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Mapping Community Values

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students discuss the origin of various maps focusing on the values behind them. Students also explore how human needs and geography influence community settlement patterns. Students extend learning by creating and mapping their own ideal...
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Basic Needs of Living Things-Lesson One

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the basic needs of living things. They observe a variety of living things and identify the basic needs of each living item. Students create food balls of peanut butter and nuts to feed animals. They hang their food...
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Basic Needs of Plants

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the four basic needs of plants. They examine plants as they grow. Students discuss the changes that they see in the growing plants. They observe what happens to a plant when one of its basic needs is taken away.
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Lesson Plans and WebQuests

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students review an overview of mediation techniques and listening skills. They practice good listening skills which are needed for the mediation process and discuss icebreakers in pairs to better utilize good listening skills.
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What Makes a House a House

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine the ways in which the environment influences the house design. They describe how the physical environment, weather and local materials influence the type of house a family builds. They draw a house according to a given...
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Growth and Changes in Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars investigate the growth and changes in plants. They view a video and discuss the changes in plants. They work in small groups to demonstrate vocabulary words to the class. They visit a green house and take pictures of...
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Fuel-Saving Speed

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore all the options open to beat the gas prices soaring as of late. In addition, explore what the ideal speed to drive for best gas mileage. Pros/Cons are debated on both sides of the issue. Included is discussion for an...
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Discernment- Choosing The Best

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate the concept of truth and how it is to be used in life. The lesson includes a story that illustrates the kind of life one should live. The story has a light and dark side to it. Then students role play an interview...
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Symbiotic Relationships

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders research types of symbiotic relationships on the Internet and explain what the effects would be in one of the species disappears.  In this investigative lesson students use the Internet to do research then...
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Arctic Microclimates

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify, measure, and average micro-climatic temperatures in a particular region. They draw a small-scale map of an area to be sampled (classroom, playground, park, backyard) and identify potential locations for...
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Habitat Mural

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners build a collage of an ecosystem. The goal is for them to understand interactions in a community, plant and animal adaptations, and how all life depends on plants. This activity is based on Wump World and students describe what...
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Getting through the day duck style

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers are introduced to how animals (and ourselves) cope with daily life. They discover that living things need certain conditions to survive. Students investigate how living things (including ourselves and a duck) have...
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Who lives with Mallard?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore how all living things have needs that are obtained from their surroundings. They identify the surroundings where an animal or plant lives is its habitat. Students identify that a habitat is a community of living and...
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Budgeting

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders construct a budget for a family of four including a column for income and no less than ten columns for expenses, all of which will be expressed and totaled in dollar amounts. They are also requested to write a scenario in...
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Enrichment Activities - "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH"

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read the novel "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH." They discuss the various characters in the book, and the different types of conflict that take place within the book. They also research owls and rats to make comparisons...
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"Julie of the Wolves"

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research life in Alaska and compare life there to their lives in this lesson. They read "Julie of the Wolves." They research through the novel and other reference books facts about the Alaskan climate and geography. They...
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Berenstain Bears: Grow It

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read several books and complete an activity that coincides with each book. i.e. They read 'Berenstain Bears: Grow It' by Stan and Jan Berenstain and then decorate a flower pot, plant flower seeds in it and record their...
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Habitat for Sale

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars are able to define habitat, and identify the four things that living things need to survive. They are able to describe how living things are adapted to their habitats.
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The Life Cycle of the Butterfly

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study the life cycle of a butterfly by observing metamorphosis taking place in a butterfly pavilion. Students illustrate their understandings of the body parts of a caterpillar and butterfly, as well as the life cycle,...
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Global Weather Patterns and Disease

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students conduct research projects to determine the effects of climatic changes on the spread of infectious diseases throughout regions. After conducting their Internet research, students develop mini-presentations on their given disease...
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Pio, Pio, Que Frio

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate the characteristics of living things. They determine that different organisms have different needs and describe and compare them. They draw and verbally respond about their favorite animal.
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COMMON KINDS OF INSECTS

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars will recognize and name three common insects.1. Share background information with students. 2. Provide young scholars with the "bug body" puzzle pages, and have them cut the puzzles out.1. Share background information with...
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DON'T TREAD ON ME

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore how the habits and practices of people affect the soil and growth of plants. They are introduced to the phrase "soil compaction." Students play the Soil Particle Game in the related activities section. They go outside...
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Living or Nonliving

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders brainstorm a list of the characteristics of living and nonliving organisms. Individually, they find four nonliving and living items and the characteristics that make them fit into one of the categories. To end the lesson,...

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