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Equal Groups

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars explore statistics by completing a graphing activity. In this data analysis instructional activity, students define a list of mathematical vocabulary terms before unpacking a box of raisins. Young scholars utilize the...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Animal Classes and Their Ecosystems

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore animal characteristics by participating in an environment identification activity. In this animal habitat lesson, students discuss a range of different wild life and the ecosystems that they are a part of. Students view...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Changing States of Matter: Water’s Phase Changes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders observe the properties of water and in its different states. In this states of matter lesson, 3rd graders view a video, read The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks and experiment with freezing, melting and boiling water to...
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Microbes in Long Island Sound

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover the harm and benefits of microbes. In this biology lesson, students explore water, nitrogen and carbon cycles. They investigate the factors affecting bacteria growth.
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Mixing It Up!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify the different states of matter. In this science lesson, 3rd graders describe the different components of solutions and mixtures. They create emulsions, foams and suspensions in the lab.
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Bobbie Bear

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students examine how many different outfits can be made out of a given set of different colored shirts and pants. In this word problem lesson plan, students list or graph the possible results of an experiment. Students make a list of all...
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Layers Of The Earth

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students examine the layers of the earth and the basic composition and thickness of each. Using construction paper, each student models the layers of the earth.
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Industry-Based Learning

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students are placed in an industry-based environment to complete their requirements for college credit. Once they have begun, they read their workplace standards and what is necessary to complete their internship. They keep track of...
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The Circulatory System - Part I

For Teachers 1st
First graders consider what effect their behavior has on their health. Students make a fist to indicate the size of his/her heart. They complete a worksheet on the heart, coloring the arteries red and the veins blue.
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Monsters, Monsters, Monsters

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students are introduced to how to use the internet and send emails. In groups, they work together to send emails to other students around the world. To end the lesson, they read their emails to the class and respond to their questions.
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Piecewise Modeling with Multiple Functions: Federal Debt

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze data on debt and write an equation. In this statistics lesson plan, students are given data from different time periods, and are asked to graph and analyze the data. They work in groups, and are assigned different parts...
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Mass Measurement

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Middle schoolers explore geometry by completing a physics activity on-line. In this mass measurement lesson, pupils define the terms mass, volume, and density and identify their relationship with each other. They complete an on-line...
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Bodies in Motion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars work in teams and train in the methods of anthropometry, the measurement of the human body. These activities require calipers or measuring tapes, meter sticks, skin fold calipers, and human skeleton.
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Maine Black Bear Research and Field Study Activity

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students participate in a field study of Maine Black Bears. They first do academic research on the Maine Black Bear. Following extensive research and discussion, students go out into the field with Maine State Biologist to observe bears...
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Learning in Cockroaches

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners make scientific observations. In this stimulus response lesson, students make observations and collect data to determine if cockroaches can learn. A secondary purpose of this lesson is to provide learners with the opportunity to...
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Geneticist for a Day

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discuss and compose a document discussing the transmission of the Huntington's gene- dominant or recessive, sex linked, etc. Additionally, they ought to consider Dr. Wexler's own odds for contracting the disease.
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Museums in the Classroom Pumpkin Project

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students identify the 5 stages in the life cycle of a pumpkin. They create a model showing the correct order of pumpkin life stages. They explain a pumpkin's life cycle to a partner, using their model.
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Why Do We Have Night?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students engage in a fun, creative way to discover how the Earth moves. This instructional activity helps students explain why there is day and night. It can also create curiosity to further study the solar system and eclipses!
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Topo Map Mania!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read and use topographical maps. They also use a compass to find bearing to an object on a map and in the classroom. Ask your students how they might travel to somewhere they have never been to befo
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Experimentation With Plants

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders experiment with different varieties of plants and draw conclusions after performing a series of lab activities. A very helpful student worksheet is given. This is a nicely done introductory lesson plan for life science.
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Tootsie-Roll Pop Chemistry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use Tootsie-Roll Pops to become familiar with atoms and chemical formulas. They, in groups, find more combinations of Tootsie-Roll Pops than the other lab groups within 3 minutes (Round 1), and within 5 minutes (Round 2).
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Measuring the Earth (Eratoshenes' method)

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders engage in problem solving, communicating, reasoning, and connecting to represent and solve problems, using geometric models.
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Hunting Invertebrate Fossils in the Classroom

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students acquire a general knowledge of fossils and paleontology, the study of evidence of life in the past and identify the major invertebrate groups (phyla) commonly found in the fossil record.
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The Great Migration: Pushed By The South, Pulled By The North

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students identify key features of the Great Migration. They explain the concepts of push and pull factors for migration. They create an art project which shows an understanding of the push and pull factors.

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