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Kenan Fellows

Terrarium in a Bottle: Modeling the Atmosphere, Greenhouse Effect, and Water Cycle

For Teachers 7th Standards
You've heard of farm to table ... but what about farm in classroom? Junior agriculturalists embark upon a two-week journey into the science of growing things. Based upon the classic terrarium in a two-liter experiment, the lesson goes...
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Smithsonian Institution

Weather Widget

For Teachers 3rd
What's so difficult about predicting the weather? Scholars work collaboratively to build a device that models how meteorologists use computers to forecast weather. Team members collect and interpret data while working together to...
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Central New Mexico Community College

Percent Word Problems

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Take young mathematicians' understanding of percents into the real world with this series of word problems. Involving a variety of contexts from calculating scores on math tests and savings account interest, to determining sale prices...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Lesson 6: Biomes and Landscapes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Aside from the amazing animals in Gorongosa National Park, what else is there to discover? The sixth installment in an eight-part themed series contains an interactive map where scholars can learn more about the geographic features of...
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Media Smarts

Scripting a Crime Drama

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Develop novice script-writers. Small groups sift through a sample script, noting any script-writing conventions to share with the whole class. Using these conventions and plot structures, these groups compose a script for a 10-minute...
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Curated OER

Girls and Puberty

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners describe the internal and external changes females experience during puberty. They discuss the external changes of puberty. Students investigate about the changes that happen inside the female body at puberty. Learners review...
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Curated OER

Physical or Chemical? That Is the Question

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students find examples of physical and chemical changes using the five Web World Wonders camera sites.
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Curated OER

4th Grade Grammar

For Teachers 4th
In this grammar instructional activity, 4th graders answer multiple choice questions about making sentences correct by filling in the blanks, and identifying subjects and predicates. Students complete 25 questions.
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Curated OER

Predicting the Future

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine how scientists predict the effects of global climate change. In this environmental science lesson, students participate in a discussion about using computer generated data to create climate predictions. Students examine...
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Curated OER

Weathering and Erosion

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars investigate how changes occur on the surface of the earth through erosion and glaciation. They observe what happens to salt and iron after they interact with water and vinegar, and analyze what occurs when water is...
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Curated OER

Seasoning the School Year

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners observe the changes a class tree goes through as the seasons change and record observations in journals. They investigate changes in the weather, changes in the length of the day, and how that affects people. They create...
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Curated OER

Hot and Cold Colors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how temperature effects changes in materials. In this physical science lesson, students use food coloring and cups of water of varying temperatures to observe the effects temperature has on matter. Students predict and...
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Curated OER

Atmospheric Pressures

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars research past, present and proposed climate change policies. They develop timelines based on different predictions of climate change effects and assess the likelihood of each timeline playing out in reality.
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Curated OER

Somethin' Sweet

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars make their own candy. In this science lesson plan, students observe how molecules interact with each other in physical changes and observe how the addition of heat can cause molecules to interact and form new molecules in...
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Curated OER

The Living Earth-Glaciers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate glaciers. In this earth science lesson, students use sandy ice cubes to observe how glaciers change the land. Students list forces that cause changes in the Earth's surface.
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Curated OER

Rewriting Sentences

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar activity, students rewrite twenty sentences by changing the subject from plural to singular or singular to plural. Students keep all the verbs in the present tense.

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