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Reading: The Invention of the Potato Chip, Passive Voice

For Students 4th - 6th
In this potato chips reading comprehension worksheet, students read a selection about potato chips and respond to 8 true or false questions. The selection is written in passive voice.
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Kitchen Garbage: Starting Sweet Potato Vines

For Students 4th - 6th
In this sweet potato worksheet, students follow directions on how to grow a sweet potato and answer short answer questions. Students answer 2 short answer questions.
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Potato Chips Fragility

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate why some potato chips crumple faster than others. In this physics lessons, students relate the cooking time to potato's fragility. They write a lab report about their findings.
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Potato Stamps

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students create stamped patterns. In this visual arts lesson, students use potatoes to design useful art stamps. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.
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Irish Potato Famine Glossary and Worksheet

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Irish history instructional activity, students read 11 words in a word bank and match them to their definitions. All pertain to the Irish potato famine in 1845. Students then complete a chart comparing their diet with that of a...
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From Mashed to Riches

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss the uses of a potato. In this food group lesson plan, students identify the five food groups and which one the potato belongs to. They create potato printing, compare different kinds of potatoes, grow a potato plant, and...
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Splatter Spread

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students assemble a potato cannon following directions. In groups, they analyze the spread pattern of paint soaked projectiles and discover the relationship between scatter and distance. They role play the role of a forensic scientist...
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The Invention of the Potato Chip

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this invention of the potato chip instructional activity, students read for information and determine if statements are true or false. Students answer eight questions.
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The Great Potato Hunt

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students examine the data from the potato hunt where potatoes are found like Easter Eggs. The data of the number of potatoes found is recorded in the frequency tables.
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Potato Petri dish

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in an experiment to understand how germs grow. In this potato experiment students use their hands to touch a potato and leave it to see what grows on it. Students also observe a disinfected potato piece. Students the...
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Potato chip Classification

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create a dichotomous key using potato chips. For this classification lesson, students sort potato chips into groups based on observable characteristics. They record their results to create a dichotomous key in preparation for...
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Oxidative Rancidity in Potato Chips

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this oxidative rancidity worksheet, students conduct an experiment on potato chips. Students complete 4 short answer questions upon completing the experiment.
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Build a Cardboard Bridge That Can Hold Potatoes

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students identify the characteristics of a bridge and build with junk materials.  In this bridge building lesson, students use cereal boxes, paper towel or toilet paper tubes and tape to create their bridges.  Bridges must be a certain...
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James Hopkinson's Plantation. Planting Sweet Potatoes

For Students 8th - 12th
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students analyze the photograph that features freedmen planting sweet potatoes. Students respond to 1 short answer question about the photograph.
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Potato Launcher Energy Lab

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate conservation laws using a potato launcher. In this physics lesson, students measure angles, time and distance of the potato. They discuss applications of experiments like this.
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Bud the Spud Moves West

For Teachers 9th - 12th
As part of a unit on Canadian agriculture, this focuses on how potato farms have increased in the west. Pupils participate in a discussion about the impact of consumer demand on production, and then they read an article about potato...
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Potato Lab

For Students 7th - 12th
In this osmosis worksheet, students put a strip of potato in three different solutions and document the changes in the potato to determine is the solutions were hypotonic, hypertonic, or isotonic. This worksheet has 6 short answer...
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Power to the Peanut

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students locate information about the life and research of African American botanist George Washington Carver. They identify how Carver's knowledge of botany contributed to improvement of farming practices and introduction of new...
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Characters Changing Over Time (Chapter 10: "Las Papas/Potatos")

For Teachers 5th Standards
Engage further in Esperanza Rising with a focus on close reading and metaphor. Class members zero in on the tenth chapter, examining characters and big ideas. Pupils discuss the text in small groups and as a whole class, and participate...
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Light in the Darkness

For Students 3rd - 6th
Include Hanukkah into classroom workstations during the holiday season with energetic activities and games. Children learn about the Jewish culture, play games, make crafts, and learn how to cook delicious potato latkes.
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Printing Practice: "Potato"

For Students K - 1st
For this printing practice worksheet, students trace and print the word "Potato," then color a picture of a potato. Page has links to additional activities.
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I'm Here, I'm There, I'm Everywhere-I'm Super Spud!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students generate a computer model of a potato plant. In this potato lesson plan, students study the history of potatoes, the variety of potatoes, the functions of the potato plant parts, and make a potato model on the computer.
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Arizona!! How the Heck Did I End Up Here???

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners research the historical background of the potato. In this potato research lesson, students cut out the important dates in potato history. Learners make a timeline for the events.
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Spud Stuff

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Student culminate a unit on potatoes. In this potato instructional activity, students make a booklet using the information acquired throughout a unit. They draw a picture of their potato, name it, measure it in inches, count its eyes,...

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