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Very Hungry Caterpillar - Tissue College
Students create tissue collages using paints, tissue paper, and glue in this cross-curricular art/literature lesson based upon the artwork of Eric Carle.  Emphasis is placed upon the term collage and practicing collaging techniques.
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Tessellation
Students create an art piece incorporating tessellating shapes, translational symmetry, reflectional symmetry,and or rotational symmetry.  They are asked if they know the definition of tessellation.  If so, students are asked what shapes...
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Fossil Fuels-Importance and Formation
Student is introduced to the concept of energy as a common factor among all things. They list three fossil fuels and describe how fossil fuels were formed. They then tell how much plant debris it took to form one foot of coal.
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Creature Features
Students examine why certain animals live in only specific places throughout the world. Using animals, they classify them based on their characteristics and identify their basic needs.  They also observe and compare the life cycles of...
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Development in Drosophila melanogaster
High schoolers study the least familiar aspect of development in Drosophila melanogaster; the development of the pupa. Students isolate and culture "First-day" pupae. They are dissected daily to study the progressive developmental changes.
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Adaptation and Mimicry - Biology
Students compare and contrast adaptations involving camouflage, warning coloration, and mimicry. They explain the relationship between adaptation and ability for survival and reproduction. Students define Batesian and Mullerian mimicry...
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Illinois Entice Spoken Here
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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Ant City
Students develop an ant colony that adults and children can visit.  Students create different areas including places where tourists can view live ants, play ant games, research facts about ants, and create ant art.  Students serve as...
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What Beautiful Caterpillars!
Second graders investigate the life cycle of the caterpillar. They create a caterpillar habitat and care for it. Students make daily observations that are recorded in a writing journal.  During the process of observation the students...
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A Tree of Life Activity
Young scholars solve a mystery of the identification of a unknown organism by comparing its morphological characteristics to those in a tree of life classification poster.  They compare the observable characteristics of the specimen and...
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Life Cycles
Third graders investigate the stages of animal life cycles. They examine an egg and compare it to an inanimate object, read a booklet about the life cycle and define key vocabulary terms, and observe a mealworm. Students then design a...
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Life Cycles
Fourth graders explore life cycles. They examine pictures of the various stages of life cycles and put them in the correct order. Students match pictures of eggs to the correct parents. They discuss the importance of knowing the life...
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Write, Read and Play
Students  integrate writing, reading and movement skills. They draw from a hat a movement skill (e.g., throwing, catching, kicking, etc.), sport, or related word (e. g., heart, muscle, etc.) and create a book written on the first or...
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How Hot is Too Hot?
Fifth graders use the scientific method to conduct experiments on the temperature effects on organisms. In this temperature effects on organisms lesson plan, 5th graders observe and record the hatching or the developing of organisms into...
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Database Lesson Plan
Students add themselves in to a story. In this literature instructional activity, students listen to the story Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard and James Marshall. They pull out certain words in the story and add their own to...
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Look to the North: A Wolf Pup Diary
Learners explore the book, Look To The North: A Wolf Pup Diary. They find five facts about wolves and discuss with their groups. Students explore the timeline of a wolf pup and create a food chain for three of the animals found in the book.
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Diverse Environments
Students explore life forms in different environments.  After exploring different biomes within their state, students research different plant and animal species within each biome. They prepare a group report on one feature of the region...
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Food Web
Students are able to define food web, and identify the interdependence of organisms within a system. They are able to describe how natural events and human activities can impact a food web.
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Science: Coral Reef Food Pyramid
Students construct numbers pyramids using fictional data from a coral reef.  they tally the numbers of carnivores, herbivores, and producers.  Students next build a pyramid shape in which they put their numbers of producers, herbivores,...
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Simple Cycles
Young scholars use Inspiration to map cyclical events. They recognize links between separate events and  structural patterns. They  explore the Internet Connection section to browse additional resources on teaching about cycles used in...
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Using Insects in the Classroom
Students identify and interpret the importance and diversity of the insect world.  Students organize various insects into a classification system based on their characteristics.  Students create tree or window ornaments utilizing their...
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Short Story
Seventh graders identify the various elements of a short story. After reading Rudyard Kipling's short story, "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," students identify the author's purpose in writing the story as well as the elements that make it a short...
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Rainforest Caterpillars Grades K-2
Students are told that after they discuss and examine of rainforest caterpillars, they are going to create their own rainforest caterpillar based on the information they have studied.  They are given the habitat scenarios on 3x5 cards.
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Properties of Color
Second graders explore the properties of primary color and investigate what happens when primary colors are mixed. They listen to the story The Crayon Box That Talked and list the colors. They experiment mixing primary colors and...
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