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Apples, Apples, Apples

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students complete activities using apples that help improve their science, math, and reading skills. In this apple lesson plan, students read the book Apples, Apples Apples and visit an orchard or farmer's market to buy a variety of...
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New Information

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Young readers explore informational texts as they read a text entitled Giant Pandas by Gail Gibbons. The teacher will begin by explaining that one characteristic of informational texts is that they teach the reader new information...
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Teaching the Kono Salmon Kite

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students complete several student readings involving kite making and kite flying. They analyze how the parts of a system go together and how these parts depend on each other. They comprehend how different environments both provide...
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Teaching the Bell Tetrahedral Kite

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students complete readings on kite making and kite flying. They analyze how the parts of a system interconnect and influence each other. Students identifies and uses color and form in a 3D artwork.
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Science Fiction Lesson Plans

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students can explore a literature genre through science fiction lesson plans.
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Class Animal Report

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Whether preparing your second graders for an expository writing proficiency assessment or just planning on introducing the writing process, this 37-page packet is for you. The unit has everything you need from scripted lessons to...
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Dinosaurs

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils will develop goals for inquiry. They will also improve content area reading and research skills. The context of studying dinosaurs will help learners to distinguish from organisms that live presently and those from the past times...
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Adolescent Obesity and Susceptibility to Disease

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars understand the importance of maintaining a healthy weight and good health.  In this health instructional activity students read text then create their own pamphlet on the cardiovascular system, weight gain, treatments...
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Is Anybody Out There?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students focus on the tremendous public interest in the potential of extraterrestrial life. They read and discuss an article about the search for alien life. They divide into small groups and discuss the issues and implications of this...
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Environmental Harmony

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use information from a variety of media to evaluate different artists' views on the human relationship to nature. From these sources, class discussion, and personal experience, students will synthesize a thoughtful,...
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The Book of Life

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss the factors that make a good children's book. After reading an article, they explore the prevalence of science in children's literature. In groups, they research a topic and translate it into easy language for a child...
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Diary of a Wombat

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners create a diary entry from an animal's point of view. In this creative writing activity, students read the book Diary of a Wombat and conduct brief research on an animal of their choice. Learners create a diary entry based upon...
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For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners research the adaptations of desert animals and build their research skills. In this the adaptations of desert animals lesson plan, students describe major factors that desert animals have on their habitat. Learners...
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Exploring All Frontiers

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students utilize higher thinking skills to expand their self concept to include physical, cognitive, and affective frontiers. The teacher create activities which allow students to use raw data and primary sources, as well as...
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Ecology

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners personify ecology vocabulary and write a one-act play using their knowledge of ecology as the basis for characters, conflict, setting and plot.
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Insect Anatomy

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Pupils explore the anatomy of an insect. In this activity the characteristics of insects, students explore parts of an insect. Pupils gain knowledge through pictures and charts showing insects and their body parts. Students will gather...
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Farm Frolics

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students learn about farms through literature and center activities. In this farming lesson plan, students read about farming, sing songs about it, sort materials, and do more activities related to farming.
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You Can Do It: Creating How-To Videos

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create instructional videos. in this video lesson, students choose a subject area and topic to make their own how-to video. They research this topic and film their video using a flip-camera. 
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Life on a Farm

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students take a field trip to a farm or observe pictures of farms and animals in the classroom. They paint a mural of a farm setting with animals. They practice phonetic skills with farm stories and songs. They explain how milk becomes...
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An Alphabet Journey Through Space

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders author a book about the universe to be shared with a younger audience. After compiling an alphabetic list of words related to the universe, 3rd graders research a definition for each word and put them in book form. Books...

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