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How Soft or Hard is Your Water?
Young scholars test samples of water to determine how a chemical water softener affects water's ability to form suds. After collecting their data and analyzing their results, students answer follow-up questions about their lab.
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Bovine Oversteps Boundaries
Students listen to story of Grady, the Silo Cow, review vocabulary in story, look at newspaper headlines and discuss purpose of headlines, determine what makes a good headline, create three headlines of their own for story of Grady, and...
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Cloud Sort
First graders gain a better understanding of types of clouds. They recreate clouds using Kidspiration. The types of clouds they study about are cirrus, cumulus, and stratus clouds.
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What's Happening to Our Caterpillars?
Seventh graders participate in a lesson plan making observations of caterpillars. They identify different changes in the life cycle of a caterpillar and also understand the final result of the life cycle ending.
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Celebrate Maine Cooking!
Students examine and analyze different Maine recipes. After analyzing the recipes, students work in groups to determine what characteristics the recipes posses for it to be chosen to represent the culture of Maine. Students bring in...
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Defining moments: Framing the Problem
Learners create a problem framing chart to examine the issues surrounding the decision to inter Japanese Americans during World War II. They respond to a set of questions using perspectives from different parties involved in the decision...
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Junior High School Lesson Plan
Students play a board game in order to review the details from a travel essay. In this board game instructional activity, students listen the a story about a trip, ask questions regarding it, and review the story by playing the board...
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Houses and the People They Shelter
Students examine different homes and shelters across cultures and time periods. For this Houses and the People They Shelter lesson, students draw conclusions about society and culture according to the features of their dwellings....
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Plant a Seed
Students complete a seed and plant growth activity. In this plant growth lesson, students read about Lady Bird Johnson and then answer questions about her role in the beautification and the environment. Students participate in a seed...
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Making Craters
Students study craters and identify the different things that characterize craters. In this crater lesson students create a model of an impact crater.
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Hazard Mitigation: Bioterrorism
Students discuss different ways to spread infectious diseases. In this bioterrorism lesson, students model the rate of smoke emission using CalRoad software. They analyze the effects of airborne release of biological...