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Name That Leaf

For Students 3rd - 4th
Take a walk through nature with a science experiment about leaves. Third graders use a branching diagram to group attributes of certain kinds of leaves, such as oak, pine, and chestnut. For extra practice, they can collect leaves and...
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PPT
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Pruning

For Teachers 9th - 11th
All of the types and categories of common trees and shrubs are included in this guide to types, tools, and results of pruning.  Ways to increase  budding, or to thin-out foliage are described. The summaries are complete, but would...
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AP: Chapter 25: Phylogeny and Systematics

For Students 9th - 12th
As a review or note taking guide, this resource wraps up a unit on the tree of life. Biology bigwigs define phylogeny and answer questions about the subsequent classification of organisms. The learning exercise takes a straightforward...
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Letter Combinations

For Students 5th - 6th
In this letter combinations worksheet, students show all letter combinations of 3 letters given in each problem. Students solve 2 problems and answer 2 questions.
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Tree Cycles

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the life cycle of a tree by researching the Internet.  In this plant life lesson, 4th graders observe The Life of a Tree website and discuss the life of a tree from sprout to death.  Students create a cross...
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Forest Succession

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students research environmental change and why forests cannot stay the same for long.  In this environmental growth lesson, students discuss the life cycle of a tree and examine tree cookies to discover the age of these specimens....
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NASA

The Effects of Sunspots on Climate

For Students 8th - 10th
In this sunspots and climate change learning exercise, learners use a diagram of a tree stump and its rings to determine the age of the tree. They use sunspot data from the internet and they construct an Excel spreadsheet to compare the...
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Comparing Family Photos

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders bring in a family photo from home. They compare their photo to the Rawding family photo. Students share their conclusions orally. They use Venn Diagrams to organize their thoughts and observations.
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Embryology as Evidence of Evolution

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students observe the two major developmental pathways (protostome and deuterostome). They analyze data regarding differences in nucleotide sequences and construct a phylogenetic tree. They observe the similar evolutionary history shared...
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Organizer
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Descendants on Ice

For Students 6th - 9th
In this animal worksheet, students use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast a prehistoric creature with an animal living today.
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Trees

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss the function of roots, trunk, crown, bark, cambium heartwood, and leaves of a tree. They create a tree diagram and label roots, trunk, crown, bark, cambium heartwood and leaves when shown a list of parts and an...
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Magic Tree House: Midnight on the Moon

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Take your class to the moon with Midnight on the Moon! Then provide them with this short packet to develop vocabulary and practice reading comprehension. The first page has readers match vocabulary terms to their correct definitions. The...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Adding and Subtracting Rational Numbers to Solve Problems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of probability.  In this probability lesson, students use area to determine probability.  Students use charts and spinners to help determine the probability of events such as flipping a coin or rolling a...
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Ecology: Trees

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research and identify the different layers of the forest. As a class, they observe real-life trees or analyze a poster, and discuss the characteristics of each forest layer. Students then draw a forest and label the...
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Organizer
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Comparing Two Tree Types

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this trees worksheet, students use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast two kinds of trees. Students choose two varieties of trees before filling in this chart.
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Venn Diagram

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use a Venn diagram to show students' likes and dislikes of eggs and ham.
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University of Nottingham

Modeling Conditional Probabilities: 2

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Bring the concept of conditional probability alive by allowing your classes to explore different probability scenarios. Many tasks have multiple solutions that encourage students to continue exploring their problems even after a solution...
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Drama: The New Friends

For Teachers 2nd
Reader's Theater is a great way to build fluency, intonation, and dramatic flare. The class reads the theater piece, "The New Friends" paying attention to how they express emotion and feeling as they read. They discuss the use of plot,...
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What's In a Name?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the relationship between names and certain cultures and locations. In this identity lesson, students create family migration or immigration maps. Students read excerpts from When My Name was Keoko and Lost Names: Scenes...
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Lesson 2: Timber Harvesting Methods and Logging Methods

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Whereas very few learners study this topic, this lesson plan is written well! An organized and detailed teaching outline explains thinning, clearcutting, seed tree, and shelterwood methods of harvesting timber. Beautiful diagrams can be...
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NY Learns

Investigation - What's in the Bag?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
If you have or can create a set of tiles, numbered one through eight, then you can implement this hands-on lesson about probability models. Individuals draw a tile from a bag, record its number, and then return it to the bag. They...
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Using a Graphic Organizer to Critically Observe Televised News Broadcasts

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students compare two television news broadcasts. They discuss how to organize information when comparing two objects and read and discuss two books to create a Venn diagram to compare both books. After creating the diagram, they view...
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The Counting Principle, Sample Spaces, and Probability

For Students 9th - 11th
In this statistics and probability instructional activity, students solve problems in which they use the counting principle and/or tree diagrams to determine the number of outcomes of an event or the probability of event occurring.  The...
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Cyber Chow Combos

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students, after watching the CYBERCHASE episode, "A Day at the Spa,"represent and count combinations of choices using tree diagrams.

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