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Worksheet
Curated OER

Red Eyed Tree Frog Coloring Sheet

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
For this red eyed tree frog coloring worksheet, students practice their coloring techniques as they color the picture of the frog. Other educational activities may coincide with the use of this coloring sheet.
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Instructional Video2:27
Krista King Math

Prime and Composite Numbers

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Create an understanding of prime numbers with the class after watching a video that examines different numbers and recognizes prime numbers as being those that do not have other factors than one and itself. The narrator then...
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Instructional Video5:49
Bozeman Science

LS4A - Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Need help putting together an uncommonly good unit about common ancestry? Check out a video that covers NGSS standard LS4A, Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity. Topics include ways to convey similarities and differences between...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

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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Worksheet
Curated OER

What is a Plant?

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this plant characteristics worksheet, students will read a paragraph about plants and then use the information found in that paragraph to complete 3 short answer questions about plant adaptations.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Probabilities for Number Cubes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of probability.  For 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...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fall Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K
Students participate in various fall activities. In this fall lesson, students take a trip to a farmers market and purchase the ingredients needed for vegetable soup. Students paint fall scenes and create a fall story. Students discuss...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

PALM TREES Technology :Literacy Challenge Project

For Teachers 7th
Do you have a class set PDAs? Seventh graders use the Note Pad function on their PDAs to brainstorm writing prompts. After three minutes of listing their favorite foods, class members use the Note Pad Eraser to reduce their list to the...
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Activity
Denton Independent School District

Build a Geome-Tree

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Geometers construct a mobile or ornament using nets of three-dimensional polyhedrons. Not only do they need to compute the volume and surface area of each figure, they also earn points for creativity, neatness, and more!
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

This Is Tree-rific!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders view a clip of the video Backyard Safari, "Trees," and portray the life cycle of a tree. They also view a clip on structures of a tree and draw a diagram of a tree in their science journals.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Printing Practice: "Palm Tree"

For Students K - 1st
For this printing practice worksheet, students practice tracing and printing the words "Palm Tree," then color a picture of a palm tree. Page has links to additional activities.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Printing Practice: "Tree"

For Students K - 1st
In this printing practice worksheet, students practice tracing and writing the word "Tree," then color a picture of a tree. Page has links to additional activities.
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Project: Build-a-House

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Start with a basic house created in JavaScript code and practice programming with loops as you add rows of windows, grass, flowers, or trees. How about some apples growing in the trees? You get the idea. Your coding students can let...
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Instructional Video4:08
TED-Ed

Plants Use An Internet Made of Fungus

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
If a tree is infected with bugs in a forest, can it warn the neighboring trees? Amazingly, this communication happens regularly. Scholars observe the phenomenon and learn how scientists discovered the way fungus works as a neural network...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Structural Factors in Evolution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Laboratory activities encourage evolutionary biology scholars to consider homologous structures as evidence of common ancestry. They learn how to formulate phylogenic trees and that environment influences to genetic variation. Activities...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Quarter Conservation

For Teachers K - 1st
Here is another in the interesting series of lessons that use the special State Quarters as a learning tool. This one uses the California State Quarter. During this lesson, pupils learn the many ways they can conserve natural resources...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Color Me: Le Sapin

For Students K - 2nd
The holidays are around the corner...excite your young French speakers with this coloring activity. They color a decorated tree, learn the French word le sapin, and rewrite the word in the space allotted. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

La casa/ The House

For Students 1st - 2nd
Donde está la puerta? Give this printable to each one of your young language learners to develop basic house vocabulary! They cut out a picture of a door, window, tree, and sun, and place each picture on the house. 
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Lesson Plan
Indian Land Tenure Foundation

Tribal Origin Stories

For Teachers K - 2nd
The teacher reads and retells Californian tribal origin or creation stories that come from the traditions of a variety of California Indian tribes. Then, pupils get together in groups and retell the stories they just heard; just as...
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Printables
Curated OER

Growing Lemons & Counting Numbers

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Have your young gardeners practice their counting with a lemon tree that's missing its lemons and a flower that's missing its leaves. Included are the two plants and a set of 10 lemons, 10 leaves, and 10 numbers. See the materials tab...
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Curated OER

Fun Fitness Activities For Kids

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
From shuttle run relays to ACTIVE Bingo, you'll be elated to have this PE resource packet in your tool belt for your next fitness lesson. After all, who wouldn't want to play a game called, "Elephants, Giraffes, and Palm Trees"?
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Lesson Plan
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Waste and Recycling: Recycling Paper

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
We take paper for granted, while thousands of trees are being made into the paper we toss in the trash. Start a dialogue about paper reduction and recycling in class, and share the negative effects paper production has on our...
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Instructional Video11:04
Bozeman Science

Cell Division

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
It is hard to believe a 300-foot-tall Redwood tree began as a single cell hundreds of years ago. How did it grow so large? Observe how different kinds of cells (bacteria, sex cells, and eukaryotic cells) reproduce or make more cells...
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Interactive
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PhET

Radioactive Dating Game

For Students 6th - Higher Ed Standards
Uranium 235 has a half-life of over 700 million years and is the fuel used in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Pupils see the half-lives and decay rates of Carbon-14 and Uranium-238. They also take measurements of these two...