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Seasons

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students name the 4 seasons, discussing the weather, plant life, animal life and and activities of each. Students read the book titled, "Hello Arctic," and and discuss changes in seasons that accompany the story. Students complete...
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Finding Wind Direction

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify the wind direction. In this weather lesson, students use a weather vane to find the wind direction. Students complete a worksheet.
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We All Need Trees

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners complete a guessing game. In this tree products instructional activity, students view various household items and try to determine if they were made from trees. They discuss their findings and then read books about trees.
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People and Space

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students eat dehydrated foods that the astronauts would eat in space. In this dehydrated foods lesson plan, students make lists of food they could eat, discuss how dehydration takes place, eat food, and complete discussion questions.
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Phases of the Moon Flipbook

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a flipbook. In this phases of the moon lesson plan, 3rd graders examine how the moon changes and phases occur.  Students create their own flipbook of the phases of the moon using file cards to create a motion-picture...
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What are the Challenges?

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Young scholars discuss energy. In this energy challenges lesson plan, students read about greenhouse gas emissions and global climate change. Comprehension questions from the reading are provided. 
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Weather in the USA

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students identify the different types of weather conditions that occur in the United States. They discover how to adapt to weather and explain forecast and warning signals.
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Your Address in the Galaxy

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create a business card after researching their location in space and determining their Galactic Address.
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Plate Tectonic - Volcanoes

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners watch and learn the different levels of "viscosity" in liquids to explain molten lava after viewing a video of a Hawaiian volcano.
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Plate Tectonic - Volcanoes (1)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn the different shapes of Volcanoes and discuss why volcanoes only have a few shapes.
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Making a Solar Eclipse Book: The Sun and Moon During a Solar Eclipse

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students make book covers displaying the Sun during a solar eclipse and a labeled illustration of the Sun.
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Change Agents

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders experiment with three erosive change agents. They do an observation log, which they present to the class through a song, poem or skit.
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Space, the Final Frontier...

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students study a common theory on how the solar system was formed and examine the relative scale of the size and distances among the bodies of the Solar System.
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Water Table

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners predict from a rock sample whether a water well could be drilled in that type of rock. They predict what conditons would be necessary for the well to produce water.
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Agriculture is a Cycle

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
What do a bicycle and the life cycle have in common? Cover this and more with the series of cross-curricular activities included in this plan. Learners do everything from making bracelets that represent the life cycle to checking out the...
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Weather and Climate

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Pupils identify the words plain and climate and discuss what would happen if it never rained. Students identify and interpret the weather in Poland and create a web illustrating various weather patterns. Pupils write a 4-line poem...
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Using A Winogradsky Column to Analyze Microbial Communities

For Teachers K - 12th
Students use easily obtained materials to study ecological succession in a microbiological community. This investigation is appropriate for a variety of age groups. Elementary Students be fascinated by the changes occurring over time...
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Pluto a Planet No More

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners help to create a list of planets in the solar system. They review the terms in the news section and complete the sentences given. They then read the article together and discuss.
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Robots

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play the parts of robots and their controllers. For this robot lesson plan, students learn about robots, and use verbal commands to simulate how a robot would command to it's controller.
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Concept Application: One to One Correspondence of Objects

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students consider the comparative sizes of the planets in the solar system. In this scale lesson, students select balls of different sizes to represent the planets in the solar system.
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What is the Rock Cycle?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars investigate the rock cycle. In this geology lesson, students read about the rock cycle on a website and discuss the steps of the rock cycle. Young scholars visit a rock cycle website to complete a quiz. This is the first...
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Our Water Footprint

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discuss the water usage of the world and their own water usage. For this water lesson plan, students read a story about water and discuss different statistics of water usage around the world.
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Green House Effect

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students read about the green house effect and how our environment is deteriorating and what we can do to help it. In this green house effect lesson plan, students conduct a home and school energy audit, and create a rap.
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Fahrenheit vs Celsius

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students construct a thermometer and convert Fahrenheit temperature into Celsius temperature. In small groups, they construct a thermometer, write a paragraph describing how to make a thermometer, and convert temperatures.

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