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Forces of Nature Vocabulary Quiz
In this science learning exercise, students draw lines to match 13 words pertaining to forces of nature to their definitions in another column. Example: tornado, tide, erosion, pressure.
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Word Search: Storm in the Night
In this literature vocabulary worksheet, students locate 21 words in the word search puzzle. All pertain to the book Storm in the Night. This is a tornado shaped puzzle.
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Twister Redux
Students pick up science knowledge as they track and examine natural disasters. They keep a daily journal of results and reflections. Students get to follow a real tornado chaser and learn thunderstorm formation. They incorporate how...
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Learning About Weather
Students decide what type of weather they would like to write about such as tornadoes, hurricanes, snow, hail, floods, or another type of weather.
Then, they look up the information and jot down notes about that particular subject....
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Weather
In this weather worksheet, students will match 4 weather terms to their correct definition. Vocabulary words include wind, weather, air mass, and front. Then students will complete 3 short answer questions based on high and low air...
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Multiplying With Nine As A Factor
Elementary math minds complete various activities to memorize the multiples of nine. They watch a PowerPoint presentation and demonstrate the finger trick. Unfortunately the link to the multiplication activities does not take you...
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Understanding Cause and Effect
Identify the author's organizational pattern for expressing ideas. After reading an article on the California Gold Rush, middle schoolers determine the author's purpose for writing a passage of informational text. A full list of...
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Volcanoes and People
Students discover that volcanic eruptions are geologic events that take place within the upper part and on the surface of the Earth's lithosphere. They explain how volcanoes are related to the Earth's lithosphere. They focus on the May...
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Crater Creation
After looking at the back of a quarter featuring Oregon terrain, learners distinguish between fiction and non-fiction and identify the beginning, middle and end of a story. First, they listen to legends that describe the creation of...
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Picking Up the Pieces
Students recall and write about a time in which they felt helpless, focusing on how they coped with the situation then and now.
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Food Guide Pyramid - TV and Peers
Students identify foods that belong in each group on the food guide pyramid. They discuss how TV and peers may negatively influence eating habits.
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SEVERE WEATHER UNIT
Students conduct research on specific severe weather patterns of interest and collect data to be shared with other students on these phenomona. They write (or review) a severe weather action plan for the school and presents their findings.
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Kids Collect LEGOs for New Orleans
Learners read and discuss a news article about children that collected 1.5 million LEGO bricks for kids in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. They complete a fill-in-the blank activity, answer article comprehension questions, solve...
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Causes and Effects of ENSO
Students analyze monthly sea surface temperature data from the Pacific Ocean to determine if the period is an El Nino or a normal year. They recognize signs to see if there are any patterns that signal either occurrence. Satellite images...
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Extreme Weather and Mapping
In this environment learning exercise, students read an article about extreme weather conditions and mapping it out. They respond to 10 multiple choice questions about what they read. Then, students explain how droughts can occur and the...
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Advanced Matching--Weather
Here's a simple matching worksheet to help ELL learners practice weather related vocabulary words. Learners match the weather vocabulary word on the right with the correct definition on the left.
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Doppler Weather Radar
In this Doppler weather radar learning exercise, students read about radar and Doppler weather radar and answer three questions about how they work and the Doppler effect.
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Storm Chasing, Inc.
Students use the internet to research storm chasing. They develop their own lesson plan and present it to the class. They create a visual for their lesson as well.
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The Strength of the Sun
Students explore the sun and take a "trip" to outer space.
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Goods and Services
First graders demonstrate the difference between goods and services.
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Creating a Website on Explorers
Learners identify and research famous European explorers using a variety of sources. They compare and contrast the explorers drawing conlusions about the importance of each explorer. They design a web page on one explorer of their choice.
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Native American Legends, Folk Stories and Tales
Students write an Indian tale explaining a natural event, an animal characteristic,
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Introduction to Community Helpers
First graders identity at least one community helper and what that helper does to help their community. To start the lesson plan, ask students if they know what a community helper is. students role-play some of these jobs that their...
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Climate Survival
Young scholars use information about different world climate regions to plan how to survive in a particular climate zone for one year. They present their survival plans.