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Make a Shadow Clock

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students make shadow clocks. In this earth science lesson, students follow the provided steps to make shadow clocks out of the provided pattern and tagboard. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.
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Four Seasons

For Teachers K
Students investigate the four seasons in a year. For this seasons lesson, students explore the weather during each season.  Students illustrate each season with pictures.
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What's Your Favorite Season?

For Teachers K
Students explore earth science by creating illustrations in class. In this four seasons lesson plan, students identify the four different types of weather that take place during the year and read the books Harvest Year and Snow Comes to...
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Sensory Descriptors

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students feel items in a bucket and describe them using descriptive words. In this sensory descriptive lesson plan, students use words such as smoothe, rough, and bumpy.
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Circuit Training

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils participate in physical education activities in stations. They practice line jumps, squats, jumping jacks, running, and ball rolling.
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Stop Press! Newspaper Headlines

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners discover that news and documentaries are never completely objective because, like all other visual messages, they are the result of a process of selection and organization. They study the headlines from a variety of newspapers...
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Rhythmic Ribbons

For Teachers K
Students practice various locomotor skills and to provide students with the opportunity to experiment with movement to music.
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Track the Meteor Storm Online!: Leonid Meteor Showers, Astronomy

For Teachers 1st - Higher Ed
Young scholars are guided through an online series of readings and questions to explore the Leonid Meteor Showers and related topics. Modifications are provided for teaching this lesson to k-4, 5-8, and 9-12 students.
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Candy Cane Chemistry

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, in groups, examine the effect of heat on bonding forces by doing laboratory work.
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Comparing the Satellite and Broadcast Radio Landscapes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars research the development of satellite technology over the last 50 years students explain how the enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 changed the rules for corporate ownership of multiple media outlets.
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Co-evolution of Plants and Pollinators

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, while studying the rolls of pollinators and plants, explore co-evolution of mutualistic relationships.
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Action, Please!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars share their knowledge about aluminum and aluminum recycling by sharing the information with the rest of the community.
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Map Reading in the 21st Century

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Pupils interact with MapPoint tools to view maps of the past and the present in multiple ways. They participate in mini-lessons aimed at locating certain points of interest or famous routes taken in history.
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Three Methods of Heat Transfer

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students participate in a variety of experiments designed to illustrate types of heat transfer including conduction, convection and radiation. They complete worksheets as an assessment of the experiments.
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Museum Text Messaging

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars pretend they are in a museum and are to explain a painting to a friend using text messaging. They identify the correct painting based on the message. They answer questions to complete the lesson.
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AIDS and Adolescence

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the relationship between AIDS and teenagers. In groups, they discuss the various issues educators face in introducing the topic to teenagers in school. As a class, they brainstorm a list of the misconceptions they...
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The ABCs of Citizenship

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this instructional activity, students read the book that focuses on the ascpects of citizenship/ Students imagine a scene in which each statement is actually happening. Students descirbe rights, repsonisbilities. Assess students by...
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The Causes of Differences in Density

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the causes of differences in density. Students choose objects, measure the mass and volume, and calculate the density of each. They perform additional density experiments to model atoms and their correspondence to...
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How Long Does Trash Last

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students work in cooperative groups to estimate how long trash lasts in a landfill. They study environmental consequences of not recycling and use graph-making software to create a graph that illustrates the lifespan of trash items...
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Come Fly a Kite

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the language of procedural text forms. They respond to the meanings and ideas in procedural text and write their own procedural text for making a kite. Students record their kite flying experience using digital...
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Activity #7 Recycling of Newsprint

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students illustrate the paper recycling process. They collect and weigh all the newspapers that come to their house in a week's time. Pupils multiply this number by all the weeks in a yeat and again by an estimate of the number of...
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Cross-Stitching a Frog Bookmark

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify symmetry and create their own frog design. Students apply hand-eye coordination in placing their designs of cross-stitch netting. Students identify with new textures. Students present and analyze their design once...
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Planets or Not, Here We Come!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students, working in groups, research planets in terms of the size, temperature, number of moons, and potential for life. They use packets and worksheets as guides for their research. Students may role-play as aliens visiting their...
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Skeletal, Skin, and Muscular Systems

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explain the functions of various body systems. Using a concept map, 8th graders identify and explain the fuctions of the skeletal, skin, and muscular systems of the body. After completing their concept map, students...