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Be A Bug Scout
Students perform outside activities to determine the amount of insects, flowers, or common weeds within an area. They predict the number of insects they will find within their square area. Using calculators, students organize the data...
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Start A Seed Collection
For this start a seed collection worksheet, students collect, label and display 15 seeds 3 each from a garden flower, a vegetable, a wildflower, a weed and the kitchen, and observe the differences.
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A Tree is an Ecosystem
Students make observations about trees. In this ecosystem lesson, students observe and record all living and non living things they find under a tree, look for birds nests, evidence of woodpeckers and take samples such as leafs, bark,...
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Special Seeds
Students create their own garden. In this gardening lesson, students get a packet of seeds and plant them in a special part of the garden. They are responsible for watering, weeding, and caring for their plants.
Education Outside
Grow an Art Garden: Plant a Rainbow
After a reading of Lois Ehlert's Planting a Rainbow, class members plan a rainbow garden, research growing cycles of the fruits and vegetables in their section, and then plant and maintain the garden.
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Invasive Plants
Students identify dandelion plants and label the areas where they are growing on a school site map. They identify other weeds in the area and determine whether or not they are crowding other plants native to the area. They label these...
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Honu Survivor The Green Sea Turtle Experience
Discuss prior knowledge of the green sea turtle. Students play a game where they are divided into two teams, predators and baby turtles. They receive "name" tags to tell which animal they are. The goal of the baby turtle is to get to the...
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Mazes
In this mazes worksheet, students configure the most efficient way to help a marine iguana through a maze find some rock weed to browse on.
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Color Me: Roadside Flowers
In this color me worksheet, young scholars color and illustrate four common roadside flowers: buttercup, fire weed, chicory and blueberry.
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Rainforest Counting
In this rain forest counting worksheet, students look over a picture of the rain forest and count how many frogs, butterflies, ants and weeds they see in the picture. Students write their totals in the boxes next to each mini item being...
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The Seaweed Song
In this seaweed song activity, students read and sing a song about sea weed. Students read and sing 11 stanzas in this seaweed song.
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Replanting the Rainforest
Students practice problem solving techniques. They interpret data gathered by student researchers in Australia about the effectiveness of various strategies for controlling weed growth in a newly replanted rainforest.
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Field Of Beans
Students investigate the concept of crop farming. They plant small fields to test different theories of agriculture. Students keep care over the fields, including pest and weed control. Students make and record daily observations to...
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Environment: Natural and Invasive Plants
Students examine a parcel of open land to collect data about the native and invasive plants found there. By monitoring the area, they prevent the spread of weeds through early detection. Students create posters describing the monitoring...
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Munching Insects
Young scholars design an experiment to discover what types of plants particular insects prefer. They comprehend that insects eat only specific plants and that this has particular implications for noxious weeds. Students observe and...
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Biology Leaf Collection
Students collect leaves and compile them into a collection booklet. They collect tree leaves, shrub leaves, grasses, and weeds. For each sample they also label its common name and information about where and when it was collected.
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Creating a Three sisters Garden
Students understand that a three sisters garden is comprised of corn, beans and squash. In this three sisters garden lesson, students understand that Native Americans planted three sisters gardens and grow a three sisters garden....
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Agriculture: Oklahoma's Legacy
Sixth graders explore agriculture as it relates to crops over the course of a series of historical events. They read and create a timeline of the 50-year increments that depict important cause and effect events. Students then use...
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Nouns
Here is an outstanding presentation on nouns for your young writers. After discovering that a noun names a person, place, or thing, learners practice identifying nouns by choosing the noun from a list that describes a picture they are...
Growing Minds
Potato Exploration: Projects All About Potatoes!
How many potatoes tall are you? Unearth this rich resource! A reading of John Coy’s Two Old Potatoes begins a cross-curricular exploration of potatoes. Class members read, write, weigh, measure, and experiment with potatoes. Additional...
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The Meaning of Christmas Told through a Mexican Folktale
Using a Tomie dePaola story, The Legend of the Poinsettia, your class can explore the meaning of Christmas.
iCivics
Step Five: All about Public Policy
Public policy is important to understand because it affects everyone. The resource tells middle schoolers how the government uses policy to accomplish goals in the administration. It includes a reading, true or false worksheet, a...
George Watts Montessori
Primary Lessons for Classroom and Garden
Gardens are packed with science concepts for young scientists to explore. A thorough unit with 16 lessons and multiple activities in each provides many learning opportunities by examining a garden space. Learners study weather, growth,...
Cornell University
Field Day: Be an IPM Detective
Become a pest detective! Individually or in small groups, scholars scout the land to discover which pests—plant and animal—inhabit it, determine whether the pests are endangering the environment, and summarize their findings.
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