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Recipe Dance/Making Duets

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create and memorize movement phrases within a specified structure and develop duets from the solo phrases.
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How Hot Is It?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice estimating temperatures. They practice in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
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Water Anyone?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders measure cups, quarts, and liters.
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How Are Magnetic Fields Related To Sunspots?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discover that sunspots are the result of intense magnetic forces on the photosphere of the sun by observing images from the SOHO satellite.
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So You Want to Buy a Painting

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders research physical and chemical methods used in authenticating paintings (e.g., ultraviolet fluorescence and spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy and reflectography, X-ray diffraction, microscopy, pigment analysis, and gas...
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What Makes a Dog a Dog

For Teachers 1st
First graders recall and verbally list the parts of a dog, or a chosen subject, based on observations using the senses. They discriminate between living and non-living subjects, and create artistic representations of the parts of a dog.
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Regions: Meet the Experts Presentation

For Teachers K - 4th
Students gather information and create a web site on prairies and plains using a variety of resources, including the internet.
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Navigating by Landmarks

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine and apply the relationship between concrete landmarks, abstract written directions, and graphic representations on maps, and then develop their own landmark map for classroom use.
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America's Civil Rights Movement, Activity Six

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore non-violence and investigate the difference between passive and active voice.
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Discovering Insects

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify insects and name nine commonly known insects.
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One Square Foot

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students identify, describe, count, tally, and graph life found in one square foot of land.
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Measuring the Merchantable Height of a Tree

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils explore techniques that determine the merchantable height of a tree and the number of logs a tree provides.
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How Cool Is It?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students measure the outside temperature at five different times during the day and graph the temperatures for comparison purposes. They measure using both Fahrenheit and Celsius.
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Million Dollar Gift

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a box big enough to hold a million dollars. This is a project fun to do near the winter holidays with inexpensive gifts included in the boxes. This hands-on instructional activity very effectively demonstrates the...
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Mud Fossils

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars create their own fossils in an activity using plaster of paris and a variety of objects which can be fossils, e.g. chicken bones, twigs, shells, etc. After making their fossils, they allow them to dry and discuss time and...
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Music Drama & Richard Wagner: The Lord Of The Ring

For Teachers 7th
Students study Richard Wagner and his idea of "Music Drama". Students listen to his music, pantomime, and lead "music dramas" to discover Wagner's idea of the world of composition and drama.
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When Will It Blow?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders figure the amount of time before a boiler explode and then the time needed to evaluate an office building in this simulation. They narrate the events as a newscaster would.
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5 A Day

For Teachers K - 6th
Students examine the 5 a day program. They sing different songs and discover how to be healthy. They identify different parts of the music as well.
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Beaches of the Delaware Estuary

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine estuaries in Delaware. They, in groups, gather samples of water to find organisms and identify them.
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Forests

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine soil in forests looking for animals and insects. They divide the animals based on their number of legs and draw the animal they have collected.
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Sunspots and Climate

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students make a graph that shows how the number of sunspots has changed over the past 30 years and discover how there is a pattern in sunspot number. They find a disruption in this pattern due to the Little Ice Age.
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Sunspot Graphing

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students, using 15 years of sunspot data, plot data on a classroom graph. They discuss why the pattern from their individual sheets did not and could not match the class graph.
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Native American Song and Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine the importance of the drum and drumming in the cultural context of the Native American. Musical insturments and native dance is employed to support the focus of the lesson.
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How Do Weather Conditions and Lunar Cycles Affect Fishing Success?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use weather measuring devices to record and study weather conditions at different locations, during different times. They attempt to draw conclusions about the relationship between weather conditions, lunar cycle and fishing...