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Grab a Winning Book to Read on March 3

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars identify periods of history and read a news article about a librarian who wrote an award winning book. For this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a class challenge and a vocabulary activity,...
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Bringing the Solar System to Life

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students walk marked paths as they simulate the orbit of the planets.  In this solar system lesson, students recognize the relationship between the sun and the planets.  Students visualize how the phases of the moon are seen.
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Worm Compost & Vermicomposting

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore vermicomposting, the species of worms needed and the proper climate for it.  In this composting lesson students make their own worm compost bin. 
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Build a Paper Plane

For Teachers K - 12th
Students study the history of the paper plane.  In this design lesson students create several types of paper planes and determine if there is a difference in mean flight distances.
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Meteorites

For Teachers 1st - 11th
Students model how meteors fall to the surface of planets. In this space science lesson, students identify different types of meteorites using an interactive online website. They investigate the relationship between a meteorite's size...
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Crystal Growing

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore the different phases of a crystal.  In this mineral lesson plan students grow their own sugar crystals using a sugar recipe. 
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Jelly Beans for Sale

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students connect literature (story Jelly Beans for Sale by Bruce McMillan) to math concepts. In these estimating and money lessons, students work with jelly beans, unifix cubes, pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, to estimate and make...
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Movement

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore experimentation as a method for solving problems. In this movement lesson plan, students observe marbles rolling down a ramp, identify variables that could cause the marble to roll faster or farther, test changing one...
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The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explain the greenhouse effect. In this global warming lesson, students participate in an activity where they experience how greenhouses gases work and how they contribute to global warming. Learners complete a diagram...
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Bubbles

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners observe the characteristics of bubbles. In this scientific inquiry lesson, students use a bubble solution and a wand to make bubbles and observe their characteristics. Learners identify the shape and the color of the bubbles.
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Making a Terrarium

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students become familiar with the materials needed to build a terrarium. For this terrarium lesson, students create a terrarium in a bottle and observe how it grows and takes care of itself.
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Light and Shadows

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students explore shadows. In this shadow and light lesson, students predict what will happen to a shadow when the light source is dimmed. Students participate in a whiteboard interactive lesson.
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Developing Kids with Character Through Service Learning

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discover service learning and how it can help them build character.  For this community lesson, students brainstorm ways they can assist their classmates with problems, and write about it in their journal.  Students...
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Cyber Safety

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore internet safety. In this cyber safety lesson, students gain information on how to choose safe websites. Students get tips on what types of information is safe to share on the internet and things to be aware of.
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Make a Peace Windsock

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Young scholars explore "peace." In this character development lesson, students define "peace" and discuss instances that reflect examples of peace. Young scholars create a windsock using symbols for peace. Directions for the windsock are...
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Transformation

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate symmetry by reflecting objects in different angles. In this geometrical transformation lesson, 3rd graders define the terms translation, rotation and reflection in order to physically turn geometric...
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Mental Math

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students participate in an online computation game. For this computation lesson, students practice simple computations and use an internet site to review addition and subtraction facts.
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Open Your Eyes To Art!

For Teachers K - 4th
Students help create a colorful bulletin board for classroom art displays in this short lesson for the early elementary classroom. The lesson, which can use a variety of items, includes product ideas and resource links to find very...
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Climate Change

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore environmental care by researching the impact of human beings on our planet. In this climate change lesson, students utilize the Internet to read informational text about climate change and the effect it will have on our...
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Progressive City Planners

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars plan cities. In this environmental racism lesson, students design imaginary cities taking into consideration the amenities and environmental hazards that exist. Young scholars discuss city planning challenges.
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Kandinsky Color Studies

For Teachers K - 8th
Students study the artist Wassily Kandinsky as well as his art and and music. In this art appreciation lesson, students view a variety of Kandinsky's work and circular color studies. Students relate the use of color to emotion...
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Fool-proof Yogurt

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students make yogurt from powdered milk. In this yogurt experiment lesson, students combine powdered milk, warm water and plain yogurt. They mix up the ingredients and put it in an insulated cooler for 6-8 hours. 
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 2, Lesson 10: Wanna Trade?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students listen to a book that facilitates a discussion of trade and things that people need. They determine what things might be traded.
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Smallest to Tallest - Where is the Middle?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders measure each other's height and find the mean, median, and mode for the height of students in their class. They line up tallest to shortest and discuss the most appropriate measure of central tendency for the class.

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