of the Southwest term quiz, students define the meaning of several terms so that they may further their own historical knowledge on the aforementioned topic.
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Archaeology For Kids Quiz 50

For Students 4th - 6th
In this archaeology for kids quiz 50 worksheet, students interactively answer 4 multiple choice questions about mummies, as part of an online magazine.
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Food Pyramid

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars list and explain the five food groups and the recommended serving amounts.  In this food pyramid lesson plan, students discuss the food pyramid and journal about their reaction to it.  Young scholars complete a...