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The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Energize a shared reading of the Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip with this collection of supplemental materials. Whether your looking for discussion questions, reading comprehension worksheets, or writing prompts,...
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Electricity and Magnetism

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Make oral presentations electric and magnetic! As the conclusion of the study of electricity and magnetism, class members are assigned to bring to life items or people associated with these topics. Speaking as the person or object,...
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Benjamin Franklin and Electricity

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study Benjamin Franklin and participate in simple experiments in electricity.
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Natural Gas: An American Treasure

For Students 4th Standards
Do your fourth graders need extra practice with evaluating fact and opinion? An informative resource provides two reading passages in which learners distinguish sentences as fact or as opinion. Additionally,...
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Resolution or Revolution?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders learn appropriate strategies to resolve conflicts and potentially dangerous and/or threatening situations by engaging in role playing situations.
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Lighting Instruments from the Inside Out

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine theatrical lighting instruments to see how light is controlled, and write a paragraph telling of their discoveries.
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Marble Grab Bag: Certainly? Maybe? Impossible?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use a hands-on activity and a data chart to explain the certainty, probability, or impossibility of drawing a particular color of marble from a bag. This lesson plan comes with an excellent website, and many good...
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Survivor Suitcases

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners analyze and discuss how they would prepare for a trip to a desert island. They write a paragraph explaining why they chose their three items and how each help them to survive.
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Let's Have a Fiesta!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students prepare for a Mexican fiesta.  In this Mexican fiesta instructional activity, students listen to Too Many Tamales and plan a Mexican Fiesta. Students will divide the jobs of making decorations,and preparing food and drinks....
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How to Get Rich Slowly

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover how to budget in order to live in today's world. Allocating their resources is of prime importance in the monthly budget. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to figure out their monthly budget.
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Efficiency

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work cooperatively to investigate the efficiency of various household appliances. They share their findings in three to five minute oral presentations.
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Revamped Recipe

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders engage in a tasty lesson which assist them with proportional measurements. They use a given recipe written for 12 servings, and use a chart to determine the ingredient amounts for 30 servings (or number of students in class).
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Hey, I Don't Have Enough Stuff!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discover through this simulated activity that resources are unequally distributed throughout the world and that regions use resources differently. They, in groups, are assigned to research a different hemisphere.
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Magnetism

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students study magnetism. In this science lesson, students participate in an activity to discover how electrons in a magnet move. Students identify items around the classroom that are magnetic.
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Your Amazing Brain

For Students 8th
In these reading comprehension worksheets, 8th graders read a passage about the brain. Students then answer 5 reading comprehension questions about the text.