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Garbage Plants

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create plants out of garbage. They identify items that can be recycled and discuss natural resources. They share their creation with the class.
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Colds and Germs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students determine how diseases are spread from one person to another. They investigate the importance of hand washing to reduce the spread of common colds and other diseases. They listen to teacher read alouds and complete an inquiry...
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Ice Cream in a Bag

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils discuss the three states of matter and how they are affected by temperature. They make ice cream in a bag while observing how temperature change affects the mixture. They discuss why some specimens froze more quickly than others...
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Who Takes Care of the Maya Forest Corridor?

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the work of conservationists and how they make sure animals and people are safe in their habitats. They identify the rules, laws, jobs, and people who help them feel safe and keep them healthy. Students explore who...
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Signs of Spring Door Hanging

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create their own original design for a spring door decoration. As a class, they follow specific instructions to make the decorate the door piece. They also practice using art supplies and materials correctly and complete a...
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Picture Yourself in an Ornament

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create an ornament with their photo inside of it. To create the personal memento, students observe demonstrations and follow directions. Students experience making a craft and giving the memento to a family member.
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Functional Homes

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students observe and reflect on habitats built and used by various life forms. They discover the benefits of the "homes" to the creature and its life and apply the natural designs to human uses.
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Seashore Explorers

For Teachers 1st - 5th
There are three separate lessons within this resource that can be used together, or that can each stand alone. In the first, five simple activities allow junior scientists to examine the amazing properties of water. In the second, they...
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Youth Activity: How People Get Their Water Reservoirs: "Holding Tanks" for Drinking Water

For Teachers K - 8th
Students experience and participate in "Riding the Water Cycle" with this lesson. They explore, analyze and study the role of reservoirs in maintaining a reliable supply of drinking water. Each student constructs a model of a reservoir.
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Alligator Alley

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students identify alligator body parts, feeding patterns, habitats, and conditions necessary for their survival in the wild. They identify ways that people influence the quality of life of all creatures on Earth, including themselves and...
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Amazing Marbleized Clay Pots

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students discover information about different colors of natural clay, finding that mineral composition has its effect on the color of different clays. They simulate the varied colors of organic clays to create a marbleized dish suitable...
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Animal Adults and Babies

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students examine how different animals care for their young and how young animals change as they grow. They conduct research on the growth patterns and life cycle of a selected animal, create a realistic baby and adult form of their...
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Animal Matchmakers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students read about and research animals and their caregivers. They gather information about the responsibilities of caring for different types of animals and create their own animal matchmaking game, including fact cards and display...
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Aquarium Acrobats

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students create a realistic underwater diorama as a follow-up activity to a field trip to an aquarium. They research and discuss sea creatures and plants that contribute to aquarium life, then create a diorama using research information...
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Big-Teeth Carnivorous Creatures

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students, after researching the survival skills of carnivorous animals with large teeth, build a realistic model of a carnivorous creature. They compare and contrast how their carnivorous creatures grow, survive, move and behave to those...
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Black & White Drama

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Learners explore Ansel Adams's dramatic black and white mountain landscape photographs. They identify common geographic elements and animals indigenous to the Sierra Nevada and create original art in black and white to depict light and...
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Black Bat Silhouette

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners research the habitats, habits, shapes, colors, and sizes of bats. They recognize that silhouettes can be used in various forms of artwork. Students experiment with watercolors to see how easily these colors can be blended on wet...
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Botanical Bookmarks

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students increase their comprehension of botany as they collect, identify, and classify various leaves. They observe that each leaf has its own unique color, texture, design, and pattern. Students create a pressed-leaf bookmark,...
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Breezy Windsock

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discuss the wind-- what causes it, how it is used, and how it affects the weather. They list ways they know that air is moving, such as feeling it on their skin or watching a flag blow in the breeze. Students research the...
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Brilliant Peacock Plumage

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discover how a peacock struts with its multicolored plumage. They view a variety of examples with various colors and then make a hand print peacock on a piece of construction paper and color each of its feathers with a variety...
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Bugs Every Which Way

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students, after gathering information about insects through observation and the internet, explore and examine tiny insects that crawl through a magnifying glass and then draw their favorite bugs from different angles. They create a...
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Bursting Blooms Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students study images and specimens of flowers before labeling the sepals, petals, carpels/pistils, and the stamens. They determine the function of each part. Using colored pencils, they design a drawing the different flower parts using...
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Chilean Rainsticks

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners research the history of the rainstick and learn how it was originally made. They comprehend the use of the rainstick in various cultures. Students create a replica rainstick and decorate it in authentic Native American designs.
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Compound Species

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students gather pictures of animals, fish, birds, and insects, and sort them by category: land, sea, and air creatures. They choose two of these categories and imaginatively combine part of animals (such as horns, tentacles, fins, floppy...

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