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Ways We Use Trees

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use the Internet to find the ways we use trees. In this tree lesson, students make a list of the uses of trees and find magazine pictures that show these uses to make a collage. They read The Giving Tree  by Shel Silverstein and...
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Environment and Recycling Issues

For Teachers 1st
First graders read and understand the text found while conducting internet research. They recognize how literature records information and reflects the human experience. Students also compare and contrast answers to questions. Then...
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The Berenstain Bears Don't Pollute (Anymore)

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars listen to the story, The Berenstain Bears Don't Pollute (Anymore). They create a Venn Diagram comparing it with the story, The Lorax. Then students plan ways to become advocates for recycling.
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Landscape Observation: How Portland Has Changed

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students read The Lorax and discuss how populations change the environment. Using given photos, students use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the Portland of yesterday to present day Portland. They write a comparison paper and...
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Arkansas Careers - Paper Makers

For Teachers K
Students listen to the story The Lorax. They identify natural, human and capital resources in the book. They identify the scarcity problem and brainstorm solutions. Students view a map of Arkansas which shows natural resources. They...
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Council for Economic Education

Green Eggs and ...Economics?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Scholars use four different children's books by Dr. Seuss to analyze microeconomic concepts. Group presentations and research help them better understand simple economic concepts through simple stories.
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Land Use Unit

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify factors in human society and the natural environment aree interdependent. They analyze interdependencies demonstrated in various situations and occurances.
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A Tree-mendous Project

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use their observation and measurement skills to identify trees. Using a tree diagram, they label the parts and discuss the functions of the tree. They practice using a dichotomous key to identify trees as well.
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Concern + Action = Clean Air Solutions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers participate in a service project about improving air quality. In this air quality instructional activity, students understand the problems and solutions for improvement of air quality issues. Middle schoolers discuss and...
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Land as a Valuable Resource

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars investigate why the soil is important to our lives. In this natural resources lesson, students have a farmer as a guest speaker. Young scholars begin to understand how farmers use and protect our natural resource. Students...
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Tree Friends

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students identify their special tree using all senses other than sight. They identify six different internal parts within a cross section of tree trunk (bark, phloem, xylem, cambium, heartwood, and roots). Students compare and contrast...
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Polluting the Environment

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders construct mini-ecosystem, pollute the ecosystem, observe, collect, and record data on the effects of these pollutants on their ecosystem, organize data on spreadsheets, create graphs, and design presentations to share with...
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Celebrating Earth Day With Students

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Student's attention is focused on the environment during Earth Day. This helps to stimulate their creativity and imagination, so that they can act persuasively to help solve environmental problems.
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Color Worksheets for Preschool and Kindergarten

For Students Pre-K - K
In this color activity, students trace the color words by following the dots. Words are printed in the color they represent. Other color recognition activities are included with this page, such as a rainbow flash card game.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: The Political Dr. Seuss

For Students 8th - 12th
In this historical events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons by Theodor Geisel. Students respond to 2 talking point questions.
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Railroad Idioms Art Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders research railroad idioms.  In this idiom lesson plan, 6th graders read through a glossary of different railroad idioms and their meanings. They illustrate a chosen idiom.
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Celebrate Read Across America Day With Dr. Seuss Lesson Plans

For Teachers K - 2nd
Celebrate Read Across America Day with Dr. Seuss lesson plans, and dish up the "Green Eggs and Ham."
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Cat Word Find

For Students K - 1st
Kindergarteners find the word "cat," hidden 26 times in a word search. This worksheet has a reference web site for additional activities.
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Needs and Wants

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine the difference between needs and wants. In this consumption lesson, students illustrate their needs and wants and discuss their own reasons for buying things. They also discuss the connection between their choices and...
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Allegory and Dr Seuss

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders read Dr. Seuss books to discover what allegory is. They investigate how Dr. Seuss studenT books are allegories of events in the real world and create timeline
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Our Treasured Trees

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discuss natural resources and renewable resources with trees being considered renewable resources which need special attention. In this Earth science lesson, students write a list of reasons for why it would be good to stop...
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And Still The Turtle Watched

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss ways to be kind to the Earth. In this conservation instructional activity, 3rd graders listen to the story And Still The Turtle Watched by Sheila MacGill-Callalhan. They compare how the early people treated the...
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Be Kind to our Earth

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners make a list of ideas on ways we can take care of our Earth and complete a class project planning sheet where they problem solve to help save the Earth. In this Earth lesson plan, students also play a conservation charades game.
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Making Connections, Linking Population and the Environment

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars find out that all habitats have a carrying capacity. They explore how the world's human population has grown markedly in the 20th century, and that humans impact environmental health. Students investigate that people can...

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