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The Ocean Floor and Shore Zones
Make textbook reading more engaging using this reading activities worksheet, through which scholars review major features found on the ocean floor and the processes that formed these features. They complete 11 terms in a crossword...
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Mayan Farming Practices
The introduction of this lesson requires reading a from The Maya by Jaqueline Dembar Greene. Learners sketch a Mayan during the reading. Teaching strategies include direct instruction, grouping the students for discussions, reasearch,...
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Designasaurus: Modeling Activity for a Paleoartist
Students create and draw fictional dinosaurs. They write a description of their dinosaur.
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Activity Plan 2-3: Baby Animals
Students get to be creative in learning about baby animals. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop fine motor, math, and science skills as they sing, read, and share about baby animals.
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SCIENCE ROLE PLAYS
Students create a play in which each person in the group is a "character" or part of a system. In this creative instructional activity students are assigned a process in which they write a script about with characters.
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Recycling Spelling Activity
In this recycling worksheet, students read definitions of recycling words, then fill in missing letters to complete the matching words. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Aquaculture Science
Students research the different careers in aquaculture. In this aquaculture instructional activity students complete activities that include a PowerPoint presentation.
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Science Observations
First graders investigate change by analyzing a photograph. In this scientific observation instructional activity, 1st graders view a photograph of a baby and attempt to memorize the details. Student view the photo a few minutes later,...
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Sports and Exercise Activity
Eighth graders practice utilizing motor skills by participating in different sports activities. For this physical education lesson, 8th graders participate in racquetball, shuttle cock, and baseball style activities in order to...
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Tools: Science Stations
Students explore technology by completing engineering activities in class. In this simple tools lesson, students utilize three science stations to perform tasks using a nutcracker, bottle openers, hammers and other tools. Students review...
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Determining Stream Health by the Diversity and Types of Benthic Organisms
How diverse are the benthic organisms found in local streams? Using the information learned in previous lessons on identification of macroinvertebrates and on calculating stream index values, groups determine the health of local...
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Stewardship Activities
In this ocean pollution learning exercise, students read the stewardship activities for ocean pollution. Students list 3 ways to help reduce pollution. Students then draw or write the items in the correct order of decomposition along the...
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Life Science Observations: Living vs. Non Living Things
Students investigate the difference between living and non-living things. In this life science lesson, students discover the different characteristics of living things and the natural or human created non-living things....
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Density Lab Activities
Students participate in several density lab activities in order to clarify the misconceptions that solids sink and liquids float. Students work with triple beam balances to find mass of objects to calculate density.
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Earth Day Activity: I Should, I Should Not
In this Earth Day should/should not worksheet, students complete sentences about earth day, billing in blanks with either "I should" or "I should not, then use a word bank to write 5 sentences about a picture of children picking up trash.
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Transcription and Translation Lab Activity
Students investigate DNA strands. They study the sequence to determine if it is DNA or RNA and write the mRNA nucleotide sequence. After stringing the beads together to create the mRNA sequence they translate it into an amino acid...
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Sample Activity From The Water Sourcebook
Students explore septic system failures and contamination of groundwater. The complete a worksheet to explore the basic parts of a septic system. In a lab situation, students simulate a septic system failure. They explore coliform...
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Electrochemical Cells and the Activity
In this elements learning exercise, students write the appropriate half reactions and calculate the cell potential for the given electrochemical cells. This learning exercise has 20 problems to solve.
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Protein Synthesis Activities
Students compare the process of protein synthesis in an analogy. They simulate the process of protein synthesis kinesthetically using index cards and write a paragraph to explain the process.
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Cloudy With a Chance of...
Second graders will write a story. In this writing and meteorology lesson, 2nd graders read the story Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, then use KidPix to create a weather picture. The picture is imported into a word processor and the...
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Weather Forecast
Young scholars forecast the weather. In this weather instructional activity, students are assigned a day to give the weather forecast. Young scholars write a script and video their weather forecast.
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Science Charades
Young scholars dramatize the wonderful world of nature, without making a sound. In this early childhood creative thinking lesson, students dramatize different aspects of nature to develop creative thinking, reading, memory, and motor...
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Science as Inquiry: what is starch and how can we test it?
Sixth graders discuss nutrients and examine foods for starch. In this starch testing instructional activity, 6th graders use iodine to test foods for starch and record their results. Students complete a worksheet and self reflection.
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Watershed Landscape
Students demonstrate how water flows by building a human watershed using themselves. For this ecology lesson, students compare and contrast point-source and non-point source pollution. They write what they have learned from this activity...