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Falling Leaves Poetry Spinners
Why settle for autumn leaves as classroom decorations when you could use autumn poetry? After taking a nature walk and collecting fall artifacts, including seed pods and fallen leaves, learners demonstrate the movement of the season with...
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Fall Leaves Fall
Students explore fall leaves. In this leaf lesson, students collect leaves to investigate. Students also measure, compare and contrast, draw and look at leaves through a magnifying glass. Students sing songs and use movement in this...
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The Sky is Falling!!
First graders complete a variety of activities about fall. They study a plant's life cycle and what happens to plants in the fall. They make leaf rubbings and discuss seed dispersal. They write a creative story about a seed and visit a...
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Pumpkins
The pumpkin might be the single most amazing plant for youngsters. It's so big! It's leaves, it's stems, it's fruit! And it is easy to grow! This lesson describes all sorts of wonderful pumpkin ideas. Everything from pumpkin stories,...
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Crayon Resist Fall Leaves
Students study and explore the season of fall and investigate why fall leaves change color. Students explore the crayon resist technique and discuss other events of the fall season.
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Fall is All Around Us
Young scholars develop and create a production company and produce a fall event that demonstrates what they have learned in various subject areas. STudents create stories, complete a venn diagram comparing fall and summer, graph and...
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Kindergarten-sight Words Fall Colors
Learners listen to the poem Fall Colors and find their favorite Fall color. In this Fall color lesson, students recognize the Fall color words. Learners make leaf prints with their favorite colors. Students talk about their...
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Leaves and Photosynthesis
In this science worksheet, learners read detailed information about green plants and the photosynthesis process. In this fill in the blank and true and false worksheet, students answer twelve questions.
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Coniferous and Deciduous Trees
What are the differences between coniferous and deciduous trees? Supplement your tree lessons with a set of activities that has learners describing, naming, comparing, and reading about deciduous and coniferous trees. The activities are...
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Science Trail
Students explore the solar system by conducting Earth science experiments. In this Sun lesson, students identify the different seasons on Earth and discuss their purpose and cause. Students create a sundial and observe the changes to...
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Unit VI: Worksheet 2 - Force, Velocity, Displacement
Future physics majors look at a diagram of a marble rolling across a railing. They sketch motion maps and force diagrams. They determine the horizontal range of the marble as it falls to the floor. Then they double the height and repeat...
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Fall Slumbers
Students observe changes in a selected tree leaf near their homes during the fall. Twice each week students record changes in the leaf using words, pictures, and numbers.
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Measuring Using Leaves
Students explore geometry by using non-standard measuring methods. In this length estimation lesson, students complete a worksheet in which different objects in their classroom are measured by three different sized leaves. Students draw...
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Autumn's Palette
In this Ranger Rick worksheet, students participate in a nature walk, observe the leaves, and sketch some of the leaf shapes they encounter. Students also respond to a question regarding the range of leaf colors they observe.
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Science Surprises: Penguins
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a 3 paragraph selection about penguins and then respond to 3 short answer questions.
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Pump Up the Curriculum With Pumpkins!
Students complete a variety of activities as they examine "pumpkins."
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Merry Maple Leaf
In this Autumn activity worksheets, students go on a nature walk and find the colors of fall. Students then use paint to color the leafs in the fall colors they saw on the walk. Students then finish a poem about the fall leaves.
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That’s Amazing!: Challenge Activities (Theme 3)
Synonym dominoes, anyone? As part of the activities designed for kids who have mastered the basic concepts in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic unit That's Amazing! kids are offered a variety of activities that include...
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Signs of Autumn
Second graders study photosynthesis and explore how chlorophyll is important to leaves and why leaves change colors in the fall.
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The Beet Goes On
Root vegetables inspire the series of activities included here. Class members participate in activities related to language arts, social studies, science, visual art, and math. At first, the long list might feel overwhelming; however,...
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Kindergarteners Study the Four Seasons
Examine the weather of the four seasons, look at seasonal activities, and tell which months are part of each season with this lesson. Your class will play a game, sing a song, and write additional stanzas to seasonal poetry.
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The Salmon Stream and Vegetation
Students explore the ecosystem and food chain by researching Pacific Salmon. For this fish habitat lesson, students discover the life cycle for salmon, where they spawn and what they eat to survive the harsh elements. Students...
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Mother Nature Has Her Say
Students use their creative writing skills to develop interview questions for Mother Nature. Using writing, they respond to the questions another student developed and use the internet to research any topic they need more information on....
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Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
Students discuss the differences between a storybook and an information book. Students use various materials found in nature to make a nature collage. Students make a nature dictionary using pictures and their own definitions from the...