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Writing

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students write poems and a narrative story.  In this writing lesson, students read stories and poems written by other students and read examples of haiku's and diamonte's.  Students write an acrostic poem and a diamonte...
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America's Energy Future

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write a proposal to save energy resources. In this energy lesson, students research nuclear energy, coal power, petroleum, natural gas, hydroelectric power, and renewable energy. Students then debate energy issues and share...
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Kite Experiments and Building Information

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners build their own kite following certain procedures. In this physics lesson plan, students explain the aerodynamics concepts involved in flying kites. They trace the development of aviation.
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Energy All Around: Energy in Our Lives

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars identify the different sources of energy. In this energy lesson, students list different machines and identify the type of energy used to operate them. They create a diagram of a wind turbine and label its parts.
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The Beautiful Works of Georgia O'Keefe

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students discover the art of Georgia O'Keefe.  In this art history lesson, students investigate the influential power nature has on art.  Students create their own works of art by observing local nature.
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Planetary Diversity

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the infrared radiation and the part of the spectrum that is not always visible.  In this electromagnetic lesson plan students complete a lab activity on the different wavelengths.
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Flying The Friendly Skies

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate the science of flight while creating their own gliders and test them with the lift supplied by wind in the outdoors. They create a chart to make observations of the flight patterns of different gliders taking note of...
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Masks

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students examine how weather masks were used and design their own. In this weather mask lesson, students look at examples of weather masks before planning one of their own. They sketch the mask on the associated template and build it...
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Masks

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners create weather masks. In this social studies lesson, students discover the history behind the weather masks used by Native American cultures and then create their own.
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Ocean Currents

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine ocean currents. In this investigative lesson, students examine ocean currents and the relationship between the ocean, our atmosphere, and the weather. They will create a model of an ocean current.
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Air Masses & Fronts

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students identify two distinct air masses and the frontal boundary and determine whether the front is moving in time and in what direction the front is moving.
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Primary Activity: Dichotomous Key of Energy Sources

For Students 4th - 5th
In this energy sources worksheet, students fill in a chart using a dichotomous key of energy sources. They use follow the directions and label items such as the sun, a windmill, and an oil rig with the proper number and letter labels...
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Finding the Subject

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore sentences to locate subjects. For this language lesson, students investigate methods to locate subjects in sentences and practice doing so.
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Identifying Complete and Incomplete Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify complete and incomplete sentences. In this grammar lesson, students are shown examples of incomplete sentences on the board and rewrite them correctly. Students complete a worksheet as a follow-up activity.
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The Science of Hurricanes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore hurricanes. In this science lesson, students discuss the aspects of hurricanes and watch videos of hurricanes. Young scholars discuss the motion of the hurricanes.
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Flowers Growing Through Music, Rhymes & Movement

For Teachers 1st
First graders experience the growing process of a seed becoming a flower as it is exposed to the sun, rain, wind, day and night, and -tickling- bees as they move creatively to music.
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Space Shuttles in Space

For Teachers K - 5th
Students use a pencil and paper to practice drawing their own space shuttle doodle. Using new directions, they draw another doodle in which they are allowed to add elements that were not allowed in the first drawing. They paint a space...
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Story Of Silk

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discover the use of silk found in China while conducting research using a variety of resources. They read "The Empress And The Silkworm" as a literature study to establish the context of the lesson. Then students unwrap a cocoon...
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Winter Weather Week Day 1: Weather Words

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore winter weather. In this winter weather lesson, students examine and define 22 weather-related terms. Students determine the words that have to do with winter weather.
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Seed Plants: Angiosperms

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students describe flowering plants and see why angiosperms are the most successful plants.  In this angiosperms lesson students identify angiosperms and explain how they reproduce. 
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The Aurora

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study the Aurora Borealis lights known commonly as the Northern and Southern lights. In this space science lesson, students study pictures of the Auroras for Jupiter and Saturn. Students visit the given website for an...
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Let's Catch Some Dirt From the Air

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners investigate the dirt in the air. In this air quality lesson, students use aluminum foil and petroleum jelly to discover if there is dirt in the air. Learners discuss results.
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Bush Fires

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students consider the effectiveness of backburning operations. In this current events lesson, students analyze a photograph of firemen fighting bush fires in efforts to determine what was taking place when the photograph was taken....
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Voyage to the New World

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate the history of North America by creating a map.  In this world geography lesson, 3rd graders analyze the voyage Christopher Columbus took to arrive at the new world by creating a map of his...