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Make a Bison
Students discover how bison were hunted by the Native Americans and compare it to the buffalo. Using construction paper, they trace a bison outline given to them and use coffee grounds to fill in the space where the fur would be. They...
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Creating your Frog's Environment
Students discuss where frogs can live. After the discussion, they create an environment for a frog using items of their choice. Some may include: construction paper, paint, magazines. The environment could even be 3-D. The key to this...
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Contours, Curves & Lines
Students discover how straight lines and curves function in both art and the science of conservation tillage by building model "hills" and experimenting on them.
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Under the Spell of Spiders
Students examine spiders. In these spider lessons, students will view spider images and live spiders to determine physical characteristics, habits, and habitats. Students will examine fantasy and folklore about spiders to create and...
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Romare Bearden
Students identify artwork by Romare Bearden and to explain his techniques. They look for cut and pasted papers and images, paint, ink and pencil designs, shapes and spaces and the rhythms therein. They listen to music by looking at...
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De-composers - Terrarium
Students explore the environment by building a mock ecosystem. In this rainforest analysis lesson, students define many environmental and rainforest related vocabulary terms and discuss the current status of our planet's rainforests....
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Ecological Impact of Wood Extraction
Students explore their local environment by conducting a class experiment. For this deforestation lesson, students discuss the effects of wood harvesting on forests around the world and research environment related vocabulary terms....
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Valued Animals - Colored Pencil and Crayon
Second graders see that pressure of crayon create range of values. They show value range with crayons in an art work. They see how value is used in works of art and explain the importance of animals and their environment.
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Biospheres
Second graders create models, practice inquiry skills, work with fellow students in teams, and reinforce concepts discussed in class all by using the theme of BIOSPHERES.
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Too Hot? Gotta Vent!
Young scholars study deep sea exploration and underwater geology, specifically hydrothermal sea vents. They create digital video projects of their own to demonstrate their knowledge, illustrating the discoveries of the explorers of the...
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Go Fly a ( Tetrehedral) Kite!
Students research the tetrahedral kites invented by Alexander Graham Bell. In this components of flight lesson, students examine the kites made by Bell and his team. Students create their own kite and add them together as a class to...
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Sound/Pitch
Learners explore how pitch changes when using instruments that are plucked, blown, and hit. In this sound and pitch instructional activity, students blow across the top of bottles that are filled with water to create sound. Learners use...
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The Dance of the Butterfly
Students explore butterfly life cycles and movement. In this integrated fine arts and biology life cycle lesson, students listen to the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and identify the related life cycle stages. Students...
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Meet the Corals
Students investigate the types of coral. In this oceanography instructional activity, students access the Fisheye View Cam Website and create their own coral garden by using various art supplies.
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Inner and Outer Planets
Learners explore the solar system. In this planets lesson, students learn about the other planets in the solar system. They watch a video clip from National Geographic on the solar system, compare and contrast the planets and create a...
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Filter Feeding in Reef Sponges
Students investigate the role of sponges in our oceans. In this biology lesson plan, students create a diagram visualizing how sponges bring food into their bodies through a filtering process. Students discuss the connections between...
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Who Has Seen the Wind?
Young scholars investigate the characteristics of wind. In this weather instructional activity, students use poetry and van Gogh's paintings to discuss the movement of wind. Young scholars are introduced to the Beaufort Scale and use the...
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Woodwind Instruments and Pitch
Students explore musical pitch. In this cross curriculum musical instruments and "sound" physics lesson, students identify and describe common traits of woodwind instruments. Students research "pitch" and what causes pitch fluctuation by...
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The Formation and Value of Temperate Grasslands
Students get an overview of the climate and organisms of the North American Prairie. After a lecture, and watching some videos imbedded in this plan, students compile research data on the North American Prairie.
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Communicating Color
Students identify basic colors by their proper names. They explain the process of creating the color wheel and explore the origins and catagories of complex colors.
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Create a Butterfly Mobile
Students construct a butterfly mobile. In this visual arts lesson plan, students use rice paper, watercolors, a coat hanger, and wax paper to create a unique butterfly mobile. Students use photographs of butterflies to construct a...
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Housing: Types of Shelters
Students experiment with the construction of shelters and the various types of architectural designs. For this shelters lesson, students draw the building they live in. Students compare and contrast buildings made today and made 150...
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Animals Up!
Students design and build a pedestal or platform that holds a toy animal. In this building instructional activity, students use knowledge from a prior instructional activity as they build a platform or pedestal for a toy animal using on...
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