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TISSUE PAINTING

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils designs a unique tissue painting by filling in the sketch with selected colored tissue paper and its placement.
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Circle, Rectangle, and Triangle

For Students K - 1st
In this shape recognition worksheet, students color the circles blue, the rectangles yellow, and the triangles red. Students then write the total number for each shape in the boxes.
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Colors Crackle, Colors Roar

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders engage in a reading of poems in colorful language. They become with the interrelation of using Spanish and English words interchangeably in a text. The lesson also builds multicultural appreciation for young students.
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Serial Dilution of CuSO4 and Changing the Value of Paint

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students relate solution concentration and saturation to color and compare methods of changing value and color intensity with paint solutions.
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Poetry Book-- Small Creatures

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this reading worksheet, learners create a book of poems about small creatures of the garden by stapling 20 pages. Students read each short poem and color the pictures.
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Probability Using M&M's

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars estimate and then count the number of each color of M&M's in their bag. In this mathematics lesson, students find the experimental probability of selecting each color from the bag. Young scholars create pictographs and...
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Is Your Blue Really Blue? [Metamerism]

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars examine color perception and how it relates to metamerism.  In this color lesson plan students complete a lab activity that shows them the three basic components of color perception. 
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Self Portrait on Paper

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are guided into creating their own self-portrait in steps using colored pastels. They also use their self-portraits as a springboard to write a personal narrative. This is a cool lesson!
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Graphing Pasta

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students sort and graph various types of pasta. Using pasta construction paper patterns or real pasta, they sort the pasta by color, size, and type, and record the data on a graph.
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Upper And Lower Case Letter a

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this letter recognition worksheet, students read and follow 6 specific directions on how to color the picture. Students analyze both upper and lower case forms of letter A, as well as finding the correct geometric shape. Example: "...
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The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students spin separate colors into a new color just as the Magic School Bus kids did.
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Understanding Percent

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this understanding percent activity, students fill in the missing parts for examples of number of colored parts and total numbers and use them to complete charts and rewrite sentences using the exact amount of things and percents....
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But, Why Sex?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the importance of sexual reproduction in evolution. In this sexual reproduction lesson plan, students simulate species with two traits: eye and skin color. They determine what characteristics are beneficial for the...
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Can You See the Light?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate the transmission of light energy. In this light energy lesson, students observe bubbles using different colored filters and record their observations. They also look at a light source through various materials and...
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What is It? Susie Sees!

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners explore the five senses.  In this cross curriculum five senses lesson, students view an "I Can See Colors" PowerPoint presentation and sort items by color and shape. Learners mix primary color paints to create secondary...
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Hot and Cold Colors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how temperature effects changes in materials. In this physical science activity, students use food coloring and cups of water of varying temperatures to observe the effects temperature has on matter. Students predict and...
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Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students differentiate objects based on contrast in physical characteristics such as color, texture, size and shape. They also recognize and sort objects by color families.
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Pandemic Flu

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students review the difference between viruses and bacteria, and provide examples of illnesses that each can cause. To help students comprehend how quickly an influenza infection can spread, they perform an activity. They are placed in...
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Principles of Heredity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students model traits on genes using colored paper and tongue depressors to represent chromosomes. In this heredity lesson plan, students use their "chromosome sticks" to understand chromosome pairs, genes, dominant traits, recessive...
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Bean Bag Clean-up

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars view signs posted in corners of the gym. Each sign indicates a color and a locomotor skill. When they hear music, students pick up a bean bag, take it to its corresponding color while performing the specified locomotor...
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Vote

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this following directions activity , students follow a series of specific instructions when coloring a large bubble letter word, "VOTE". This sheet is to encourage voting in U.S. elections.
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Groundwater Pollution Lab

For Students 8th - 10th
In this groundwater pollution worksheet, students use a piece of bread to represent the earth, food coloring to represent contaminants in the ground and water to simulate the movement of pollutants with water through the ground. Students...
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Technoartist

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the Microsoft paint program to examine artwork styles and recognize certain features. In this graphic art lesson, students incorporate computer technology with visual arts while acquiring basic computer knowledge....
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Why are Polar Bears White

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore camouflage as they study polar bears and their habitat. They study how color can help animals in the wild.