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Writing Crazy Crayons

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders observe the workings of an assembly line. They classify old crayon pieces by color, melt them in candy molds, package them, and produce advertising literature to sell the product. Students share their work with the class.
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Making Paper

For Teachers K
Students create paper by adding a few small scraps of paper into the blender pitcher and adding just enough water to thoroughly soak paper.
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Build a Journal

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students prepare for field journaling at Yosemite Institute. They create and decorate their Institute journal giving them both a place to journal and ownership of it.
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Rainsticks

For Teachers K - 8th
Pupils create a rainstick decorated with repeated patterns of shape and color, out of paper towel tubes.
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Water Quality

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the water cycle and evaporation. They study the porosity and permeability of groundwater, and the capillary action in soil in this unit.
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Building on the Power of Your Ideas

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine a sculpture walkway by artist Jackie Ferrara and discuss the relationship of materials to function. They analyze the sculpture and answer discussion questions, and design and construct a model of a walkway for the school.
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Poems Insprire Visual Art

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine artwork by artist Ernst Herter. They discuss what the art means to them. They create a collage to represent a poem of their chosing. They discover how literature is used as an inspiration for art.
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Let's Recreate Our World To Make It Better

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners examine art by artist by Tom Rollins. They discuss the painting and what it means to them. They create their own models of apartment complexes based on ideas from literature.
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Water Cycle Column

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers use common materials to construct a working model of the water cycle. They then observe and explain evaporation, condensation, precipitation and percolation as aspects of a continuing cycle. Students also complete...
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Resources - A Reading Guide

For Students 9th - 12th
In this resources worksheet, high schoolers compare and contrast physical and chemical properties and changes. Students review the periodic table, pattern of atomic numbers and chemical reactivity. This worksheet has 56 short answer...
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The Water Cycle

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students study the water cycle. For this water cycle lesson, students examine how the water cycle works, what its functions are, and how to diagram it.
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Measuring

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students convert basic measurement in English and Metric Units.
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Move Your Feet

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, playing as a team, practice returning a volleyball serve.
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Jin Soo Kim

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine and discuss a sculpture by the artist Jin Soo Kim. They explore and identify basic sculpture techniques, and create a sculpture using found objects, plaster, and cardboard.
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Honor Your Special Qualities

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students view different sculptures from artist Ronald Baron. They discuss what the sculpture depicts. They are to create a thank you trophy for someone they know. They are to focus on that person's special qualities.
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Interactive Art: Let's Make It Happen

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Pupils examine art by Christopher Janney. They discuss what the art is showing and what it means to them. They create their own piece of interactive art.
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I Think I Can Make a Difference!

For Teachers 1st
First graders write "I Can" statements to tell what they can do to help their community. They write the statements on a train car that has a number written on it. They share their statements in order of the number of their train car...
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Radio Program #15-The Environmental Movement

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students interpret the factors that influenced those affected by the environmental movement. They analyze stories that affected those same people. Students investigate local environmental projects using the newspaper and web sites.
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Shape Walk

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Pupils take a field trip to a local park or beach to collect objects. They practice counting the objects and put them into categories according to type of shape like a cone, cylinder, etc... As an extension to the instructional activity...
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Water Cycle in a Bottle

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study the water cycle. In this water science lesson plan, students complete a water cycle experiment using soda bottles.
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How Do Airplanes Get Off the Ground

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils construct various types of paper airplanes, exploring action and reaction forces by conducting a paper airplane rodeo. Students then discuss how Newton's Third Law of Motion affected their planes.
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Beautiful Numbers

For Teachers K - 6th
Students focus on the shape of numbers.
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Ecology

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research an ecosystem and its endangered species. They create a PowerPoint Presentation, oral report, poster or a booklet based on their research. They research on the internet and in biology texts in teams of 4.
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Alligator

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils create a model of an alligator out of clay using both artwork and research to guide their finished work.

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