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What Teeth Tell Us

For Teachers K - 4th
Students view pictures of a variety of animals. They examine the animals' teeth and discuss the differences in them. They experiment with staple removers (carnivore teeth) and two flat rocks (herbivore teeth) and determine which are most...
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Soil

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders name the various materials that comprise soil, including weathered rock and other organic matter. They explain that soils differ in their color, texture, capacity to retain water, and ability to support the growth of many...
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Why Is The Sea Salty?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students observe how salt concentration increases in water and how salt remains after water evaporates. In this salty sea lesson plan, student use rock salt, water, containers, and strainers to observe that salt increases each time new...
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The Frigid Gourmet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students make a " science surprise" or ice cream in the lab. In this melting point depression lesson plan, students use various substances with ice to determine the effects on the melting point of ice and the ability to make ice cream....
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Water Filtration Challenge

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students create an all-natural water filtration system. In this lesson on natural water filtration, students build upon prior knowledge to build a filtration unit made of plants, soils, sand, pebbles and rocks that can purify...
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Show Me the Story

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the elements of a story, read a review of Chris Rock's new sitcom, "Everybody Hates Chris" and create original sitcom episodes based on their own lives.
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American Music Styles - Lesson 1

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners describe some of the distinguishing characteristics of rock, folk, blues, and country music. They identify two main musical roots of today's American popular music.
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Earth's Age: The Dating Game

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct a simulation to determine radioactive decay and half-life. Using pennies, dice or sugar cubes as isotopes placed in shoe boxes simulating rocks, they hold five trials representing 1000 years each to find the theoretical...
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Fossil Fuels (III), The Geology of Coal: Interpreting Geologic History

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners hypothesize about why various samples of coal have different characteristics. Pupils use information that they found during Internet searches to ascertain the validity of their hypotheses and verify the "story" of coal. ...
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Rust Never Sleeps

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate oxidation-reduction reactions involving iron by conducting an experiment in which they expose iron filings to different atmospheric and ocean conditions. They relate the results to the oxidation banding...
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Water Cycle: Mobius Strip

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students describe the water cycle and create a Mobius strip model. They determine that the weathering of rocks continually adds sodium to the Earth's rivers and subsequently to the oceans. They discuss the fact that the water on Earth...
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Mastering the Keyboard

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders view an animated program showing how the continents fit together millions of years ago. In groups, they compare and contrast the distribution of rocks and fossils based on how the continents fit together. After reading a...
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To Protect Your Streams, Protect Your Mountains

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students build and experiment with a watershed to understand the effects of pollution. In this movement of water lesson, students work in groups creating rock formations and change the viscosity of the liquids falling down the mountain....
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Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a science-themed scavenger hunt. In this science overview lesson, students search the school grounds for various objects, such as an insect, a sedimentary rock, and a form of sugar.
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Exploring for Petroleum - Modeling an Oil Reserve

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students experiment with locating oil reserves. In this conservation lesson, students use a cardboard box to create sand, rocks, and an oil reserve (water balloon). They use a probe to dig around in the box to find the oil reserve and...
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The Preposition Song

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students, after watching and listening to a video on Grammar Rock, recite and sing the words to The Preposition Song. They rehearse it several times before they stand up in front of class and recite it out loud for their classmates as...
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ROCKING ON TO THE ROCK

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers view the illustrations of family life in the early colonies and make a list of 10 things they see. Then compare those 10 items with your life today. Then read some of the novel "Constance" and write down 8 things that...
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Fire, Rock and Water Volcanoes!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a demonstration that helps them visualize mudflows and how they move.  In this exploratory lesson students simulate a mudflow and create an avalanche.
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Rock n' Rollin in the '50s

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the culture of the United States in the 1950's.  In this history activity, students research culture in the 1950's, with a focus on fashion, music, television, automobiles, etc., then work in groups to create a...
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Lesson One: Rock N Rhythm & Rhyme (Part One)

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to poetry to find rhyme and rhythm. In this poetry lesson, 2nd graders listen to different types of poetry and find how they are alike. They look for rhyming words and create their own rhymes. 
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Lesson Two: Rock N Rhythm & Rhyme (Part Two)

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders find rhythm and rhyme in poetry. In this poetry instructional activity, 2nd graders listen to different poems to find the rhyming words. They play a memory game and try to find two words that rhyme. 
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Rock N Rhythm & Rhyme (Part One)

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students make flip books of rhyming words and match words together that are on cards. For this rhyming lesson plan, students read books and read individual words to identify rhyming words.
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Rock, Paper, Scissors

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore genetic traits. In this genetic traits lesson, 5th graders investigate dominant and recessive traits. Students identify similar traits between a parent organism and its offspring.
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Hot Rocks

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students demonstrate that setting of plaster and cement is a change, which involves a release of heat energy, use data collected experimentally to construct comparison graphs and analyze the graphs to make predictions about future...

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