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Wacky Water Critters

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students visit a local creek or stream. They collect water samples from the creek and observe and sort the "water critters" they find in the sample, observing smaller organisms under a microscope if necessary. They identify each organism...
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Cloud Haiku

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students listen as a haiku is read by the teacher, determining what season is being portrayed in the poem. Students work together as a class and create a model haiku, then complete a worksheet, completing their own poem. Students will...
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Cloud Types

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students examine cloud types. For this cloud lesson, students identify cloud types, observe clouds and collect data, and analyze data to identify the most common cloud they observe overhead during the course of a month.
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Clouds

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, cut out shapes, and more to learn about clouds. In this clouds lesson plan, students go outside and look at cloud shapes and voice what they see.
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Mark This!

For Teachers K
In this writing and art activity, students use their favorite story to draw a picture and write a caption for their picture. They create their picture and caption on a piece of tagboard that is to be used as a bookmark. A nice, simple...
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Hide and Seek with Bones: A Mapping and Scaling Comparison

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine and simulate how paleontologists map objects. They hide and find objects using a grid to map the objects' placements.
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Animal Babies on the Farm

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils observe pictures of farm animals and name the animals. They match the animals to their offspring in a number of matching activities.
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Watching the Clock: An activity to build media-savvy students

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students analyze time constraints on broadcast news. They apply data collecting and data display skills. They identify the difference between news progams and the evening news.
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Velocity and Acceleration

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders look at local speed limits and traffic controls and see if they are reasonable. They plot the displacement and time to represent velocity, develop a plan for improving the current system, and organize experimental...
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Friendly Relationships

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students compare and contrast the difference between a stranger, an acquaintance, and a friend. Through class discussion, they identify the difference in how you behave around strangers, acquaintances, and friends. Student participate in...
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Dell House Dig

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students experience an archaeological dig exploring off the shore of Black Hawk Island and Wisconsin River. They study in the same place where the infamous Dell House once stood. Dell House and its historical significance is reviewed...
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A Brief History of Rubber

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners explore the history of rubber. For this rubber lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture regarding the history of the product and its uses in society. Learners create timelines that detail the chronology  of...
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Mapping a Temperature Field

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students measure and graph temperatures. In this temperature field lesson plan students use a map to measure and plot field values and construct isolines and interpret the results.
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A Year to Remember

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils create calendars. In this technology skills lesson plan, students collaborate to prepare calendars that include special days of the year as well as digital photograph collages.
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Digital Photography for Movie Making

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore digital photography. In this technology skills lesson, 5th graders take digital photographs and use them to create movies with movie maker software.
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Making Lightening: In Your Mouth

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars look at a lightening demonstration. In this lightening lesson, students bite into a wintergreen candy while looking in the mirror in a dark room. They see sparks in their mouths if they perform the task correctly.
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Humidity and Air Saturation

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students experiment with air saturation. In this earth science lesson, students first complete an activity which teaches humidity. Then they use the scientific method to create their own experiments to test how long it takes a 2-liter...
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The Beaufort Scale: A Local Model

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students study the Beaufort Scale and use it to study wind in their community. In this wind study lesson, students watch a DVD about climate change and learn about the Beaufort Scale. Students complete a worksheet for the topic.
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A Tree for all Seasons

For Teachers K
Students investigate seasons. In this environment lesson, students describe the four seasons by drawing an appropriate tree for each season.
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Coqui Frog Populations

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students research Coqui frogs. Students explore the life cycle of coqui frogs and discover how these frogs have become an invasive species in Hawaii.
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Science Trail

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the solar system by conducting Earth science experiments. In this Sun lesson, students identify the different seasons on Earth and discuss their purpose and cause. Students create a sundial and observe the changes to...

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