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Living with Disaster: Mother Nature Rules

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners analyze various types of natural disasters and discover techniques man uses to live with nature and to control nature. They are able to identify ways that man has learned to predict natural disasters; identify ways that man has...
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Business Cards

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students follow step-by-step instructions to create a business card. They experiment with a variety of fonts and word processing features to create a business card and then design and produce an original business card.
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Using Color as Defense

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore mimicry and crypsis, participate in hands-on predator-prey activity, and practice calculating averages and graph results in histogram.
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Kindness Graffiti Wall

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discuss acts of kindness. In this character education lesson, students use a large sheet of poster paper, tempera paint, and markers to create a graffiti wall. Students write down their ideas of kindness and share their wall...
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Seeing Sense in Photographs & Poems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners analyze photographs and poetry as forms of each other. In this poetry and photography analysis lesson, students use the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and poetry from William Carlos William to explore how poetry and painting...
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Mask Form - Mixed Media Collage Relief

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create a work of around around a theme of natures - or identity (using personal items). They create a relief sculpted face or mask, and write about works of art.
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3-Dimensional People

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students collect objects that represent themselves. In a class discussion, they consider how they are seen and understood by others. Students create two sculptures, one of how others see them and another of how they see themselves.
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Cave Mentality

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify and define vocabulary associated with caves and rock formations. They construct a cave out of paper and fill it with a geode they crerate. Students write and present orally reports about caves and their importance to...
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Lesson Three: Refining Ideas and Making Choices

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders review and refine their sculpture ideas considering whether to depict a figure (or object) in action or involved in an event, whether to construct an environment, or whether to work symbolically (without a figure).
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Great American Families

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders wrote essays, interviewed family members, took photos of their activities, and tape recorded narration to accompany the photos.
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Dialogue Disguises

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners read a story out loud to a partner and change their voices and expressions when depicting specific characters. In this language arts lesson plan, students focus on the person's voice who is reading to them, while keeping track...
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Earth's Moon

For Students 9th - 12th
In this moon worksheet, students review the different phases of the moon and differences between a lunar and solar eclipse. This worksheet has 13 fill in the blank and 5 true or false questions.
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Physics: Light and Sound

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the concepts of light waves and sound waves. In this physics lesson, students complete activities that require them to investigate how light and sound waves travel.
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Instructors Lesson Plan for Cats in Quilts

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students make quilts using a simplified applique technique. The lesson includes directions for beginner as well as intermediate levels. Each class lasts from between two and three hours.
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Night Hike

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Students explore Upham Woods at night and investigate about the special adaptations of nocturnal animals. They identify three nocturnal animals and how they are adapted to the night. Students explain what night vision is and how it works.
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Secret Code Riddles: Addition & Subtraction

For Students 4th - 6th
In this riddle worksheet, students use mathematics to break a secret code. They solve addition and subtraction problems to discover the answer to given riddles. There are 9 riddles, with an average of seven to nine problems to solve...
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Chemistry: Classifying Materials

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students classify materials. In this chemistry lesson, students examine the properties of solids, liquids, and gases. Students discover the elements, compounds, and chemical symbols.
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Dark Nights-Nature Notebook

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this night time worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer about the night, drawing and filling in information about the night sky, the night ground, and the lights they may see. 
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Pattern Value Portraits with Light

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students use the elements of art and principles of design to explore value. In this color value lesson, students use the portrait of a a face to help them understand color value, tints, shades and tones.
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Solar Oven

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students construct a solar oven using cardboard, duct tape, aluminum foil and other materials. They use the solar oven to cook something and keep a journal of their project.
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Science: Daily and Seasonal Cycles

For Teachers 1st
First graders use their observations to describe daily and seasonal cycles. through a demonstration using a suspended ball and flashlight, they determine the time of day in various locations. Next, 1st graders participate in a...
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Real Sentences

For Students 4th - 7th
In this sentence writing worksheet, students read a passage and then determine whether it is a complete sentence or not. They write an "S" if it is a sentence and an "N" if it is not. There are 20 questions on this page, but 3 have...
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Jackie Chan

For Students 4th - 8th
In this famous person instructional activity, students  read a passage about Jackie Chan and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
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Plants Help Keep a House Cool!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students experiment with tree shading and house colors to see how to reduce the temperature of a home.

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