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Food Webs in a Pond

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore food chains and food webs in a pond and identify common creatures found in ponds. They look for tadpoles, fish, mites and other creatures in a pond during a field trip for first hand research.
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What Are We?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students list and describe three types of surface water pollutants. They observe the effects of various water pollutants on algae growth. Three causes of each surface water pollutant is listed.
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Wilma Mankiller and the Cherokee Nation

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine how Wilma Mankiller became the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. They listen to a teacher-led lecture, write a letter to President Andrew Jackson, participate in a jigsaw activity, conduct research,...
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Eutrophication Experiments

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Observe two different water samples and write down observations. Write a paragraph which predicts the relative amounts of nutrients, nitrates, and phosphates in the water samples. Compare water samples under a microscope.
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Froggy Learns To Swim

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this reading of text comprehension worksheet, students complete a variety of assignments including a word search, word completion, sentence completion and a quiz.
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Tropical Fish of the Great Barrier Reef

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this science worksheet, students discover facts about the tropical fish of the Great Barrier Reef. Students read 12 paragraphs about species in the reef waters and look at the photographs. Students complete a crossword puzzle about...
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Squigly’s Sports Crossword

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Squigly's sports worksheet, students explore researching all the aspects of all types of sports and then answer the forty clues going across and down in a crossword puzzle.
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Nouns Used Correctly

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students change any incorrect underlined words to their correct forms on the lines provided in twenty sentences. Students place a c in the blank if the underlined word or words are used correctly.
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The Pipa Pipa Frog

For Students 3rd - 4th
The Pipa Pipa frog is the focus of this reading comprehension worksheet. After reading a passage and studying a photograph of the frog, students complete eighteen phrases that tell about the frog.
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Fishy Fish

For Students 4th - 6th
In this fishy fish comprehension worksheet, students read and assess understanding. In this true and false, fill in the blank, short answer, and multiple choice worksheet, students answer ten question.
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Force and Acceleration

For Students 7th - 10th
In this force and acceleration worksheet, students solve 3 problems about moving objects, the forces working against them, the mass and their acceleration. Students determine if 6 statements about a falling elephant and a falling feather...
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Ad Creation

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students create an advertisement. In this writing lesson, students discuss how to create an ad for a product. Students write an ad for a cereal.
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Hop To It!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars explore grasshoppers. For this grasshoppers lesson, students measure the jumping distance of live grasshoppers. Young scholars then record the jumping distance of people in their group. Students record the distances and...
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Swimming With the Crabs

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this expository writing activity, students read an article about crabs and a graphic organizer with crab facts. Students fill in a graphic organizer, including their specific topic about crabs and details to support their topic.
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Reptiles

For Students 9th - 10th
In this reptiles worksheet, learners identify and label the different parts of reptiles. They complete 10 short answer questions after reading the information provided in the worksheet.
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Was, Were, There Was, There Were

For Students 4th - 5th
In this usage of was/were and there was/there were online worksheet, learners complete 45 sentences with the proper word or words. They use the drop-down menus to choose the words that fit properly in each sentence. They page contains...
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the Journey of the Pacific Salmon in the Open Ocean and Fishing

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss salmon and their life cycle.  In this salmon life cycle lesson, 3rd graders recognize the difficulties researching the life cycle of salmon as they migrate.  Students conduct an experiment and create a game.
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Mini-Mock Trial

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read through accounts of a teenage boy's use of a personal watercraft vehicle. They discuss the presented evidence and consider the varying details of the defendant, plaintiff and witnesses. They come to an agreement and state a...
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Science Puzzlers, Twisters, and Teasers: The History of Life on Earth

For Students 6th - 8th
A somewhat amusing assignment, this worksheet lists statements that an ancient organism may have made and asks learners to determine what geologic era that each may have lived in. It uses witty word puzzles and fill-in-the-blank-style...
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Tale of a Tuna

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Junior marine biologists access the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas' data on Atlantic Bluefin Tuna catches. As they analyze the data, they answer three questions. Background information and links to...
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Make a Table

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this problem solving strategy worksheet, students read a word problem and make a table to help solve it. Students then answer 2 additional questions. Answers included on page 2.
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Positively Periods

For Students 3rd
In this punctuation worksheet, 3rd graders master the usage of periods.  Students rewrite 8 sentences using the correct punctuation marks.
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July Following Directions Activity

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this July worksheet, learners follow 6 steps and color in the letters of the word "JULY" according to the directions. Students choose colors based on their opinions about the month of July.
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Conditional Statements

For Students 11th
For this conditional statements worksheet, 11th graders solve and complete 15 various types of problems. First, they determine if a conclusion can be reached from the two statements using the law of detachment or the law of syllogism....