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Life cycles
Students identify and explain the parts of a flower and their role in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed dispersal, and germination. Students recap the following information: that plants need light, warmth,...
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Where Are the Dinosaurs?
Students explore what the dinosaurs were like. For this dinosaur lesson, the teacher peaks student curiosity about dinosaurs. This lesson would be a great starting point for a dinosaur unit since it primarily engages student interest and...
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Ocean Microstructure
Students assess the ocean's microstructure by analyzing graphs created during tne Ronald H.Brown research cruise. they discuss at what depths various sea animals live and write paragraphs on data analysis from the graphs.
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Gases Around Us
Students participate in an online lesson showing that gases are formed when liquids evaporate and that when a gas is cooled, it condenses to form a liquid, and gases move and flow more easily than liquids, and how gases differ from solids.
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Changing State
Pupils participate in an online lesson to investigate the effects of cooling and heating on water.
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Forces in Action
Students ask questions that can be investigated scientifically. They determine how to plan a fair test by changing one factor while keeping other factors the same, to use measurements to draw conclusions and use scientific knowledge to...
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Keeping Warm
Young scholars place words describing a range from cold to hot on a scale.  Using those words, they identify places on Earth which are cold, hot, freezing or boiling.  They practice using and reading a thermometer with three different...
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Keeping Healthy
Students review what the heart does and why the muscles in the body need oxygen.  As a class, they measure their pulse rate while they are resting and after they have jogged for three minutes.  They are helped by their teacher to convert...
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Using electricity
Students explore how a switch can be used to break a circut.  Students construct a simple series circuit and use it for a purpose.  Students read the "The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch,or one of the "Katie Morag" stories which clearly shows...
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Changing Sounds
Learners identify how the pitch of an instrument can be altered. They complete a worksheet by labeling several images in order of pitch and then fill a bottle with water to create a sound that matches a pitch on a drawn card.
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Gases Around Us
Students participate in a whole class discussion about solids, liquids, and gases.  Students get involved in a teacher-directed experiment related to solids, liquids, and gases. Students complete worksheet, writing the names of the parts...
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Changing State
Pupils identify the changing states of water, water vapor and ice in the water cycle They investigate how each of these stages can be reversible. Students complete a worksheet describing the water cycle.
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Environmental Education
Second graders examine how their choices affect the environment. They identify different types of pollution and its source.  They ask questions to end the lesson.
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Windsor Opposes Waste - WOW!
Students participate in paper recycling. They are taught to environmental awareness of recycling and its importance in their future. Students discuss and identify the problems of how they can minimize waste. They brainstorm suggestions...
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Investigation 1 - Wetlands, Forests & Deserts
Fourth graders examine surface terrain and how plants and animals are affected by the temperatures and precipitation that elevation and terrain creates. Then students predict what type of environment plants and animals live in.
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Explore the Food Web
Young scholars identify plants and animals in the journals of Lewis and Clark's expedition. They describe the various animal habits. Students interpret the behaviors of the animals discovered on the expedition. They design a food web...
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Biome Detective Sheet
In this biomes worksheet, students research the plant and animal life found in different habitats. This worksheet has 38 short answer questions.
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Endangered Lands & Threatened Species Collage Mural
Fifth graders create a class collage mural illustrating endangered lands and threatened species. They also write letters protesting the exploitation of endangered habitats and the destruction of flora and fauna.
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Underwater Nature Trails
Students research dive sites on an underwater nature trail that would introduce divers to the wonders of the reef surrounding South Caicos.  They then recreate each dive site using shoe box diorama and create an information station at...
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Understanding Estuaries
Middle schoolers work together to develop their own estuarine ecosystem in an aquarium.  They observe the aquarium daily and record them in a notebook.  They discuss the different interactions they see with the class.
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The Basics:Life Science
Middle schoolers explore concepts in life science using segments drawn from Discovery Channel. In this life science lesson, students participate in discussions about the food chain. Middle schoolers create a poster to...
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Invasive Species
Students explore invasive species. In this species analysis instructional activity, students observe invasive species and review the impact the species have on the environment. Students work in groups to investigate the species in...
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Mallard's Wet Olympics
Students investigate some of the different characteristics of living things. They make observations from reading and interactive media. Students observe that animals move in different ways and have adaptations to aid in that action.
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Will Global Warming Push Trees to Extinction?
Students examine the extinction of plants and animals through loss of habitat.  They investigate the effects of global warming.  They use a computer model to analyze the impact of global warming on tree growth and distirbution...