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Students infer what a mysterious object is in a photo. In this inference activity, students practice their scientific skills to identify what they see. Students enjoy solving the mysterious identity of objects and extending their...
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Fire Starters
Students participate in an activity to create a fire starter. In this creating fire lesson students use products to create a fun fire-starter.
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Earthquake Plotting
Students become familiar with map coordinates. They establish the frequency of earthquake occurrences and study the location and magnitude of earthquakes. To establish the location of plate boundaries.
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Fractions
First graders are asked to put their fingers on their triangles that looks like the one that is on the overhead. They are asked to tell how they would write a fraction for this one part. Students go through step one until all of the...
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Literature: Mapping the Mockingbird
Students read Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, focusing on setting. They list items that create mental images of the novel's setting along with location references to characters and events. Using posterboard, they construct physical...
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Digging in the Classroom
First graders "excavate" a story. In this creative earth science instructional activity, 1st graders become archaeologists and dig through a box of dirt or other material to find pictures from a picture book. It is their job to then put...
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Graph and Compare the Adventure's Temperature Vs. Local Temperature
Pupils explore the concept graphing data. In this graphing data lesson, students use weather data from their local weather and some other city and graph them. Pupils plot the local weather vs. another city. Students record temperature...
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Battle Ship Using Grid Paper
You sank my battleship! The iconic cry of the time-honored game, Battleship will be heard in classrooms with this learning game that requires only grid paper, pencils, and an introductory knowledge of the first quadrant of the coordinate...
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Mapping the Census
Students learn why the census makes a difference. For this U.S. Census lesson plan, students learn the key elements of cartography, examine the difference between data and their representation, and create a map using census data.
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Mathematics: Growing Patterns
Learners graph growing patterns using ordered pairs on a coordinate grid. They read The Fly on the Ceiling, a Math Myth.
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Random Statistics
Seventh and eighth graders solve and complete 20 various types of short answer problems. First, they write a brief description of themselves including those as stated. Then, learners categorize the type of sampling used in various...
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Is it a solid or liquid?
Students review the vocabulary terms solid and liquid. They also review that adjectives tell what kind, which one, and how many. The teacher introduces a "Oobleck" after reading "Bartholomew and the Oobleck" by Dr. Seuss. The students...
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Zoo Favorites
First graders construct a class picture graph and tally grid that show their favorite zoo animals. They discuss the information the graphs show and complete a personal graph based on the class example.
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Valentine Centers
In these Valentines related center worksheets, 1st graders will read and follow directions, complete a sequence of events, compare using a Venn diagram, and make a Valentine Butterfly.
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At the North Pole
In this crossword learning exercise about Santa and the North Pole, students read clues across and down and fill in the squares. Students solve 15 clues.
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Pets
Students participate in an after school program that promotes making decisions, getting along with others, decision-making, and being responsible. A pet survey is administered along with a variety of pet riddles with the students. They...
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What Is in a Rock?
Middle schoolers identify, sort, and classify mineral samples that make up a common rock.
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Ojibwa Sewn Bead Designs
Students recognize and describe the sewn beading style of the Ojibwa tribe that was influenced by seventeenth-century French floral embroidery and fabric prints imported by the French traders. They adapt and recreate an Ojibwa bead motif.
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Hands-On Humidity
Students examine why humidity changes throughout the day. They study the concept of relative humidity, absolute humidity, and dew point temperature. They interpret phase diagrams and explain why relative humidity typically falls and...
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Mapping Plate Boundaries
Students discover plate boundaries based on the uneven geographic occurrence of geologic hazards. After discussing geologic hazards, students plot different sets of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on maps.
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Statistics Problems
In this statistics worksheet, 3rd graders answer questions about different graphs including bar graphs, picture graphs, line graphs, and more. Students complete 20 multiple choice questions.
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Human Population Growth
In this human population growth worksheet, students create a graph of human population growth and predict future growth using the data given in a chart. Students identify factors that affect population growth.
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For The Birds
Student make bird feeders and describe feeding behaviors. In this bird feeder lesson plan, students construct simple bird feeders. They then put them outside and observe the feeding behaviors of birds. Then they graph the number of birds...
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Archaeology: Digging in the Classroom
Students explore how an archaeologist works and makes discoveries. In this archaeology lesson, students participate in a simulation in which they excavate broken pottery. Students use measurement, geometry, and observation skills during...