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Your Body: A Bacteria Incubator!
Students use string, a petri dish, water, wipes, and other materials to collect bacteria from their body. In this bacteria lesson plan, students use ingredients to collect bacteria, observe it, predict what will happen over time, and...
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Icy Sun Catcher
Students fill the tray half full with water. In this art lesson, students lay the string in the tray and add little bits of little items. Students lay the tray outdoors on a cold winter night so that the water freezes. What is frozen...
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Firefighters
Students read books, learn about the letter f, and eat ice cream all to learn about firefighters. In this fire fighters lesson plan, students also string beads to look like fire hose and visit a fire house.
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Music- Found-Object Orchestra
Students construct simple musical instruments. In this music lesson, students read the text Max Found Two Sticks and construct their own instruments from classroom materials.
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String of Fish
Fourth graders research a Florida fish to determine its length. They display this information on two index cards, which are cut to the shape of the head and the tail and attached to a string that they measure and cut to the correct...
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Swinging on a String
Students explore how pendulums work and why they are useful in everyday applications. In a hands-on activity, they experiment with string length, pendulum weight and angle of release.
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2D Kinematics w/ String Racers
Students calculate the speed of string racers. In this physics lesson plan, students measure the time in several trials and get the average. They graph their results using a spreadsheet.
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Musical Instruments
In this musical instruments worksheet, students identify and locate 20 various types of musical instruments in a word search. First, they locate brass and percussion instruments. Then, students locate string and woodwind instruments.
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Is There Enough String?
Students illustrate the order of operations and evaluate expressions using the order of operations. They create and correctly at least 3 out of 4 expressions using the order of operations.
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Measuring Our Bodies
Second and third graders explore the size of their bodies. They use string to measure parts of their body in small groups. After measuring with string, students measure the string with a ruler. They then glue their string to a piece of...
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String of Dots
You are Wilbur and your partner is Orville.The winner of this game gets to make the first flight in the Wright Flyer.
Develop a stratgegy for this one.Make a string of 15 to 30 dots. With a partner take turns crossing them off either...
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Strings and Things: An Investigation into pH
Students test the pH of everyday substances. For this chemistry lesson, students test the pH of household substances using litmus paper to classify substances as acids or bases, then use pH to test the validity of the claim that dock...
Exploratorium
Secret Codon - Write a Message in DNA
String up a message. Pupils string together colored beads to code a word or short phrase. Each color represents one of the four DNA bases. Using a combination of three bases, learners create an amino acid that stand for each letter of...
NASA
Feel the Noise
Can you hear it now? Young scientists experiment with sound waves using metal objects and string. They strike metal objects while they hold them and as the objects hang from a string to compare the sound. They discover that sound travels...
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Magnet Mania
Youngsters go on a magnetic fishing trip! Use an engaging and clever language arts lesson to reinforce the recognition of the letters of the alphabet with very young readers. A fishing pole is made of a ruler and a piece of string with a...
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The Alphabet
Young scholars create a wrap-around-the-room vocabulary word display. They write each uppercase letter on a separate piece of brightly colored paper and hang string, yarn, ribbon, or twine around your classroom walls at raised-arm height.
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Snowman Mobile
Get ready for winter with this snowman mobile learning exercise! Young artists create a snowman mobile by coloring and cutting out the pieces of a snowman and attaching them with string, brads, and glue.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Challenge: Parentheses, Please!
Given a string of numbers and math symbols, learners take the challenge to insert parenthesis in the proper places to reach certain solutions. This is a challenge, indeed, an engaging enrichment for those who need a little more math!
National Wildlife Federation
Habitat Web
It's all connected. Classes create a web to connect living things in a local ecosystem. They create cards with both living and nonliving things found in their areas while considering the characteristics of each. After they have a good...
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Coloring Squares - Write the Word
Let's learn about squares. Youngsters complete this coloring instructional activity with multiple objectives including printing practice, spelling, shapes, and colors. First, they trace the word green. Pupils color all the squares in a...
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Adding Up
Make addition visual in order to help beginners understand the concept. They add up beads on a string, examining an example before trying it on their own. Learners fill in addends and sums for these, and sometimes both. Although...
DK Publishing
Fewer Candies
Focus on the key word fewer with young counters as they draw familiar sets of objects. For each, they examine an original set (i.e. candies in a jar) and draw a set with fewer. There are nice, clear graphics and kids will enjoy the...
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Short, Shorter, Shortest, Part 2
Can your kindergartners draw a shorter tree? What about a shorter kite string? Reinforce relative size and comparing with a clever worksheet. It prompts young learners to study a picture and draw a shorter version, and to choose the...
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Found Poem: Number the Stars
It's easy to write a found poem! First, select a passage about 50-100 words in length. Then, select only the strong, visual language. Now you're ready to write your found poem: simply string the words together adding (at most) two of...
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