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Science 4 Inquiry

Eukaryotic Cells: The Factories of Life

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Eukaryotes include humans, animals, and plants. Scholars learn about the parts of eukaryotic cells. They design models of a store and match the correct function of each part to the function of a part of the cell. They review their...
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Berkshire Museum

The Three Life-Giving Sisters: Plant Cultivation and Mohican Innovation

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Children gain first-hand experience with Native American agriculture while investigating the life cycle of plants with this engaging experiment. Focusing on what the natives called the Three Sisters - corn, beans, and squash - young...
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WolfQuest

The Return of Gray Wolves to Yellowstone National Park: Right or Wrong?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Should gray wolves be removed from Yellowstone National Park? After researching the complex relationships between the various habitats and species at Yellowstone National Park,  including humans, class members take a position...
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Curated OER

Snow Globes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create snow globes out of recycled coffee jars and other items.
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Curated OER

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a play to work on seeing events from a different perspective. Some of them are reporters, some cameramen and women, and others are interviewed. They put themselves in the shoes of the people in the book...
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Curated OER

North Carolina Salt Dough Map Social Studies Project

For Teachers 4th
In this instructional activity, North Carolina Salt Dough Map, 4th graders create a salt dough map of North Carolina, Students use dough to form the shape of the state of North Carolina. Students label the three regions of North...
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Curated OER

Transforming Negatives to Positives

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write diamonte poems that correspond to the double-exposed photograph they created.  In this poetry and multimedia artwork lesson, students use the photographic process to create a double-exposed photo then create...
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Curated OER

Medieval Music

For Students 4th - 5th
In this music worksheet, students answer 3 multiple-choice questions about Medieval Music. Students also read about and see a picture of a Medieval instrument called a crumhorn.
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Curated OER

Ecosystem Tumble

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create visual representations of ecosystems. In this ecology instructional activity, students discuss the interdependence of plants and animals in various ecosystems. Students cut pictures from magazines and glue them on...
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Curated OER

Vocabulary Choice Board Lesson 17

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this vocabulary usage instructional activity, students choose cards to describe vocabulary words and participate in activities such as illustrating pictures, making lists, making charts, writing short stories, and playing games....
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Curated OER

The First Texans

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover the different groups of people who colonized Texas. They research their way of life and create an informative and creative booklet.
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Curated OER

Activity Plan 5-6: Family Banner

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create family banners. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop language, creative thinking, and social awareness by creating banners about their families.
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Curated OER

A Teeth Changing Experience

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students research human health by reading an educational story in class. In this oral health lesson, students identify the importance of brushing their teeth and consuming calcium. Students read the book A Teeth Changing Experience...
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Curated OER

...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students examine impressions of a community of migrant workers in Texas who go north to pick crops. The lesson highlights the poverty and discrimination that a family suffers in the 1970's.
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HEALTHY EATING

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers devise their own scheme for encouraging healthy eating and discuss health eating. They prepare a talk for younger students from the government to promote healthy eating.
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Winter is All Around Us

For Teachers K - 1st
Students present what they have learned on Antartica. Students identify deciduous and evergreen trees and plants; identify and study about the habitats of animals that migrate, hibernate, and adapt; study the Aurora and Aurora Borealis...
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Curated OER

Festive Season

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students research various cultural and religious festivals celebrated and observed by Australians, describing common elements and identifying adaptations that have been made for life in Australia.
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The March Continues

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explore the Civil Rights Memorial. In this character development and U.S. History lesson, students employ reading comprehension strategies while reading a news article about the Civil Rights Memorial. Students work in groups to...
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Curated OER

Research: 1st grade

For Teachers 1st
In this research worksheet, 1st graders answer multiple choice questions about research including dictionaries, title pages, meaning of words and more. Students complete 15 questions.
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Cultural Contact and Exchange

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the concept of cultural change. In this global studies lesson, 9th graders examine how cultures interact and impact one another. Students research the evolution of popular cultural exchanges.
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Memory Game Art Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a memory game featuring the Arctic and, more particularly, the Arctic hare. They examine a few pictures on a website embedded in this plan in order to get an idea of the Arctic landscape and the activities of the Arctic...
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Terrific Taste Buds

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore descriptive writing by eating food in class. In this descriptive word lesson, students assess different foods in class such as jelly beans and utilize their vocabulary to describe the taste. Students read the story...
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Curated OER

Plant or Animal Matching Worksheet

For Students 4th - 5th
For this plant and animal matching worksheet, students examine pictures of either plant or animal products before drawing a line to either a cow or a tomato plant.
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Get to Know: Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners complete a research activity in a schoolyard or park to learn about plants. In this plant lesson, students learn the name of the one of more plants. Learners describe or draw the plant, pointing our features that distinguish the...