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Sports Challenge! Mr. D's Team
This PowerPoint provides a game board similar to Jeopardy filled with questions and answers related to science. The categories from which the teams choose are weather, water cycle, clouds, and space.
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Colorimetric Determination of the Concentration of Blue Food Coloring in Sport Drinks
Seventh graders determine the amount of blue food coloring in sports drinks and plot the concentration and absorbance data. They summarize the data and determine why companies need to know the amount of chemicals in their products.
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Nano What?
The size of a nanoparticle is difficult for pupils to grasp. A hands-on experiment is designed to give your classes perspective. Learners analyze different sports drinks for the content of electrolytes as an introduction to nanoscale....
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Tissues
Complete with teachers' notes for most of the slides, this is a tremendous presentation of the four types of tissues: epithelial, connective, nerve, and muscle. Each is displayed with pertinent vocabulary and photos of microscope slides...
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Food Pyramid Abacus
Students examine the importance of eating a healthy balanced diet. They read and discuss an article about the Food Guide Pyramid, and construct a Food Pyramid Abacus.
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Winter Wonderland
Students brainstorm a list of the activities they can participate in during the winter months. In groups, they rotate between stations in which they can practice or try the different winter sports. To end the lesson, they can play the...
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Diamond Terrapin Fun Facts
In this animal worksheet, students complete 6 pages of activities and exercises pertaining to the diamondback terrapin. Students read about the life cycle, study habitat maps and color and cut out a three dimensional turtle.
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The Sky Show
Students use lecture and research to answer the question: Why is the sky blue? students research a variety of other sky phenomena, chart their observations and participate in experiments.
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Cloud Reading
Young scholars identify the biomes of the Earth and their characteristics. They discuss their favorite seasons and the weather. They share their favorites with the class.
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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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The Olympics
Students will research the geography and designa route form Columbia SC to an olympic competition, then follow local news and current events to track team perfomance.
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Beginning Spelling - Summer
In this spelling worksheet, students spell 13 Summer words correctly using the definitions that are listed to the right of the jumbled word.
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Spelling Dictation Sentences
For this spelling sentences worksheet, 5th graders practice spelling these dictation sentences for 2 sentences every week. Students spell a total of 72 sentences.
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Birds of Wisconsin
First graders explore the job done by ornithologists. They role play identifying the characteristics that make a bird a bird. They discuss what makes each bird species unique. Students are introduced to Wisconsin's most common and rare...
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Honor Your Special Qualities
Students view different sculptures from artist Ronald Baron. They discuss what the sculpture depicts. They are to create a thank you trophy for someone they know. They are to focus on that person's special qualities.
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Top End Sports: Hydration for Athletes
Find brief articles that will teach you about the importance of hydration and how to stay hydrated during sports and physical activity. Learn about choosing drinks, drinking enough water, and checking yourself for hydration and...
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Kids Health: Dehydration and Treating Dehydration
KidsHealth: Dehydration and Treating Dehydration
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Kids Health: Dehydration
In addition to providing a good definition of "Dehydration," this website explains how dehydration affects the body, how people get dehydrated, and how you can treat and prevent dehydration.
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International Olympic Committee: Artistic Swimming
Watch and learn about the sport called artistic swimming. See positions done while swimmers are on the surface of the water and while submerged. Colorful drawings show you positions like the "crane," the "fishtail," the "horseman," the...