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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Living Corn Necklace

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore heredity and observable traits through experimentation. They view several different types of corn and record their observation of physical traits on a class chart. They create a corn necklace by sprouting dried...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Mister Runtles' Bet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners listen to a story dealing with exponential and linear growth. After reading the story, students complete a table comparing information. Using a calculator, learners graph the rice and daily population of flies. They study the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ed Tech

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore, analyze and study how the arts serve a variety of purposes in the life of the students, community and culture. They enhance how technology influences the learning process and issues involving problem solving. Each...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

E-E-E-E-Extra E-E-E-E-Effort

For Teachers K - 1st
Students listen to a tongue twister emphasizing the short e sound. They practice writing the letter e and attaching different words with that sound to it. They listen to a book about a dog that enhances the letter e. They write a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

PICKING PEANUTS

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners create sentences, using words printed on pictures of peanuts. They are explained that the peanut is not really a nut, but a legume, related to beans and peas. Students are also told that the first peanuts grew in Brazil. They...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Birds of Wisconsin

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the job done by ornithologists. They role play identifying the characteristics that make a bird a bird. They discuss what makes each bird species unique. Students are introduced to Wisconsin's most common and rare...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How a Caterpillar Becomes a Butterfly

For Teachers K - 1st
Student role play and draw the various stages an insect goes through to become a butterfly. They discover the different stages of how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. Students read The Very Hungry Caterpilla by Eric Carle.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Slurrp

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this agriculture worksheet, students find the facts needed to construct a website focused around giving information about products that are made from corn.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fragments

For Students 7th
In these sentence correction worksheets, 7th graders read the sentence fragments and select the option that correctly identifies the type of fragment.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Farm Vocabulary List and Definitions

For Students 4th - 5th
In this farm vocabulary worksheet, students learn 15 words pertaining to farming, agriculture and farm animals. Students read definitions for each word. There are no questions to answer.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Using Context Clues

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this context clues worksheet, learners "use the whole sentence" to help complete the sentence, filling in a blank. One example is given for students.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Raising the Bar on How Business Gets Done

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of energy bar sales. In this energy bar sales lesson, students read an article about the sales of energy bars. Students discuss what is meant by red roads and white roads in the article. Students search a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Scientific Advances Could Bring Back the Dodo & Mammoth

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners reflect on the possibility of bringing extinct species back to life.  In this ESL lesson, students debate the pros and cons of extinction reversal then complete several activities centered around the topic.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Great British Desserts

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore different British desserts. In this British culture ESL lesson, 9th graders read an article and answer guided questions. Students participate in a debate as a whole class.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Countable Nouns, Verbs, Polite Language

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this grammar and vocabulary practice worksheet, students read about countable nouns and categorize a set, practice filling in blanks in from of nouns using either 'some' or 'any,' complete questions and write steps in making a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Baa, Ram, Ewe.... Sheep Tales

For Teachers K
Students explore animal characteristics by reading animal stories in class. In this sheep habitat lesson, students identify the uses for sheep in our agricultural based society and the importance of wool in our economy. Students read...
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Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Osmosis Eggs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab activity where students learn the concept of osmosis by observing an egg in different solutions. Included is a procedure for students to follow.
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Lesson Plan
National Science Teachers Association

National Science Teachers Association: Egg Drop and Impulse

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This page offers a detailed description of and a link to a set of lessons that will assist teachers in targeting NGSS standard HS-PS2-3. Students investigate momentum and impulse and are challenged to solve an engineering problem that is...
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Activity
Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry Chicago: Online Science: Drop Eggs Into Cups

For Students 3rd - 8th
Step-by-step illustrated instructions showing how to drop four eggs into four cups without touching them. Demonstrates the concept of inertia according to Newton's first law of motion.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Easter Egg Hunt

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Easter Egg Hunt is fun holiday activity for kids of all ages. The object of this Easter activity is to simply find the hidden eggs. Look carefully at the pictures and use the mouse to click on the eggs to collect them. These Easter Eggs...
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eBook
University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Goose With the Golden Eggs"

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Two retellings of Aesop's Fable "The Goose with the Golden Eggs." Both stories illustrate the same moral, "Greed often overreaches itself." The first is a traditional retelling of the original fable. The second is a modern retelling with...
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EL Education

El Education: First Come the Eggs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
First Come the Eggs, a picture book for young readers, was created by 3rd grade students in Rochester, New York. This is a biography of Seth Green, the father of fish hatcheries in America. The research included the study of the life...
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Article
Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement

Web Exhibits: Pigments Through the Ages: Egg Tempera

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of egg tempera paints and painting techniques.
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Handout
Other

Patent Museum: Egg Beater: Willis Johnson 1884

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief description to the patent filing and an excerpt from the patent request that Willis Johnson filed for his improvements in the egg beater. Included are drawings submitted with the patent request.