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Hot Stuff

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars investigate mechanical and electrical machines in the classroom and school, and identify which produce heat while operating.
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Why Are Bees Important?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify and analyze pollination and how bees play an important part in the life cycle of flowering plants. They also identify the process of plant pollination and how bees play an important part in the life cycle of flowering...
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Looking at Flowers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars use their bee sticks to cross-pollinate their Fast Plants and also focus in on the anatomy of flowers. They analyze how the parts of a system go together, and how these parts depend on each other. Finally, students...
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Observing Pods

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students observe the pistil growing into a tiny string bean-like seed pod. They then observe the development of the fertilized pods between Day 17 and Day 35 and record their observations by drawing and labeling, writing, and graphing. ...
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How Does Sound Travel As Waves?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders participate in a number of activities designed to increase their understanding of how sound is generated and how it travels.
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Watts Up with the Heat

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create a variety of simple, series and parallel electrical circuits to illustrate how electricity flows through different types of basic circuits.
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Learning From Leaves: A Look at Leaf Size

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students measure and analyze leaves from various environments. They discuss the environments, and make inferences about environmental variables that could have contributed to the differences in leaf size and texture.
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Learning From Leaves: From Observation to Inference

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine the adaptation of plants to their environments. They analyze and observe the structure, shape, and internal structure of various leaves, and make inferences about the structures.
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Astronomy

For Teachers 3rd
Students complete a unit of lessons on our solar system, its stars, and astronomers. They record information in a space journal, design constellations, define key vocabulary, observe the phases of the moon, and create a group planet...
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Basic Needs of Plants

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the four basic needs of plants. They examine plants as they grow. Students discuss the changes that they see in the growing plants. They observe what happens to a plant when one of its basic needs is taken away.
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Plants and Animals Depend Upon One Another

For Teachers 1st
First graders study plants and animals and how they depend on one another. They also study that plants give energy to animals and provide oxygen needed for life. Finally, 1st graders give examples of the roles plants and animals play...
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The Bulbs: Camas and Daffodil

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders become aware of the importance of the camas bulb to the Nez Perce people, they learn the parts of plants, and gain understanding of the interdependence of Nature. They study about the possible causes and outcomes of global...
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How Hot is Too Hot?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use the scientific method to conduct experiments on the temperature effects on organisms. In this temperature effects on organisms lesson plan, 5th graders observe and record the hatching or the developing of organisms into...
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Kit

For Students 7th - 9th
The National Energy Foundation presents this activity, which instructs students to follow directions to connect a solar electric panel to a buzzer. They charge the solar panel to cause the buzzer to sound. The process is repeated with a...
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Restriction Digest + DNA Comparison

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare different DNA and run a gel electrophoresis.  In this DNA instructional activity students complete a DNA activity that allows them to better understand its structure and function. 
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Hudson Canyon Expedition; Fishy Deep Sea Designs!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners explore the physical location of deep water habitats along the Hudson Shelf Valley and in Hudson Canyon. They study the basic characteristics of the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones with regard to depth, temperature, pres
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What is the Function of Each Seed Part in the Growth of a Plant

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the parts of a seed by using a digital camera.  In this botany lesson, 6th graders plant their own seeds in class and demonstrate the necessary attributes for growing a plant.  Students utilize a...
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Electricity: A Friend, a Foe

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners study what electricity can do and what some of the associated dangers are.
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Weather through the Seasons

For Teachers K
Students examine the year's cycles by observing the four seasons, their distinctive weather patterns that affect our activities and the weather changes that each brings. The fourteen lessons of this unit offer a good opportunity for the...
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Plant Pollination and Fertilization

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research and apply knowledge about plant pollination and fertilization in this lesson. They color on a flower diagram the anther, the pistil, the pollen, the pollen tube, the ovary, and the egg to show the process of...
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Fire Safety Blackout Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this fire safety worksheet, students read the definitions for the fire safety words and then write the word. Students write words for 15 definitions.
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Fire Safety Spiral Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this fire safety vocabulary worksheet, students answer the clue with a fire safety word and plug it into the crossword puzzle. Students complete this for 8 words.
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Fire Safety Vocabulary Fill Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this fire safety learning exercise, students fill in a crossword by answering questions about fire safety. Students answer 15 questions and put the answers in the crossword.
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Fire Safety Vocabulary Maze

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this fire safety learning exercise, students find a fire safety vocabulary word that matches with the definition in a maze. Students find 14 words.