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Life Science: Exploring Our Human Bodies

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars explore the concept of the human body. They complete a variety of activities concerning the function of various organs. They listen to their heartbeat with a stethoscope, examine how muscles work during a game of tag,...
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Flex Those Muscles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the muscular system to examine the different types of muscles in our bodies and how they work with other body systems. They discover how muscles help us chew food and laugh. Videos are used as part of this lesson plan.
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People Take the Stand

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn how to be a philanthropist. For this community lesson, students define words associated with philanthropy. Students read Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes and discuss the problem and how it was solved. Students...
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Word Track Games

For Students K - 3rd
For this word tracking worksheet, learners use dice with words on it and when their word comes up they get to move 1 square across a game board. Students play this in groups of 3.
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Sequencing: Beginning, Middle, End

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this sequencing worksheet, students draw 3 pictures, showing the beginning, middle and end of a stories about making pizza and getting ready for school. 
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Principles of Desigh

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the principals of design or are introduced to them for the first time. The intention of the assignment is to reinforce the principles. There are strategies given to help diverse learners. The use of pictures is essential...
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Science Inventions

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the world of inventions by describing their impact on their own lives.  In this technology instructional activity, 3rd graders practice writing descriptive paragraphs about different inventions that they find...
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High Earners Can Still Struggle

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of financial trouble. In this financial trouble lesson, students read an article about people who earn large salaries, but still have financial trouble. Students discuss ways to avoid and get out of debt....
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Bringing Math to Life with Laserdisc Technology

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore various problems. They present their final results and explain the path they followed in order to obtain their answers. Students show their written work as well as orally explaining their work.
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USC Bingo: Getting to Know Campus

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students read an assignment detailing the location and purpose of several buildings on the University of Carolina campus and in the city of Columbia. They play a game of Bingo that asks them to recall information from the assigned reading.
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To Tell You in a Nutshell

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners discuss the importance of comprehension and the use of summarization. Through guided practice, they follow six steps in finding and highlighting important information from an article, while deleting information that is not...
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Get Out in the Field

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students visit a shoreline--of an ocean, a lake, a pond, a riverbank, etc., survey it and record what they find there. They map the shoreline and surrounding area and conclude where potential waterfront projects could occur.
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Get in Touch With Trees

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this five senses worksheet, students complete several activities that help them improve their sense of touch and learn about their environment.
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Colors, Colors What Do You See?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study their colors by reading a book Brown, Bear, Brown Bear and take pictures of colors. In this color recognition lesson, students read the book and sing a song about colors. Students then take pictures of various colors using...
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You Are Where You Live

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore where insects live and how they have adapted to their environment.
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You Are Where You Live

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders observe insects in a number of habitats. They recognize which insect characteristics are adaptations to their habitats.
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How many sides to a piece of paper?

For Students 2nd - 6th
In this attaching loops worksheet, students cut, paste, and color paper to show how you will always be on the colored side if you run your fingers along the paper. Students then reflect on what they have done.
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Predators and Prey

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explain how the food chain works. They contrast predators with prey and describe their function in nature. Students discuss how the food chain aids in keeping nature balanced. In small groups, they play a game that simulates the...
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Feudalism

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars have tournaments in teams after learning information about The Middle Ages. In this Middle Ages lesson plan, students learn that tournaments are mock battles, but that they will have these battles by answering questions in...
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Leaping Frogs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students work to gain fluency and become successful readers through repeated readings. In this frog-themed lesson, they complete one-minute timed readings with a partner and show their progress as they move paper frogs across lily pads.
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Verb Tense: Simple Present and Simple Future

For Students 5th - 6th
In this verb tense learning exercise, students choose the correct verb tense, with simple present or simple future, to complete the given text, with hints and answers available.
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Feeling Sleepy

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners read the article "Feeling Sleepy?" students compare the article to a sleep survey they do in their class, describe problems that can arise from not getting enough sleep and identify strategies for getting adequate sleep.
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Bank on it! Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students fill in the blanks to a paragraph about a tsunami with words in a word bank. Students fill in 20 words.
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Desert Tortoise Tale

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students listen to a reading of the "Desert Tortoise Tale" and complete a maze that highlights the different threats the baby tortoise faces along the way. They discuss the reasons the Desert Tortoise is becoming endangered.