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Insects

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students study the characteristics and basic needs of insects. They compare and describe similarities among insects. They examine the body structure, covering, and movement of insects and also, examine insect life cycles in this unit of...
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Bug's Eye View

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars explore biology by writing fictitious stories in class. In this insect life lesson, students identify many different types of insects in the animal kingdom and the classifications they fall into. Young scholars collect...
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Home-schooling Chronicles - Unschooling

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Attitudes vary about unschooling, but everyone can learn something from the practice.
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Constructing A Food Web

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and explain the relationships within a food web. They use index cards to glue pictures of producers and consumers. On the back of the card, students name the organism, list the type of biome in which it is found.
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Find the Frog

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students, the advanced beginner to intermediate ESL level, use English in a science activity.
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Holy Habitats or Meet Metamorphosis

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars examine the metamorphosis of frogs and how it adapts to its environment. They research how world pollutants are effecting the amphibian population.
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Flower Power

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create flowery napkin rings, paint umbrellas, paint flowers, and create "butter-flowers" in this four-day lesson all about Springtime. The activities in this lesson could be accomplished over four days, used separately, or...
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Vegetable Creatures

For Teachers K - 5th
Students use different foods to enhance academic skills in all area contents.  In this food activity activity, students use food, such as "bugs on a log" (raisins on peanut butter celery) to estimate and practice...
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Math Word Problems 2

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this addition skills worksheet, students solve 3 math word problems that require them to add 1-digit numbers to 1-digit numbers.
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ESL: "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" Activities

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ESL "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" learning exercise, student listen to the video story and complete a variety of related comprehension activities.
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Monet's Garden

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders review impressionism and one of the well-known artist of this period, Claude Money. They explore "en plein air," an outdoor painting technique that Monet employed to create his work. They also experiment with warm and...
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Origami

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students develop origami skills. In this origami lesson, students watch a demonstration on how to do origami. Students then try origami themselves.
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Insect Classification

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders learn the classification system of living organisms. They identify general body parts of an insect, learn insect classification into orders, families, genus and species, and classify given insects by using a scientific...
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Co-evolution of Plants and Pollinators

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, while studying the rolls of pollinators and plants, explore co-evolution of mutualistic relationships.
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Non Native Species: English Ivy-Landscape Plant or Deadly Killer?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine an area overrun by English Ivy. They explore how invasive species affect an ecosystem. They also study about the lack of biodiversity and how to measure it out in the field.
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Get Ready to Hibernate! Migrate! or Get Fat!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the different ways which animals survive the winter months, and sort animals into correct categories using a Venn diagram.
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Metamorphosis

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students select organic object and transform it to an inorganic object in five or six steps, and complete value rendered drawings.
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Layers of the Rainforest

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify, compare, and contrast the rainforests' climates. After reading Jane Yolen's Welcome to the Green House, they create a rainforest bulletin board.
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Understanding Cause and Effect using A Sound of Thunder

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students listen to a short story, A Sound of Thunder, and retell parts of the story which is about time travel. They respond to the story by writing cause/effect outcomes about the ecosystem using a handout.
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Arthropod Key

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils identify the types of pests and categorize them. They identify their food chain and create a poster showing the food chain for the pests.
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John Muir in California

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders listen to key events in John Muir's life and plot locations on a California map. They discover that John Muir was an immigrant to California who encountered environmental problems and found solutions.
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Arthropod Mouth Parts and Food

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify the different types of mouths arthropods have for eating various types of food. Given photographs of the different types of arthropods, students identify which mouth they have and what type of food they can eat with...
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Cycles of Life

For Teachers K
Students begin their study of insect life cycles by listening to a read aloud of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. They learn the vocabulary of metamorphosis including egg, larva, pupa, chrysalis, and adult. They observe actual...
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Review of Yes/No Questions

For Students 5th - 8th
This writing activity instructs students to read a short paragraph about a scientific discovery, then write 5 questions to 5 answers. This activity would be quite useful when teaching students about sentence structure, and different...

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