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Summer Safety Activity: Sun Safety
Young scholars learn about preventing sunburns. In this sun safety activity, students explore the effects of the sun and find different types of protection from the sun. When finished young scholars create a beach scene using real sand.
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Summer Safety Activity: Stop, Drop, and Roll!
Students practice stop, drop and roll. In this fire safety lesson plan, students learn to stop when the music stops, drop when the music stops, and then roll when the music stops. That can be translated to stop, drop, and roll in case...
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Summer Safety Activity: Time to Tidy Up
Young scholars find that cleaning up can be easy. In this early childhood lesson, students practice fine motor skills while making their classroom more safe. Young scholars create large storage boxes.
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The Greenhouse Effect
Why does it get so hot inside of our cars in the summertime? The greenhouse effect! Lab groups experiment to see what happens to an ice cube enclosed in a jar and placed in sunlight as compared to an ice cube outside of the jar. They...
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Melts in Your Bag, Not in Your Hands
Students study how the sun transfers heat to the earth through radiation. They examine how animals absorb energy from the sun to warm their bodies by experiment with chocolate melting. They examine sun safety.
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Skin Cancer: Grades 6-8
Do we really need sunscreen? What are the risks of tanning? Learners explore these questions through a series of informational texts and engaging, hands-on activities.
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Detecting Rise in Body Temperature in Human and Animals and its Effects on Health
Beat the heat using sensors. Scholars research normal body temperatures for humans and a specific animal. In groups, they create sensors that monitor body temperature, as well as the weather. The goal is to reduce the occurrence of heat...
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Lightning Safety
Students investigate how lightning is produced and ways they can keep themselves safe during a lightning storm. After a lecture/demo, students use a worksheet imbedded in this plan to reinforce the concepts taught.
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Soil Preparation for Autumn and Winter
Students determine how and why soil needs to be prepared for the fall and winter seasons. In this agriculture lesson, students determine how to use gardening tools safely. They show how to work with compost material and fertilizer to...
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Tin Can Telephone
Students make telephones. In this visual arts lesson, students follow the provided steps to create their own tin can telephones.
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Black Hawk Island Hike
Students explore Wisconsin's natural and cultural history through hands-on exploration of Upham Woods. They are shown the basic paddling skills and they work in teams to paddle across the river on barge. Students describe cultural...
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Alka Rockets! An Introduction to Kinetics
Students identify the factors that influence reaction rates. In this chemistry lesson plan, students design an experiment to test one factor they identified. They perform the experiment and share the results to the entire class.