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Bigger Flowers

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss flowers and their parts, examine works by Georgia O'Keeffe, and draw, color, or paint large flowers.
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Guess What?! (a lesson about atoms)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars investigate atoms as particles that make up all matter. They examine the mass of matter.
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The Lorax

For Teachers K
Students read The Lorax and discuss how human actions can affect the environment. They conduct a simple experiment to see how much air pollution is in the air that they breathe.
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Naturalist's Notebook

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe and record the behavior of a San Diego wetland animal and the characteristics of its environment. The amount of time that each animal spends resting, grooming, eating, flying, and social or individual play becomes the...
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Minerals- the Building Blocks of Rocks

For Teachers K
Students investigate how rocks are composed minerals by dissecting rock cookies.
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Our View of the Sun

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to safety rules for observing the Sun, how the distance of the Sun is measured using Kepler's Laws and identify the visible layers of the Sun. They discuss solar eclipses and view images of eclipses using the...
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Ice Mummies: Frozen in Heaven

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct an experiment to investigate the rate of microbial growth at different temperatures. Students predict what will happen to the food at various temperature and test their hypotheses. Students describe the differences in...
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Particle Depostition Lab

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students collect, study and observe the pollution in our air. They list three kinds of pollution that they think is in our air. Students comprehend that the atmosphere is almost completely made up of invisible gaseous substances. They...
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Introduction To Insect & Spider Body Parts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers inspect several different specimens of insects and spiders to determine characteristics that are similar and different between the two groups. They identify the basic body structure of spiders and insects and then...
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LOOKING AT LAWNS

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate the importance of plants to animals by exploring their own schoolyard. They record relevant observations, findings, and measurements, using written language, drawings, charts, and graphs. They describe ways in...
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Peanut Processes

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars use the senses are to make observations about phenomena. They use a peanut and its shell as the object of a series of observations. In addition, they complete a drawing with their written observations to use as a guide to...
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Condensation and the Water Cycle

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the natural distallation process that occurs in the water cycle. They use plastic cups and cotton swabs to observe the condensation process that is evident in the water cycle.
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Hatching Brine Shrimp

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students experiment with temperature and salinity to detect favorable environments for hatching brine shrimp eggs. They make some predictions about which environments will yield the most hatched brine shrimp and record the number of...
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Barn Owl Pellet Lab

For Students 9th - 12th
In this lab worksheet, high schoolers dissect a barn owl pellet then identify the different small animals found in the owl pellet. Using class data they calculate percentage present as well as complete 8 post lab questions.
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Looking for Minibeasts

For Students 5th - 6th
In this minibeasts worksheet, students participate in a "minibeasts safari" where they collect a variety of different types of bugs in a jar, examine them and then return them to their original inhabitants.
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The Five Senses

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the 5 senses. In this biology lesson plan, students demonstrate the ability to identify objects through the use of the five senses as they complete 5 activities.
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An Exercise in Seriation Dating

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students study the different types of artifacts found that were made by the colonial people. In this archaeology lesson students take part in finding ceramic and charting their results.
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Guess What?!

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students explore how scientists work. In this scientific method lesson, students use their senses to identify objects they cannot see. Students are asked to think like scientists and make observations, comparisons, and interferences, as...
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Butterfly Life Cycle

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners investigate the life cycle of a butterfly. In this life cycle instructional activity, students read the book Monarch Butterfly by Gail Gibbons and discuss the four stages of the life cycle. Learners illustrate the life cycle on...
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Transportation

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students read about various modes of transportation for people, plants, and animals. In this transportation lesson, students read information about the transportation modes for people plants, and animals using water and land. Students...
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Primary Biological Content Area Covered

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars use the scientific method to make predictions about mold growth. In this fungus lesson plan, students use worksheets to help them illustrate predictions and graph mold growth from white to wheat bread. Young scholars first...
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Discover Ways to Further Classify Matter

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze and classify substances.  In this classifying matter instructional activity, students look at various substances and identify them as heterogeneous or homogeneous mixtures, pure substances, or solutions. ...
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Ranger Rick: Dissect a Pumpkin

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this pumpkin activity worksheet, students examine pumpkins inside and out and then respond to 4 short answer questions regarding their observations.
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Get Into Insects

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this insects worksheet, students collect 3 insects. Students draw the insects and observe what they are doing. Students fill out an observation chart.