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EASY (AND CHEAP) CRYSTAL GROWING
Learners grow salt crystals by making a saturated solution of table salt and let the solution sit around and evaporate.
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Stoichiometry
Students discover stoichiometric relationships in chemical equations. They review mole to mole conversions. They understand mass/particle conversions. They perform a lab to reinforce stoichiometry.
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The Scramble for Wealth And Power
Students participate in a simulation activity involving the distribution of the world's wealth and power. The activity starts when 100 pennies, representing wealth and power, are spread on the floor and students must grab as many...
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Smiley's Egg Drop
Students work in a team of two or three to create an egg-drop helmet. They design a container or helmet for carrying a fragile object at great speeds and determine which construction materials worked best .
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Layers of the Earth: Plate Tectonics
Sixth graders participate in a lesson plan that is about investigating the different layers of the earth and defining how the plates move over the mantle. They engage in a variety of activities and use mathematics to create projects to...
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Consider Your Options-Plastics
Young scholars explore plastics and what plastics students use to pack a lunch. In this plastics lesson plan, young scholars observe each other pack lunches and take note of all the plastics used in packing the lunch. They discuss the...
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Seed Search
First graders examine seeds. In this fruits and vegetables lesson, 1st graders determine what fruits and vegetables have in common. Students cut open fruits and vegetables and examine their seeds. Students describe the sizes, shapes and...
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Using Your Senses
Young scholars make observations. In this sensory skills lesson, students use their senses as well as tools that sharpen their senses to make observations regarding foods and other items.
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Modeling Good Eating
Learners identify and classify the items in a healthy diet. In this dietary lesson, students listen to a song about healthy eating while listening for good snack foods. They use pictures of the snacks to complete a large chart by...
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Esperanza Rising: Lesson 8
Sixth graders complete activities with the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. In this literature activity, 6th graders read Chapter 8 of the book and discuss the chapter. They practice putting events in sequence and record new...
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Linear Motion
In this fantastic physics and math lesson, student pairs create a ramp that will transport a rolling marble in order to learn about linear motion. Students use cardboard, straws, toothpicks, marshmallows, and paper clips in order to make...
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Stoichiometry Lessons
Students are introduced to stoichiometric relationships in chemical equations with a Trail Mix activity before performing a lab to reinforce stoichiometry. Students complete the unit with a lab about limiting reactants in chemical...
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Edible Atom/Molecule
Upcoming chemists construct atom or molecule models out of candy. This is a classic idea that learners really enjoy; however, this lesson plan is vague. There is no instruction about the structure of atoms or molecules. Make sure you...
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Systems of Linear Inequalities in Standard Form -- Lecture
Middle schoolers participate in a lecture about linear inequalities. Individually, they graph different inequalities and describe its solution. They participate in a demonstration in which they solve a system of inequalities and...
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Systems of linear inequalities in standard form
Learners practice graphing linear inequalities and explain their solution sets to the solving of a system of linear equalities graphically and symbolically. They utilize programming techniques in setting up and solving systems of linear...
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Problem Solving: Too Much or Too Little Information
In this problem solving strategy activity, students use a given table to solve 3 word problems. Houghton Mifflin text is referenced.
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First-Aid and Emergencies
High schoolers complete a pre-test to determine what they already know about what to do in an emergency. In groups, they read real-life scenerios and decide what the proper way to handle the situation. To end the lesson, they present...
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Nuts about Fruit Quiz
In this fruit instructional activity, students choose the correct name of the fruit in the pictures given to them. Students complete 18 multiple choice questions.
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Ag in my classroom
Students fill out worksheets and create a poster based on items in their classroom that came from agriculture. For this agriculture lesson plan, students discuss different classroom items and how they were or were not made from agriculture.
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Using a Colon to Introduce a List
In this colon worksheet, students form sentences with colons to introduce lists in the sentences. Students complete 9 sentences total.
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Seed Sort
Students form a variety of categories for seed mixes (wild bird seed or 15 bean soup) and create graphs to display their categories.
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"Bees and Ants"
First graders participate in a variety of activities related to bees and ants.
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The Five Food Groups
Students explore the five food groups as well as the specific foods found in each of these groups.
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Some Fats Aren't Phat
Students examine nutritional information on various food labels and then consider the nutritional value of the foods in their own diets. They create posters illustrating their diets "before" and "after" they considered their fat intake.