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Lesson Plan for This Monograph

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils read a monograph from Natural Inquirer. In this monograph lesson, students read and write the main idea on a sticky note. They break into groups and compare and contrast their ideas. 
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Evolution of Life

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the evolution of life. They read sections of their text and make a foldable of the key vocabulary terms. They identify two types of butterflies and represent their similarities and differences on a Venn diagram. They...
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Emily Dickinson & Poetic Imagination: "Leap, plashless"

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars analyze the poems of Emily Dickinson and write their own nature poem. In this poetry analysis lesson, students read Dickinson poetry and analyze the use of imagery, sound, and metaphor. Young scholars write their own...
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Lesson Plan # 2: Forest Poems

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners read and write poetry.  In this poetry writing lesson plan, students read and discuss several poems with a "forest" theme, and then write their own forest haiku. Possible publication in the Natural Inquirer is described.
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Paragraph Editing: Using agreement with an essay

For Students 6th - 10th
In this editing worksheet, students read 4 paragraphs and edit the sentences in them. Students edit 28 sentences total and can check their answers.
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Types of Things

For Teachers K
Students explore the differences between man-made and natural objects. In this lesson designed to compare properties of objects, students differentiate between natural and man-made objects and complete an activity designed to show what...
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Wild Kingdom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research and discuss the natural habitats and various evolutionary theories of giraffes and other animals imported into ancient Rome.
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Locke v. Hobbes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this Hobbes and Locke study guide worksheet, high schoolers respond to 18 short answer questions. The questions correlate to assigned readings in a textbook.
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Life Is a Cycle

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate about cycles through games, shared readings and a shared writing activity. They play a game of Ring Around the Rosie to be introduced to the concept of "cycle."
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Squaring Off

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students define examples of patterns and explore the makeup and purpose of patterns found in nature. They create models illustrating the patterns researched in class and relaying the purpose of patterns in various natural objects.
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Animal Invasion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research and illustrate the natural habitats and evolution of giraffes and other animals imported into ancient Rome. They draw a map of Europe, North Africa, and West Asia and draw the animals from each region in their proper...
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Lesson Two: Discover a purpose for keywords

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders research a topic in nature. In this research lesson, 2nd graders pick a nature topic and discuss the keywords needed to find more information about that topic. They fill their information out on a organizer.
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Illegal coffee threatens wildlife

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students, after reading an article from the World Wide Fund for nature on coffee possibly being grown illegally in an Indonesian national park and being sold to major coffee brands, answer several worksheets to text questions about the...
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Implementation of Cubic Splines

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this math worksheet, students explore the implementation of Cubic Splines. They define the natural and clamped splines. Students also, use the Matlab to find the splines.
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Chemical Reaction

For Teachers Higher Ed
In this chemical reaction worksheet, students label the missing particles as natural decay, induced, fission, or fusion. Students calculate the energy change for the given reactions. This worksheet has 6 fill in the blank and 4 problems...
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Total English Advanced: A Challenging Situation?

For Students 7th - 10th
In this communicating the nature of situations instructional activity, students complete a graphic organizer with details regarding how they and their partners would deal with the 8 situations described.
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Talking Trees

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate the ecosystem. In this environmental lesson, students read the book The Tree by Dana Lyons and list ways to save the trees. Students create a poster about saving the trees.
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Establish the Theme

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the topic of nature. In this detective instructional activity, 2nd graders review non-fiction materials on nature and identify text, headings, diagrams, graphs, to establish the theme of the book.
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Spring Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students complete activities for spring such as counting petals, tracing spring words, and going on nature walks. In this spring lesson plan, students also read spring stories.
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How does the weatherman know the forecast?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this weatherman worksheet, students read a passage about how weathermen predict the forecast. Students read 1 full page about the weather.
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Commercial Use of Plant Hormones

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this plant hormone worksheet, students will read 5 statements and determine if the effect given occurs because of natural or synthetic plant hormones. Then students will complete 2 short answer questions about why hormones are used in...
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Regions of the United States

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars explore the regions of the United States. In this geography lesson, students read the text When I Was Young in the Mountains and compare the setting of the story with their geographical setting. Young scholars use a...
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High Tech Food

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students view videos, read, and fill in charts about agriculture production. In this agriculture lesson plan, students complete these agriculture activities and explore careers in agriculture.
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Plants Blackout Worksheet

For Students 4th - 6th
In this plants worksheet, students read the definitions of words related to plants and then write the word on the line. Students write 15 words.