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Weather Pals

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students study maps of the United States to locate weather pals from a list of schools. They communicate with Weather Pal schools through the use of closed circuit TV. Using weather data collected in their area, they exchange the...
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Weather's Outer Limits

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students make educated guesses and explain their reasoning and compile, graph, and map weather data. They then study environmental weather extremes on earth and discover that many variables determine climate.
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-How Dogs Really Work!

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students read How Dogs Really Work! by Alan Snow. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of dogs as pets. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library connections.
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Case Tools

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students use CASE Tools in order to develop skills that are relevant in the world of technology and business. They will practice the new skills in mock type of projects that are relevant to real life scenarios.
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A Barn Guide to History

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students use the internet to research the history of their local area through the use of barns. In groups, they discuss the importance of the barns in their community and develop an interpretation of the history of various barns to...
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Pyramid Building: How to Use a Wedge

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the simple machine of a wedge. In this wedge lesson, students test wedges on different materials including wax, soap, clay and foam. They learn how a wedge was used to build the ancient pyramid and modern day skyscrapers.
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Antonyms 1 Level 8

For Students 9th - 11th
Intermediate and advanced English language learners will benefit from reviewing some of these words. For each of the 10 words provided, learners have to select the antonym from a list of five choices. Example words include agony,...
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Learning Library Skills during Technology Transitions

For Teachers 5th
Making the transition to a higher-tech school library or computer lab? This plan suggests 5th graders undertake a scavenger hunt and make a PowerPoint to educate younger schoolmates about how to use information resources in an...
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Establishing a Strong Authorial Voice, Worksheet 2

For Students 6th - 8th
Young writers are asked to revise and modify a series of sentences to make them stronger and relay a sense of voice. No definitions or models are given. You might use the learning exercise to check for understanding after a discussion of...
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TE Lesson: Tsunami Attack!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners examine how earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides can trigger tsunami waves. They determine how engineers use sensors to detect the dangerous wave, and how they help design building that will survive the wave force and water.
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Parts of Speech- Worksheet 1

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar instructional activity, students identify the underlined words in twenty sentences as one of the following parts of speech: noun, verb, adverb, adjective, pronoun, conjunction or preposition.
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Banking: Life Skills Vocabulary

For Students 6th - 9th
In this banking terminology worksheet, students fill in a crossword puzzle as they figure out the answers to fourteen clues associated with banks.
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The International Space Station-Follow that Graph!

For Students 8th - 11th
For this altitude change of the International Space Station worksheet, students observe a graph of the change in altitude of the space station over time due to the Earth's drag. Students solve 3 problems using the data in the graph.
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10 Logic

For Students 7th - 12th
In this algebra worksheet, students define and use not, and, or. They also discuss how biased or valid a test is. They apply logic to solving real life scenarios and word problems.
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Cleaning Water: How Filters Work

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students construct their own water filter to obtain clean water. In this filtration instructional activity, students produce tainted water in order to properly filter it with filtration devices made in class.
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Sheep Heart Dissection

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine a sheep heart. In this biology lesson plan, 5th graders dissect a sheep heart to identify the parts of a heart including the aorta, valve, septum, and ventricle.
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Do You Know Bamboo?

For Teachers K
Students understand the properties of Bamboo and what it can be used for. In this bamboo lesson, students with bamboo and compare and contrast to wood. Students share their findings.
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Perception and the Brain

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students experience how the brain adapts over time to changes in what they perceive. In this human perception lesson, students wear special prism goggles that initially disorient the user. Over time, the student is able to adjust to the...
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Draw an Alien in Natural Habitat

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students apply prior knowledge of living things, structures of living things and how living things sense and respond to their environment. In this habitat activity, students review the basic needs of organisms to survive. Students create...
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Student Designed Investigations: Observations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students choose an organism and create an experiment with that organism. In this observation lesson plan, students expose a living thing to something from its environment and record their observations. Students must have some prior...
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Living or Non-Living

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine living and non-living things. In this life science instructional activity, students are given a group of objects and discuss if they are living or non-living. Students identify and list characteristics of living things.
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Love in the Time of Cholera

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars examine causes and treatment options for cholera. In this biology lesson, students model the osmotic basis of cholera using  dialysis tubes. Young scholars propose treatments for hypothetical patient.
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Measuring Calories in Food

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students measure the amount of calories in food. In this food energy lesson, students discuss what a calorie is, how our bodies use a calorie, and how many we need. Then, students use a calorimeter to calculate the amount of energy in a...
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Investigating the Types of Energy in Different Objects

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars investigate forms of energy. In this physical science energy lesson, students work with a partner classifying household items according to the type of energy they have. Young scholars complete a related worksheet.

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