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Guessing Game

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils participate in a set of activities designed to help ESL students become familiar with the English language through description, group work, oral reading, and question/answer sessions.
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Whale of a Tale

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students apply problem solving techniques to answer a question. After reading a passage, they compare and contrast three species of whale in a quantitative fashion.
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Illinois Entice Spoken Here

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders name a prairie animal when their name is called for attendance each day. They read books about Illinois or related topics. At present we have read Illinois, A Rookie Read About Geography Book by Allan Fowler.
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Woodland Math Facts

For Students 5th - 7th
In this Woodland math facts worksheet, learners study and examine woodland weights of trees and shrubs, explore invertebrates and draw a bar chart to chart their findings.
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Eyewitness Accounts

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners role-play to show the eyewitness accounts of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. In this volcanic eruption lesson, students act as reporters, eyewitnesses, and scientists to dramatize the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. They discuss the...
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Fossils: The Eras of the Earth's History

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students research the four geologic eras of Earth's history. In this extension on a fossils lesson, students research the different eras of Earth's history. Students use AppleWorks to create a bar graph containing information of the four...
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Tree Inventory and Map Project

For Students 5th - 8th
In this tree inventory and map project activity, students follow the directions on how to take inventories of trees and create a map from it. Students follow 4 sets of directions.
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Bison (American Buffalo)

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science learning exercise, students read the facts sheet for the buffalo. They could use this for a class activity for classifying animals.
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Wildlife Needs

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students identify the wildlife needs in a specific setting. In this wildlife needs lesson, students identify and illustrate the four stages of forest succession. Students list the natural habitat and food for a given species. Students...
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ESL: Dolphins Activity

For Students 4th - 6th
In this ESL dolphins worksheet, students read an article about dolphins, then complete a set of 10 multiple choice questions; answer may be checked on-line.
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Food for Thought

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore the food chains in a variety of ecosystems and its relationship to the survival of threatened or endangered marine animals or fish in the ocean. The interdependence of the species is investigated in this lesson.
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Prairies

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify the basic characteristics of the prairie ecosystem, and several commonly known prairie species. They create a classroom mural of a prairie ecosystem; and create reports about what they have found out.
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Gametogenesis and Fertilization

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how this module focuses on part of the cycle of alternation of generations: meiosis to produce haploid spores and fertilization to produce a diploid zygote which grows into the adult plant.
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She Sells Sea Shells in Illinois??

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders sorted shells first by methods they thought appropriate and then were instructed on the scientific method of classification by univalve and bivalve. Students then sorted paper shells as a method of assessing knowledge. It...
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Cinderella: Literacy Skills Packet

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this Cinderella worksheet packet, students can practice their literacy skills by unscrambling vocabulary words, doing a crossword puzzle, completing a story sequence activity, answering eight short answer questions, and completing...
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Fishes

For Students 9th - 12th
In this fish worksheet, students will review the characteristics of fish by comparing the jaws, skeleton, and fertilization of each fish class. Then students will use a phylogenetic tree to compare the groups of fish to ancestral...
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Galaxies and the Universe

For Students 8th - 9th
If Earth was formed 4600 million years ago, and the sun revolves about the center of the Milky Way once every 250 million years, how many revolutions have occurred? Students answer this question and ten more, all providing students with...
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Environmental Education

For Students 6th - 8th
In this environment worksheet, students read about the numerous activities and then take part in participating in one as a teacher or student led project.
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Cloze Activity: Cats and Dogs

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this cats and dogs cloze procedure worksheet, students review 2 short paragraphs that are missing 12 words and then attempt to fill in each blank with a word they think the author might have used. A word bank is provided.
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LitterFlotsam and Jetsam: A Little Litter Goes a Long Way

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners explore the concept of environmental stewardship. For this science lesson, students investigate data from the International Coastal Cleanup, identify sources of marine debris, and discover the impacts of this debris on wildlife.
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Your Favorite Wild Animal

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this research skills instructional activity, students select a wild animal and then respond to 5 short answer questions regarding it. In addition, students draw a picture of it and define 6 habitat terms.
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Boy Cricket Girl Cricket

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate crickets. In this series of cricket activities, students observe and chart crickets.  Students discuss the differences between male and female crickets, record findings in a journal, handle crickets, and read a...
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Curious? It's Gotta Have Heart

For Students 4th - 5th
In this "Curios?  It's Gotta Have Heart" worksheet, students answer 4 multiple choice questions interactively with immediate feedback about a heart found in a dinosaur fossil.
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Wetland Inventory and Map Project

For Students 6th - 10th
In this wetlands inventory and map project worksheet, students do research on the wetlands and complete a map project about it. Students follow 6 sets of directions with Internet links.

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