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How Heating and Convection Contributes to Natural Disasters
Students study the basics of heating and cooling and how it pertains to the earth. For this global lesson students read the Magic Tree House book then create a chart of their findings.
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Lollipop Tree
Students plant a lollipop stick and bean seeds. In this plant lesson, students water the seeds everyday until they start to sprout, after which they tie lollipops to the tree.
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Habitat Match
In this animal habitat worksheet, young scholars match 15 animals with the correct habitat: African plains, Rain Forest, Arctic, India or Australia. This worksheet is related to the Magic Tree House book Lions at Lunchtime.
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Dolphins or Sharks?
In this dolphins and sharks comparison learning exercise, students complete a web on each animal and choose from a list the attributes that fit each one. Students create a poster promoting conservation of our ocean friends.
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Hurricane
Students use children's literature in order to investigate the concept of hurricanes and how they occur. The metaphor is used to describe a play area that is magical. They use their imaginations and write about their favorite places to...
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Mystery Dinosaur: Who am I?
In this dinosaur worksheet, learners read a description of a dinosaur and then write down which dinosaur is being described. There are 6 questions to answer on this worksheet.
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Natural Resources Matter
This natural resources worksheet includes discussion activities about natural resources, 2 word searches, and a list of related books and videos.
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Introducing the Super 3 Research Model
Fourth graders read the fiction selection, Dolphins at Daybreak, and then the corresponding non-fiction books about dolphins and sharks. They use a specific research model to find information about dolphins and sharks from books and...
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An Emerald Place
Students discover four layers of the rain forest and identify the life of animals at each level.