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Water, Water, Everywhere!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete a WebQuest. In this water cycle instructional activity, students investigate the cycle through a WebQuest activity. Students research the water cycle through Internet resources and create a documentary video of their...
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Desert Postcards

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars research characteristics of deserts. They present their findings in small groups to the class. Students utilize information learned about desert biomes, geography of the route of the Niger, and expeditions in their writing.
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Subtracting Zero

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this subtraction worksheet, students will subtract zero from one, two and three digit numbers. The equations are presented vertically.
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Scheduled Events: indicating planned activities and events

For Students 4th - 6th
In this activities and events activity, students choose the correct words to complete the sentences about planned activities and events. Students complete 12 sentences total.
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Problem Solving: Use a Graph 3

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this math problem solving activity, students examine a graph based on books read and use it to solve 2 problem solving questions and a test prep question.
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When You're Sick

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify symptoms of illness and how they can get better. In this health lesson, 2nd graders use Venn diagrams to categorize what the character of a story did to get well, and different types of symptoms.
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Steppin' Out: Using Inquiry to Challente Alexander's Stride Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers distinguish between walking, jogging and running trackways in humans. They analyze the phylogenetic progression of the leg position as described by pace width and angulation, comparing amphibians, reptiles and mammals....
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Adjective Preposition Combinations Quiz

For Teachers 5th - 10th
In this English vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 20 fill in the blank questions that require them appropriately combine the listed adjectives and prepositions listed in the provided word bank.
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Some and Any Exercise

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this completing sentences activity, learners recognize word meanings. Students complete each of the twelve sentences with the word some or the word any.
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Archaeology and Prehistoric Native Americans

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils study the terms paleontology and archaeology and examine how they can help us learn about prehistoric Native Iowans.  In this archaeology lesson students discuss these terms and view a video on Native Americans. 
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The Salamander Room

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine how each animal's habitat provides what that animal needs for survival. They discuss what an animal needs to survive-food, shelter, water, and space.
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Fossil Impressions of Ancient Life

For Teachers K - 6th
Students make a mold using Plaster of Paris and then make a cast using that same mold. They pick a fossil and describe how it looks. They write a fictionalized story about its life, or burial. (
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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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The History of Life

For Students 6th - 8th
In this history of life worksheet, students will use diagrams of the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic Era to complete 4 fill in the blank statements.
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Relate Multiplication and Division

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this word problem learning exercise, students solve 6 problems in which they identify the relationship between multiplication and division as inverse operations. They draw arrays and write equations.
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D Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood word recognition learning exercise, students match the 5 words that begin with the letter d listed in the left column to the 5 pictures in the right column.
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Letter B: Initial Sounds

For Teachers K - 2nd
In this letter B activity worksheet, students examine 12 pictures of various objects and identify the pictures of the items that begin with the letter B. A word bank is provided.
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Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this nouns review worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they identify all of the nouns in 42 sentences.
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Nouns 2

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this types of nouns review worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they identify 42 nouns as people, places, or things.
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Eyewitness Insect Video Quiz

For Students 5th - 7th
In this insect worksheet, students answer 12 multiple choice questions after watching a video about insects. Topics include structures of insects, characteristics of insects, termites, crickets and beetles and the process of metamorphosis.
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Turtle Fun Facts

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this turtles worksheet, students read two pages of facts about turtles. Students match four kinds of turtle pictures to their habitats.
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The Letter Aa

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars explore letter Aa. In this letter recognition lesson, students participate in country, state, food, literature, physical education, colors, careers, music, and game activities that are linked to the main lesson...
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Fossils

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders act as paleontologists and attempt to figure out the environment where various fossils would have existed. They explain how fossils can be used to make inferences about past life, climate, geology, and environments.
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Dream Book Collage

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students construct and illustrate a three-page book of their dream(s). Students write a sentence to describe each page.