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The Importance of Trees in the Rural Area: Planting a Snowfence

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Young scholars discuss the importance of trees and work together to plant a living snowfence. In this tree importance lesson, students discuss why trees are important in rural areas. They use mathematics and team work to plant a living...
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Extendable Bonko

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students create musical instruments to see how the length effects the pitch. For this Bonko activity, students use various size tubes to create a Bonko. Students experiment to observe the difference in the pitch.
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Apples and Apple Activities

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners investigate apples. In this reading comprehension instructional activity, students read a book about apples then compare and contrast, make graphs, distinguish between fact and fiction and work in groups. Learners...
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Climb Every Volcano

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers use a contour map to distinguish the elevation of a volcano.  In this volcano instructional activity, students use styrofoam to create the contour of their map.  Middle schoolers glue and assemble their...
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Amazing Transpiration

For Teachers 6th - 7th
  Learners observe a leaf and discuss the way that water is released from a leaf through its stomata.  For this water cycle lesson, students calculate how much water leaves produce from a whole tree.     
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Gifts for Valentine's Day

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students calculate unit cost.  In this gifts for Valentine's Day lesson, students examine store ads and determine the unit cost of Valentine's gifts such as the price for one piece of candy.  They compare prices and determine...
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Natural Inquirer Ecosystem Article Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discover new ways to preserve the ecosystem by completing graphic organizers.  For this environmental lesson, students read an article from the Natural Inquirer in small groups and fill out a graphic organizer based on the...
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Growing bacteria

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the growth of bacteria under the right condition. In this biology lesson, students observe the growth of bacteria and fungi given the perfect condition to grow. They graph the result and investigate where else...
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Paper Towel Structure

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate technology and its purpose in the workplace. In this geometry instructional activity, students design and build a paper towel structure to investigate motion and forces. They are given a restricted weight and asked...
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Flight Dreams - Flight Factors

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students investigate the physics of flight by experimenting in class.  In this history of flight lesson, students define terms such as gravity, lift, and drag in order to better understand how a plane is able to stay in the air....
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Creek Detectives WISE On-line Research Community

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate ways people cause harm to the environment. In this environmental lesson, students explore a case study on the Internet. Students explore all of the online activities and collect data for a presentation.
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Human Fingerprints: No Two the Same

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore scientific observations by analyzing a group of data. In this fingerprint identification lesson, 6th graders identify the reasoning behind fingerprinting and create their own ink fingerprints. Students discuss the...
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Garden Guard

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students read about the history of farming with the use of scarecrows and then sort clothing, build scarecrows, write descriptions, and more. In this scarecrows lesson plan, students also play a game called Garden Tag.
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The Sun as the Driving Force of the Water Cycle

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study the water cycle and how the sun is an important factor.  In this water cycle lesson plan students investigate how to desalinate water and explore the different densities of fresh versus saltwater.
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It's Alive! Using Microorganisms in Cooking

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students create a KWL chart about food. For this chemistry lesson, students differentiate physical and chemical changes. They explain how microorganisms are used in food preparation.
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Physics "24"

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students construct a model house or school. In this physics lesson, students research about who wind up clocks work and write an essay about it. They determine the center of gravity of different objects.
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Design and Build A Better Candy Bag

For Teachers 2nd - 12th Standards
Young scholars discuss how the final design for a product can affect its success. They work together to design and develop a better candy bad. They predict the volume and strength they need for the bag to be successful.
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Temperature High and Lows

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students gather high and low temperature readings through email. In this temperature graphing lesson, students use a spreadsheet to input data for a graph. students interpret the graphs to compare and contrast the data from different...
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Sea Ice Board Game

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students understand the sea ice cycle and can explain its stages. In this Sea Ice lesson, students play a game to identify types of sea ice. Students answer critical thinking questions about sea ice. Students complete a sea ice worksheet.
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Its OK To Be a Clod

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers describe factors that affect the solubility of a chemical substance in seawater. In this sea environment lesson, student explain how information on the solubility of a substance can be used to measure water currents....
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Area Code Mathematics

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students solve math problems based on a U.S. area code map.
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Ancient Peoples of the Middle East

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
This is an excellent multidisciplinary lesson designed by Scientific American. It provides three creative activities--designing a garden, studying hieroglyphics, and writing poetry--relevant to the ancient peoples of the Middle East....
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The Robot Artist--Aaron

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
This is a creative multidisciplinary instructional activity which will involve young scholars in art, technology, and psychology. Students learn about Harold Cohen who created a robot programmed to create art. Young scholars will also...
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A Distant View

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Learners investigate the essential concepts of how lenses work to magnify vision, and then build simple telescopes to demonstrate their understanding. They write a description of how their telescope could be improved and how it works.

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