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Flight Dreams - The Pressure on Parachutes
Students investigate air pressure by researching parachutes. For this physics lesson plan, students participate in three separate experiments utilizing air pressure and paper products to test theories on parachutes. Students record the...
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The Cleaning Station
Students study cleaning stations. In this science lesson, students make a painting of a fish known as cleaners which take dead skin off of other fish.
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Keep It Clean…Or Pass It Around
Students identify the harmful and beneficial effects of bacteria. In this biology lesson plan, students test the effectiveness of antibacterial cleaners. They create a presentation based on researched information and experimental results.
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Make a Lever
Pupils investigate how to make a lever. In this construction lesson plan, students explore how to construct a lever using dog and tail templates, cardboard, and fasteners. Pupils construct their simple machine in order to learn about...
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Bridges- Design a Bridge
In this bridge design worksheet, learners answer 5 general questions about bridges. Students follow the directions to construct 4 types of bridges with paper and test them for strength.
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Oceans
Students become aware of the differences between ocean water and lake water by smelling, tasting and seeing. They distinguish between land and bodies of water on a globe and gain increased awareness of oceans and life.
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Traveler's in Time
Students analyze artifacts to become familiar with the Great Migration. In this migration activity, students read an article and answer comprehension questions. Students role play a migration scenario using an artifact to help describe...
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My Community
First graders design a Powerpoint presentation to reflect information about their community. In this community lesson, 1st graders create slides to explain the weather, geography and other information about the city.
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Treasure Chest
Students explore Chicago in the fur-trading era. In this Chicago activity, students discover what life what like during this time. Students read an historical fiction story about life in the fur-trade era. Students view replicas of...
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Mapping the Brain
A virtual 3-D tour leads students to developing icons representing the function of various parts of the brain. These icons are then used to label hand-drawn maps of the brain. A worksheet, assessment, and detailed procedures are included.
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Costume Exploration
What a great lesson, upper graders are sure to love. They explore costume design and the relationships between theatre, culture, and history. They research three time periods, write a response about two of them, then create a composit...
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Animals Galore
A well-designed lesson which covers the characteristics of the animals found in the six animal groups is here for your young biologists. In it, learners divide up into six groups; the amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds, fish, and...
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Exploring US Foreign Policy after WWII--The Cold War
Scholars explore U.S. Foreign Policy and Cold War ideologies adopted after WWII. They conduct Internet research on a topic or issue related to the Cold War Era, watch two films, and compose a time line and a multimedia presentation to...
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EEEK! A Spider!
Youngsters complete a unit of lessons based on the story "Little Miss Muffet." They predict what will happen in the story, and use context clues to look for meaning in the words. They research information about spiders using the Internet...
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How Do Artists Effectively Relate Historic Events?
Students explore African American migration. In this black culture and history lesson, students use a map to identify northern and southern states in which African Americans lived in the 1900s. Students observe and describe objects and...
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Trail of the Cougar
Young scholars examine cougar behavior, habitat, social organization, efforts to support their survival and the threats to it. They create posters to present information about cougars.
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It Just Keeps Going and Going...
Young scholars explore patterns, identify patterns, and complete a variety of patterns. They view and discuss an online video and identify the different patterns from the film, then using a hundreds grid create an original pattern using...
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In My Opinion
Young writers craft letters to the government stating their opinion on different topics. They pick an environmental or ocean issue, research it, and craft their formal persuasive letter. Ensure your learners include supporting facts and...
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Sea Urchins - Diadema Antillarum
Students investigate oceanography by painting sea life. In this crustacean lesson, students identify sea urchins in our ocean environments and describe the functionality of their spherical-shaped bodies. Students design their own sea...
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Innovation of Our Generation
Students brainstorm on the different innovation in their lives today. In this technology instructional activity, students research one innovation and prepare a speech to convince their classmate to name it the "Innovation of our...
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And Now for Something Completely Different...
Pupils identify organisms that are typical a part of a hydrothermal vent. They examine why hydrothermal vents are short-lived.
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Life Story of an Artifact
Students write about an artifact that they are studying. In this artifacts lesson plan, students analyze details of the artifact and answer short answer questions about it.
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Traveler's Trunk
Students analyze and interpret artifacts from the 1920s and explore the Great Migration. In this 1920s history lesson, students review background information about the Great Migration and use artifacts to study history of Chicago....
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We the People (Cultural Research)
Fourth graders conduct cultural research, collect oral histories using tape recorders and cameras, and share their ancestral heritage with classmates through family heirlooms and ethnic foods.