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My Test Book: Measurement

For Students 3rd - 7th
In this online interactive math skills worksheet, students solve 10 multiple choice math problems regarding metric and customary measurement. Students may view the correct answers.
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Wet Weather, Wet Climate

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners discover the differences between weather and climate in this long-term lesson introduction. They create rain gauges and practice reading rainfall measurements, view a website showing the cloud cover in their location and draw...
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Clouds as Art: Torn Paper Landscape

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create a torn paper landscape and use it to study clouds. In this cloud study and art lesson, students make a background art image from torn paper. Students create a torn paper landscape and use cotton balls to illustrate...
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Snowball Fight

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine the weather conditions throughout the globe. As a class, they discover the impact of snow on various types of crops. In groups, they participate in an experiment in which they form raindrops and calculate the...
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Ice Cream

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the concept of the colligative property. Through experimentation, students lower the freezing point of a liquid in order to create a solid by using household ingredients to create ice cream.
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Mystery Polymers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine how some natural substances are polymers.  In this polymer lesson students complete a lab and give examples of a physical change. 
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Red, White, and Blue

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the types of chemical reactions that can be made with household products. Through various inquires, students work to perform chemical reactions using common household substances and cleaners.
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HOLD ON TO THAT

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students will analyze how water enters different soils, how readily it passes through and how much water is held.1. Materials needed for the activity are; pint of clay, pint of sand, pint of loam, newspaper, three frozen fruit juice...
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Heating

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students develop the idea that heat is a form of energy which moves from hot objects to cold ones.
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Rock Families

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students study the three types of rock characteristics; igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. They are divided into three groups and each group takes one of the rock characteristics. They then act out the characteristics of their rock...
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Estuary

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students discuss how the meanings of words can change over time. Through discussion, lecture, and activities, they identify how words can have multiple meanings and how those meanings can be changed over time. Lesson resources are...
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Voil! C'est La Magie De La Chimie

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine chemistry and demonstrate the relevancy of it in their everyday world. In this chemistry lesson students complete a lab activity.
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Evaluating Music

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify an object by drawing something that reminds them of how they feel when they are calm or at peace. In this music lesson, students depict a musical instrument making peaceful music, and then an instrument making loud...
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Building an Ecologically Balanced Living Space

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils design and build an ecologically balanced living space based on the principles of an old growth forest. They take one part of a house (or structure in the community) and redesign it according to the principles of the forest cycle.
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Earthworks

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore watersheds and take samples and analyze the data from a watershed in the area.
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Weather Challenge

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this identifying the weather terms activity, students read phrases about the weather and choose the term being described. Students choose 11 multiple choice answers.
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Fast Fact-Finding

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Ever wonder why the sky changes color so often? Readers examine an informational excerpt from John Farndon's How the Earth Works. They underline key points as they read and then answer five response questions. Prompts review main...
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Can Boiling Make Something Freeze?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Use boiling as an avenue for freezing. Young scholars watch as liquid nitrogen removes heat from the ingredients for ice cream. As this happens, the nitrogen boils and the ice cream freezes—all in the same container. A little science magic!
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Clouds and Rain

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students study how clouds form, what different types there are and what rain is.  For this atmospheric lesson students make a cloud and create evaporation.
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Quiz 6A and 6B: Using No Article

For Students 4th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students determine whether or not the sentence needs "the" added to it to be correct. There are 12 sentences to complete on this worksheet.
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Weather Crossword

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this weather crossword puzzle activity, students use the 16 clues and the word bank to fill in the blanks in this crossword puzzle.
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Science Review for Grade 3 (3.1)

For Students 3rd
For this science review for grade 3 (3.1) worksheet, 3rd graders answer 25 multiple choice questions about earth science in standardized test format.
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Build a Rain Gauge

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students use a glass container, coat hanger, measuring spoons, and more to make their own rain gauge. In this rain gauge lesson plan students measure the rain.
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Aerosol Lesson: Science - Graphing SAGE II Data

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine and plot atmospheric data on bar graphs.