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Rain Stick

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a rain stick.  For this rain stick lesson, students construct their rain stick using a cardboard tube, stickpins, a cup of rice, and decorative paper.  Students follow given instructions and listen to sounds from the...
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Irregular Plural Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
In this nouns activity, learners write the irregular plural form for each noun given. Students complete this for 12 words on this activity.
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Thought Experiments in Physics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Using thought experiments in physics can be incredibly valuable, but there some pitfalls to avoid.
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Miniature Water Cycles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students construct a model of the water cycle in action using two-liter pop bottles to build a terrarium. Locate examples of evaporation and condensation in the water cycle (e.g., water evaporates when heated and clouds or dew forms when...
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Aztec Culture

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the Aztec culture in Mexico. They focus on their religious practices. They write a goal to personally sacrifice something. They also write about the costs and benefits of a sacrifice.
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Walk into the Desert, A Line and Wash Landscape

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students discuss a landscape art print and its composition. They create a landscape underdrawing with foreground, middleground and background as well as repeated elements for rhythm. They add a watercolor wash and lights/darks for...
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Native Americans and Native Plants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students take a field trip to a native plant culture. They need to describe where the plants were before the Europeans occupied North America.
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Native Americans and Topography at Rose Bay

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Young scholars visit a wetland ecosystem. While they are there, students explore how to read topography maps of Rose Bay.
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Habitats of the World

For Teachers 1st
Students complete a unit of eighteen lessons that cover climate, geography, location, plants, and animals of each of the five habitats. They are also introduced to habitat destruction and discuss ways to protect the environment. They do...
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Miniature Water Cycles

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create a biome of their choosing in a terrarium. Terrariums are observed and results recorded daily for 2 weeks. They observe/record changes in the water within their terrarium and use the data to write sentences...
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Land Associations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify and explore life forms of various biomes, define transitional regions, examine effects of abiotic and biotic interactions, research a biome, and produce newspaper that features environmental information. Lessons all on...
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Desert Habitat

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine how desert plants and animals are adapted to life in the desert. They listen to the book, "Seasons of Saguaro," conduct experiments to demonstrate plant succulence, and create and draw an animal or plant that...
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Design-A-Weed

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create a "super weed" that prospers in teh harsh conditions on plant Weediv. They comprehend how weed adaptations give the plants an advantage over native plants. Students define the term adaptation. They give three examples...
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Diverse Environments

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
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

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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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BATS: NEED NECTAR, WILL TRAVEL

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students play the role of nectar feeding bats on their annual migration and try to avoid the different hazards that hinder their progress. They describe the annual migration of long-nosed bats including key elements such as: where the...
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The Desert Biome

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create a visual presentation of the characteristics of a biome. Working in small groups, students use traditional and online resources to gather data concerning biomes. Students use their information to create a bulletin board...
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Electrophoresis Analogy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners participate in a simulation of electrophoresis separation of DNA fragments. They link arms to form DNA fragments with each student representing a nucleotide. As they move through an obstacle course they discover how fragments...
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Alive or Not

For Students 5th - 8th
In this organism worksheet, students review the characteristics that determine if something is alive or not. This worksheet has 5 fill in the blank and 7 matching questions.
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Charles Darwin

For Students 9th - 12th
For this Charles Darwin worksheet, students fill in the blank with the correct answer. Students use the suggested text to complete statements about Charles Darwin, his expedition, and his development of his theory of evolution.
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Word World

For Students 5th - 7th
In this word world activity, learners fill in fifteen blanks in fifteen sentences by choosing a word from the word bank that makes each sentence complete.
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Alphabetical Order

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this alphabetical order worksheet, students place groups of words in alphabetical order. Each group contains three words and there are 18 groups on the page. An answer sheet is included.
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Desert Word Unscramble

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts and science worksheet, students analyze 10 scrambled words that pertain to the desert. Students unscramble the words, then pick four words and write a sentence for each.
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Western Rodeo 3

For Students 4th - 6th
In this vocabulary worksheet, learners define and discuss thirty key terms/characteristics associated with a western rodeo and then locate and circle each one in a word search puzzle.

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