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Your Five Senses

For Teachers K - 12th
Learners identify the five senses. In this biology lesson, students participate in an experiment and use their five senses to identify various substances.
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The Chocolate Touch

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate concepts found in the reading of "The Chocolate Touch". They research where chocolate comes from and how it is grown. While the students read the book in small groups one member of each group brings in chocolate...
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Perkins School for the Blind

Memory

For Teachers K - 6th
When you are blind, your hands become your eyes, so learning how to discriminate between various objects through touch is a very important skill. Make a memory game by gluing common items onto cardstock. The kids feel, identify, and...
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Can Magnets Interact With Objects Through Different Materials

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders experiment with and explore magnets. They manipulate them to see how they react with other magnets and with other objects. They experiment to see how magnets work through different thicknesses of objects (paper,...
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What Does Your "Homunculus" Look Like?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the density of touch receptors in various parts of the body. They discover how the body senses various stimuli, then maps a picture of the "homunculus" of the experimental subject.
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Saving Sponge Bob Square Pants

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students apply the use of technology to real life scenarios. In this technology lesson, students discuss and identify a method to move sponge bob from one location to the next, without touching the floor. They share the same landmark and...
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Exploring Food with Senses

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore properties of fruits and vegetables using their five senses. In this sensory activity lesson, students study fruit and vegetables through a microscope, using their sense of touch as they are blindfolded, and with their...
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Sculpting

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students use clay, molding, and cardboard to create a sculpture of a bird and a bird house. Students complete 5 steps to making this sculpture.
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Pushing Pivots

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Pupils calculate the area and diameter length of a circle. In this geometry instructional activity, students investigate the use of pivots as they review parts of a circle. They create a circle using cardboard and label all the parts.
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Mapping the Unknown

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain how early maps of the ocean bottom were made. They describe and execute a method for producing a low-resolution map of a surface that cannot be seen or touched. Students analyze the data from a mapping activity and...
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What Does Your "Homunculus" Look Like?

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners determine the density of touch receptors in various parts of the body on the right hand side. They use collected data to draw a picture of the "homunculus" of an experimental subject.
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Testing for Conductivity

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students test the conductivity of selected liquids and solids. They test the circuit by touching the two free ends of the wires together and add salt little by little recording the data after each addition. Finally, students predict...
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Flexi-Cut Collagraph Printmaking

For Teachers K - 8th
Young artists practice the process of collagraph relief printmaking. The results from this simple art lesson plan are stunningly beautiful! This is an easy to learn, and fun process for the students to engage in. Clear, easy-to-follow...
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Modified Kickball

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Kickball is a classic recess game that everybody should play at least once. Included here is a wonderful set of instructions that describe how you can modify the game to make it accessible to children with low or no visual ability....
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Solar Kit Lesson #5 - Build a Simple Ammeter

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Emerging electricians build a simple ammeter for making measurements on an electric current. They test the placement of solar cells in both series and parallel circuits and examine the magnetic field produced by the movement of electrons...
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ESL Kid Stuff

Toys

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
The world is a rainbow of colors in a set of lessons for English learners. Kids review colors with matching games and hide-and-seek, before singing songs about colors and reading a class story.
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Prefix-Suffix Concentration

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars correctly match prefixes or suffixes with their appropriate meaning. Prefix-Suffix Concentration is a game that allow students to practice and review prefixes and suffixes and their meaning.
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Cover Your Mouth Please!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate how to slow the spread of germs from coughing and sneezing. In this illness prevention lesson, 2nd graders talk about why people cough and sneeze before telling about ways to prevent the spread of germs. They...
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Soccer - Lesson 18 - 1st Round of the World Cup

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Lesson 18 in this 20 instructional activity soccer unit is really just the 1st round of the World Cup class soccer tournament. This is not really a instructional activity, but is inserted into the unit as a place holder for the days...
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Science: Mirrored Movements

For Teachers All
This instructional activity provides students with a lab experience during which students construct a basic electric circuit and use it to explore dexterity skills. A chance to construct and operate a tool that extends a person's...
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Push and Pull Magnets

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders pull a paper clip sitting on paper with a magnet beneath the paper. They experiment to see what happens if they substitute the paper with thicker paper and other materials (plywood, glass, foil, etc.)
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How Hot Is Hot In Namib?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research and demonstrate the temperatures of the Namibian Desert. They watch and discuss a video, conduct an experiment to demonstrate the desert temperatures, record their results in the form of a graph, and compare/contrast...
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Handprinted Card

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students create environmentally friendly art. In this visual arts lesson, students use their thumbprints to create greeting cards to send to family and friends.
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Beaver Ecology

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Learners explore the lives of bgeahvers. They identify the physical and behavioral adaptations that help beavers survive in their environment. Students compare and contrast how beavers influence the ecology of both forest and aquatic...