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The Camouflage Game

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students analyze the numbers of each color of caterpillar collected, and discuss reasons for this. PowerPoint presentations may be made. This lesson requires the teacher to set up a situation prior to teaching. Red and Green...
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HAPPY SOIL, SAD SOIL

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars will be able to identify the characteristics of healthy soil and unhealthy soil.Take the class outside to an area of thick grass near trees, if available. Compare the clothes people wear to the thin cover. Discuss the...
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Cows

For Students K - 1st
In this cows worksheet, learners color pictures of cows. Students color 3 cows in this picture. One cow is eating grass and the others are standing upright.
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Find the Hidden Words (#7)

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spring words learning exercise, learners locate and highlight the following 6 key terms associated with spring in a word search puzzle: picnic, swing, grass, statue, ants and flowers.
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Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this adjectives worksheet, students study the pictures of the sea, sun, grass, clouds, and mountains and complete the sentences with adjectives describing the pictures.
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Nature Walk

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this nature walk worksheet, students find a tree, grass, an ant, a leaf, a bird, a squirrel, a flower, an acorn, a cloud, and a branch as they take a walk through nature.
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Soil Erosion Demonstrations

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students conduct experiments demonstrating soil erosion and the benefits of conservation practices. Working in groups, they use topsoil and sand in shallow boxes as models to examine the effects of water on soil and sand with and without...
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Estimating Large Numbers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students experience large numbers by estimating the number of grass blades in a field. They work in small groups to determine numbers of blades of grass in a small area of a field and apply that to determining the total number of blades...
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Land Use Issues

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students examine living and non-living things in their environment. They identify trees, plants, and grasses in their neighborhood and those that originate in Illinois in this unit of lessons.
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Soils, Water and Erosion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers participate in a hands-on experiment to compare how water and soil erosion affect soil and grass. They determine how slope affects erosion and how terracing affects erosion. They write a paragraph summarizing their data.
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Wappo Indians: Clothing and Jewelry

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders research the clothing and jewelry of the Wappo tribe. They discover their use of natural resources for their needs. They trace the indians' trek to the coast for materials and make necklaces from strands of grass.
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Who Killed SAV?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars research the factors that contributed to the decline of submerged aquatic vegetation in the Chesapeake Bay. Students evaluate the natural and human factors that led to the decline of bay grasses.
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Creatures in Torch Lake

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate pond ecology. They gather water samples from various sources, add grass, and let it sit for a week. Afterward, using microscopes, they identify the microorganisms present in the sample.
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Biology Leaf Collection

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students collect leaves and compile them into a collection booklet. They collect tree leaves, shrub leaves, grasses, and weeds. For each sample they also label its common name and information about where and when it was collected.
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The Young Virginia Gardener: Container Gardening-Kitty Garden

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this gardening learning exercise, learners read a passage on container gardens for cats, then research why cats like catnip and grass. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Ecosystems and Symbiotic Relationships

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are told to create a community using words or pictures. They walk outside to an area in front of the school which has a strip of grass, ditch, and corn field. Students discuss the difference between an ecosystem and a...
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Easter Eggs

For Students Pre-K - K
In this coloring worksheet, students color in a cartoon picture of a Easter eggs in the grass. Students can also cut out the illustration and add their own details to the picture.
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What is Green?

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this coloring activity, students complete a 6 page mini-book about things that are green; trees, grass, clothes, and leprechauns.
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Quick Beat

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Young scholars move in a variety of ways such as speed walk, jump, skip, gallop, crab walk, crawl (on mats or grass), slide, walk backwards, etc. Write terms on a large poster. Writing should be large enough for students in a group to...
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Wappo Games

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discover the games played by the Wappo tribe and play them with classmates. They research games from around the world, comparing and contrasting the rules and equipment.
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Coloration

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars conduct an experiment picking out colored vs. camoflauged toothpicks out of the grass. They list and describe different types of coloration and explain how coloration assists the great horned owl and the striped skunk...
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WALK, DON'T RUN

For Teachers K - 1st
1. Bring two quarts of moist soil, a cake pan, a sprinkling can of water and a quart of grass clippings to class. 2. Share background material, and introduce the word "erosion." 3. Prepare a small model hill by mounding the soil in the...
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The History of Ethanol in America

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore and examine the production of biofuels from the 1850's to the present. Included in their research is Henry Ford, ethanol, World War I and prohibition. They explain the importance of grains and grasses for the...
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Compound Word Bingo

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this bingo game worksheet, students use the words after, bag, base, battle, bride, butter, chair, chatter, dock, eye, flower, grass, hedge, light, foot, chop, noon, pipes, ball, ship, groom, cup, man, box, yard, witness, pot, hopper,...

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