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Where Are the Dinosaurs
Young scholars explore the concept of extinction. In this dinosaur lesson, students view a video and have a class discussion about the extinction of dinosaurs. They create a dinosaur egg and imagine what life would be like for a dinosaur.
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Playing in mud puddles
Students examine the effects of rainfall on different surfaces and discuss water pollution. They review the water cycle and the uses of water in daily lifestyles. Students discuss the effects of soil run off in streams and rivers.
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Virginia Challenge
In this Virginia trivia worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions that require them to exhibit what they know about the state.
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Colonial North America
This 54-slide PowerPoint outlines the significant events in the history of Colonial North America, beginning in 1603 with the ascendance of James I to the throne of England. Designed to accompany a lecture on this time period, the...
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Investigating Properties of Water: Temperature
Investigate how temperature affects the density of water and stratification that occurs in bodies of water when temperatures vary. Water of differing temperatures is given different colors to see the layers that form. The lesson is meant...
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Regions of Virginia
For this geography worksheet, 5th graders identify the regions of the state of Virginia and sort them according to location. Then 10 questions focus upon the specifics of different regions.
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Virginia Vocabulary
For this Virginia history worksheet, students match the names, places, and words in the word bank to the 10 statements that define them.
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Virginia Word Search
In this Virginia word search worksheet, students locate and identify the 10 Virginia-related words, places, and people in the word bank within the word puzzle.
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Upwelling - Cold One Day, Warm Another?
Discuss with your oceanographers what forces cause nearshore upwelling and downwelling. Display a line of wind vectors alongside a graph of the temperatures so that they can discover whether or not they are related. Discussion questions...
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Swimming With the Crabs
In this expository writing activity, students read an article about crabs and a graphic organizer with crab facts. Students fill in a graphic organizer, including their specific topic about crabs and details to support their topic.
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Something Fishy (Statistics)
Learners are introduced to a problem involving an environmental issue. They are introduced to the capture-recapture method which involves capturing fish, tagging them, returning them and recapturing another sample. Pupils work in...
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Where Are the Dinosaurs?
Students investigate dinosaurs. In this life science lesson, students watch video clips on the website http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/dinos/video/video.html and discuss the characteristics of the dinosaurs. Students create dinosaur...
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A Trip to St. Michael's
In this earth science learning exercise, students read a 5 journal entries and illustrate how the places look based on the journal description.
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Net Results
Young scholars investigate through role play how decisions by watermen, recreational fisherpeople, and lawmakers influence and are influenced by economics and the abundance or scarcity of fish and shellfish stocks. They consider social,...
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What in the World Is a Watershed?
Students discover the role of a watershed. In this geography instructional activity, students are shown a diagram of a watershed and discuss the definition of a watershed. Students demonstrate the role of a watershed by using an umbrella...
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Bordering States & VA Regions
In this Virginia geography worksheet, students respond to 2 fill in the blank questions and 16 multiple choice questions regarding the bordering states and regions of Virginia.
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Our Keystone FFA Spring
Students identify where their water sources and explore a watershed on a map. In this watershed instructional activity students walk a wetland, and identify sources of pollution.
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Virginia: Reading Comprehension
In this Virginia reading comprehension activity, students read a multiple-page selection regarding the state and then respond to 10 true or false questions.
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Photographs from the Great Depression: Jacob Have I Loved 
Students research the Great Depression and World War II. In this Great Depression lesson, students analyze photographs of the depression era as they begin reading Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved.
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A Trip to St. Michaels
In this St. Michaels worksheet, students draw pictures next to the journal entry of someone visiting St. Michaels, Maryland. Students draw 5 pictures total.
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Don't Get Caught!
In this fish activity, students read about fish and write about how they can help fish. They write about how they can save fish, fish migration, fish getting sick, and testing for pollution in water.
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‘Catch Up’ With John Smith
In this John Smith worksheet, learners access a linked Internet site, watch the cartoon about John Smith, and then answer 20 fill in the blank and 2 short answer questions regarding the video.
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Native Versus Exotic
Students investigate the presence of exotic and natural species in the ecosystem. They define the differences between exotic and native while looking at one specific ecosystem in Maryland. They write how the exotic species are considered...
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Geography of the United States
Students examine the population growth of the United States. In this Geography lesson, students construct a map of the fifty states. Students create a graph of the population of the USA.