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Safety First

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students examine the dangers that may exist in their home. In this safety rules instructional activity, students complete a graphic organizer for the activities they like to do at home. Students draw a picture engaged in the activities...
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Making Connections

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars identify the main ideas in a passage from literature, and in a painting, and justify their conclusions using logic and language arts skills.
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Science Experiment Using Lima Beans

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders tie together elements about the world and their environment. Students incorporate styles of higher order thinking skills. Students measure skills of observations, conclusions, inferences and predictions.
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Scientist Are Like Detectives

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students demonstrate proper scientific observation skills. In this investigative science lesson, students make observations, record their findings and form conclusions in order to improve their scientific documentation and writing skills.
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Fitness Day

For Teachers K - 8th
Students in grades K-8 participate in a school wide fitness day. On this day all students and staff walk for 20 minutes or one mile around cones placed around the playground. Drawings, a balloon release and other activities surround...
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Paper Mache Globes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a paper mache model of the earth. At the conclusion of a discussion about the earth, they are given paper mache materials, they create their globe and appropriately draw and label landforms, bodies of water and the...
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Paragraph Lesson

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students write paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details. In this paragraph writing lesson, students fix sentences and paragraphs. Students also write a paragraph that includes an introduction, supporting details, and a...
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Sunlight Angles

For Students 4th - 10th
In this sunlight worksheet, students solve the problem of how much energy the Earth receives from the different angles of the sun. Students collect data, chart it, and come up with a conclusion.
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My Family and Me

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discuss the family unit and compare it to an ant colony.  In this family lesson plan, students draw their family and extended family and talk about their jobs and family roles. They compare this to an ant colony and observe...
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Making a Water Filter

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders draw a plan that they think will clean the sludge in a jar. Students construct the treatment system they designed, take a bottle of sludge to the system and try it out, writing down what happened.
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Cause and Effect SDAIE Lesson

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read two Mexican folktales and discuss cause and effect. They draw a cause and effect relationship from one of the stories.
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The Biology of ADHD

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the biology of ADHD and its implications upon the formation and treatment of the disease. They draw and label the parts of a neuron. Also, they describe the neurotransmission cycle. Students create a list of pros and...
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Investigate How Light Affects Plants

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this plants and light investigation worksheet, students hypothesize, collect data, and make conclusions about plants and light as they respond to 6 drawing and 6 short answer questions.
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Greek Golden Age

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study the Greek Golden Age. In this ancient Greece lesson, 6th graders explore a virtual Greek theater and complete reading, writing, and drawing activities in classroom learning stations.
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The Lake Champlain Highway

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders read and color “Boats, Boats, Boats on Lake Champlain.”  In this US History lesson, 9th graders listen to more detailed descriptions of the history of boating on Lake Champlain.  Students draw a picture of a boat...
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Sustainable Southern Belize: Coral Health Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate coral reefs and the dangers they face by labeling and drawing.  In this oceanography lesson, 5th graders view a PowerPoint presentation of photographs of coral reefs in Belize.  Students investigate...
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Dude, Who Hit My Car?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students discuss how investigators solve a hit and run accident. For this physical science lesson, students recreate an accident scene using CEENBot. They collect data from the experiment and formulate conclusion.
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Radish Seed Lab

For Students 9th - 12th
In this radish seed worksheet, students fill out a lab packet having to do with radish seeds. Students answer short answer questions, charts, and draw graphs of their results.
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Shoes: Practical vs. Fashionable

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students compare and contrast the difference between practical applications of apparel and the use of fashion as a status symbol, with a focus on shoes. Working in groups, they complete a Venn diagram comparing practical fashion to...
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Tetrominoes Cover-Up

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders compare and contrast the attributes of two-dimensional shapes. Using a tetrominoes game, they create two-dimensional shapes to cover up a game board. At the conclusion of the game, 3rd graders discuss the patterns they...
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Looking at Portraits: Reading Poe

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the poetry of Poe. In this integrated arts lesson, students draw comparisons between the daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe by an unknown photographer with Poe's poetry.
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Families and Neighborhoods

For Teachers K
Students answer questions about families and what they do together. Students discuss different types of families and draw a picture of their family, discussing similarities and differences in the pictures and in families in general.
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Gears 2

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this gears worksheet, students use a ruler and gears to conduct an experiment. Students follow 11 sets of directions,write a conclusion, and graph their results.
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Wind speed at different locations

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this wind speed worksheet, students walk around the school with a weather vane or wind sock and record the speed of wind in different places. Students fill in a chart and write one conclusion.