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Facts and Myths about our Solar System
Sixth graders explore popular ideas about the Sun and Moon. For this space science lesson, 6th graders separate commonly accepted details about our solar system into facts and myths. Students research a particular idea and...
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A.M. and P.M.
In this ordering and time lesson, 1st graders review the meaning of A.M. and P.M. and discuss what they do during the day. Students chart their responses and then make a book of their daily activities.
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It's Time to Make Time!
Students explore the evolution of time measurement, and explain the relationship of sunrise/sunset to length of daylight. They collect data and calculations to determine length of daylight during a given day.
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Rainforests: What Are They?
Second graders investigate rain forests by reading a habitat checklist. In this environment lesson, 2nd graders read the book The Great Kapok Tree, and discuss what characteristics make up a rain forest. Students explore a...
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Math and Fishing Responsibly
In this math and fishing responsibly worksheet, students read about the guidelines for fishing responsibly, then answer 8 questions about the decisions that must be made when fishing for 3 kinds of fish.
Digital History
The Boston Massacre
What better way to get your class interested in history than to embody important historical characters and make events come to life? Stage a realistic mock trial of the British soldiers accused of murdering five Bostonians after the...
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Creatures That Glow In The Night
High schoolers investigate the different bioluminescent organisms. They use microscopes in order to make observations and draw what is seen. Students demonstrate they have studies the differences between the process of photosynthesis and...
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Night Hike
Learners explore Upham Woods at night and investigate about the special adaptations of nocturnal animals. They identify three nocturnal animals and how they are adapted to the night. Students explain what night vision is and how it works.
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Food: The Ojibwa and Voyageurs
Students examine food eaten by the people of the Ojibwa and Voyageur tribes. In this healthy eating lesson, students analyze the food choices of those who lived here before us. Then, students consider how our food choices are different...
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Make a Telescope!
Students study modern astronomy and technology. In this telescope lesson students design and build a refracting telescope then redesign for better performance.
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Life Skills - "Do You Feel Like I Feel?" - Understand And Expressing Emotions
In this life skills worksheet, learners learn how to understand and express their emotions. They then answer the 10 questions in the packet.
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Decisions, Intentions, Plans
In this decisions, intentions, and plans worksheet, students complete the multiple choice questions where they fill in the blanks to sentences about decisions, intentions, and plans. Students complete 20 problems.
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Water and Ice
Students explore water and ice. In this 3 states of matter lesson, students work with a partner to observe, illustrate, and describe the characteristics of an ice cube in a cup. The ice cube is observed again in 15 minutes and changes...
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Exploring the Night Sky: Fall/Winter
Students explain how moon phases occur. They explain three ways that the night sky has been used through history. Students locate some of the constellations in the night sky. They discuss stories and myths surrounding stars.
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Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Students develop strategies for adding and subtracting fractions. They search for and generalize patterns.
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Guy Fawkes Day
In this ESL learning exercise, students read and listen to a brief history and celebration of Guy Fawkes Day in Britain. Students answer twelve questions related to the story. One learning exercise has story and questions. Another...
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Our Sky: Home of Stars and Planets
Students discover that astronomy is a branch of science that includes the study of planets, stars, and constellations.
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When Day Turns to Night ... A Solar Eclipse
Students explore the causes of the phases of an eclipse and become familiar with the hazards of this event. The event once caused fear. the health hazards are researched and discussed.
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What is Weather?
In this weather worksheet, middle schoolers photograph and record the weather conditions for a week. Then they list the types of clouds observed and the weather conditions they noted associated with each cloud type. Students also write a...
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Come and Go
In this English grammar worksheet, students differentiate between the usage of the words "come" and "go." Students complete 20 fill in the blank questions using the correct word where appropriate.
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Alcohol Tolerance in Drosophila and You
Students develop and run a laboratory comparing alcohol tolerance in flies with and without the ADH enzyme.
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And Tomorrow's Forecast Is...
Students create original short stories that feature distinctive weather phenomena, such as rainbows, snowstorms, tornadoes, thunder and/or lightning. They use a story map, imbedded in this plane, to help them organize their story.
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Present Time and Past Time
In this verb tenses worksheet, learners complete a 30 question multiple choice test on present time and past time verbs. Students choose the letter of the best possible answer from 4 choices.
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Mean and Median
Young scholars define mean and median. In this "average" lesson, students calculate the mean and median for a list of given numbers.