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Ho'opiha - Growing in Knowledge: Terrarium Project

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore environmental protection by conducting a research experiment in class. In this botany instructional activity, students identify the necessities for growing a plant indoors and create a small terrarium for their plant....
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Spring Potted Plants

For Teachers K - 5th
Students identify and interpret plant growth as well as gain graphing skills and other important knowledge related to potting plants. They take a regular milk jug and cut off the top, leaving the handle and the rest intact. Then,...
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A Relatively Far Out Idea: Estimating

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate methods of estimating through cooperative group activities, hands-on activities, the use of tables and graphs and an interactive video.
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Two Owl Eyes

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to the story, Olivia Counts, and demonstrate counting to ten. They make predictions, and recognize the day and night sky. They add page number 2 to their counting books.
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From Where to Where?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students find locations based upon their latitude and longitude coordinates. In this latitude and longitude lesson plan, students locate points on a grid and learn how to use an astrolabe.
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Addition Properties

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this addition properties worksheet, students use addition properties to answer the six word problems about the national parks of the United States.
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Weather Graphing

For Teachers K
Every morning pupils complete the weather chart. They use colors to reflect the cloud cover and symbols for rain, snow, etc.
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Coin Identification

For Teachers K
Students identify each coin. In this coin identification lesson, students note the pictures that are on each coin. Students are shown pictures that are on each coin and recall the coin by using the pictures.
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Inductive vs. Deductive Proof

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders differentiate between inductive and deductive proofs.  For this differentiating between inductive and deductive proofs lesson, 12th graders compare strengths and weaknesses of each type of proof.  Students...
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Barnyard Bingo

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore farm animal sounds. They sing a song that introduces them to the sounds of farm animals. Students create animal bingo cards to help them recognize the correct sounds for each of the farm animals. They discuss the types...
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A Comparison of Land and Water Temperature

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine NASA satellite observations of surface temperature and investigate the seasonal changes of land and water temperature.
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Seasons and Cloud Cover, Are They Related?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use NASA satellite data to see cloud cover over Africa.  In this seasons lesson students access data and import it into Excel. 
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Plant Diversity and Distribution

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students construct a defined plot on school grounds and observed patterns in plant life. They count trees, shrubs, cacti and record on a data sheet. They compare data and generate a plant diversity overlook for their school.
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High School Mathematics Problems from Alaska: Writing an Equation: Altitude Range vs. Day in Barrow, Alaska

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students answer questions about the altitude range of the sun over time in Barrow, Alaska.
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Parallax

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover how astronomers used the diameter of the Earth's orbit around the Sun as a baseline for estimating the distance of some stars, and the meaning of "Parsec" and "light year."
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Anza and Font in Search of Latitude

For Teachers 7th
This is an integrated lesson that incorporates Social Studies, Science, and Mathematics. In Social Studies, 7th graders complete an online interview and complete an online worksheet about latitude of sites on the Anza trail. In Science...
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TE Activity: A Roundabout Way to Mars

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Learners investigate Hohmann orbit transfers using cardboard and string while focusing on the orbits of Earth and Mars. They look at the planets orbits around the sun and transfer orbit form one planet to another to determine what a...
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Kepler And His Laws

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in an overview of the story of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, and of Kepler's laws. Each of Kepler's laws be studied separately in more detail in later lessons. They examine Kepler's 3rd law.
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Tropical Atlantic Aerosols

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students analyze NASA data from the Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer. In this NASA data lesson, students access an assigned website to examine information from the MISR on the Terra Satellite. They determine how desert dust travels...
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Giggle, Giggle, Quack Pizza Fractions

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore the concept of multiplication by using pizza. They read an article discussing how math is used everyday. They try to determine how many pizzas they would need to feed the class.
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Houses and Cars and Loans

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars create a spreadsheet to track their spending. In this algebra instructional activity, students use loan formulas to calculate the payback amount plus interest on a loan. They calculate how much money they would need...
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Risk Taker - Probability Web Quest

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars complete an on line, teacher created, webquest to study the origin of probability, theoretical and simulated probability; computing the probability of two independent events; and mutually exclusive events. They make a Venn...
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Properties of Triangles

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners explore the relationship between how big a side of a triangle is and how big its opposite angle is by creating triangles using an interactive website.
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Measurement and Problem Solving

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students solve problems using a calendar. In this calendar lesson, students complete a worksheet of math story problems. Example problems are provided.